Making your own earrings is the perfect way to add a collection to your jewelry box or make a gift for a close friend. To make your own earrings, you'll need some items that can be purchased at a craft store and a desire to express your creative side. If you want to make earrings that can captivate everyone, follow these steps.
Step
Step 1. Gather all the materials needed
Head to the nearest craft shop and collect the materials needed to make your own earrings. There are several tools that you must have to make your own earrings. However, you can be as creative as possible when decorating the earrings. The following are the materials needed:
- Earring
- Cleaning alcohol
- Glue or glue gun
- Toothpick
- Thin wire
- Little pliers
- aluminum paper
- Other materials you want to use to decorate your earrings, such as paint, stickers, bows, glitter or gems.
Step 2. Clean the hook of the earring until it is sterile
Carefully wipe the earring hook with a cloth that has been moistened with disinfectant. These precautions must be taken before using earrings that will be made yourself.
Step 3. Shape the foil into a ball or other shape
Use the foil to form a small, eye-catching embellishment for the earring. Ball shaped decorations are the best choice and the easiest to make. Use only a small sheet of aluminum foil, about the size of your palm to make this ball decoration. If the orb is too large, the earrings will be too heavy and may injure your ears.
Step 4. Decorate the earrings
Decorate the earrings as desired. You can grease the earrings with glue and then roll them in glitter. You can also decorate it by attaching a small sticker or other piece of jewelry that can be pasted on. Glue can be used to attach other small decorations such as small fluffy balls. You can also paint the earrings and add embellishments, or leave the earrings just painted in an interesting color.
If you used glue to decorate your earrings, let it sit for a while for the glue to dry, then move on to the next step
Step 5. Make a hole in the center of the earring
Use a toothpick or long needle to make a hole right in the center of the earring. Place a needle or toothpick in the middle of the top of the earring, then press it until it penetrates all the way through the earring.
Step 6. Cut two wires with a length of 5-7.5 cm each
Use pliers or wire cutters to cut the two wires. This wire will hang from the earring hook and will attach to the earring, so you can make it as long as you want. For dangling earrings, you can cut the wire longer. However, if you want the earring to hang only around the earlobe, you can cut the wire shorter.
Carefully bend one end of the wire until it curves into the body of the wire. This shape is needed to hold your earrings
Step 7. Insert one of the wires through the earring and attach the wire to the hook
Hold the curved part of the wire and press the straight part through the hole made in the earring. Once you've fully pressed down, bend it around the small hole in the base of the hook so that it attaches to the hook and keeps the earring firmly in place.
Step 8. Repeat the steps on the other wire
Repeat the steps for attaching the earrings, wire and hook as you did until you have a beautiful pair of earrings.
Step 9. Save the earrings that have been made
If you don't want to wear the earrings right away, you can keep them in a box for later use. You can also make the earrings as a gift for a friend. You can make your own box for a more homemade feel.
Tips
You can also use paint
Warning
- Make sure that the hook of the earring is sterile. Otherwise, the hook may contain bacteria that can cause an infection in your ear.
- Be careful when using glue or hot glue.
- Be careful when using sharp scissors.
