Simply Black

 

Need something to wear for that special occasion this holiday season?! Try one of these. You're sure to dazzle, wearing these charming tiered earrings. Choose one or all three pairs! Handmade from

Length

a little less than 2" - 2 1/4" (55 mm)

Materials

left: 4, 6,  and 8 mm round black glass beads

middle: 4 mm Black Sworovski Crystals and 10 mm teardrop black glass bead

right: 7 mm  black rondelle glass bead, silver wire hoop, 13 mm black rondelle glass bead

Silver Artistic Copper Wire

Geometric Square with Decorative Crystal

Supplies: 

2 - 13 x 11 mm square glass beads 

2 - 4 mm crystals  

2 - 1" 20 guage antique gold colored copper wire

2 - 2" 20 guage antique gold colored copper wire (for hooks)

2 - 2" 20 guage antique gold colored copper wire (for beads)

Tools
Basic Tool Kit

Ring Mandrel or Sharpie marker (to create round bend for hooks)

Duration
30 minutes

Length: 2"

The Idea

To create the hook, take the 2" wire and create a loop at one end. Wrap the wire around a cylindrical object, something like a permanent marker for the round bend. 

Take about a 1" length wire and with chain nose pliers, bend over about 1/16" wire over itself to create a headpin. Thread the glass bead through and close with a wire loop. Create loop on both ends of the crystals with the 1" gold wire. Attach wired crystal to hook and attach the end of the crystal to the wired glass bead. Create matching earring.

Geometric Square with Decorative Wire

 

Supplies: 

2- 13 x 11 mm square glass beads 

2 - 10 mm decorative connecting wire

2 - 2" 20 guage antique gold colored copper wire (for hooks)

2 - 2" 20 guage antique gold colored copper wire (for beads)

Tools
Basic Tool Kit

Ring Mandrel or Sharpie marker (to create round bend for hooks)

Duration
30 minutes

Length: 1 1/2"

The Idea

To create the hook, take the 2" wire and create a loop at one end. Wrap the wire around a cylindrical object, something like a permanent marker for the round bend. 

Take about a 1" length wire and with chain nose pliers, bend over about 1/16" wire over itself to create a headpin. Thread the glass bead through and close with a wire loop. Attach wired bead decorative wire and attach that to the hook. Create matching earring.

Geometric Square

 

Supplies: 

2- 13 x 11 mm clear square glass beads

2 - 2" 20 guage antique gold colored copper wire (for hooks)

2 - 2" 20 guage antique gold colored copper wire (for beads)

Tools
Basic Tool Kit

Ring Mandrel or Sharpie marker (to create round bend for hooks)

Duration
30 minutes

Length: 1 1/2"

The Idea

To create the hook, take the 2" wire and create a loop at one end. Wrap the wire around a cylindrical object, something like a permanent marker for the round bend. 

Take about a 1" length wire and with chain nose pliers, bend over about 1/16" wire over itself to create a headpin. Thread the glass bead through and close with a wire loop. Attach wired bead to hook. Create matching earring.

Violaceous

Length

2.25" or 55 mm

Materials

Gold colored wire

7 mm Purple Velvet Crystals

3 mm Violet Crystals

Cobblestone

Length: 2"

Supplies: 

2 - 8 mm round gold beads

4 - gold jump rings

2 - 4 mm gold spacer beads 

2 - 10 mm gold decorative wire links

2 - 2.5" 20 guage gold colored copper wire (for hooks)

2 - 3" 22 guage gold colored copper wire (for beads)

Tools
Basic Tool Kit

Ring Mandrel or Sharpie marker (to create round bend for hooks)

Duration
20 minutes

The Idea

To create the hook, take the 2" wire and create a loop at one end. Wrap the wire around a cylindrical object, something like a permanent marker for the round bend. 

With a gold wire, create simple loop and continue rolling over the wire. Use flat nose pliers to hold wire parallel while rolling wire. Make 2-3 loops, insert spacer bead, gold bead and close with a wire wrapped loop. Center wire hoop on either side of the bead. Attach jump ring to wired bead and decorative wire link. Attach another jump ring to the link and earring hook. Create matching earring.

Red Revolution

Length: 2"

 Supplies: 

2 - 18 x 13 mm flat oval bead

2 - gold jump beads

2 - 3" 22 guage gold colored copper wire (for hooks)

2 - 4" 22 guage gold colored copper wire (for beads)

Tools
Basic Tool Kit

Ring Mandrel or Sharpie marker (to create round bend for hooks)

Duration
15 minutes

The Idea

To create the hook, take the 2" wire and create a loop at one end. Wrap the wire around a cylindrical object, something like a permanent marker for the round bend. 

With a gold wire, create simple loop and continue rolling over the wire. Use flat nose pliers to hold wire parallel while rolling wire. Make 2-3 loops, insert bead and close loop with same rolling technique. Center decorative wire on bead. Attach hook and gem with jump bead. Create matching earring.

Gold Coin

 

Supplies:
2 - 30 mm gold round decorative discs

2 - 10 mm gold round decorative discs

4 - seed beeds

2 - 3" 20 guage gold colored copper wire 

2 - 2" 20 guage gold colored copper wire (for hooks)

2 - jump rings

Tools
Basic Tool Kit

Ring Mandrel or Sharpie Marker (to create round bend for hooks)

Duration
30 minutes

Length: 3"

The Idea

To create the hook, take the 2" wire and create a loop at one end. Wrap the gold wire around a cylindrical object, something like a Sharpie marker for the round bend. 

Take the 3" gold wire and create a wire wrapped loop. Thread the smaller disc and two seed beeds through the same wire and close with another wire wrapped loop. Attach the jump beads to the larger discs. Connect all three components. Create matching earring.

Violet Iris

Supplies: 

2- 8 x 15 mm fancy silver charms

2 - 6 mm purple round beads

2 - silver jump rings

4 - 2" 20 guage silver colored copper wire (for hooks and beads)

Tools
Basic Tool Kit

Ring Mandrel or Sharpie marker (to create round bend for hooks)

Duration
15 minutes

Length: 1 3/4"

The Idea

To create the hook, take the 2" wire and create a loop at one end. Wrap the wire around a cylindrical object, something like a permanent marker for the round bend. 

With silver wire, create simple loop and thread purple bead and close with simple loop. Attach charm and wired purple bead to jump ring. Attach the other end of the purple bead to a hook. Create matching earring.

Blushing Iris

Supplies: 

2- 8 x 15 mm fancy silver charms

2 - 10 mm pink round beads

4 - silver spacer beads

2 - silver jump rings

4 - 2" 20 guage silver colored copper wire (for hooks and beads)

Tools
Basic Tool Kit

Ring Mandrel or Sharpie marker (to create round bend for hooks)

Duration
15 minutes

Length: 2"

The Idea

To create the hook, take the 2" wire and create a loop at one end. Wrap the wire around a cylindrical object, something like a permanent marker for the round bend. 

With silver wire, create simple loop and thread spacer bead, pink bead, another spacer bead and close with simple loop. Attach charm and wired pink bead to jump ring. Attach the other end of the pink bead to a hook. Create matching earring.

Cluster of Pearls

 

Supplies:
14 - 5 mm round pearls

14 - 1" 20 guage silver colored copper wire (for beads)

2 - 3" 20 guage silver colored copper wire (for hooks)

Tools
Basic Tool Kit

Ring Mandrel

Duration
30 minutes

Length: 1 1/2"

The Idea

To create the hook, take the 3" wire and create a wire wrapped loop at one end. Wrap the wire around a cylindrical object, something like a permanent marker for the round bend. 

Take about a 1" length of silver wire and with chain nose pliers, bend over about 1/16" wire over itself to create a headpin. Thread the pearl beads through and create wire loop. Do this to the remaining beads. Attach 7 pearls to each of the hooks.

 

Idea:

Try other beads for a different effect.

Crimson Clover

 

Supplies:
4 -10 mm round red glass beads

2 - 2 mm clear with gold foil glass seed beads

1 - 30" gold colored copper wire, cut into sections. see below

(2 - 6" gold colored copper wires, 20 guage; 6 - 3" gold colored copper wires, 20 guage)

Tools
Basic Tool Kit

Extra Chain Nose Pliers for wire wrapping

Duration
30 minutes

Length: 3"

The Idea

To make the leaflet: Determine the center of the 6" wire and with the chain nose pliers, make a bend on the halfway point. Fold the wire just until the two open ends meet. About 3/4" from the open ends of the wire, use chain nose pliers to make a bend, perpendicular to the other open end of the wire. Now you can wrap the wire to create something similar to the wire wrapped loop, but without the loop. Wrap the wire around 2-3 times. Cut the excess wire and tuck the ends in. Now you should have a one wire sticking out on the top. Insert one seed bead. Cut the wire down to about 1/4" from the bead and create a simple wire loop. Seperate the wires to your desired size of leaf. You can straighten out any kinks on the wire with nylon covered pliers so you doesn't mar the wire.

Add the beads: Start with bending back about 1" of the end of a 3" wire. Wrap the wire around one wire of the leaflet about 2-3 times. Add the red bead and close the wire on the same side wire.Wrap around about 2-3 times again. Repeat on the other wire. Experiment and place the beads anywhere you think looks good. Cut of excess wire and tuck the ends in.

Create hooks with the remaining wire. I used a wire-jig. If you don't have a wire-jig, you can certainly use something cylinder (marker, pen, etc.)

Tip:

This make take a few attempts to make something without any marring on the wire. Practice makes perfect!