Crystal Bullet Earrings

These crystal bullet earrings are bang on trend!

Posted by Cat Morley

About

I'd collected some crystals and bullet shells while road tripping through the US and decided to turn them into earrings for a Christmas present. The punch from Easy Earrings Cards made it so simple to package them up and give them a nice professional finish.

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You Will Need (10 things)

  • 2 Bullet shells
  • 2 Crystals
  • Gold Wire
  • Gold Earring Hooks
  • Jewelry Pliers
  • Super Glue

  • For the packaging

  • Mirror Card
  • Easy earring Punch
  • Cellophane Bag

Steps (9 steps, 25 minutes)

  1. 1

    Cut a 10" length of the gold wire and bend in half in the middle.

  2. 2

    `Slip the earring hook into the middle of the wire and twist the two ends together with pliers.

  3. 3

    Bend the two tails around the top of the bullet and bend the tails down either side.

  4. 4

    Twist the wire tails around the outside edge of the bullet.

  5. 5

    Snip the tails off.

  6. 6

    Attach the crystals by coating the top edge with super glue and placing inside the bullet shell.

  7. 7

    To make some awesome packaging, use the earring punch to punch earring holes in some reflective mirror card.

  8. 8

    Cut the card into a square which will fit nicely in your packaging.

  9. 9

    Slip the earrings in and you're all done!