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How to Make Earrings

These Ribbon Earrings Are a Fun Way to Add Some More Color To Your Life!

These ribbon earrings make a big, bright impact! Made using colorful ribbons and a couple of flat end crimps they are bold and easy to make. Perfect for summer evenings for adding some color to cold winter days. This tutorial contains affiliate links.

You will need the following tools and materials to make your ribbon earrings:

1: Pliers. You will need your round nose pliers and flat nose pliers to make these earrings.

A pair of round nose pliers
A pair of flat nose pliers

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2: Scissors for cutting your ribbon to length.

A pair of scissors.

3: Two flat end crimps, these ones are 2cm (0.8 inches) wide.

wide ribbon crimp ends

4: Two earring hooks.

earring hooks

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5: Four pieces of ribbon, two wide and two narrow. Each of my pieces of ribbon were approximately 9cm (3.5 inches) long.

pieces of ribbon

Follow these steps to make your ribbon earrings:

1: Cut your ribbons to length and then place a narrow and wide ribbon together so that their ends line up and the narrow ribbon is in the center.

holding ends together

2: Fold the ribbons in half to create a loop and place the crimp end over the folded ends.

ribbon folded
putting crimp in place

3: Squash the crimp around the ends of the ribbons using the flat nose pliers.

squashing end
squashing end 2
one charm finished

4: Repeat steps 1-3 for the remaining ribbons.

both charms finished

5: Once the crimp is squashed in place, add an earring hook to the loop at the top of the crimp for each earring.

adding earring hook

6: Close the loop on the earring hook to secure the pieces together and finish your earring.

completed earrings 2

6: Repeat steps 1-5 with the remaining ribbons to complete the second earring.

finished earrings

How simple was that?!

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