3 Dangle Earring Designs

1. Introduction: Katrina here, welcome back to another tutorial. Gsarings are actually super simple to make. We just create a spiral with the wire and then spread it out to create the petals of the flower. Then we will add texture to the flower by shaping the petals with our pliers. A classy and timeless design, these pendant earrings are very simple and straightforward to make. Choosing a bead that fits on the wire that you have decided to use for these earrings is one of the most important parts of creating this earring. These earrings are easily customized by changing the bead that you use for your design. Bending wire next to our bead, creating loops, and wrapping wire to secure the earring are a few of the things that we will be doing to create these earrings. The movement the hoops add to these dingle earrings is so fun and I love that we can change up the whole design by simply switching out the beads that we use. We're going to be cutting three different lengths of wire to create three different sizes of hoops that are descending in size. Each of those wires will then be shaped into three different sizes of hoops to which we will add our beads. Once you finish the video and if you created these earrings, I would love to see your design. So please share that with me in the Protex section or the comments. If you don't follow me already, you can find me across most social media platforms at Katie Rose Creates. You can find me on Skillshare, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, the Thad Zap, and Pintris. If you enjoy this tutorial, then you should definitely go check out the other videos that I have available for you on my page. Once again, thank you so much for watching my videos. Now, let's go ahead and jump into creating these wire earrings. 2. Flower Dangle Earrings: Welcome to this wire jewelry tutorial. Today we're going to be making these super cute flowers and turning them into earrings. To create the flowers, we will be using this 20 gauge wire, and this is a silver plated copper wire. Of course, we need a pair of ear wires in whatever style you like. Then we're going to use a ruler and then a size two ring mandrel which is about a half inch diameter. Pliers we will be using are the Nylon jaw pliers, the wire cutters, and a bent chain nose plier. To begin, we're going to pull out a length of our wire and straighten it and smooth it out with the Nylon jaw pliers. Next, we are going to measure out 12 " of wire. Now, the ruler that I keep in my jewelry box is only six inch ruler, but if you want to grab a foot long ruler or if you have a soft measuring tape, that would work a lot better than measuring and then moving your ruler like I had to do here. Once we have measured out 12 " of wire, we're going to clip it off with our wire cutters. Now we can begin shaping the wire. Placing it onto the ring mandrel, we are going to completely wrap the wire around the mandrel five times to create five petals for our flour. Wrap the wire tightly around the ring mandrel so that it creates that small circular shape. And then once we pull it off of the ring mandrel, we can double check to make sure we have as many petals as we need. The direction that we wrapped the wire is the direction that we are going to gently spread apart the spirals. Compressing the spiral, we are then going to gently pull and spread the circles apart so that we can then bend the wire and spread those apart to create more of a flower shape. Now that we have spread the wire, we can see the individual petals and we just need to continue gently bending the wire so that it creates a circular shape. Next, I want to secure this end of wire. I'm going to use my bent chains pliers and create a small hook at the very tip of the wire. Then I'm going to take that hook and attach the wire to itself and then secure it tightly by pinching it closed with the pliers. Once we have secured this end of wire, we then going to go back and adjust the petals so that it is in our flower shape. The way the letter B is written where it has the long back and then the two half circles is how these flower petals are attached together so that back of each petal is straight, so we need to bend it a little bit so that it has a curve so that the flower petals sit more nicely in a circular shape. Now we have this long end of wire that is sticking out the back of the flower. This is what we're going to use to create the center of the flower and also secure all the petals together. We're going to draw it up through the petal that is right next to it. This is going to secure both ends of the flower together, and then we're going to bring it down through the petal that is opposite of the one that we just came up through. Then we're going to repeat this criss crossing the wire, rotating our pattern, but going up and down into the petals that are opposite or across from each other. This does not have to be perfect at all, and we're simply wanting to make sure that we secure all of the flower petals together while at the same time creating the center of the flower. Continue wrapping the wire and securing it, criss crossing it back and forth from petal to opposite petal until you have come to the end of the wire. Once we have reached the end of the wire, we're going to take our bent chainospliers, and we're going to hide that end of wire and tuck it into the wrapping in the center of the flower. Make sure that it is securely hidden into the center of the flower so that that end does not stick out and won't get snagged on anything. Here I gently bend the wires just a little bit to create a slight curve to the flower and then I'm going to go back in with the bent chinos players and we're going to start shaping the petals. On either side of the center point of each petal, we are going to bend the wire down towards the center of the petal. Creating this dent in our wire is going to give the flower a more realistic look. After bending the wire the first time, I want to go back around the entire flour and sharpen those binds in the wire just to create a little more definition. This flower shape is so adorable, especially because it reminds me of the wild rose, which is where I get the rose in my name Katie rose from. Okay, now that we have finished the flower, we can go ahead and add the ear wire. Twisting the loop on the ear wire to the side, placing it onto any petal, and then securing the ear wire, we have finished our first flower dangle. Repeat all of these steps to create a second flower so you can have an adorable matching pair don't forget when adding the flower onto the ear wire. If you created your flower to have a slight curve to it, make sure that cup of the curve is towards the front of the ear wire, and that is going to look super cute. Now you have completed these wild flower dangle earrings. I hope you enjoyed this tutorial. Thank you so much for watching and I look forward to seeing you in the next video. 4. Dangle Hoop Earrings: Katrina here, welcome to Another Tutorial. Today we are going to be creating these dangle earrings featuring beaded hoops. Starting off, we're going to be using a 22 gauge plated copper wire. This isn't a gun metal gray. Next, we have a set of stainless steel earring wires as well as jump rings. Then we also have a ruler. Next, we have a random bottle cap from something, I don't even know, but the diameter of this is about 1 ". Besides this cap, I have a bottle and a ring mandrel that gave me the three graduating sizes that I need to create the hoops. Next, I chose three colors of a set bead that is an 11 ought size, which is similar to a two millimeter. The pliers that we will be using are our Nylon jaw pliers, a pair of wire cutters. Then we have our chain nose pliers as well as our round nose pliers. To begin creating, we are going to pull out a length of wire and smooth it down with the Nylon jaw pliers. Placing it on the ruler, we're going to measure it out at 5 ". This is going to be our largest hoop. Marking the wire at the five inch mark, we will then use our wire cutters to snip it off. Smoothing another length of wire, we're going to place it on the ruler and measure it at 4 ", 1 " smaller than the last piece. Marking our wire at 4 " for the middle hoop, we can then cut it off. Again, straightening the wire and then placing it on the ruler, we're going to measure 3 " for the innermost and smallest hoop. After cutting this length of wire, we're then going to use our chain nose pliers and our Nylon jaw pliers to straighten out and smooth the wire as much as possible. Taking care to smooth out the wire ensures that our final design looks clean and professional. Taking our shortest length of wire, we're going to wrap it around our smallest diameter object and create a circle. When bending your wire, make sure that you press both ends of the wire down so that they are bent into a circular shape as well. To help you picture the size of earrings that we are making, my center hoop is about three quarters of an inch diameter, which is approximately a size eight or nine ring. Taking the next length of wire, we are going to place it onto whatever object you have next. On my bottle cap, I'm going to wrap the wire around making sure that I press the ends down so that they are rounded over as well. Most jewelry wire has a tendency to spring back after you have wrapped it into a shape. You can see that the ends are not exactly next to each other. I'm going to press the wire gently together from either side and from top to bottom to help close that gap a little bit so that it's not so much in between the two ends of wire. Moving on to our longest length of wire and our biggest object, we're going to wrap the wire around, creating a circle, pressing down the ends to create the largest hoop. You'll notice how the wire springs back. So this is where we go in with our fingers and gently pressing the wire together, keeping the circular shape, but pressing the ends closer together. Having shaped each wire, we are now going to use our roundness pliers to create a loop at one end of the wire. Placing the wire into the pliers near the tip, we're going to bend it over and create a loop. When assembling the earrings, this loop is what we will use to hook onto the jump ring. But for now, it's going to be a safety measure to keep the beads on the wire as we string them on. With the loop created at the opposite end of wire, we won't have to worry about losing any of the beads that we thread onto the wire. At this point, let the creative juices flow. You can use any color of feed, any size of feed as long as it fits onto the gauge of wire that you are using. And how many beads you add onto the hoop is totally up to you. I filled about a third of the hoop with beads. Once you are satisfied with how many beads you have added onto the hoop, we're then going to go back with our roundness pliers and close off the hoop by creating a matching loop on the other end of wire. I like to measure the loop with my pliers to ensure that the second loop that I create is the same size as the first one. Grasping the wire firmly in our pliers and then bending it over to create the loop, we can then hold the hoop in our fingers to gently press the ends together. Moving on to the next length of wire, we're going to repeat the same thing by creating a loop at one end of the wire. A after creating this loop, we are then going to move onto the beads and start threading on as many as we want. For this hoop, I also filled about a third of it with beads. After adding as many beads as you want, we are then going to go back with our round nose pliers and create a loop on the other end of wire to secure the beads onto the hoop. Coming to our largest length of wire, we're going to repeat all of these steps to create a loop on the wire, add beads, and then create a second loop to secure the beads onto the hoop. I love adding beads to wire jewelry designs because you can make each piece unique simply by changing the color style or size of bead that you are using. If you'd like to make these earrings in the exact same colors that I did, I will have the products linked for you in the description of this video. I would also encourage you to play around with this design and make it unique to you. Change up the style of the beads, change the color of the beads, and see what you can come up with. Once we have added as many beads as we would like, we are then going to take Runs pliers and close off this hoop by creating an identical loop on the second end of wire. After creating our first three hoops, need to go and create three more matching hoops for our second earring. Before assembly, we are going to take each hoop and press it with our fingers to bring those two ends of wire as close together as possible. Gently pressing and shaping the wire so that it maintains the circle shape but brings the two ends of wire together. Then using the chain of pliers, we are going to go over both ends of the wire, making sure that each loop is pressed down and aligned with the other one. We want to do this on every hoop. After this, we are going to grab the jump ring and using our chain ofs pliers, we're going to grasp the jump ring in the pliers and open it by twisting it to the side. From smallest to largest, we are going to place one end of each hoop onto the jump ring. Once we have put one end of each hoop onto the jump ring, we are also going to add our earring. Make sure that the front of the earring is facing the front of the hoops. Then carefully turning the jumping around, I'm then going to add the other end of each hoop in order onto the jump ring. O. Once we have added all of the loops onto the jump ring, we can then close the jump ring and now we have finished our first earring. Here you can see that I added the hoops in a different order, but it doesn't matter how you put them onto the jumping as long as they are all added in graduated sizes so that they can each hang independently of each other. I would say the back of the earring is the direction in which we bent the loops. We're going to add our ear wire, making sure that the front of the ear wire is toward the front of the earring. After adding the ear wire, we can then finish putting the rest of the loops onto the jump ring. Now we have completed these beaded dangle hoops. I hope you enjoy creating these dangle earrings with me. Thank you so much for watching and I look forward to seeing you in the next video.