Easter Egg Statement Earrings

Easter Egg Statement Earrings by Naomi Scarparo

I love Easter Sunday morning with our family especially the Easter Egg hunt, and it’s always nice to wear something to celebrate the occasion… so I made these Pastel Easter Egg Earrings, to wear on the day.

Materials:

Makin's Clay® white, approx 25g or less

Makin's Clay® yellow, approx 20g or less

Makin'® 

• Clay Roller
• Cutters Easter Set - Egg Shape
• Texture Sheet Set H - Coils
• Texture Sheet Set A - Sand
• Clay Tool Set - Chisel

Small circle cutter approx. 1.2cm diameter 

Dusting powder like cornstarch

Chalk pastels (I used pink, purple, yellow, green, and blue)

Gold Leaf

Hard bristle paint brush

Jump rings

Earring Stud post 

Weldbond Universal adhesive PVA 

Instructions:

Roll out your white Makin's Clay® to the thickest setting on your pasta machine, then lightly dust, dusting powder (cornstarch) over the clay. Place the Makin's® Texture Sheet Set H - Coils on top of the white clay, using the clay roller press and roll over the texture sheet, pressing the impression into the clay.

Lightly wipe away dusting powder. Now using your chalk pastels and a finger lightly rub onto the textured clay your colours, using one colour at a time and wiping your finger in between colours.

Using the Makin's® Cutters Easter Set - egg cutter and the mini circle cutter, place on the sheet of clay where you desire the patterns to be on your earrings. 

Tip - put some plastic wrap on top of your textured sheet and press down firmly with the cutters. This will give you perfectly rounded edges… (which I forgot to do, oops… but no big deal… just smooth the edges with you finger tips).

While smoothing the edges, rub a desired chalk pastel colour around the edges. Set aside your egg shapes.

 

For the decoration on the back of the Easter egg dangle earrings, roll out your yellow clay to a middle setting on your pasta machine, then lightly dust, dusting powder (cornstarch) over the clay. Place the sand texture sheet on top of the yellow clay, using the clay roller press and roll over the texture sheet, pressing the impression into the clay.

Using some plastic wrap on top of your textured sheet and press down firmly with the egg cutter from the Easter set, giving you a smooth edge. Then join the chalk pastel egg shape and the yellow egg shape, smooth sides together.

Line up the egg shapes and circles how you want the dangle earring arrangement to be (like picture below).

Using the Makin's® Clay Tool Set - chisel pointed side, place a hole at the top of the egg and the bottom of the circle, keeping in mind the jump ring size that will be connecting them. Tip - push the chisel pointed side through one side and then turn it over and do the same on the other side. This gives you a clean hole right through.

Set aside to to dry for 24 hours.

Once dried, put Weldbond Universal adhesive PVA glue around the edges of the egg and if desired around the circle edges too, one at a time place, gold leaf around the edges, sticking to the glue. With a bristle paint brush lightly dust off the excess.

Once all the edges are complete, place Weldbond Universal adhesive PVA glue in random areas of the egg and circles (one at a time), then placing gold leaf on the glue areas. Once again using the bristle paint brush lightly dust off the desired amount off. 

Glue stud post onto the small circles above the hold where the jump rings are going to be placed.

To finish the earrings, place jump rings into circle shape and egg shape holes, then use a smaller jump ring to connect them together.

Here are some other ideas and alternatives you can do using this tutorial…

Instead of dangle earrings, You can skip making little circle shapes and just glue the earring posts to the egg shape. Or even make a egg pendant, with a jump ring attached to a necklace chain.

  

Happy Easter!