Faux Leather Statement Earrings

Make these cute earrings with faux leather or cork, a Cricut machine, and earring hooks.

statement earrings made of faux leather using a Cricut machine

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.

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Heat Press Essentials

Heat Transfer Vinyl

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St Patrick's Day statement leather earrings

Shamrock Genuine Leather

Dark Brown Straw Cork

Cheetah Cork

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Holiday Zig Zag Cork

Camouflage Cork

White floral with silver embossed dots

Silver Splash Cork

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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.

Start a new project in Cricut Design Space

How to make faux leather earrings on a Cricut machine

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.

insert SVG file image in Cricut Design space

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.

Ungroup a faux leather earring image svg on Cricut Design Space

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.

deleting an image on Cricut Design Space

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.

selecting the Contour button on Cricut Design Space

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.

earring without a hole because it was hidden with Contour

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.

faux leather earrings on a Cricut Design Space Canvas

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.

mats on Cricut Design studio, ready to cut statement earrings

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.

making diy faux leather earrings in Cricut Design Space

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.

holding earring hook, ready to put the faux leather statement earring on

It doesn’t take much to put together 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 on Amazon. It is the perfect starter set. Great for you if you’re getting started and a great gift for anyone that likes to DIY.

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