Retired - Midnight Forest Earrings

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1. Take the Create Recklessly Faux Leather and cut it into your desired leaf shape. Once you have your desired shape, trace it on the back of the strip of leather to create a second mirror image. Cut out the second shape.
2. Place them back to back and use the Toho Demi Rounds to Bead Embroider a Basic Beaded Edge all the way around the leaf. Tie off and weave in your thread.
3. Punch a hole near the top tip of the earring.
4. Open one 8mm jump ring and thread it through the hole you punched at the top of the leaf. Close the jump ring.
5. Open one 5mm jump ring and attach it to the 8mm jump ring and to one earring hook. Close the jump ring.
6. All done!

• XCR-1330 - Create Recklessly, Symphony Faux Leather 10 x 2 Inch Strip, 1 Piece, Iris Blue
  Project uses 1 piece. You will need 1 package.


• DRH-0032 - Toho Demi Round Seed Beads, Thin 11/0 (2.2mm) Size, 7.8 Grams, 82 Metallic Nebula
  Project uses 1 Tube. You will need 1 package.


• FJR-9040 - Stainless Steel Open Jump Rings 5mm Diameter 20 Gauge Thick (50 Pieces)
  Project uses 2 pieces. You will need 1 package.


• FJR-5298 - Gun Metal Plated Open Jump Rings 8mm 18 Gauge (100)
  Project uses 2 pieces. You will need 1 package.


• FEA-3000 - Surgical Steel Earring Hooks Hypo-Allergenic (x100)
  Project uses 2 pieces. You will need 1 package.


• XCR-8906 - NYMO Nylon Beading Thread Size D for Delica Beads Dark Blue 64YD (58 Meters)
  Project uses 1 piece. You will need 1 package.

• XTL-5700 - Fiskars 5 Precision Tip Scissors - Super Sharp
• XTL-5450 - Xuron Jeweler's Super Fine Pliers Chain Nose Flat Nose
• XTL-5488 - Xuron Jeweler's Super Fine Pliers Round Nose Pliers
• XTL-3006 - Beadsmith English Beading Needles Size 12 (4 Needles)
• XTL-5614 - BeadSmith Tools, Thread Snips 4.25 Inches Long, 1 Piece
• XTL-0060 - Eurotool EuroPunch 1.25mm Round Hole Punch Pliers For Sheet Metal