Make leather earrings with a Cricut machine.
These DIY Leather Circle cutout earrings are so easy to make and I love how you can make them for every day wear and holidays. Start by picking your favorite materials – faux leather, leather, and cork. Then, pick your favorite patterns, colors, and textures.
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Details for making these DIY Leather Circle cutout earrings can be seen in my YouTube video below.
Example circle cutout leather earrings
Rose Garden Floral Cork
Blue Leather
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Floral cork (blues & yellows)
Brown faux leather
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Camo Faux Leather
Brown Faux Leather
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Faux Leather Cheetah
Brown Faux Leather
Fourth of July Stars Cork
Blue Faux Leather
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Fall Leaves Faux Leather -currently out of stock, but try this Fall faux leather idea
Brown Faux Leather
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Halloween Genuine Leather
Orange Leather
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Tartan Plaid Faux Leather
Gold Faux Leather
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Coral Aztec Genuine Leather
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Check out this Southwestern Aztec Genuine Leather
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Teal palm leaf genuine leather
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Snakeskin Printed Genuine Leather
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Bright Braided Serape Genuine Leather
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Sunflower Genuine Leather
Brown Genuine Leather
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Christmas Lights Genuine Leather
Red Genuine Leather
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What You’ll Need to make these DIY Leather Circle cutout earrings
- Cricut Machine – I recommend the Cricut Explore Air 2 or the Cricut Maker.
- Earring supplies – earring hooks, jump rings, pliers, jump ring tool. This is the kit that I bought on Amazon and love it! It has a bundle of faux leather sheets as well as all of the tools you’ll need to make earrings.
- Earring wire hooks with balls – These are super easy to use and won’t require jump rings or jump ring tools/pliers.
- Cricut Cutting Mats – You need new or very sticky cutting mats.
- Standard Green Mats -for faux leather, cork, and HTV.
- Strong grip Purple mats – for genuine leather
- Cricut Easy Press – There are a few options. All work, but I usually use a 9″ x 9″.
- Mat for Cricut Easy Press
- Basic Cricut Tools
- Cricut Brayer
- Huge Cricut tools Bundle
- Leather hole punch (Larger holes, smallest is 2)
- Small Leather hole punch – This leather punch makes much smaller holes than the one above.
- Leather Scissors
- Here is what I use to smooth my leather edges.
- Crafter’s Pick Fabric glue or E6000 glue
- Heat and Bond
- Cricut Transfer Tape, Strong Grip
- Standard Grip Cricut Transfer Tape
- Earring Backs & Earring Cards
SG File for diy leather earrings
You can find many templates for your earrings on Design Bundles, Pinterest and Etsy. Many bloggers offer them for free and others are available for sale on the Etsy website.
For these DIY Leather Circle cutout earrings, I used this cute circle earrings svg file for this project.
Tips for Leather Earring Material Settings
Click on the Browse All Materials link to see the menu of materials options on your Cricut. If you’re on a Cricut Explore Air, you’ll need to make sure your knob is set onto the Custom Setting.
For your faux leather, if it is Cricut faux leather, you’ll select the Cricut faux leather option from the Browse materials menu.
If you’re using non-Cricut faux leather, the Shimmer Leather option normally works best. This option is great for cork sheets as well.
I use genuine leather for Cricut genuine leather and genuine leather that has a similar thickness as Cricut genuine leather.
If you’re using using the Cricut brand – metallic leather, select the Metallic Leather option. It’s a bit thicker so you’ll want to use this Metallic leather setting to ensure that the cut goes all the way through. This is a good setting for other genuine leather that is a bit thicker than the normal genuine leather.
Make sure you’re using the right blade to cut leather earrings.
You can cut faux leather, faux suede, cork, and leather on the Cricut Explore Air and Cricut Maker. When cutting Cricut’s faux leather, cork, and faux suede, you can use the Cricut standard fine point blade. If you’re cutting genuine leather, you’ll need to use the Cricut deep blade.
Place your faux leather or leather material on the cutting mat(s).
I almost always place my material onto the mat with the good side facing down.
I always put contact paper or transfer paper on my mat to get me a better hold/grip on my material and to keep my mats clean.
Once I place my plastic on top of the mat, I put the material onto the mat, face down (good side down).
Press material firmly on the mat for a good leather cut.
I think it’s really important for the material to have a firm grip to the mat. I accomplish this by using a Cricut Brayer roller. If you don’t have one, you can try a dough roller.
Using a Cricut Easy Press
I love to use the Cricut Easy Press. For this project, I use it to attach the Heat n Bond to the faux leather and faux cork.
When you’re ready to use your Cricut Easy Press, turn it on and set the temperature.
Cricut provides a guide with your easy press, but I always just look it up online whenever I’m doing a project. You can just google search “cricut easy press heat guide.”
Tap on the type of Cricut Easy Press that you’re using. Then select the heat transfer material you are using. Then select the type of base material you’re using (what you’re ironing onto). And finally, select whether you’re using the Cricut Easy Press mat or a towel.
After tapping “Apply” it lets you know the temperature setting for the project. It also shares how long you should keep the press on your project and it tells you whether to remove the transfer material while it is warm or cool.
Here are some Cricut Easy Press mat options from Amazon.
Once the easy press is heated, prepare you Heat n Bond.
Cut a piece the size of the faux leather and place the textured side to the back side of the faux leather.
I leave my Easy Press on the Heat n Bond and faux leather for about 10 seconds. Be careful as it will be hot.
Back to Back Earrings
When using Heat n Bond to put earrings back to back, just line up the two earrings so that the adhesive sides (back sides) face each other. Put the easy press onto the earrings for 10 seconds.
The Cricut Easy Press shouldn’t be set directly onto the faux leather. You can place a piece of parchment paper on top of the earrings. I also put a piece of parchment paper under the earrings so that if adhesive leaks out it won’t go on my Cricut Easy Press mat.
Glue earring pieces together, if you’d rather use glue.
If you’d rather not use Heat n Go, you can also use Crafter’s Pick Fabric glue or E6000 glue.
Trim any felt, fuzz, or glue from the leather earrings.
Using a pair of sharp scissors, trim fuzz from around the earrings. Be very careful not to cut any of the earring, you’re only cutting the fuzz off of your leather earrings.
You can also smooth the earring by using this burnishing agent. I apply it with a tooth pick along the edges. It’s great because it smooths the leather and helps better define the edges.
Place a hole in the top of the circle cut leather earrings.
I use a leather punch to put the holes in my diy faux leather earrings. The tool linked above cuts through multiple layers of the earring at the same time. Here is an option for a smaller hole leather punch.
Decide which type of hooks you’ll use for the DIY earrings.
These French hooks with balls are also easy to work with. You don’t need pliers or jump ring tools to work with these hooks. There are links to various colors at the top of this post.
Working with Earrings Hooks
It doesn’t take much to put together the first type of earrings. You either need a couple of pairs of pliers or a jump ring tool and one pair of pliers. You can get the two tools below along with a full kit of earring hooks and jump rings AND sheets of faux leather in this inexpensive DIY earring kit on Amazon. It is the perfect starter set and a great gift for anyone that likes to DIY.
The jump ring tool and pliers below come in the kit linked above.
And that’s it! Your DIY Leather Cutout Earrings are finished!
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