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How To Make Your Own Teardrop Earrings

This project can be made using your favourite gemstone beads and your choice of wire, whether that's silver, gold, brass or copper.

We've made our teardrop bead earrings using 4mm and 6mm round amthyst beads.

To make this design personalised, we chose to use birthstone gem beads.

Follow along with our step by step process below and buy all the tools and supplies you need online to get making. Please share and tag us in your teardrop earring designs over on Instagram and Facebook.

Recommended Tools & Supplies

  • Flat nose pliers
  • Round nose pliers
  • Wire cutters
  • Snipe nose pliers
  • Wheatsheaf Mandrel (if you don't have one you could use a large cotton reel or even a lip balm pot!)
  • 2 x 15cm of 0.8mm wire
  • 2 x 30cm of 0.3mm wire
  • Gemstone beads - always check your chosen beads fit the wire comfortably
  • 5mm jump rings
  • Ready made earwires
  • File (optional for a softer, cleaner finish)

1. Using one of your 15cm lengths of 0.8mm wire, wrap around the wheatsheaf mandrel to create a smooth curve for the base of your teardrop earring.

Bend the ends of the wire with a pair of snipe nose pliers.

2. Take one of your 30cm lengths of 0.3mm wire and wrap one end around the teardrop frame.

3. Thread one of your chosen 6mm beads onto the 0.3mm wire.

Wrap the 0.3mm wire around the teardrop frame to secure the bead in place.

4. Thread one of your 4mm beads onto the 0.3mm wire so that it sits next to the 6mm with the wire wrapped in the middle of them both.

5. Fasten the bead in place and snip away any loose wire using your side cutters.

6. Finish the bottom row within the teardrop by repeating steps 4 and 5, while alternating bead sizes.

Save your cut wire.

7. Add more rows of beads using the 0.3mm wire that you've saved by repeating steps 4 and 5.

8. Cut the ends of wire at the top of your teardrop frame.

This should leave you with two small loops.

9. Using your snipe nose and flat nose pliers, twist open a jump ring and attach an earwire before twisting the jump ring closed.

10. Your earring is finished. Repeat whole process to create the other.


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