Need some pretty earrings for the holiday season? Try making some ornament earrings. The tinsel ones take only a minute to make. The glitter earrings are slightly more time intensive, but the finished product is simply stunning.
Tinsel Ball Earrings
Materials:
*2 tinsel ball mini ornaments
*2 ear wires
*Round nosed pliers
*Flat nosed pliers
Directions:
*Open the loop of the ear wires using the round nosed pliers.
*Slide on the ornament.
*Close the loop using the flat nosed pliers and you're done!
Glitter Ball Earrings
Materials:
*2 tinsel ball mini ornaments
*2 ear wires
*Round nosed pliers
*Flat nosed pliers
*Glitter-It adhesive
*Ultra fine glitter
Directions:
*Remove the ornament tops.
*Pull the tinsel out using pliers.
*Rinse out any residue from the tinsel and then set aside the ornaments to dry.
*Make glitter ornaments using the directions here. Note that the Glitter-It does not drain out of these little ornaments as well as it does out of the big ones, so try not to add too much.
*Open the loop of the ear wires using the round nosed pliers.*Slide on the ornament.
*Close the loop using the flat nosed pliers.
If you haven't tried making full size glitter ornaments yet, give them a try. They're super easy and ridiculously pretty. I brought this craft to a meeting yesterday and these are the ornaments that we all came up with:
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