This weeks design team project was created by Jeri, who used the Miss Caroline - Howdy Doody I Want It All! Full Collection Bundle to create the fun projects you see here.
Scroll down to the end of this post to see the amazing earrings she made with this paper!
Earring Tutorial
First, find a couple shapes you
would like to add to your earrings. I chose these 3.
Grab a couple of the sheets of
paper that you love. Trace out some shapes. I did 1 large flower, 2 medium
flowers and 1 of the oval drop shape. Cut those out.
Place them on top of each other
in the order you want them, and punch a small hole at the top.
I used some tie wire. You want a
wire that is a bit stiff and will hold its shape. I set up a triangle shape
with these pins and wrapped the wire around it, and snip the ends a ½ inch
longer then the triangle shape.
Go ahead and slide the paper
charms onto the wire. I used some small transparent spacer beads to keep the charms
separated. If you want, you can use as many paper charms as you want, and may
not need spacer beads. Make sure the
triangle opening is in the back. Use your needlenose plyers and wrap one end of
the wire around the other. Then fold the other wire up. Make sure its not
poking out and could hurt you. If there is leftover wire poking out, just trim
off with wire cutters.
I then attached an adorable brad
from the bundle to the circle end of the oval drop charm. Just simply fold the
brad ends up, so they aren’t noticeable.
I added a jump ring to the top of
the earring triangle and attached it to an earring hook.
Jeri-
ReplyDeleteGreat tutorial... And very creative.
Thanks for the Ideas.
Hugs
Sarinda