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1. Project Overview: Ready for the most
fun you've ever had with a pair of
scissors and glue. Learn to create fun and
playful earrings from paper. In this course, I'll
walk you through the step-by-step process
for not one, not two, but three
different earring designs. You'll learn how to create
shape dangle earrings, earrings with 3D ball drops and beautiful tassel earrings
that believe it or not, are all made from paper. Your challenge and project for this course will
be to take what you learn and create your own one of a kind
pair of earrings, then photograph them and
share it with the group. My name is Khara
Plicanic and I've been a photographer, designer, mixed media artist, and serial crafter for
more than 20 years. You might have seen
one of my books from Rocky Nook or
Peachpit press. Maybe you've attended one of my hands-on classes at Adobe Max. I relish being a
creative chameleon, experimenting with new things, and sharing what I discover. The best thing about this
class everyone's invited. There's no previous
experience necessary. Once you learn the basics,
you'll be able to whip up last-minute accessories to
add pizzazz to any outfit. Create fun and festive
earrings for any occasion or holiday or just make someone's day with
a super cute gift. By the end of this class,
you'll be able to craft one of a kind earrings in at
least three different styles, and I can't wait to see
what you come up with. So gather some basic supplies, bring your inspiration and join me in the next video
to get started.
2. Supplies: Let's start by talking about the supplies and materials you'll need to make some
fun paper earrings. Obviously, you're going to
need a pair of scissors, and if you have a
paper trimmer handy, that can be useful depending on the type of
earring you want to make. You'll need some
glue or glue stick. I am using something called art glitter glue and
I like this a lot because it sets up
quickly and dries clear and it's non-toxic and it comes with not only this
little nozzle, but even a more
precise tip than this. So if you tend to be messy
with glue like I do, I find this one really helpful. There's links to all
of this stuff in the resources for this course. You'll also need
some jump rings. I just have this collection
here that I got off Amazon, and this is just a bunch of different sizes all the way from a four millimeter jump ring to an eight
millimeter jump ring. A jump ring is just
these little circles. Maybe you can see it better
if I set it down here. Just these little rings
that you can open up to attach bits together. Depending on where you punch your hole in your
different pieces, you might need a bigger
ring or smaller ring, so it's nice to get a
little bit of a variety. You'll also need some ear wires. It doesn't really
matter which type, whatever you like the best. I have these fishhook ones and then I forget what
these are called, but they have a nice drop and
I like my earrings dangy, so I have some of those as well. But you could also do hoops. It really doesn't matter as long as you can
attach stuff to them. You'll also need a
couple of pliers so you can handle the jump rings
and manipulate everything. You'll need something
to punch a hole with so I have this little
hole punch that I got on Amazon and
I think it does a really tiny eighth
of an inch hole, but you don't have to have this. You can also use an awl to punch a hole or you could even just
use a pin or even a needle. Sometimes I find it helpful, if you have a needle and a cork from a bottle
of wine or something, sometimes I take the needle
and stick it in the cork and that gives me a handle that
I can use to punch holes. Don't feel like you have
to get anything special. Then let's talk about paper. I'm just using scrapbook
paper and this is just a little booklet that I
think I got from Michaels. It just has some fun,
different designs, different patterns and
prints on the paper. But this is not thick. It's just regular. I don't know. It's a decent weight but
it's not card stock. You don't have to
have card stock. But it is helpful for
some things to have some not fancy card
stock that you could use for the inner core pieces. It's not going to be seen, but it can strengthen
our earrings. Whether that's just
white card stock or craft paper or black
or any other color, but you don't have to use up your fancy pretty paper for some of these bits because they're not
going to be seen. For specialty earrings,
you might want to pick up a little paper pack
of glitter paper. Like for my snowflakes,
I'm going to use, I don't know that you
can see this on camera, but shimmery. You might be tempted
like I was to try and do something fun like
snowflakes out of this iridescent card stock
and I tried that because I thought it would be cool but
it just didn't work as well. I don't know, maybe you'll
have better luck with it. But for something sparkly, I had better results
with this glitter paper. It comes in different colors
so that's really fun. Then we need something to actually cut the
shapes of our paper. It could be that you use scissors and you
use the templates that are included in the resources for this course
and you just cut them out. That is perfectly fine. I'm going to be using a
one-inch paper punch. This is a circle punch, so it makes a circle with
a one-inch diameter. I also recently got
this snowflake punch. This is a one-and-a-half inch
diameter snowflake punch, but use what you've got even
if that is just scissors. I've also included an
SVG file for each of the template shapes that are
in the resource PDF as well. If you happen to have
a cutting machine, you can use those. Sometimes you might want to ink the edges of your earrings, so depending on the
paper you have, it might just be white along the edges and that can be fine but if it bothers you
and you want to ink it, you could use a sharpie or
a pen or I guess anything. But it's also handy, these little ink pads
are really simple to hold and just rub
along the edges of the paper when it's done. That can be handy as well, but totally not necessary. Another thing that you might
like but I'm not going to be using is some Mod Podge. If you're especially worried
that the paper might be fragile or might get
wet or something, you can prep your paper
with some Mod Podge. You can get Mod Podge
in different colors or different finishes
just like paint. You can get gloss and
super ultra gloss. This one that I have is satin. You can also get a matte. Again, I'm not going to be using this but if you're
worried about it, grab some Mod Podge. The other thing that I have
here is a bone folder. You could use a pencil, anything to just make a sharp crease when
you fold the paper. I just happened to have this, but you can even just use
your fingers if you want. If you want to make
the tassel earrings, then you need a
couple other things. You will probably need a
round nose pliers for those. Also, you might need
a couple of beads. I just have some
wooden beads that I bought on Amazon as part of this whole set with different beads and different
sizes and different shapes. I can link to all of that
in the resources as well. Maybe a couple of
different beads in a couple of different sizes. Then you're either going
to need some wire or an eye pin or a head pin to get our tassels
connected to our earrings. It's also handy when we
make the tassels to have a ruler or straight
edge of some sort. Lastly, because we're going
to be rolling the tassels, basically making
like a paper bead, you need something
to roll them around. I will use this knitting needle that I have but you could use, I think even a toothpick
as long as it's round. You just want to be able
to roll it and you want a tiny little opening
to our tassel. That's it. Let's get started in the next video cutting
out our first shapes.
3. Shape Dangles: Part A: Let's get started with our
shape dangle earrings. So I'm going to be making the snowflake shape
with my punch here. But in the resources,
there's also hearts, there's a star, several
different shapes in there that you can use as well
that are easy to cut by hand with a pair of
scissors, if you want. If you feel like you're going to want to Mod Podge your paper, I would say do it before
you make the earrings, but you could also, I guess,
try to do it afterwards. I've never Mod Podged
my paper earrings, so you'll have to experiment. So I'm skipping that step. So we're going to start by
punching out our shapes. So we're basically going to
be making a shape sandwich. Our fancy paper is going
to be like the bread. We're going to need two
pieces of fancy paper. Then the inside of the
sandwich can be anything you want just to basically
give it some strength. Actually I think I might
use this because this is a little heavier card stock and because I'm punching
the snowflake, we have these extremities
which could be weak points. So I'm going to strengthen it with some card stock
on the inside. So whatever shape
you want to do, go ahead and punch out
four bread crusts. So I'm just moving along here, and I'm cutting out
four snowflakes. So that's for one
pair of earrings. So if you are making multiples, each pair is going to
need four bread pieces. Then two inner sandwiches. So I'll just do two of these. So I can't wait to see
what you guys make with other shapes
and other paper. So join me in the next
video for the next step.
4. Shape Dangles: Part B: Now that we have
our shapes punched, we have two bread pieces
for each earring. This is going to make one pair. Each ear gets its
own shape sandwich. We've got the bread and this is going to go inside the sandwich. Whether you're doing
snowflakes or hearts or stars or whatever, this is what you want to
basically set up for yourself. Then what we're going to do is now glue the pieces together. This is why I really like
this art glitter glue, which I only
discovered recently. But it's like where has
it been my whole life? I'm going to take this
and just very gingerly, not a lot of glue, and I'm going to take
the sandwich piece, the bread piece, and
I'm going to glue it to the inside piece. Now this stuff sets
up pretty quickly, so you don't have a
ton of time to work, which is nice and also
challenging sometimes. The one side has the sparkle and the other
side is just the white paper. Once that sets up, we're going to put some glue on the other side of the
white inner core. What should we call that?
That's like the cheese. We're making a cheese
sandwich here, so this is like the cheese. I'm just dabbing. We'll take this and pop
it here on the backside. Our first cheese sandwich
is put together. I'm just making sure I
get all the glue off. We have our bread and in the
middle we have some cheese. We'll do the same thing with the other piece, other earring. Let's see. Make sure you can see, it's hard to see. I'm putting white
glue on white paper, but I am just scribbling
the tiniest little bits. I'm not globing it in because obviously it's
going to spread out when we press the cheese piece there and we don't
want to just have glue oozing out of every
bit of our sandwich. That looks good. Some
lining things up, pressing to make sure that
there's good contact made. We'll flip it over and do the
same thing on the backside. I have to say that
I've really avoided paper graphs for a lot of my
life because I was so messy. But I feel like this glue
is a game changer for me. I think I just got it on Amazon, so links to all of that. But you don't have to use this. You could use a glue stick or if you're amazing
with hot glue, good luck, you could try that. That would be a disaster
with the hot glue. Now I'm going to put my
lid back on because I don't want my awesome
glue to dry out. But here we have our two
snowflake cheese sandwiches and they are ready
for the next step, which is to turn
them into earrings. Join me in the next video
and see how it's done.
5. Shape Dangles: Part C: In this video we're going to
turn these into earrings. I'm going to slide in this
black paper because it might just help things show up a little bit better
for you on camera. We've got those guys and the
next step is to punch them. Again, if you have a hole punch, this one is 16th of an
inch, so it's very tiny. But you don't have to have this. You can use a needle,
or an awl, or a pin, anything that just punch a hole. You have to experiment. It could be depending
on the type of ear wire or ear
hook that you have. Maybe you want to
put the hole down here in the body
of the snowflake. You could try that. For me, I'm just going to
keep it simple in this case, and I'm just going
to punch one of these little arms
of the snowflake. Now, you obviously, don't
want to put it too close to the edge because it's
easier to tear out. Although I will say
I've never had any of my paper earrings tear out. That's good news. But maybe that's because I don't
put it right on the edge. You want to set it
in a little bit, but you also want
to keep in mind, if you set it super far in, then you are going to need a really big jump ring
in order to attach it. I have to split the middle. But I think I'm going to go in the center of this
little bit right here. This is really hard
to see on camera, but I'm sandwiching it in there
and hope that looks good. I'm going to go for
it and there we are. Repeat on the other earring. Sometimes you just have to
close your eyes and go for it. I think that is nice. Once we get our holes punched, we're ready for our ear
wires and our jump ring. I think I'm going
to put these on this ear drop that I have, but whatever ear wire or hoop or whatever
it is you're using, it's going to work the same way. We're going to need
our jump rings. We basically just want to
make sure that we have a jump ring that is big enough so that when you
get it in the hole, that it clears the top. If I tried to put like a
really tiny jumping on here, like a little four
millimeter guy. It's not big enough to
go through the hole and clear this little bit up there. That's not going to work. I'm just going to go
I think with seven because I don't want
to worry about it. I'm going to grab two, seven millimeter jump rings, and now we're going
to grab our pliers. The way that you open a jump
ring is you grab half of it. So in your hand here, you want to position
it so that the little cut at the top, it's a circle that has a
little cut at the top, so it's open at the top. You want to position that on the top and grab the
left side like this. Then with your pliers, you're going to come in
and grab the right side, but you don't pull
apart, you do a swivel. I'm going to point my pliers to the camera and
this is what you do. You go swivel, see that? I'm not pulling them apart. I'm swiveling it open. Then if I let go of one side, you can see it's
swiveled like this. It's not pulled open like that. Swivel and then we
just take our earring, slide it onto the ring, keep it in your hand while
you take your ear wire. Slide that over it. Grab your pliers again, and then swivel it back. That will keep the jump
ring in a perfect circle. Then you have a beautiful
dangling earrings. Let's do the other one now. Again, I'm going to
find the top where the split is in the jump ring. Grab that left bit, grab the right bit, and swivel. Then we'll slide on the
shape and the ear wire. Grab that ring with
the other plier and swivel it back together. Just like that, we made a pair
of shape dangle earrings. In the next video, I'm
going to show you how I like to make 3D
ball drop earrings.
6. Ball Drops: Part A: In this video,
we're going to make our 3D ball drop earrings, and I'm going to be using this fun little paper booklet
that I got from Michaels. I decided that I really
liked this paper here. I'm going to pull this out, and we'll make some dangle
earrings with this. I'm going to be using my
one-inch circle punch. If you don't have this or you want a different
size or whatever, you could find
something round like the art glitter glue bottle
and you could trace it. You can trace a
lid to something. Also, I did put a one-inch circle in the
template file in the resources, so you can just print that out and use that as a
template as well. For the ball, we're
going to need four circles for each ear. With this pattern
paper that I have, I'm going to punch
out four circles for one ear and
then I'm going to do four more for the other ear. So that's it. I can set that aside and pop these guys out. Those little shape punches
are really nice to have. If you use a coupon at
Michaels or wherever, you can get a good discount. Side note here, once I punch
out my paper like this, I obviously can save this paper and use
it for other stuff, but I cannot stand
all these edges. It just makes me
crazy and it snags on stuff and then I just
I don't like it. What I do is after I cut or
punch or use piece of paper, I trim off all those awful
edges so I have a nice edge. Then these, you can recycle or use them for
all kinds of things. Unlike this piece here, I could use that for
something who knows, I might snip this off. I'll put these bits back in my stash and then
these little guys can go in recycling or
if I come up with some other clever use,
I'll use them for that. We have four little
circles for each ear. In the next video, I'm
going to show you how to turn them into a 3D ball.
7. Ball Drops: Part B: Now that we have
our paper shapes or circles rather punched out, we are ready to turn
them into a 3D ball. We're going to take each one and we're going to fold it in half so that the
pretty side is inside. For example, I'm going to take this and just fold it over into a little taco with the pretty side on the
inside and crease it. This is where if you happen
to have a bone folder or you could just use a
ruler or a pen, whatever, you can crease that to just make a really sharp crease
but that's up to you. Totally also [LAUGHTER] not necessary if you don't want it. I'm going to go through and fold all of these
into little tacos and I will see you in a minute. I've got all of these
folded into little tacos, pretty side inside and I've got them grouped into sets of four because sometimes it's easy
to just get on a roll and lose count and then you end
up gluing too many together. Because this art
glitter glue is so good [LAUGHTER] you can't
really pull it apart. Here's what we're
going to do then. We're going to grab
one of the tacos and hold it so your thumb
is inside the taco. Then you're going to
take your glue or glue stick or whatever it is you want to use and
you're just going to scribble a little glue on there. You'll take another taco, put your thumb inside
that taco too, and then you're just going
to press them together like so and make sure
they line up nicely. While that glue is still wet, I can slide these around to get the edge aligned the
way that I want to. We have a nice clean edge. Then, we just work
our way around. Now we're going to
put some glue on the next taco shell and
pick up another taco, open it up and press
these two sides together and one more little bit here. Now you might be tempted to just glue both sides of these. Now I already got a
little drop there. I guess I'll do this side. I found that it's just too
much to worry about at once. I'm going to glue one
side of the tacos, and then we'll get the
other side in a minute. Just sliding them to
get them aligned, and then we need to glue these
little tacos together too. Last one. Awesome. Now I'm just going to go through
and press everything to make sure there's full contact. There we have a little ball. From the top, it
looks like this, like a star but when you
look from the front, it is a ball, almost like a paper lantern. One other thing I guess that we should do while
we're here is, and I know it seems weird, but you can actually
flatten it and press to make sure all those inner
core bits are connected and then open it up or
turn the page and flatten it again just to make sure all the inner
bits are pressed, and then you can put it
back into that ball shape. We'll let that fully dry, and then we just repeat
on the other side. You want to make sure
when you glue the tacos together that the
open ends are all facing the same way
and the center, the straight edge
is always aligned. The closed edge, yeah. Don't go overboard
with the glue because you'll just have a big old mess. I get that assembled
and I just want to get that full contact
there on the inside. I'm flattening it, and then I'm going
to pop it open and flatten it the other way. Press and then open it back up. There we have our little balls. Join me in the next video, and we'll assemble them.
8. Ball Drops: Part C: Our little 3D balls
have been put together. Now we are ready
to assemble them. I'm just going to come over
and pick one to start with. Press it flat. Grab my punch or my needle
or my pin or my all, or however you want to do it. Just sliding this in. Now you want to make sure
that you're punching it in line with the fold. I mean, unless you want
them to hang this way, maybe you like that, but I
want mine to hang like this. I want to make sure
that I'm punching my hole in line with
the center like this, where that fold is. That can be a little
tricky to see, especially while trying to
keep my hands on camera. I'm going to just
call this good. I'm going to squeeze.
There we go. I did. I got it right on
the centerfold there. Perfect. Now we'll
do the other one. Press it flat. I like to make sure I see where that fold is. That's tricky. If it helps, you can always draw the center line with pencil and then just
erase it afterwards. I would probably
do that just so I don't have to worry
about it. There we are. Now those are punched and
ready to turn into earrings. We'll need to grab
our ear wires. Again, because I'm
such a dangly person, I'm going to grab these drops. I don't know that I need such a big jump ring
for these, maybe six. It really is just
whatever works for you. No right or wrong. Same thing we're going to
grab my jump ring. We'll position it
so the little slit in the jump ring is at the top. I'll grab the left
side with a pair of pliers and the right. Swivel it open, put earring on. Again, just flatten it for this part makes it much easier. Get the earring in there. Get the ear wire hook in there, and put your pliers back
and swivel it shut. You don't want to be
pulling that jump ring apart because you'll
lose the circle shape. Then you want to make
sure that it dangles. Sometimes if you're
jump ring is too small for wherever you
punched the hole, it won't wiggle very well. It'll get stuck. Then if that happens, just take that jump ring off. Same thing swivel it open, pull it off, swivel it close. You can reuse it and just try other slightly bigger jump ring because you want to
get that wiggle. Let's do the same thing
with the other one. Swivel it open. I'm going to flatten my
ball to be able to get it on here and put my ear wire on and let's close this puppy up. There we are. Now look at that. We made a beautiful pair
of ball drop earrings. Join me in the next video
and we are going to make paper tassel earrings, believe it or not.
9. Tassels: Part A: So we're going to get started
on our tassel earrings, and we're going to
need some head pin, or eye pin or wire, and our ear wires. This time I'm just going to use regular fishhook ear wires. I've decided on this paper, so I think the paper
that works really great for the tassels is just
something with a small pattern. I want my tassel to be
able two inches long. On top of the tassel, we're going to add a bead, and then of course we
have the ear wire. You want to think
about how long you want the total earring to be. I think if I do about two
inch tassel plus the bead, that's a nice size
dangle without being so long that it's going to rush my shoulders and stuff. I'm going to cut this to be two inches wide, and I'll
just cut off the bottom. I haven't had my paper trimmer, so I'm going to line this up at the two-inch mark and cut. I'm going to have
a strip like this, and this is six by eight paper, so I now have a strip
that is six by two. So once we get our paper cut, now we need to turn it
over and on the backside, I'm going to measure a little
bit ways down from the top. You could do half-inch, you could do a centimeter, you could do a quarter-inch. I'm going to just do three-eighths because
I'm feeling sassy. I'm going to grab my pencil, and I'm going to
mark three-eighths. I'll come over here and
again mark three-eighths, and then connect
the line between them and just draw
a line like that. We'll do the same
thing over here. I'm going to measure
three-eighths. Or what I usually do is just use the metric system because
it's so much easier. But this ruler doesn't have it. The point is, you just want a small little strip
across the top right, because that is going to
be the top of the tassel. Now that we've got that set, we can take our scissors, and what we want
to do is just cut little fringes that go from
the bottom up to the line. So you can try really hard and make them
all the same size. That's up to you. If you have fringy scissors, fringe making scissors, this would probably
go a lot faster. I've tried doing this
on my paper trimmer and I think it's actually
faster to just do it by hand. I'm just going to
fringe this out, and I will catch you
on the flip side. I've got one done.
I'm going to just keep on rocking and
do the other side. See you in a minute.
I've got this fringed and I think it really is going to work out best with the
smaller fringy pieces. But I do have some that
are a little bit bigger. I didn't measure, I just did it. If you want to be more precise, you are welcome, but
I feel good about it. I'm going to also,
before we move on, I'm going to snip out this whole couple of
fringes like this. The first one or two fringes, just so that I have
a little piece of this tabs hanging out. Actually, I might even
cut off a little more. It's going to make it easier
to get our tassels started, so I've just cut like that. I'm going to do the
same thing over here. They don't have to be equal, just so we have a
little something to get our tassels started with. Join me in the next video, and we're going to turn
this into a tassel.
10. Tassels: Part B: Here is where you're going
to want your glue and some type of tiny
little round thing you can roll these up with. Again, I was going to
use a bamboo skewer, but I don't know
where it ran off to. I happened to have this too, and actually I just keep this knitting needle
in my sewing drawer because it's pokey and I can use it for stuff
just like this. We're going to get
this started rolling. Now we don't want to put
glue on this part here because that would glue
the paper to our skewer. What we just want
to do at this point is get our skewer in here. I'm just folding the
paper around it, no glue. You see that? Once I get all the way around, and it's a little bit
finicky to get started, so hang in there. But once I get all
the way around, then I can start putting a little bit
of glue here as we go. I'm not going to glue up the
whole thing at once because this glue sets so quickly that I am not fast
enough to do it that way. I'm just rolling this up. I'm just going to keep going and it's pushing all
that extra glue. So a little goes a long way. It's rolling the glue forward. I'm just going to keep
rolling, rolling, rolling keep that tassel
rolling, looking good. Then to the end of
my glue and actually this maybe enough tassel for you, maybe
that's all you want. I'm going to put a little
more glue and keep going. If that's all you want,
you could just cut this off and you'd be done. But I want to see how
thick it is when I roll up all six inches of length here. You want to make sure
as you're rolling that you are keeping
things straight. In other words, don't roll crooked so that you start
getting a cone up here. You want to keep
the top edge flat. Keep going here, not a lot of glue. I'm not squeezing anymore, I'm just spreading out whatever
glue is already there. We'll just keep going. I think two inches is a
great length for this because it's going to be even longer once we
get it put together. Now I'm to the end. I'll put a little more
glue on here and then I'm just going to fold that over and hold it for a second. Let that set up. Isn't that cute? It's like
a little topper. How fine? Who knew that paper
tassels could really work. Doesn't it seem like it
wouldn't work but it works. Once that glue is pretty set up, you can take your skewer
and just slide it out. That's why it's important
that we didn't put glue at that very beginning because we don't
want it to pull. There we have one tassel and we're going to repeat
that same thing on the site. Again, don't put any
glue right here. You can put your skewer there and try to get that started. Remember, that it's
finicky in the beginning. It's not you, it's
just the project. It's the way it is. Once you get around
so that you don't risk gluing the paper
to your skewer or your stick or whatever you're using then you can start putting some glue on there and then
you get that party rolling. As you go, you just add more glue and I'm not
even really squeezing. I'm just scribbling out whatever glue is still on the nozzle because
you don't need a ton. If you struggle with glue, you could also use that tape. What's it called?
Like running tape. Like you just stick it down
and then pull the dispenser. I never remember what
that's called but I love that stuff and
before I found this glue, I really liked that. That's another option
here if you and glue just really
don't get along. There we are. We
made it to the end. I'm going to cap my glue and
just hold this for a minute. Make sure it's setting. Oh my gosh, I love these. Then once you feel like
it's set well enough, you can just pull the
bamboo skewer out. You can see there's
the openings. We have a little opening there. I would have liked mine
to be a little smaller, this is a little thicker than my bamboo skewer but it'll work. There we go. We have our
tassels and in the next video, we're going to turn
them into earrings.
11. Tassels: Part C: We're going to turn
these little babies into earrings now. We're going to need
our ear wires, and I'm going to be
using an eye pin. If you use a head pin, then you just want to make
sure that you have a bead small enough to not pull off, or if you have hot glue, then that's another option. But basically, what
we're going to do is thread the tassel onto the wire. Ultimately something like this, and then we're going to
make a little loop on the end attached to
jump ring and a bead. We'll put the bead
on, make a loop, and then put the jump
ring and the ear wire. But what we need to do is
prevent this from pulling out. Whether you do that by sticking a bunch of
hot glue in there, which would totally work, but I'm just not wanting
to make them mess. What I'm going to
do instead is use my little beads to
basically be a stopper. Because this wire already
has a loop on the end, as long as I have
a bead with a hole that will not cause
it to fall off. See here, this
little bead that I have is not going to fall off. When I pull this up from the bottom of
the tassel like this, I'm sticking it up the bottom, bending the piece in there. I'm inserting the little wire with the bead on it up
through the bottom. When I push it out the
top, you see that? Now that's in there. That's
what we're going to do. I'll just set that down there. Let me do the same thing for the other ones so you can
see it one more time. I'm taking my eye pin. If you don't have an eye pin, I'm going to show you how
to make these little loops in the next moment here. if you just have
wire or you have a head pin with a
really tiny head, maybe you snip the head off and roll a little
loop like this. Whatever you need to do to get the bead so it doesn't fall off. Then I'm going to take this, turnover my tassel here, find the center, and I'm going to feed
this through and out the top like that. All right, now we've
got those guys set. The next step is that I'm going to hold
this from the bottom too. I'm going to stick my thumb
in there and hold it because otherwise it'll fall out and
I'll have to pick it up. Start over, so I don't
want to do that. The next thing I'm going to
do is put a bead on the top. I'm just looking here
to see I don't know what size bead I want. Is that too big? I don't know. I don't know what
size these are, I've not measured them. That's too tiny. I'm going
to go with this guy. Or maybe I even have these beads that are like multifaceted. You can see that. I think I just like
the round ones here. Whatever size bead
this is, I don't know. It might be a half inch or so. I'm going to put it
on here and just to help hold everything together. I think I'm going
to put some glue. I'm going to slide this bead on and just press it for a minute. How cute is that?
Wiggle, wiggle. Looks like a little
person in a fancy dress. The next part can be tricky. I'm going to put this black
paper back under here. The next thing we're
going to do is we need to turn this top wire into a loop, similar to the loop
that we have here, and that way we can
connect the jump ring to this loop and then the other part of the
jumping to this loop. This is where you need the
round nose pliers because you cannot make a loop
without a round nose. First thing though,
is I'm going to take this wire and
what you want to do is grip it right above the
bead and just fold it into 90 degrees or close to it. I just spent that
over, you see that? Bent in 90 degrees. Then you want to
make sure you're using now your
round nose pliers, and what you're going to do is position them not right up here, like you might think
you need to grab it right next to the
hole in the bead, but surprisingly you don't. Maybe if you eyeball like one centimeter or
about a half inch out, that's where you're going to
grab with your needle nose, and not at the bottom, not way back here and
not way at the tip, somewhere in the middle, and then you're just
going to roll around, and then you're going
to have to let go. You're rolling it, but
not quite all the way, and then switch positions, and then you can
finish rolling it. Then we might need to
cut off any extras. If you've got your
sniper pliers, we can do that, and then sometimes I have a hard time getting these
little guys straight. Sometimes you might want
to go back in and do that, straighten it out a little
bit. But there we go. Now we have a loop
on the top that we can put our jump ring in. Let's do that for
the other pair. We got the wire in here, the bead is on the inside
keeping everything happy. Maybe we want to
put glue on top. I don't think I'm
going to, this time. I'm going to grab my
bead, put my bead on, then I'm going to grab some pliers and I'm
going to take that wire, and I want to bend it
right over like that. Which is great because it is going to keep things
from falling out. Then we're going to put our round nose pliers about
a centimeter from the bend, and about a third of the way down the needle
nose pliers from the tip. Put it there and then
we're going to roll, and then once you get
it looped around, you're going to have to
pull your pliers out and then switch to roll
the rest of the way. Then we can snip
off the extra bit. [NOISE] You can snip
off any excess wire. Then I have such a hard time getting these little
guys straight, so I usually use my pliers then to just straighten it out
if it's a little wonky. But there we have it.
Now we have a loop on this one and a
loop on this one. From here, it's super simple. We just grab our jump rings, and because we're only connecting two little
circles like that, we can get away with a
pretty tiny jump ring. I'm going to try four. I don't know if I've
ever used a four. A four millimeter jump ring is like micro, but let's try it. Now the question is just, [LAUGHTER] can I hold
one of these guys? They're so biddy. All right, let's find out. I'll grip it and swivel it open, put on the tassel, and the ear wire, and try not to drop everything
or shake it, there we go. [NOISE] There we have one, and repeat on the other side. I'll pick up my jump ring, swivel it open,
tassel and ear wire, and there we go. How cute are these little
tassel earrings? I love it. I can't wait to see what papers and patterns and
combinations you guys make. Join me in the next video
and I'll just show you a couple of ideas for how you can keep this going and push the envelope
a little bit further.
12. Inspo + More Ideas: Now that you know
the basic techniques for punching out and assembling the shape sandwiches or the
3D balls and of course, the tassels, you can combine
them in different ways. Here is a pair of
earrings that I made with just a simple one
inch circle punch and I made three
shapes sandwiches. I punched paper for both
sides and in the middle, I just use black card stock. Then when I punched the
holes in these, each circle, got two holes, top, and bottom except
for this bottom one, because I only wanted
a series of three. I have a whole collection
of three drop earrings in all different kinds of materials and I just
love this a lot. You can see I did the same
thing with the ball drop. This is the same technique
so each one of these balls has four pieces of paper, so we have 12 for this earring
and 12 for the other one. I just assembled
the ball the same way as we did and same thing. I just punched holes at
the top and the bottom, the top, and the
bottom and the top. Another idea, if you are someone who has a bunch of washi tape, you could take your washi tape and cover like a piece of
card stock with it and then punch or cut that out and hole punch that
and turn that into earrings using any of
these same techniques. That would also be great and you wouldn't have to worry
about finding paper then. You could make your
own fun design from your favorite washi tapes. So much goodness here.
I hope you had fun. I hope you feel inspired. Once you know those
basic techniques, you're really only limited
by your imagination.
13. Thank You!: Thanks so much for joining me on this paper crafting adventure. I hope you had fun and that
you enjoy making oodles of earrings for yourself
and everyone you know. Please take a minute to
post your projects down below so we can all be
inspired by your amazing work. It'd be super awesome if you take a minute to
review this course to help others discover it
too. Want to keep in touch? You can find me online
at kharaplicanic.com. If you're up for more
creative crafting, check out my other courses
here on Skillshare and beyond. I can't wait to craft with
you again next time. [MUSIC]