Clip on earrings made into a statement necklace

My favorite accessory this spring by far has got to be the statement necklace!

I just can't get enough!

Recently, I was offered the challenge by emitations

to incorporate clip on earrings into a creative craft campaign.

Not that clip on earrings need to be changed into anything,

especially the pairs by emitations.
They are gorgeous!

But, it was a challenge, and I'm always up for a challenge.

I received two pairs of the Bijou's Rose gold clusters to work with.

Every order comes packaged in the most beautiful way and would make the perfect gift...

but I digress...back to the challenge!

I found a few rose gold supplies in my Hobby Lobby jewelry aisle.

I didn't end up using the large jump rings, but I wanted to show you the chain that I bought.

I started by removing the back of the clip on earring.

I have fancy jewelry tools, though I'm sure you could get by without.

Once the back was removed, I found the center of my chain and eye balled a placement of where I would want my now clip on free clip on earrings to be on my necklace.

With my pliers I removed the larger of the two rings on the chain where I wanted my cluster to go.

 I straightened out my ring as much as possible and fed it through the two holes that are part of the cluster where the clip on used to attach to.

I used my pliers to round out my jump ring, though not closing it all the way.

I threaded it through the smaller rings and placed my newly adorned cluster where my plain jump ring was before.

I closed the jump ring all the way once it was in place.

I repeated the process with all four of my clusters to make my statement necklace.

I love it!

Making a statement!

If you would like to see how I turned a clip on earring into a ring, check out this post from a few years ago. If you were given the challenge, what would you have created?