Make your own Simple Button Earrings
It’s that Pinterest time of the month again, when I join a group of super creative bloggers in the Pinterest Challenge hosted by My Pinterventures. For the challenge we all take something we’ve pinned a while ago and actually have a go at making it happen.
For this month’s challenge I’ve made some cute button earrings. There are lots of button earring ideas on Pinterest in all sorts of different styles, I was inspired by these from Crafty Ribbons.
I have a tin full of buttons, so this seemed like a fun and easy project for me to try.
To make your own simple button earrings you will need:
2 x small shirt size buttons
2 x earring wires
2 x jump rings
2 pairs of jewellery pliers
Open a jump ring. Do this using the 2 pairs of pliers, twisting rather than pulling them open.
Pop the button and the earring wire onto the jump ring then close it back up.
The earring with hang with the button sideways. If, like me you want the button to face forwards then use the pliers to twist the earring wire through 90 degrees. It’s hard to photograph but you just pinch it right at the bottom and twist.
It’s as simple as that! Make 2 of course so you have a pair of earrings, the whole thing will take less than 5 minutes.
Next I tried a more dangly version of the button earring idea.
This time you’ll need 4 jump rings per earring so 8 in total.
Attach one jump ring to the button, make a chain with 3 more and join the last one to the earring wire.
With an even number of jump rings you won’t need to twist the earring wire to get the button to hang straight.
The only thing you have to consider is the size of the button compared to the size of the jump rings. For example these wooden buttons are really pretty but the won’t work for this style of earring, if you compare them to the size of the jump ring you can see it’s not going to work.
I used buttons saved from old shirts to make my earrings, they are a perfect size.
These earring are small, this photo shows the scale better. I guess you could make them bigger by using larger buttons but you’d have to attach them to the earring wire with wire rather than a jump ring.
That’s it, as simple as that! Cute button earrings in about 5 minutes. You could make a pair in every colour!
Julie
I’ll be sharing this project at these link ups
Now let’s check out the Pinterest Challenge Projects:
DIY Rope Wrapped Chandelier Makeover
How to glue and frame a jigsaw puzzle
Faux succulents in a wooden crate
Aged copper patina herb garden
You might also like to check out some of my other jewellery making ideas: