Wire Heart Pendant

This wire heart pendant is so pretty and so easy to make. Tweens, teens, and adults could make these for themselves or to give as a gift.

They would be perfect for gifting to your Mom for Mother’s Day, your BFF for their birthday, or someone special for Valentine’s Day or Christmas. How about getting a group of friends together for a “crafternoon” to make some of these together?

Wire Heart Pendant

Minimal supplies are needed to make this beautiful wire heart pendant. Follow the simple step-by-step tutorial and make something special.

List of Supplies Needed:

• Jewelry wire – 18 gauge
• Craft pliers – Cutting, flat-nose, and looping
• Teardrop beads
• Small round beads
• Memory wire
• Chain or necklace

Instructions: 

Step 1:

Measure and cut a 6-inch (16 cm) piece of wire. 

Step 2:

Use the looping pliers to create a loop at any one of the open ends of the prepared wire.

Step 3:

Create another loop at the other end of the wire.

Step 4:

Circle the loops 2 or 3 times to create twirl patterns on both ends of the wire. Make sure to keep the twirl the same size. 

Step 5:

Measure and mark the middle point of the wire (between the twirls). Bend the wire at that point, bringing the twirls towards each other.

Step 6:

Bring the twirls adjacent to each other to form the heart shape.

Step 7:

Place the wire heart on a flat, even and hard surface. Hammer the heart shape to flatten it; this will give the wire heart a sturdy structure. Prepare a piece of beading wire or memory wire and a few small round beads.

Step 8:

Coil the beading wire around a band of the wire heart, near the bottom side.

Step 9:

Insert 2 or 3 beads through the open end of the coiled wire.

Step 10:

Close the beading wire by coiling it around the opposite band of the wire heart.

Step 11:

Cut off extra beading wire after coiling it. Select a teardrop bead, a seed bead and a ball head pin.

Step 12:

Insert the seed bead and then the teardrop bead into the ball head pin.

Step 13:

Push the beads all the way adjacent to the ball of the pin. Coil the open end of the pin around the bent part of the wire heart.

Step 14:

Coil all the remaining wire or cut off extra after coiling a few times. The pendant is now ready. You can attach it to a necklace through the jump ring.