I haven't done a blog post in a while as in the past three months I have been to Ireland and Australia and home in London in between. Since I've been back I've had some spare time which has been spent going to art exhibitions, doing some DIY and a lot of time spent in coffee shops. I thought I'd share one of my projects, turning plain earnings into something unique and eye catching, using my favorite applique, Diamantes.
I bought these plastic earrings in a small shop called So High Soho for £4.50 with the DIY project in mind. I already had the glue and diamontes from a previous project but both are from another shop in Soho called Creative Beadcraft. The Glue is a water-based craft glue that is washable and was £2.60, and the diamantes are Holographic Chinese foiled Crystals and are £8.50 for a pack of 1440. Although the crystals are expensive, a packet will last for many DIY projects and the earring only use about 300 diamantes. I also used tweezers to apply each diamante which can be bought for around £2 from boots.
To apply the diamontes put a small amount of glue on a piece of paper and pick up the diamante with the tweezers and dip the back into the glue and place down on the earrings. I didn't have a specific pattern in mind, I just filled the earring starting from the top to bottom. As the glue takes a minute to set you can move the Diamantes around to fill it evenly as you go.
The finished product took around 30 minutes to do both earrings on one side. I only did the front side of the earring as doing both would make them too heavy to wear and I like the pink showing through because the Diamantes are holographic so the pink reflects off them.
As Halloween is around the corner I might channel my inner Baby Spice or Britney and wear them this weekend!
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