Nature's Earrings

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  Step 1

  Draw your design on a piece of paper. (Excuse the crappy pictures. The camera and I hate each other...)

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  Step 2

  Get your scrap leather and decide which colors to use. I picked blue and green.

  This collection mainly consists of samples given to me by a fellow student, years ago. They are mainly furniture samples and scraps from old couches or bags.

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  Step 3

  Draw your design the actual size you want your earrings and cut it out.

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  Step 4

  Use the paper design to draw the design onto your leather and cut it out.
  You can see the line that I followed for the fringes.

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  Step 5

  I had a second piece of leather to cut, so I cut it out from the paper and used that to get the leather shapes.

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  Step 6

  Sew the two pieces together the way you want them to hang.

  I had planned to sew around the whole green piece but ended up making just one stitch. It's a bit more playful this way and lots less work.

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  Step 7

  Cut a very thin strip of a large (or at least long) piece of leather.

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  Step 8

  Get your snail shells.

  I already had these lying around. This is how they are prepared for jewelry making:

  - Find an empty snail shell that is still intact. Clean it out with water.
  - Fill it up with glue from a glue gun. This makes them less fragile.
  - When that has hardened out use a drill size 1 to drill a hole near the edge of the shell, through the glue. This is tricky because the edges can still break, so go slowly.

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  Step 9

  Add jump rings to the snail shells, through the drilled hole.

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  Step 10

  Fasten the thin leather strip to the jump rings in the shells. I added a wooden bead for decoration.

  It helps to cut a tapered end to your leather strip so it will go through the bead with more ease.

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  Sorry, no picture of this.

  Prick a hole in your blue leather piece with the needle, on the top, where your earring hook will come.

  Add a jump ring through it. (This requires some wriggling)

  Tie the leather strip with the shell on it to the jump ring.

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  Step 12

  Get your seed beads and earring hooks.

  I added 5 white beads to a jump ring and put that on to the hooks.

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  Step 13

  Hang your earring onto the beaded jump ring with the hook and voila: finished!

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Ninoo · Paris, Île-de-France, FR · 10 projects 16th June 2012

I Love it very nice

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