Make these cute earrings with faux leather or cork, a Cricut machine, and earring hooks.
These faux leather statement earrings are over 2 1/2 inches tall, making them a bit taller and wider than most of my DIY earrings. They are also more wide at the top of the earring, versus having a more pointed top.
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Details for making these statement earrings can be seen in my YouTube video below.
What You’ll Need to make these statement earrings:
- Cricut Machine – I recommend the Cricut Explore Air 2 or the Cricut Maker.
- Faux Leather
- I used this white with gold floral faux leather
- Great faux leathers from Etsy
- Black & white Stripe and Red & White Stripe
- Red & Black Buffalo Check
- White & Black Buffalo Check
- Animal Prints (cheetah, zebra, etc.)
- Reds, Blacks, Whites – Houndtooths, Plaids, Checks
- Basketweaves
- Christmas Variety, include solid blue
- Textured Camel Color
- Assorted faux leather, includes floral sheet
- Reds, mustard, black – weaves, floral texture
- Pinks, Greys, Blacks, plaids, florals
- Fall assortment, mustard, teal, blue with textures and patterns
- Assorted prints and textures, includes Damask
- Christmas patterns and colors (includes white with gold floral)
- Assorted Camo designs/colors
- Blacks, Golds and denim stripes
- Tartain plaid and black/white plaid
- stripes, camel, camo, white with gold flowers
- 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.
- Cricut Cutting Mats – You need new or very sticky Cricut mats. The green mats work fine for this project because we’re using faux leather.
- Basic Cricut Tools
- I use two leather punchers for my earrings
- Leather hole punch – The smallest hole on this one is 2
- Leather hole punch – I just got this one and love it. The holes are smaller than the punch above. I use both, depending on the earring.
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Want to skip the DIY? Click here to check out these earrings in my etsy shop.
Red and White Buffalo Plaid Cork
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White floral with silver embossed dots
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Holiday Faux Leather from Amazon
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HOW TO MAKE DIY EARRINGS
Select an earring template and upload it into Cricut Design Space.
You can find many templates for your earrings on Pinterest and Etsy. Many bloggers offer them for free and others are available for sale on the Etsy website.
For these statement earrings I used a cut file from a bundle that I purchased on GlamGirlsSVG that is no longer available. However, I also purchased this bundle which has awesome templates, including this same one.
SVG Cuttables – Assorted SVG Earrings file
Open Cricut Design Space and start a new project
Start a new project to make your faux leather statement earrings by clicking on the + icon.
Upload Image, if not already uploaded
Upload the cut file for this project, by clicking on the upload icon on the left and navigate to the file on your computer.
I always recommend adding tags when uploading new files. Pick word that you would type in if you were looking for the file. This makes it much easier when you’re looking for the file in the future.
Insert the cut file onto the canvas of your new project.
Click on the Images icon on the left.
Tip: To easily find my upload files, I usually filter by files that I have uploaded. Click on the Filter option.
Click on “Uploaded.”
Select the cut file you want to use. It will have a green box around it when selected. Then, click on the insert image button in lower, right-hand corner.
Once you’ve inserted the image onto the canvas, you can see the dimensions of the file you’ve inserted in the height and width field.
This is what the file for our statement earring looks like after being added to the canvas. It comes onto the canvas at about 2.5″ tall and I just left it at that height.
You’ll want to decide the height of your earring based on personal preference.
Delete the top layer of the earring (with the scallop lines)
Ungroup the image.
Click on the earring and then click on Ungroup while it is selected.
Move the top layer to the right of the bottom layer.
Click on the top layer and move it over on the canvas.
Delete the top layer of the earring.
While the top layer is selected, click on the X in the upper left-hand corner.
Use the Contour Button to Hide Elements, as needed
Click on the stacked earring shape and then click on the Contour button in the lower right-hand corner.
Click on the circle so that it is shaded.
Once it’s shaded click the X in the upper right hand corner. This will hide the hole that was planned for the earring so that it won’t cut.
Duplicate images, as needed
Now it’s time to duplicate your statement earring. Click an earring and then click Duplicate in the upper right-hand corner to make your second earring.
MAKE IT
Once your mat has all the earring components ready to cut for your earring components, click on the Make It button to cut your statement earrings.
On the left you’ll see the different mats that will need to be cut.
Mirror your design, if necessary
Since the good side of your leather will almost always go onto the mat facing down, click on each mat where the material is facing down and click mirror. If the cuts on your mat are symmetrical it really doesn’t matter, but it’s probably a good idea to go ahead and click mirror any time your material faces down, as a good practice.
Set the Cricut machine on the right setting.
Turn your dial on your Cricut Explore to Custom. This lets you look at the long list of materials.
Click on the Browse All Materials link to see the menu of materials options on your Cricut.
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.
Move the star wheels.
The Cricut machine has star wheels to keep materials from shifting during cutting. However, when cutting thicker materials such a genuine leather, the star wheels can leave track marks. When you select a material from the browse menu that is thicker, the Cricut machine will prompt you to move the star wheels to the right.
Push the wheels to the right. They may be on there tight so put some strength behind it. You won’t be prompted to do this step for faux leather, but just in case you select a faux suede option (if you’re trying to cut through something thicker), I’m including this information in this post.
Make sure you’re using the right blade.
You can cut faux leather, faux suede, thin cork sheets, and leather on the Cricut Explore. When cutting faux leather, cork sheets, 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 material on the cutting mat(s).
Before you put the material on the mat, you’ll want to look at the back of it to determine what is is made of. I normally place my material on my mats good side down. The exception to this is when the good side is actually messier than the backside (e.g., glitter faux leather).
Also, I like to determine how much of the material will be cut. Typically, it is less than 3″ of material, meaning only about 3″ of the mat needs to be exposed. I then place my plastic Cricut mat cover back onto my mat about 3″ down from the top of the cutting area. I do this so that I don’t put the material on top of the mat where I’m not cutting it. This keeps me from losing the stickiness on my mat. I don’t like to pre-cut my material because I want minimize waste of the material.
Once I place my plastic on top of the mat, I put the material onto the mat, face down (good side down).
After placing the material on the mat, you can use a Cricut Brayer roller to press the faux suede or faux leather onto your mat. I don’t have one of those so I usually use a dough roller.
Trim any felt, fuzz, or glue from the 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 the leather earrings.
I prefer to use Crafter’s Pick Fabric glue to attach two pieces back to back because it doesn’t dry so fast and I have time to get my earrings situated/lined up better.
Place a hole in the top of the earring.
When my earrings don’t have holes, 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. I recently bought a second leather punch that has smaller holes and I’ve been LOVING that one too. Or, if you don’t have a leather punch, you can try to use a Cricut weeder tool to put a hole through your material, but it is best to go through just one layer at a time if you do this.
Below you’ll see a picture of me using the leather hole punch on a different project.
Gather necessary earring components and tools to finish your diy faux leather earrings.
It doesn’t take much to put together earrings.
For these earrings, I used these earring hooks (shown below) that don’t require jump rings. You just put the earring onto the earring hook.
Or if you want to use the traditional hooks with jump rings and you are just getting started, you can get this inexpensive DIY earring kit on Amazon that has various hooks, jump rings, pliers, a jump ring tool, and even faux leather. It is the perfect starter set. Great for you if you’re getting started and a great gift for anyone that likes to DIY
Place the earrings onto the hook.
You can either push the earring through the ball on top of the hook or you can push it through the opposite side of the hook.
And that’s it! Your statement earrings are finished!
If you enjoy making diy faux leather earrings, check out my other posts below.
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