Easy Alphabet Initial Earrings
Looking for a new DIY earrings project? Try out these Easy Alphabet Initial Earrings. Darling and delightful, these homemade earrings are easy to make and customize. This simple, vintage-inspired earring tutorial helps you to celebrate your favorite people with an individualized touch. These precious earrings feature pretty and elegant little pearls and vintage glass cabochons with marcasite initials on them to mix and match your initials or your friend's or children's initials in a classy pair of earrings. Get started today crafting these cute and customizable earrings.
Project TypeMake a Project
Bead TypeGlass, Metal, Pearl, Miscellaneous
Time to CompleteUnder an hour
Bead Technique UsedStrung
Bead Project TypeEarrings
Materials List
- vintage glass cabochons
- metal cabochon settings
- bali gold vermeil earhooks
- button-shaped freshwater pearls
- gold-plated eye hooks
Instructions
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Set your cabochons of choice into the metal settings.
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Put one pearl onto an eye pin. Cut off excess pin, leaving 8-10mm for making a loop. Turn the cut end of the eye pin into a loop to make a bead connector with your pearl. Repeat with the remaining pearl.
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Open one loop on a bead connector, attach the alphabet dangle to it, and close the loop again. Repeat with the other side.
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Open the loop at the bottom of an earhook and attach the hook to the freshwater pearl. Repeat for the other earring and voila, you're done! You now have an elegantly simple pair of earrings commemorating your favourite person/people and great for fancying up a casual outfit or complementing a more dressy outfit.
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