Earring Holder – Tutorial

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Next we tore the paper into strips.  Depending on the direction you tear the paper you’ll either end up with a white torn edge or a patterned torn edge.  It is up to you what you want.  Since GG planned to do some staining and distressing she wanted the white edges.

 so she tore

 and tore the strips of paper

 Next she painted on a layer of modge podge.  Enough to keep your paper stuck down into place.

 Then she spent some time sticking

 sticking

 sticking the papers down.  She was quite random with the layout of the papers and I think that added to the cuteness.

 Next you’re going to flip your frame over.  Make sure you have some sort of protector under your frame and above your table (I suggest a self healing mat)

 Then you’re going to use an xacto knife and cute off all the extra paper.

 As I said earlier GG wanted to stain her frame so this is the next step, rub your stain on as light or dark as you want.

 Once the stain is dry (and you do want to make sure it is dry) brush on a couple coats of modge podge to seal the paper down to the frame and make it easier to wipe down.

If you’re just wanting to make a frame you can end here, we however are going to take it one step further and turn this cute frame into an earring holder.

You’re going to need some screen.  GG’s oldest daughter wanted to make paper one day and her sweet Dad ran to the store to get her the screen she needed to make it.  Funny thing about that screen, a sheet the size he needed to get her for her project was more expensive than this roll he found in the clearance bin – I just can’t stress enough checking the clearance bin!  So lucky for us, we had a roll of screen at our disposal.

We cut a piece of screen about the size we wanted (a little big) and then stapled it all along the inside edge since we weren’t going to be putting glass or paper back in this it seemed like the best idea.

Because the screen tears easier than the chicken wire we had to be careful.  We used more staples and although we pulled the screen tight we didn’t pull it quite as tight as we did the chicken wire.

 Once we had it stapled all the way around we trimmed off the edges (good thing about the screen, we were able to cut it with my incredibly AWESOME snowman scissors).

 Once we had it all trimmed we beat our fingertips up a bit and folded down the edges to make sure we didn’t have any sharp wire poking out.

 This picture shows you how close we were stapling the screen to the edge, this helped keep the screen nice and tight without too much pulling.

Here is the cute finished project.  Earrings can either hang through the screen or be pushed through and a back put on it.  The girls really liked this frame and there isn’t any reason we couldn’t do them together!