A Million and One Polymer Clay Earring Designs

00:00:03 –> 00:00:07 Hi guys! This is Cindy Lietz, your Polymer Clay Tutor in today’s Studio Tip and I’m going

00:00:07 –> 00:00:12 to show you a million and one polymer clay earrings, well not quite a million and one

00:00:12 –> 00:00:17 but a whole bunch of them. I was super busy this week and I was supposed to be getting

00:00:17 –> 00:00:21 some other samples ready and I thought what am I going to show you and I was sitting there

00:00:21 –> 00:00:26 looking out the window and staring at a bunch of my earrings, and I thought you know what

00:00:26 –> 00:00:33 one of my favorite things to make with polymer clay, is earrings and it’s because they are–

00:00:33 –> 00:00:38 polymer clay is so light it’s easy to wear for earrings, it’s so versatile you can make

00:00:38 –> 00:00:45 it look like anything and I just want to show you a million different types of variations

00:00:45 –> 00:00:50 on what kind of earrings you can make just with polymer clay. A lot of these are samples

00:00:50 –> 00:00:56 from previous tutorials so I’ll mention them, I’ll also show you some of the different ways

00:00:56 –> 00:01:01 that I have put some of these earrings together so I just thought I would show them to you.

00:01:01 –> 00:01:06 Alright, so here they are, I’ve got whatever I could find just sitting around these other

00:01:06 –> 00:01:11 than the ones that are on the cards here in the middle. All the other ones or ones that

00:01:11 –> 00:01:16 I wear myself every day. I even am wearing a pair right now which I’ll pull out here

00:01:16 –> 00:01:23 to show you and even these delightful little light earrings are made with polymer clay.

00:01:23 –> 00:01:31 The butterflies are made with polymerized fabric and– are these fabric no no these

00:01:31 –> 00:01:41 ones were image transfers, but it’s light, it’s airy and I put a– I did them on a homemade

00:01:41 –> 00:01:47 ear wire with some Swarovski crystals and they just look really cute. There’s just tons

00:01:47 –> 00:01:52 and tons of them here so let me just run through them to show you what you can make. Now the

00:01:52 –> 00:01:59 first little pair here are some very delicate little ones, made with cane slices from the

00:01:59 –> 00:02:06 Parrot Tulip Tutorial but I took the ear wire– the wire that I put in through instead of

00:02:06 –> 00:02:14 using a regular head pin I torched a little copper wire head pin and made the wire come

00:02:14 –> 00:02:18 up shaped like a leaf so it looked just like a tulip sitting on there. And they use little

00:02:18 –> 00:02:27 wire crimps here and just under the tulip to keep the tulip head from sliding down.

00:02:27 –> 00:02:31 These earrings here look really heavy but because they’re made of polymer clay, they’re

00:02:31 –> 00:02:42 super light. They are made with the Faux Jasper tutorial and I’ve got these little findings

00:02:42 –> 00:02:47 on the back that I found, they’re earring findings that I just attached the faux Jasper

00:02:47 –> 00:02:57 stone – and then hung some little dangles from there with some real stone chips. These

00:02:57 –> 00:03:08 earrings here are made from the Raindrops and Foxglove Tutorial and they have a pretty

00:03:08 –> 00:03:15 little blended flower here with some little speckles on the inside and they’re quite simply

00:03:15 –> 00:03:23 done, I just use the jump ring and some closeable whatever those kind of earring findings are.

00:03:23 –> 00:03:30 Now, the ones in the center here are all ones that I have put on cards to get ready to sell.

00:03:30 –> 00:03:41 Now, I do have a little tutorial somewhere in my videos showing how to make one of these

00:03:41 –> 00:03:47 earring cards and I just used a die cutting machine and folded a special way and cut it

00:03:47 –> 00:03:53 out and punch holes in it and it’s a great way to hang earrings on whatever size that

00:03:53 –> 00:03:59 you have. I write on the back the name of the earrings, if they have a name. This one

00:03:59 –> 00:04:06 I named gossamer, then I list out the different supplies used and then the website and on

00:04:06 –> 00:04:13 the front my signature so I can get kind of a customized look. I can choose the handmade

00:04:13 –> 00:04:20 papers or the the scrapbooking papers to go with the different earring styles. And it

00:04:20 –> 00:04:25 can make quite a unified look for your jewelry line if you have one. These earrings are pod

00:04:25 –> 00:04:35 earrings made with the glow-in-the-dark Spiral Cane or Jelly Roll Cane video. Here is the

00:04:35 –> 00:04:41 same Cane used in a slice instead of the pod. These earrings, if you charge them up under

00:04:41 –> 00:04:48 the light and then wear them in the dark, they actually glow which is quite neat. This

00:04:48 –> 00:04:58 pair of earrings were created using the Faux Burlwood Technique and they’re just sanded

00:04:58 –> 00:05:03 and buffed to a real high shine, they just feel amazing it’s hard to tell even what they

00:05:03 –> 00:05:09 are made of. They do look like they’re made of real wood. I’ve used a little rivet eyelet

00:05:09 –> 00:05:16 in the center here, made a handmade ear wire and then I put a tiger’s eye bead on the top.

00:05:16 –> 00:05:22 That is a really nice tip to really elevate the polymer clay, if you add real gemstones

00:05:22 –> 00:05:27 and and higher quality findings, it will make the piece seem more expensive rather than

00:05:27 –> 00:05:33 just like a little hunk of plastic which polymer technically is. But when you see all these

00:05:33 –> 00:05:41 different things, it’s not really the same. This pair of earrings are made with delphinium

00:05:41 –> 00:05:48 flower petals ground up and added to the polymer clay there in the beads and then I added sterling

00:05:48 –> 00:05:56 silver findings and Swarovski crystals and a handmade ear wire in a big large circle.

00:05:56 –> 00:06:01 And I love these, these would be perfect for wearing to a wedding or something like that.

00:06:01 –> 00:06:08 Here are a pair of earrings, they were used with the leftover scraps from the full Labradorite

00:06:08 –> 00:06:14 Tutorial and that’s a great way to use them up. They’re a pair of stud earrings and when

00:06:14 –> 00:06:18 you do a large technique or a technique on a sheet like that and you’ve used them up

00:06:18 –> 00:06:22 the larger pieces up, it’s nice to be able to use up the smaller ones for something like

00:06:22 –> 00:06:33 stud earrings. Here is a really unique pair. They are from the Iris Flower Tutorial and

00:06:33 –> 00:06:38 I’ve done some copper wrapping at the top here and made up a large loop and then some

00:06:38 –> 00:06:46 handmade teardrop-shaped ear wires, made out of copper as well. Here are a little pair

00:06:46 –> 00:06:54 of studs made over– made with some left over Faux Wood from a Faux Wood Tutorial. And this

00:06:54 –> 00:07:00 pair of earrings are quite neat looking, they look very heavy but they’re not. They have–

00:07:00 –> 00:07:10 I used the Rose ear wires from one of my tutorials and then this is a polymer clay bead that

00:07:10 –> 00:07:16 is from the Texture, Texture, Texture, tutorial and it’s done use using string wrapped around

00:07:16 –> 00:07:21 the polymer clay and stuff like that and it gives us really neat crackled deep texture.

00:07:21 –> 00:07:30 Then I used some wire links to–and this is a piece of jade, real jade and then these

00:07:30 –> 00:07:38 little wire or not wire, metal pieces at the bottom are actually embossed metal using the

00:07:38 –> 00:07:45 Sizzix and Vintaj embossing plates that you can run through your die-cutting machine.

00:07:45 –> 00:07:52 It’s really neat and it’s a nice thing to add in with your polymer clay earrings. Now,

00:07:52 –> 00:07:58 we’ve got a lot of them back here I’ll try to go a little quicker through these ones.

00:07:58 –> 00:08:02 These are ones that I wear all the time in fact a bunch of these were all piled on here

00:08:02 –> 00:08:11 as well but I’ve got a pair of large hoops here with some polymer clay leave slices on

00:08:11 –> 00:08:18 here and some bright-colored seed beads on just to accent them. That– those ones I can

00:08:18 –> 00:08:24 swap out because it’s a earring hoop I can just swap out whatever kind of polymer clay

00:08:24 –> 00:08:32 piece I want to add to that It makes them reusable. This heart bead was made using some

00:08:32 –> 00:08:37 scrap clay from the Faux Fordite Tutorial and I’ve got a little tutorial free tutorial

00:08:37 –> 00:08:45 on making these heart beads and I’ve just added a shell carved leaf underneath and a

00:08:45 –> 00:08:50 large handmade ear wire. And you’ll see that most of my ear wires are all handmade, it

00:08:50 –> 00:08:55 makes them more unique. You can make them to suit your piece and use whatever metals

00:08:55 –> 00:09:02 that you want to use. These earrings here were made, they have kind of a real old fashioned

00:09:02 –> 00:09:08 beautiful look to them. They’re made with the rose ear wire tutorial and then a bead

00:09:08 –> 00:09:18 made from the art sheet technique that was done in the watercolor technique way of layering

00:09:18 –> 00:09:23 and then I’ve got some bead caps and stuff on the top and the bottom. They have a very

00:09:23 –> 00:09:32 antique look to them. These two earrings are actually made from pieces from the same tutorial,

00:09:32 –> 00:09:38 they’re from the Shoreline Bracelet Tutorial. I had leftover pieces so I made earrings.

00:09:38 –> 00:09:44 This is a– all polymer clay here and it looks like a beach scene I’ve got– so I added a

00:09:44 –> 00:09:49 freshwater pearl because that makes sense with the beach and it has a large ear wire

00:09:49 –> 00:09:55 with a large loop and and a long piece that comes down and behind it’s very cool looking.

00:09:55 –> 00:10:02 I wear those a ton. These were also done from the same series but they were blended a little

00:10:02 –> 00:10:09 more so the colors are more muted and more blended, less rocks and more just sort of

00:10:09 –> 00:10:16 painterly beach kind of scene to it, also very pretty. These earrings here were made

00:10:16 –> 00:10:23 with the Hollow Lentil Bead Tutorial with the Reptile Cane. They are reversible so you

00:10:23 –> 00:10:27 can actually just pop this around and where that way if you want. You can– there’s a

00:10:27 –> 00:10:32 lot of things that you could make earrings that you could make that could be reversible

00:10:32 –> 00:10:38 so think about that as far as your designs go. They are super light too, they look heavy

00:10:38 –> 00:10:45 but they’re really light. These earrings are made with the Metal Mokume Gane technique

00:10:45 –> 00:10:52 and then they’ve got some little freshwater pearls underneath. They have a heavy kind

00:10:52 –> 00:10:58 of look to them but they’re light. These earrings here are neat, they have–they’re made using

00:10:58 –> 00:11:06 the Sculpey templates for tracing out different shapes on polymer clay and I layered them

00:11:06 –> 00:11:12 in two layers, popped some seed beads in between to get them to sit out from each other and

00:11:12 –> 00:11:18 then the– the ear wire I echoed the same kind of triangular shape that the front pieces

00:11:18 –> 00:11:28 have in the shape of the ear wire. Now, these two earring sets are from the same tutorial

00:11:28 –> 00:11:37 they are from a tutorial called Tornado and Torpedo Beads and these are the torpedo beads,

00:11:37 –> 00:11:44 they look like a torpedo they have a wonderful striped technique to them and then these beads

00:11:44 –> 00:11:48 are done with wire and little seed beads and they’re called Tornado beads because they

00:11:48 –> 00:11:55 look like they’ve just been twisted up in a tornado. Down here, I’ve got some delicate

00:11:55 –> 00:12:03 long beads here or earrings here that are from the Faux Fordite Tutorial. This is the

00:12:03 –> 00:12:09 the Fordite Technique down here, they’re little cabochons and then they’re added with some

00:12:09 –> 00:12:16 handmade ear wires and so our Swarovski crystals. These earrings here, I love these I wear them

00:12:16 –> 00:12:23 all the time they have a very graphic kind of playful look. The hearts are made from

00:12:23 –> 00:12:31 the Street Hearts Tutorial and then I made ear wires using niobium wire that is colored

00:12:31 –> 00:12:36 using electricity. And then I did a nice big hoop at the bottom so this would have room

00:12:36 –> 00:12:43 to move and put some brightly colored seed beads on. And then added a very angular look

00:12:43 –> 00:12:50 to the top of the ear wire just to give it that kind of edgy look. Here are some earrings

00:12:50 –> 00:12:58 made with a little owls from the Owl Necklace Tutorial or Owl Charm Necklace– I don’t know

00:12:58 –> 00:13:03 it’s something like that. The owls are actually on a charm necklace that we make but I’ve

00:13:03 –> 00:13:08 added some stick pearls underneath so it looks like they’re standing on little branches and

00:13:08 –> 00:13:17 they’re very cute and kind of sassy little owls. Here’s some earrings made using the

00:13:17 –> 00:13:24 Cone Flower Technique, it’s a cane tutorial where we have to use Skinner Blends and put

00:13:24 –> 00:13:29 them together in a unique way so that each slice ends up shifting in color. So you can

00:13:29 –> 00:13:34 see this one here is a little more purple and this one’s a little more orange really

00:13:34 –> 00:13:42 lovely pair earrings with big Swarovski crystals in there. Down here are some earrings made

00:13:42 –> 00:13:50 using the torpedo bead technique but I used a slice of rainbow cane from there and just

00:13:50 –> 00:13:57 used them in this way and they have kind of a youthful look to them. These earrings I

00:13:57 –> 00:14:04 wear all the time when it’s raining, they are– they are shaped like a cloud and a raindrop

00:14:04 –> 00:14:08 but they are from the Puffy Bead Tutorial so they actually have a little puff of air

00:14:08 –> 00:14:15 on the inside of them, they’re super lightweight and they have an airy kind of feel to them.

00:14:15 –> 00:14:20 These earrings here, I have them in two different colors are from the Sweet Pea Tutorial and

00:14:20 –> 00:14:29 they’re created using the Wilton Gum Paste Cake Decorating Cutters to make sweet peas

00:14:29 –> 00:14:34 of stuff and– and they’re really a fun pair of earrings. I kept a couple pair in two different

00:14:34 –> 00:14:42 colors they also have the Swarovski crystal and handmade ear wires and things. They’re

00:14:42 –> 00:14:49 really pretty and delicate, I love them. Now, I won’t go in as much detail in these ones

00:14:49 –> 00:14:53 because we’re starting to use up a ton of time but there’s lots here from lots of different

00:14:53 –> 00:15:02 tutorials I’ve got Poinsettia from the Poinsettia Cane or Poinsettia Tutorial, from the Nautical

00:15:02 –> 00:15:08 Anchor Cane Tutorial. This is from the Zipper Cane Tutorial that is free on– and that you

00:15:08 –> 00:15:14 can check out. I just took a slice of it baked it on a curve and hung it from some another

00:15:14 –> 00:15:21 pair of rose ear wires. This is from the Checkered Paisley Cane Tutorial and you can see I use

00:15:21 –> 00:15:28 canes a ton of ton. People don’t understand how versatile using polymer clay canes are

00:15:28 –> 00:15:33 and just the sheer number of places that the canes are used in these tutorials will– or

00:15:33 –> 00:15:37 these earrings will prove that. You can use it for a lot of neat things. These earrings

00:15:37 –> 00:15:45 were done with a flower extrusion from an extruder disk and then baked and sliced while

00:15:45 –> 00:15:53 they were baked and has kind of a flower lei, Hawaiian flower lei kind of thing. These earrings

00:15:53 –> 00:15:57 are from the Shaded Rose Cane tutorial and they almost look like they’ve been hand-painted.

00:15:57 –> 00:16:08 These are from the– oh I believe this is from the Rolled Mokume Gane cane, I can’t

00:16:08 –> 00:16:14 quite remember but they are shaped like flowers they look really neat. This is from the Faux

00:16:14 –> 00:16:23 Batik Tutorial and these are from the Art Sheet Technique Tutorial. Here’s some neat

00:16:23 –> 00:16:31 little pumpkin earrings done from the Pumpkin Cane Tutorial and you’ll see over here, I

00:16:31 –> 00:16:37 have another pair of them I’m just in a larger size and they look quite different and you

00:16:37 –> 00:16:44 can use canes in lots of different sizes to get lots of different looks. This is from

00:16:44 –> 00:16:51 the Snowy Winter Cane. It’s all done with little tiny strips of extrusions of clay all

00:16:51 –> 00:16:59 built up like in a pointalist of the style. Here’s from the Easter Lilly Cane Tutorial.

00:16:59 –> 00:17:07 Here’s some Swirly Lentil Beads done in kind of a Tassel Style. This is a very fun way

00:17:07 –> 00:17:12 to use that Swirly Lentil Beads if you’ve gotten addicted to rolling those I have a

00:17:12 –> 00:17:19 tutorial on that as well, of course. This is from the Faux Rust Tutorial. We did a bracelet

00:17:19 –> 00:17:23 in the in the tutorial but these are leftover pieces to make a pair of earrings. Here’s

00:17:23 –> 00:17:32 a pair from the Blue Butterfly Cane Tutorial. You can make beautiful big pendants and all

00:17:32 –> 00:17:38 kinds of great stuff from that. There’s a few others on here you can see, the crocus

00:17:38 –> 00:17:47 bead beads and and all kinds of other neat ones. So I wanted to show you that. I hope

00:17:47 –> 00:17:54 you are inspired there are just unlimited as you can see, unlimited different styles

00:17:54 –> 00:17:59 that you can make with polymer clay with canes with blends with techniques. And I really

00:17:59 –> 00:18:04 want you to get hooked on it and because polymer clay is so light and easy to wear, they are

00:18:04 –> 00:18:10 the perfect thing to make polymer clay earrings with. Alright, so do let us know if you liked

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