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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Project Overview

      1:51

    • 2.

      Supplies

      7:59

    • 3.

      Shape Dangles: Part A

      2:15

    • 4.

      Shape Dangles: Part B

      3:55

    • 5.

      Shape Dangles: Part C

      5:12

    • 6.

      Ball Drops: Part A

      2:38

    • 7.

      Ball Drops: Part B

      6:08

    • 8.

      Ball Drops: Part C

      3:53

    • 9.

      Tassels: Part A

      4:14

    • 10.

      Tassels: Part B

      6:23

    • 11.

      Tassels: Part C

      10:34

    • 12.

      Inspo + More Ideas

      2:12

    • 13.

      Thank You!

      0:37

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About This Class

Ready for the most fun you’ve ever had with scissors and glue? Learn to create fun and light weight earrings—from paper!

Three Courses in One!

In this course, you'll learn 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 even a pair of tassel earrings—all made from paper! 

Your challenge and project for this course will be to take what you learn and create your own one-fo-a-kind pair—then photograph it and share it with the group!

Who Am I?

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 RockyNook and PeachPit Press, maybe you’ve attended one of my hands-on classes at AdobeMAX. From professional photography and graphic design to crochet and paper craft—and everything in between—I relish being a Creative chamelon, experimenting with new things, and sharing what I discover.

Who Is The Class For?

Everyone is invited to join this class—No previous experience or skills necessary! It’s Great for anyone who loves creating with simple, accessible materials.

After This Class

Once you learn the basics, you’ll be able to whip up last minute accessories to add pizzaz to any outfit, create fun and festive earrings for any occasion or holiday—or make someone’s day with a super cute gift! These incredibly light-weight earrings make great gift toppers, party favors, hostess gifts, or are great to give away just because.

By the end of this class, you’ll be able to craft one-of-a-kind earrings in at least 3-diffrent styles. And I can’t wait to see what you come up with, so, Grab some paper, glue, a pair of scissors and some basic jewelry making tools and join me in the first video!

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Khara Plicanic

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A professional photographer and designer for more than 20 years, Khara's a natural born teacher who's been sharing inspiration & know-how with fellow creatives around the world for nearly two decades. Her fun and approachable teaching style has earned her rave reviews on global platforms including CreativeLive and AdobeMax and she's honored to be a regular presenter at CreativePro, Photoshop Virtual Summits, and DesignCuts Live. She's authored several books with Peachpit and Rockynook publishers, been a featured speaker at a local TEDx event, and regularly creates content for CreativePro, PixelU, My Photo Artistic Life, and more.


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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]