How to make vintage earrings? You have to go back to the '80s, and several shapes are typical, including this rectangular shape with a hollowed-out part suspended from a disc ear stud. Another ingredient is the pattern, and here we've used a silkscreen to reproduce the houndstooth motif. This houndstooth pattern is often black on white, but we've taken a slightly different tack by using a yellow ochre, one of the new colors in the Cernit Number One range, called cupcake.
Take 3 bars of cupcake-colored Cernit dough. After crushing the dough a little in your hands, pass it through the dough machine at the widest notch. You'll need 2 sheets of dough.
Place your houndstooth silkscreen on one of the yellow plates, and roll it over the entire surface to ensure that the silkscreen lies flat on the polymer clay. Apply black acrylic paint to the edge of a card, then scrape the surface of the silkscreen with the card and paint to cover the entire surface in black. Immediately clean your stencil under lukewarm water, gently without rubbing too much. Once your tools are dry, repeat the stencil application on the second plate.
Leave your paint to dry for a quarter of an hour. Place your largest rectangular template in the middle of the printed plate. Using a cutter, cut out your shape using the edges of the template. Once the template plate is in place, be careful not to let it slip and damage your design. Make a second shape in the other plate.
Now use the smallest of the rectangular templates to hollow out the center of the rectangles you've created.
Take a 12 mm die and cut 2 rounds from the remaining houndstooth plate. Turn the plate over to avoid marking the painted surface with the plunger of the cookie cutter. Bake your pieces in a 120-degree oven for 30 minutes.
Sand the edges of your future earrings with 1000 grit abrasive. Place a few drops of UV led resin on an earring, spread the resin with a toothpick, place your piece under the UV led lamp and press the on off button twice. Repeat this step twice, then move on to the next piece. Don't forget to resin the backs of your curls to prevent them from deforming with the force of the resin's retraction, which would curve your rectangle. Resin the small circles without doing the back, one piece at a time. Don't hesitate to put your pieces back under the lamp if you find that they're still sticking, but leave a few moments to avoid overheating the polymer clay. Don't put any resin on the edge, as it won't set.
Drill the top of your rectangles in the middle, 2 mm from the edge. You can use a hand-held chuck or a Dremel drill, or simply use your drills by hand or with pliers.
To drill your rounds, place them on the ear hook disks and drill through the hole in the existing primer.
Glue the circles onto the primers, making sure to align the holes. Pass rings through the holes to connect the parts of your houndstooth earrings.
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