Cute Earrings to Make and Sell (10 Unique Ideas!)
Earrings are a great accessory for any outfit, and making them is an easy way to express your creative side and make some money, too.
We’ve gathered some of our favorite earring designs that are both stylish and easy to make. So whether you’re a beginner or an experienced jewelry maker, we have some cute ideas here for you.
These 10 adorable earrings are a great way to kick off your jewelry business.
They’re easy to make and can be whipped up in a jiffy.
Where to Sell DIY Earrings
Wondering where you can sell your handmade earrings? There are loads of places to start. Here are a handful of ideas to get your business up and running:
- a trendy boutique
- flea markets (you’ll find many handmade goods there)
- your own online store (like an Etsy shop)
- social media (your friends can help spread the word!)
- small businesses in your town that are open to local crafters
10 Cute Earrings to Make and Sell
Ready to dive in? Here are some of our favorite earring designs.
1. Leather Tassel Earrings
These handmade leather tassel earrings from Makes and Takes make exceptional gifts, especially for the holiday season.
Learn how to make your own with leather or other materials like suede. They pair beautifully with lots of different outfits and other jewelry pieces.
Tassel earrings are a great option for using up scraps from other projects. Throw nothing away when you’re a crafter!
The leather earrings are shown in brown, but the faux leather and suede earrings are equally pretty.
You’ll need scraps of leather or suede, earrings, jump rings, scissors, pliers, and fabric glue, all of which you can get at your local craft store.
The fun thing about these earrings is that you can make the tassels as long as you’d like! Perhaps you like small, subtle designs or you want to make statement earrings for your customers.
Either way, they’ll look amazing.
2. Polymer Clay Earrings
We’ve chosen these polymer clay cupcake earrings from Woo Jr. because they’re so dang cute, but you can make so many fun designs with polymer clay, from fun earring projects for kids to sophisticated fashion jewelry for women.
They’re a little more involved as far as materials go, but you can make (and bake) bunches of them at once, which streamlines the production process a bit.
You’ll need polymer clay, earring hooks, pliers, wire cutters, a few other materials, and, of course, an oven to bake them in to set the clay.
Working with polymer clay jewelry is a fun way to experiment and keep up with jewelry trends without purchasing expensive materials. You can even create custom colors by mixing different colors of clay!
3. Crochet Earrings
If you already know how to crochet, making these quick and easy DIY crochet earrings from Desert Blossom Crafts is a simple decision. You can easily make a pair in a day (and less time than that after you’ve done it a few times).
Try them in pastel colors or bright colors—whatever you’d like.
Crochet thread works better than yarn for these earrings. The only other materials you’ll need are a crochet hook, a yarn needle, a set of fish hook earrings, and a pair of pliers to open and close the hook.
Once you’ve mastered this pattern, it’s a good idea to come up with your own unique designs.
Then, you can sell your patterns in an online marketplace like Etsy while making your own for your jewelry business.
4. Easy Chain Earrings
You’re going to love how easily these chain earrings from Albion Gould come together. Combine different colors to match seasonal or holiday motifs with little trouble at all.
The amount of time to make these earrings is seriously just a few minutes per pair. Think of how quickly you’ll be able to make them once you’ve done it a few times!
For chain earrings, you’ll need fish hook earrings, jump rings, chain in a couple of different colors, pliers, and side cutters.
They’re perfect for any skill level, fun to make, fun to wear, and make wonderful gifts for friends and family members.
5. Macramé Earrings
Just look at these gorgeous rainbow macramé earrings from Happiness is Homemade! They’re beautiful statement earrings, and you can make them in any color combination you’d like to match your entire wardrobe.
These rainbows are an awesome gift idea and are the perfect accessory for your handmade jewelry business.
Pair them with the rainbow jewelry findings (available at HIH or you can make them on your Glowforge), or use another wooden design of your choice.
A Glowforge is a great addition to your DIY jewelry business. You can come up with your own jewelry designs and cut them right there.
If a Glowforge is too expensive, the Ortur Laser Master is an amazing way to get started.
Besides the earring findings, you’ll need macramé cord, jump rings, earring wires, jewelry pliers, and scissors.
Once you have the findings complete, it’s just a matter of threading the macramé cord through the slot and tying it. Easy peasy!
6. Resin Earrings Using Gift Wrap
If you’re the type who fawns over beautiful gift wrap, do we have the perfect easy project from Sustain My Craft Habit for you! You can repurpose gift wrap to make resin jewelry, like these buffalo plaid earrings and necklace made with plaid wrapping paper.
Use wrapping paper with a modern look for more sophisticated designs or gift wrap with fun prints for kid jewelry.
You’ll need wood jewelry cutouts (like teardrop pendants for jewelry making), scraps of wrapping paper, mod podge, resin, earring posts, and a few other bits and bobs.
However, once you have these materials, you can make loads of unique ideas for your small business in no time at all.
7. Wooden Bead Dangle Earrings
One of the best ways to create earrings on the cheap is by repurposing old jewelry. The beads for these wooden bead earrings by My Pinterventures came from a thrift store bead necklace, but you can, of course, purchase wooden beads inexpensively as well.
Pair the beads with gold tubes, gold beads, and gold fish hook earrings for a modern, trendy pair of earrings that will go with just about any outfit. Change up the look easily by swapping out the bead colors, tubing, etc.
8. Leather Diffuser Earrings
Leather earrings are very on trend right now, and they’re affordable and easy to make. If your customers are also into essential oils, these leather diffuser earrings from Making Lemonade should fly off your shelves.
It’s as easy as attaching a teardrop shaped piece of leather to earring hooks using jump rings.
You’ll need a leather punch, a mallet, pliers, and a cutting mat if you plan to cut your own leather. However, you can order pre-cut leather teardrops on Etsy if you want to get straight to making the earrings.
The leather pieces need to have a suede-type texture on the back (rather than a finished look) if you plan to sell them as diffuser earrings. This will help the earrings absorb the oil.
How fun! Every time a breeze catches the earrings, it’ll release a lovely fragrance.
9. Suede Fringe Earrings
A Cricut (Maker or Explore) is one of the best things for jewelry making. You can use it to cut all sorts of materials, like this faux suede used to make these gorgeous fringe earrings from Hey, Let’s Make Stuff.
Because they’re made with suede, they’re very lightweight.
To get started, get some Cricut faux suede, Cricut design space, fish hook earrings a pushpin, pliers, and the SVG files to cut from. You’ll need to purchase the commercial license ($10, which is very affordable) if you plan on selling these finished earrings in your online shop.
10. Shrink Plastic Earrings
You’ve probably heard of Shrinky Dinks before, right? Well, shrink wrap is perfect for making colorful, fun earrings.
This tutorial from Persia Lou is for shrink plastic flower earrings, but if you have a Silhouette Cameo, Cricut, or other cutting machine, you can easily make your own designs for your handmade jewelry.
Besides the clear shrink film, you’ll need permanent adhesive vinyl, transfer tape, jump rings, earring posts, pliers, glue, and the SVG files.
Follow the step-by-step instructions to learn how to make them.
Aren’t they gorgeous for spring? Just think of the beautiful leaves you can make for fall, snowflakes for winter, and so on.
Whether you’re just starting out in your business or looking for a new project to try your hand at, these 10 earring designs are perfect to make and sell. Not only are they stylish and on-trend, but they’re also relatively easy to put together, so you can make a bunch in no time.
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