How to Make Dangly Earrings with Magazine Pages

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Recycle some old magazine pages into a cute pair of earrings!

These adorable dangly earrings cost almost nothing to make!

Gather your jewelry supplies to make the earrings.

Recycle some old magazine pages into a cute pair of earrings!

Photo: Kayte Terry

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Faced with the challenge of making recycled projects for every week this month, I have been learning to look at my trash in a whole new way. If bowls can be made with gift wrap and mosaics created from old credit cards, surely there must be millions more things to reinvent.

The cool thing about opening your mind to these ideas is you really start thinking about how to take a material and rework it in so many ways. So I started thinking about paper jewelry: I have made lots of paper beads before, but there must be different kinds of paper beads and new ways to manipulate paper. I created these earrings while playing around with that idea. The paper rings can be made in any size you desire. You can even make them into rings!

For more cool paper jewelry, check out Diane's amazing coiled paper pendants!

What you'll need:

Magazine pages
Decoupage glue (or watered-down white glue)
X-Acto knife, ruler, and cutting mat
Small paintbrush
Craft glue
6 inches of jewelry chain
Two 6mm jump rings
Two earring wires
Needle-nose pliers and wire cutters
Two different size round objects to roll magazines around (I used a large, thick Sharpie and a smaller pen)

Make the magazine rings:

Choose magazine pages that have interesting colors.

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Comments (11)

Nodan writes: Very nice design,you are creative.
Posted: 2:03 am on July 2nd

NancyWard writes: Hi!

Today I posted an entry on my blog with a link to this tutorial.

I'd appreciate your letting me know if that's OK.

Thanks,

Nancy Ward
http://paperfriendly.blogspot.com
Posted: 11:21 am on September 20th

jansonmc writes: what a great idea although i will put my own spin on this and let you know what i come up with i already do a reed type thing with the magazine pages i put them on all kinds of things my latest is a circle tray still working out the particulars
Posted: 1:11 pm on August 13th

Tommie59 writes: Can't wait to make them! I love earrings
Posted: 11:53 am on February 22nd