Make your own earrings
Do you want to make unique earrings yourself? Then read on quickly. After reading this article, you will know exactly how to easily make beautiful earrings yourself with epoxy resin and a silicone mold. Get inspired by our tips and examples!
Epoxy is a synthetic resin with many possibilities. Simply put, you make earrings by pouring epoxy into a silicone mold (for example for earrings). This then hardens and voilá beautiful homemade earrings!
Make your own earrings is easier than you think. You can pour in decorations of your choice such as dried flowers, gold foil, photos, hair, etc. Choose a silicone mold of your choice and design your own earrings within minutes. Make it simple beautiful self-made earrings and then you can really say that you made them yourself! What is also popular these days is to make jewelry yourself and these at Sell at markets, Etsy or even your own website. See ' Selling Handmade Jewelry Online ' to learn more about this.
What is epoxy?
Epoxy casting resin is a versatile resin that is used for many applications, including making your own jewelry. But you may also know epoxy from pouring floors or coating boats. You can really do anything with it.
It is a durable and transparent liquid that when mixed with a hardener cures hard with a glossy finish. Cured epoxy is safe for both humans and animals. Epoxy is often used to create unique jewelry because it is very easy to work with.
You pour epoxy resin into an epoxy mold of your choice and use it to quickly and easily create your own jewelry. In addition to the fact that epoxy earring molds are you also have epoxy molds for pendants, rings, bracelets and more. It is very fun to do and gives a lot of relaxation and satisfaction.
Make your own earrings: 4 examples
Example 1: Making simple earrings
Making your own earrings is easy with epoxy and a silicone mold for earrings . There are many varieties of earring molds, feel free to take a look. Pour epoxy into the silicone mold pendants/earrings and add your favorite decorations. After 24-48 hours the epoxy has hardened and you can remove your homemade earrings from the mold. Your earrings are ready in no time!
To make these earrings yourself you will need some basic products:
- Epoxy
- Epoxy earring mold
- Ear hooks
- Possibly decorations and epoxy pigment
- Auxiliary materials (mixing cup, epoxy mixing stick, gloves, etc.)
Example 2: Making earrings
You can also make earrings with different layers. These always look very impressive and special. Beware: you can get compliments when you wear these!
You make these with for example the silicone mold earrings or silicone mold oval earrings . Pour epoxy casting resin into the mold and let it harden according to the instructions on the bottle. Each epoxy has a different hardening time.
These molds already have holes in them so after hardening you can easily put a metal ring through them. If you want to make different layers in your earring, add more rings and shapes. Hang a Attach the ear hook and your earring is finished!
To make these earrings yourself you will need some basic products:
- Epoxy
- Epoxy earring mold
- Ear hooks
- Possibly decorations and epoxy pigment
- Auxiliary materials (mixing cup, epoxy mixing stick, gloves, etc.)
Example 3: Making a charm earring
Make beautiful earrings with open charms yourself. These are a kind of iron open earrings that you can cast with UV Resin. UV Resin is a ready-made epoxy that hardens within a few minutes. This epoxy is suitable for small objects and jewelry like this.
Stick a charm on special tape for epoxy , so that the epoxy does not run out. Then pour the UV Resin into the open charm and add your favorite decorations. UV Resin hardens through sunlight. Therefore, let it harden under an Epoxy UV Lamp . Attach the earring to an ear hook and wear it with pride!
To this earrings To make it yourself you need some basic products:
- UV Resin
- Tape for epoxy
- Open begging
- Ear hooks
- Possibly decorations and epoxy pigment
- Auxiliary materials (mixing cup, epoxy mixing stick, gloves, etc.)
Example 3: Making earrings from dried flowers
You can also make earrings yourself from only real dried flowers. You do not pour these into a mold or into a charm. Please note: this is for advanced users. Colette is an expert in this field and has written a blog about how to pour these into a charm. See here the blog " Making handmade pendants with flowers ". The principle is the same.
You can use this technique to incorporate self-picked flowers into jewelry. The flowers or leaves must first be dried very well. Then you build up each pendant in multiple thin layers of UV Resin . You let this harden under an Epoxy UV Lamp . See the article above for the full explanation.
To this earrings To make it yourself you need the following basic products:
- UV Resin
- Epoxy UV Lamp
- Ear hooks
- Possibly decorations and epo x y pigment
- Auxiliary materials (mixing cup, epoxy mixing stick, gloves, etc.)
Getting started with making earrings
Now that you've learned more about making professional earrings, you can get started right away for yourself or as a gift for someone else! Or maybe you want to design a complete earring collection? At Hobbywinkel itsOkay, everything is possible.
- Extensive range of earrings and materials
- Design your own earrings with our advice
- Ordered before 23:30, shipped the same day
- Start making earrings quickly!
More information?
Do you have questions about making art, jewelry or casting/coating floors or other objects? At itsOkay, several epoxy experts work with each their own expertise. We are happy to help you.
Please contact itsOkay customer service or take a look at the Epoxy knowledge center .