Learn to make beautiful earrings with epoxy. Add your favorite decorations and create unique earrings. Karin shows you in this example how to make heart-shaped earrings, but you can choose a mold of your choice
My name is Karin and I have been making my own earrings from epoxy for about a year. Besides making jewelry with epoxy, I really enjoy making my own clothes. On my website www.karinkay.nl you can find and read all about it.
I always like to make matching jewelry for a special occasion. Round and heart shaped epoxy earrings fit perfectly, because you have so many possibilities in shape, color and decorations.
With this blog I want to give you inspiration for the different types of earrings that you can make yourself with epoxy.
- Silicone mold earrings or other molds from itsOkay
- 1:1 Epoxy Resin or UV Resin
- Color pigments (Transparent, Pearlescent and Opaque)
- Mixing spatulas
- Mixing cups , lighter or heat tool, gloves
- Kitchen paper/baby wipes and cotton buds to prevent spills
- A well-ventilated workspace and possibly a face mask
Now follows a short explanation of how to mix the resin with the pigments and how to make earrings. Below that I show, per pigment color, a short explanation with results.
You can choose from different types of epoxy casting resin to make art and jewelry. For example, you have ready-made UV Resin, but also epoxy that you have to mix.
The 1:1 Epoxy casting resin you have to mix yourself and is relatively cheaper, but has to dry for 24 hours before you can continue. UV Resin is dry in a few minutes, but is more expensive. In this example I choose the 1:1 Epoxy casting resin.
1. First you mix a small amount of 1:1 Epoxy casting resin in a mixing cup , about 25 grams of hardener and epoxy resin: depending on how many earrings you want to make.
2. Shake the pigments well so that the color and the liquid mix well. Add a few drops of pigment color to the mixing cup and stir very well. Start with a few drops and check after stirring if it is the right color. Otherwise, add another drop and repeat the process until you are happy with your color. Add this to the mold of your choice.
3. Allow to harden for 24/48 hours on a level surface.
4. Some molds already have holes, if there is no hole yet, drill one with a hand drill for example. You can also screw a screw eye in it and attach a ring to it. After this, you attach the earring to it.
For these pendants I used the transparent pigments . The colours: carmine/red and a beautiful shade of purple. You make the dangling earrings by drilling another hole at the bottom of the small heart with a hand drill. For the thicker hearts I drilled a hole from the top for a screw eye. The hand drill is therefore highly recommended when you are going to make your own jewellery.
The mother of pearl pigments contain many red/pink tones. I made the earrings with large rings with a few drops of white mother of pearl pigment in combination with pink glitter. These will also shine beautifully in the sun or during dinner. 
In this set I used opaque pigments in the colours red, blue and black. In the red I added some extra glitter. The dark blue colour I made by mixing the blue shade with a bit of black. This way you can make many colours darker or just a little different. 
You can also write texts or shapes on epoxy resin. I made the faces on the red hearts with the posca paint maker . These are the best quality markers for epoxy. You can also do this with a little acrylic paint and a brush, but with a marker it is a bit more precise. itsOkay has perfect markers for sale on the website see: posca paint markers .
Don't have a heart-shaped mold yet? You can still go in many different directions with a Valentine's Day theme, for example. Pink and red tones quickly fit Valentine's Day, but glitter also fits very well here!
I hope this tutorial has inspired you to make your own earrings!
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