How To Make Jewelry: How To Make Handmade Beaded Earrings
Channel: The O'Neil Sisters
Date: 26/11/2013

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How To Make Handmade Beaded Earrings
by Jennifer and Kitty O'Neil
The O'Neil Sisters
Running With Sisters

Learn how to make gorgeous handmade beaded earrings in this jewelry making tutorial. We’ll show you what tools and materials you need to make these beaded earrings. Then we’ll teach you the wirework earring fundamentals, including how to work with headpins, how to make a wrapped loop, and how to open and close earring wires. Once you master these skills, you can create your own beautiful handmade beaded earrings in a flash! Great for gifts!

To get started making your own handmade beaded earrings, you will need two beautiful beads. Ours are Venetian glass heart beads and we got them at our local bead store. You will also need 2 crystal bicone beads. Ours are 3mm and made by Swarovski. Additionally, you will need two silver headpins and two silver earrings wires. For tools, you will need a pair of chain-nose pliers, a pair of round-nose pliers, and wire cutters. To see these three tools explained, check out our Basic Jewelry Tools Explained Video.

How To Make Jewelry: Basic Jewelry Tools Explained
https://youtu.be/kHs1Uws6pzg 

How To Make Handmade Beaded Earrings
MATERIALS
2 Venetian glass heart beads
2 topaz bicone crystal beads, 3mm
2 silver earring wires
2 silver headpins

TOOLS
chain-nose pliers
round-nose pliers
wire cutters

STEPS
1. Slide a heart bead and a bicone bead onto a head pin.
2. Grip the headpin wire just above the bicone with the round-nose pliers. Bend the wire over the pliers 90 degrees. Reposition the pliers, gripping the wire at the 90-degree bend. Grab the end of the wire with your fingers and wrap it around the pliers to make a partial loop, using the pliers like a mandrel. Shift the pliers again and continue wrapping the wire around the pliers to form a loop.
3. Grasp the loop flat in the jaws of the chain-nose pliers. Grab the end of the wire with your fingers and wrap it twice around the neck of the headpin. Trim the end with the flush cutters.
4. To finish your earring, open the loop at the end of an earring wire using the chain-nose pliers and the round-nose pliers. (Open the loop as you’d open a door so the loop doesn’t lose its shape.) Slide on the beaded headpin and close the earring wire loop. 
Repeat to make a second earring.

Making handmade jewelry is fun and easy. Once you get a set of these three basic jewelry making tools, you can create all kinds of earrings, necklaces, bracelets, and other jewelry. With the skills you learn in this jewelry making tutorial, you can make handmade beaded earrings in whatever style and colors you want. You will want to go shopping for special beads to show off!

Let us know if you need any help or have any questions. We love hearing from you!
Happy Crafting,
Jennifer & Kitty

We have all kinds of jewelry making videos and lessons. If you enjoy this one, you might also like these lessons showing how to make earrings:

How To Make Crystal Wrapped Earrings
https://youtu.be/uNUVJJ0S7WU

How To Make Beaded Drop Earrings
https://youtu.be/w_P4nqyWBj8

And if you want more jewelry making basics, we have some starter tips and tricks in these videos:

How To Make Jewelry: How To Make A Simple Loop
https://youtu.be/ClUaOg5cKog 

How To Make Jewelry: How To Make A Wrapped Loop For Jewelry
https://youtu.be/Ce9iIuzxGyo

How To Make Jewelry: How To Open And Close A Jump Ring
https://youtu.be/cOkBbCx7MP4

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