These sterling silver heart shaped petal flowers earrings are beautiful and light weight to wear. This project requires two stages of soldering and is quick but intermediate jewellery making project.
Step 1
Take a silver heart and add a small amount of hard solder paste to one of the sides. You may need to hold the heart in tweezers. Place the heart on a soldering block.

Step 2
Take the next silver heart and apply a small amount of solder to one of the sides. Place this heart on the soldering block next to the previous heart. Place the side without solder paste on next to the side of the heart with solder paste and ensure they are touching.

Step 3
Repeat this process lining the hearts with the pointed part of each heart pointing into the middle up and forming a flower shape.

Step 4
Gently rearrange any of the hearts so the flower shape they make looks even.

Step 5
Use a hand blow torch to heat the heart shapes up until the solder melts and flows.

Step 6
Quench (cool) the flower shape in water using tweezers and then add to a warm safety pickle solution for 10 minutes or until clean. Remove from the safety pickle using plastic tweezers.

Step 7
When clean and dry, place the flower shape back on the soldering block. Apply a small amount of medium/easy solder paste to the middle petal points and place the silver bead cup in the middle of the flower. Ensure that the cup is in contact with the middle of the flower as well as the solder paste.

Step 8
Heat the flower shape gently and evenly using a hand blow torch until the solder paste melts and flows. Using tweezers, quench the flower in water and add to a warm safety pickle solution for 10 minutes or until clean. Remove from the safety pickle using plastic tweezers.

Step 9
Repeat this process to make a second flower.

Step 10
To add shine, rub gently with a silver polishing cloth. Alternatively add to a barrel tumbling machine with shot, barrelbrite and water for 20 minutes.

Step 11
To make flowers into earrings open an earring hook wire by gripping either side of the hook wire loop with two pairs of pliers (chain, flat or snipe nose pliers) twist the pliers in opposite directions to open the hoop.
Note: Earrings are often a mirror image, you should consider this when adding your flowers onto the earring hook wires.

Step 12
Thread a flower on to the open loop and the two pairs of pliers to grip either side of the hoop and twist inwards to close flush.

Step 13
Repeat this to create a second earring and make a pair.


Sian Brown
Sian has been hand making her award winning jewellery in the West Midlands for over 12 years. Sian spent 10 years in Birmingham’s historic Jewellery Quarter before relocating to a quiet Worcestershire village.