Create your own DIY handmade gifts with these exquisite jewelry making ideas.
But don’t let their elegance fool you. They’re easy enough for beginners to make!
The best part is each tutorial uses five materials or fewer. Gone are the worries about stocking up on expensive supplies that will end up collecting dust in your craft bin.
(And you can find cheap supplies for many of these projects!)
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A few tips before we dive into the jewelry design ideas:
- While each of the tutorials below uses sterling silver jump rings you can easily switch them for another jewelry metal jump ring of your choosing
- For the tutorials with the pearls, you can swap them out for another small circular bead. The Swarovski crystals can be switched for any other type of briolette (or pear-shaped bead) or another long bead of your choice.
- Each of the tutorials is based on one really easy jewelry-making technique — the Mobius spiral. If you’d like a video tutorial, I encourage you to sign up for my free jewelry making course, Jewelry Making Basics.
8 easy DIY jewelry gifts to make
These eight jewelry making ideas are simple enough beginners but beautiful to gift for any occasion!
Drop pearl earrings
These bolder earrings feature a long handcrafted ear wire and a feminine pearl & spiral dangle at the bottom.
Super simple DIY fancy earrings
Take your jewelry making to the next level of femininity with gorgeous colorful Swarovksi briolettes. They look super fancy but are unbelievably easy to whip up!
Swarovski pendant necklace
This fancy pendant is surprisingly easy to put together and features a hanging Swarovski briolette.
Ridiculously simple pair of spiral earrings
Simple and elegant, these feminine earrings are amazingly easy to put together and only require one tool!
Simple spiral pendant necklace
The perfect complement to the simple spiral earrings! And just like the earrings, you can put together this gorgeous DIY necklace with one tool and customize the length of the chain.
How to make a bead and spiral pendant necklace
Delicate and feminine, and yet so simple to make, these spiral pearl necklaces are the perfect DIY birthday present, mother’s day gift, or even a treat for yourself!
Elegant freshwater pearl dangle earrings
These earrings look super complicated and fancy but actually whip up super fast.
Sterling silver spiral chain bracelet
This chain bracelet has a wonderful weight to it and looks really elegant, but is surprisingly easy to make -- especially once you get the hang of making the spirals and connecting them to each other!
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