Hello there. Today I want to share with you 2 set of earrings I made out of Stampin' Up's designer builder brads. Sorry for those of you that were expecting and hoping for a new card... but not really because these earrings turned out awesome and I'm proud of them haha.
This idea stemmed from an experience my upline and I had at the 2012 Stampin' Up! convention. While standing in line the first morning, a fellow demonstrator had a bracelet on made out of our vintage faceted designer buttons. We were blown away by how cool of an idea it was! The bracelet was absolutely beautiful and it was a new and interesting way to use a Stampin' Up! product. We decided right then that next year (this year) we had to do something that would make other demonstrators go, "WOW!" I guess these earrings are my attempt at that. I made 2 pairs (one for me and one for my upline) for the Riverton Regional.
For these earrings all I did was pull the brad part off of the designer builder brads. The back part came off really easily and it didn't look bad so I left the back untouched. Then I punched out a piece of designer series paper using the circle punch from the Itty Bitty Shapes punch pack. I used the multipurpose liquid glue to glue the piece of paper to the brad and then adhered the epoxy bubble that the brads came with on top of the paper. I attached the brad to a hook earring and I was done! That may sound complicated but really it was easy and I was super happy with the results. Wanna see the earrings? Boom.
For my pair I used the green paper with white polka dots from the Sunshine and Sprinkles DSP and for Jennifer's pair I used the yellow chevron from the same DSP pack.
The Designer Builder Brads are retiring on May 31 so if you want to be crafty and make a pair of earrings like these let me know soon so you don't miss them. You get 16 brads in each pack; for the math challenged, that's 8 pairs of earrings that are completely customizable for only $6.95. So awesome!
Hopefully someone will be impressed with my craftiness in making these earrings. ;) Contact me if you'd like to get some of these brads to make earrings so you can impress someone with your craftiness too!
Thanks for reading!
These are just too cute! I love them!
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Thanks so much, Raquelle!
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