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Learn to create a cute pair of nature-inspired earrings with this beginner-friendly wire wrapping/wire weaving tutorial. Materials: 20 and 28 gauge round, soft wire 6mm beads (2 per earring) Cat's eye beads Ear wires of your choice Tools Used: Chain Nose Pliers Round Nose Pliers Flush Cutters Ruler Fine tip sharpie (optional)

Six Easy Clay earrings ideas using homemade airdry clay. Would be fine using other types of clay too. Pretty good design ideas; serving as designs or as inspiration for new designs.

Tutorial for vortex spiral earrings. These are really lovely and very customizable; add beads or spirals to make a whole range of spiral vortex earrings.

Tutorial Christmas tree earrings - wire wrap jewelry making. Clever and simple design, featuring (a) no need for a cone mandrel because one makes a flat coil and then stretches it out (b) can be work-hardened with a hammer (c) cleverly manages to put beads INSIDE the coil of the tree.

Two nifty techniques using wirework and metal filigree and flower/bead-cap findings. The first, making a drop earring with a flower finding and filigree, just a very simple nifty idea. It would work for a pendant, too. The second, making a fancy flower by layering flower findings + bead caps, then combining three of them to make a large brooch. You could also use them to make drop earrings.

This tutorial shows you how to make a pair of easy celtic knot wirework drop earrings.

Learn how to make a wire wrapped Celtic Knot / Triquetra charm and earrings in this jewelry tutorial.

Supplies: 20 gauge dead soft round wire, 2 pieces of 4 inches each 24 gauge dead soft round wire, 2 pieces of 2 inches each 2 small jump rings French hooks or earwires of your choice 2 briolette beads

Tatted owl earrings. Done with needle-tatting. Very cute.

Wire-work hoop earrings wrapped with climbing roses, with dangling drops. They look nice even without the drops.

Materials Needed: 2 gemstone drops 11x7mm 2 20g Jumprings 18g wire - for hoops (length depends on size) 22g wire - 24 inches, for big roses on bottom 24g wire - 40 inches, for 4 other roses 26g wire - 12 inches, for wrapping drops.

This shows how to make puffy paper stars out of strips of paper. It's really quite effective. Any kind of pretty paper will do.

Make twisted curl rainbows using color film, resin and packing tape. The idea is to make your surface with the colour film, dome it with resin, let it cure until it is dry but still bendable (half the time it takes to cure hard) and then wrap the piece around a cylinder (like a pencil) and tape it down to hold it in place until it is fully cured. This uses colour film from little-windows.com, but I expect normal cellophane would work just as well. One could also use pretty (translucent) paper.

This tutorial shows how to create double-swirl hammered wire-work earrings (with a bead dangle inside). Simple but elegant.

This video shows how to make a kumihimo braid with a wire core, not just for making cuff bracelets, but for pendants (and earrings etc). Rather than tying a knot in the cords and trying to attach the wire, this method wraps the wire around the cords, leaving one end of the wire free for making a wire loop (or wire decoration) and the rest of the wire is the core around which the braid is braided. Then, when there's still wire left, the braid is finished with a couple of half-hitches around the wire, and then the remaining wire can be played with for more decoration at the other end. And the braided part can be bent in whichever way you want, with the wire core making it stiff.

Deceptively simple, really pretty result. Basically, tunisian crochet around a hoop, with continuous increases, manages to create a pointy leaf-like piece. I like it.