How to make a Pendant with an Earring

Learn how to make a pendant with an earring. With this tutorial you’ll learn how to quickly change an earring into a pendant. It’s the perfect way to salvage earrings that are no longer in a pair.

What to do if you lose an earring?

I have a few pairs of dangle earrings that for some reason are no longer in a pair. I have been keeping them in case I find the lost earrings, especially since some of those earrings are special to me.

I found the perfect way to wear them again, by changing them into pendants! Yes that’s right, you can turn a lost earring into a pendant!

The idea came to me when I was wearing my grandmother’s cardinal earrings. I found them super cute but not something I would wear everyday. 

While I looked at them and admired how they were nice and dainty, I thought they would make super cute pendants! 

Since I have two, I could even give each of my daughters one as a little keepsake from their great grandmother.

Ready to learn how to make a necklace pendant with a dangle earring?

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How to make a pendant using an earring

Supplies:

• Dangle earrings – Drop earrings
• Jump rings
• Chain

Tools: 

• Flat nose pliers.

Instructions:

Step 1: Remove earring hook.

Step 2: Open jump ring with flat nose pliers. 

You may find it easier to close the jump ring using two pliers.

Step 3: Insert pendant into jump ring.

Step 4: Close jump ring with flat nose pliers.

Step 5: Insert chain inside jump ring. 

How to attach a Pendant to a Necklace

If the pendant’s jump ring is too small for the chain to fit, open it and insert the chain then close it with pliers.

That’s precisely what I had to do for the pendants I made with my grandmother’s cardinal earrings.

Step 1: Open the jump ring.

Step 2: Insert the chain inside the opened jump ring.

Step 3: Close jump ring with pliers.

There you go, you have a pendant attached to a chain.

DIY Necklace Pendant

I absolutely love how the pendants turned out!

Do you have earrings you would like to transform into pendants?

Or perhaps you’d like to do the reverse. You can use the same steps in reverse to make pendants into earrings!

You could also use the pendants as charms on silk wrap bracelets! That would be a great way to use a bunch of single earrings.

You can also make ornaments from earrings! They make beautiful sparkly ornaments!