Anthropologie Inspired Tutorial: Lace Trapeze Earrings!

So I went to Hobby Lobby yesterday with a friend and bought a TON of stuff! (Okay, maybe not a ton, but at least a couple of pounds! :o) I was working on a project, but didn't have everything I needed for it. That's right. I didn't have jump rings. I know, some of you are probably thinking, of all things, she didn't have jump rings! So I got a pack, and this morning I finished these cute earrings!
I found the originals at Anthropologie, and decided to try making them. It was really easy, and I'll tell you how to do it, but I kinda forgot to take pictures while I was doing it...

You'll need a small jewelry chain, lace, jump rings, glue, acrylic paint, and earring hooks (sorry, I don't really know what they're called!)

Cut a shape out of the lace, and make sure you do two!

Dilute desired color of acrylic paint, white as one color. I did pink, pinkish white, and cream.

Paint bottom of lace piece, and let dry. Try doing the solid color, blend with the second color, then finish off the top with the white/cream. It also might be helpful to apply enough paint so that it stiffens the fabric and doesn't curl when you wear them.

Cut two pieces of jewelry chain and connect both ends of the pieces with a jump ring, but slide one end through the earring hook before you connect the last jump ring (there should be a part on the bottom for this), if that makes any sense. The picture should help.

Poke holes on either side of the lace and put the jump rings through.

Close the jump rings and put a little bit of glue on them so that they won't break the lace and fall off.

Try 'em on! :o)

I took a bunch of pictures with these, and decided that I liked this one. A quail laid an egg underneath the playground in our backyard, and let's just say that it hasn't hatched yet. Made us pretty sad, but they've done that three or four times now, and all of the others hatched- we've seen them running all over the place! Haha hope you like your earrings! If you didn't understand part of my tutorial, please leave a comment!

Flower Earrings

So, I'm sorry I didn't get pictures of my locker, but here is a tut on the flower earrings: First, you will need Tacky Glue* , a toothpick, a butter knife, earrings (flat topped- you can get these at Roberts, made especially for crafts like these), and Sculpey or other sort of polymer clay.

This tutorial may seem confusing (and sorry, the pictures are kinda bad), but it is SUPER easy. I made at least five or six pairs after this :o). First step is to roll a ball of sculpey out and cut it in half. It should be about the size of quarter- maybe a bit larger, but it all depends on how big your earring pieces are, and how big you want your earrings to be.

Next, you'll want to cut a small chunk out of one of the pieces of sculpey, and roll it into a snake. Then you flatten the 'snake' out, and curl it into a swirl like a burrito. This will be the center of the flower.

After that, continue to cut small bits of sculpey, roll them into balls, and press them flat, then flattening the edge a bit more.

These will be the petals of the flower. Keep doing this until you don't have any sculpey left. When that's done, press the petals onto the center of your flower, smoothing out the bottom with the toothpick. It will make it sooo much easier when you have to glue the flowers to the earrings!

Bake according to package directions.....

Then glue to the top part of the earring.

Now you're done!

Note: the Tacky Glue I bought didn't keep the flowers on the earrings, I don't know if that is the case, if the brands of glue are different, or if the earrings weren't the right kind of metal that worked with the Tacky Glue, but anyways, just try to keep that in mind.