Skillfully selected accessories will add sophistication and uniqueness to any look. To do this, it is not at all necessary to purchase expensive jewelry. Every representative of the fair sex can make elegant earrings with her own hands from available materials.
Tools and materials
Any housewife probably has ribbons, beads, beads, wire, wire cutters, pliers and other similar materials and tools at home.
If you add pins, earrings, pins, and earring clasps to this set, you can safely begin the creative process of making elegant jewelry yourself.
DIY pearl bead earrings
Such products can be made quite quickly. To make such earrings you need prepare: pearls, ear wires, metal thread, wire cutters and pliers.
Technique:
- The pearls must be strung on a metal thread and the excess must be bitten off with nippers, leaving 8 mm to form a loop.
- Using pliers, form a loop, which then needs to be threaded onto a hook.
- Make the second earring in the same way.
Cuff earrings with bows
These original earrings continue to gain popularity recently. To make such products, you will need metal thread and pliers.
Technique:
- First you need to bite off a piece of metal thread 7.5 cm long.
- The cut piece needs to be bent 2.5 cm, then bent one more time.
- The metal thread should be bent into rings on both sides, then fold the product in half and pinch the ends with pliers. The cuff earrings are ready.
With shells and beads
To make beautiful earrings from shells, you need select two sea shells that are the closest in size to each other. Then you need to drill holes in them. Then you need to insert a metal thread into the holes and secure it.
Ready-made earrings with shells can be decorated with pearl beads by gluing them in the center.
Important! Before starting work, the sinks need to be thoroughly cleaned, rinsed and varnished.
Pearl beads with chains
For making spectacular decorations from beads yourself You will need the following tools and materials:
- Preciosa pearls (Czech Republic) 0.9 mm – 2 pcs.;
- pearls 0.7 mm – 8 pcs.;
- pins with a loop at the end – 2 pcs.;
- metal beads with rhinestones 0.8 mm – 2 pcs.;
- metal huggers for beads – 4 pcs.;
- jewelry chain;
- fasteners – 2 pcs.;
- round pliers with thin tips.
Technique:
- It is necessary to string beads and metal huggers onto the pin in increasing order: from small (0.7 mm) to large (0.9) beads.
- A loop should be formed at the other end of the pin.
- You need to make 3 tassels from a jewelry chain. To do this, beads (0.7 mm) should be fixed on three prepared sections.
- After this, the tassels must be threaded onto a loop formed on the earring.
- Similarly, repeating steps 1-4, you need to make the second earring.
The original jewelry with pearl beads is ready.
Earrings made of pearls and beads
To make similar jewelry you need to prepare:
- pearls (6 mm) - 10 pcs.;
- glass rhinestones in pins (5 mm) - 2 pcs.;
- silver beads (No. 10) - 40 pcs.;
- ivory beads (No. 10) - 30 pcs.;
- silver-plated wire (1-1.5 mm) - 15 cm;
- silver wire for beading (0.3 mm) - 120 cm;
- wire cutters;
- round nose pliers;
- a nail file.
Technique:
- At the tip of the wire you need to make a loop of 2 turns and cut off a 5 cm tail.
- String 5 pearl beads onto a thin wire, twist the wire into a ring and wrap the wire around the beads in a checkerboard pattern.
- Next, you need to lay the beads evenly and wrap 4 circles.
- Attach a piece of thick wire to the underside of the flower, as if “sewing” the flower with thin wire to the ring.
- Then you need to make 2 stitches between each bead to securely attach the flower to the base.
- Attach a rhinestone to the center of the flower, around which you need to place beads (about 14 pieces).
- The ends of the wire must be brought to the side opposite to the base.
- Place 3 white beads on both tails of the wire, then 1 silver bead and again 3 white beads on the longer end.
- Bend the wire at a distance of 2 cm from the base, move the beads and twist the wire. You will get a leaf. The short tip must be trimmed so that it does not stick out from under the beads. Then make the rest of the leaves.
- Having completed the last leaf, you need to make a locking stitch near the nearest bead and raise the wire in a spiral around the longest branch towards the beads.
- The tail of the wire needs to be tucked into the beads and the excess should be cut off.
- The thick wire must be bent into a loop, the excess must be cut off and the sharp corners must be sanded.
Advice! You can experiment with different colors and materials and create a whole collection of elegant earrings.
Beautiful earrings made by yourself will always be relevant. Such products will be a wonderful addition to the image, effectively emphasizing the individuality of the owner.
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