Simple DIY Leather Necklace with Wooden Charm and Earrings
This DIY leather necklace with wooden charms and matching earrings is not only adorable but also super easy to make! Whether you’re new to jewelry-making or just love experimenting with different materials, this project is perfect for you.
Equipment
- Jewelry pliers (flat nose pliers and bent nose pliers)
- scissors
Ingredients
- Leather cord – I used a 3mm green natural leather cord, you can play around here.
- Wooden charms
- Fold-over cord crimps – I used 3mm, use the size that matches your cord thickness.
- Lobster clasp
- Jump rings 3-5mm
- Spacer beads – I used 6mm but again you can play around with sizes here.
- Eye pins
- Earring hooks
Instructions
The Necklace
- Cut a strip of cord about the size you want the necklace to be. Mine was 45 cm (18 inches) + 2cm (1-inch).
- Open a 5mm jump ring and insert your wooden charm. Close the jump ring tight.
- You will be making 2 knots, one next to the other so calculate the center of your leather cord and make 1 knot.
- Insert the cord through the pendant’s jump and slide it until it meets the first knot. Make the second knot tightly close to the other one.
- Now let’s work on the closure of the cord ends.
- Apply a little glue to the crimp cord end.
- Place the cord in the crimp and fold in one side of the crimp with your flat nose plier.
- Carefully fold in the other side of the crimp.
- Tighten the folding crimp well with your pliers. Trim any cord excess if needed.
- Repeat on the other side.
- At one end of the cord, attach the clasp using jump rings. Open your jump rings and insert one crimp end and the clasp. Close the jump ring.
- Same on the other end but this time it will be only the end crip and the jump ring. Close the jump rings.
- Your pretty necklace is ready to rock!
The Earrings
- With your pliers open a jump ring and insert one wooden charm.
- Also, insert an eye pin and then close the jumo ring.
- With around-nose pliers, make a loop on the end of your eye pin.
- Since my spacer beads had a big hole I inserted it after making the loop. If yours is smaller, then make sure you insert your bead before making the loop.
- Open another jump ring a little bit and insert the earring hook and eye pin from the charm.
- Close the jump ring and you get yourself a pretty earring.
- Optional. If you want to add a little something extra to match even more the necklace, you can add a small strip of cord (the same one you used for your necklace) and make a know around the jump ring that holds the charm.
- Repeat with the other earring.
- There you go, that’s it!!!