3 Easy Jewelry Pieces
This is an amazingly fun and easy project. All you need are some simple jewelry materials to make these three, eye-catching pieces.
Supplies
Keychain:
Needle-nose pliers
A large key ring
A flat head pin
Beads
A jump ring
Necklace:
Needle-nose pliers
A long necklace chain
A flat head pin (x2)
Beads
Charms
A jump ring
Earrings:
Needle-nose pliers
An eye pin (x2)
Earring hooks (x2)
Charms
Beads
A jump ring (x2)
Keychain
- Thread your jump ring into the key ring so that it is attached.
- Take your flat-head pin, and string some beads onto it, leaving about 1/2" of space at the top.
- Take yout pliers, and use them to twist a loop into the top 1/2" of the head pin.
- Before closing the loop securely, hook it onto the jump ring.
- Use the pliers to close the loop securely, attaching the beaded part of your keychain to the key ring.
- Voila!
Necklace
- Take one of your flat-head pins, and string some beads onto it, leaving about 1/2" of space at the top.
- Take your pliers, and use them to twist a loop into the top 1/2" of the head pin.
- Repeat steps one and two, but use other charms/beads this time.
- You should have ended up with two different head pins filled with bead and charmes, closed off with a loop at the top.
- Take your jump ring, and use your pliers to gently twist the two ends apart.
- Attach both finished head pins onto the jump ring through their top loops.
- Before closing the jump ring, pick a place on your nacklace chain close to the middle, and choose a small chain loop to attach the jump ring to.
- You should now have a jump ring attached to two looped head pins and one necklace chain connection.
- Use your pliers to twist the two ends of the jump ring back together, securing your necklace.
- Voila!
Earrings
*This mini-project uses eye pins, not head pins. Eye pins have a loop at the bottom, allowing you to attach charms, but a head pin just has a flattened metal bottom.
- Take one of your eyepins. Using pliers, twist the loop of the eyepin slightly open, and attach a charm onto this bottom loop. I used clover charms.
- Close the loop securely with your pliers once a charm has been attached.
- Repeat steps 1 and 2 with the second eyepin.
- Take both of your eyepins and string beads onto them, leaving about 1/2" at the top of both of them.
- Using your pliers, take the 1/2" at the top of your eyepin and twist it into a loop that resembles the loop at the bottom with the charms attached. Do not close the loop.
- Hook the new loop onto the connection part of the earring hook.
- With your pliers, securely close the hook loop on the eyepin. Your eyepin should be successfully attached to the earring hook.
- Repeat steps 5-7 with the other eyepin. Your earrings should now be finished
- Voila!