DIY FAUX LEATHER EARRINGS WITH CRICUT IRON-ON

These DIY faux leather earrings are inspired by ones from Magnolia Market. You can make them with your Cricut and add foil iron-on in rose gold for the perfect stunning detail. I purchased the supplies for these earrings at my local JOANN store.

This is a sponsored post brought to you by JOANN. All opinions are my own.

Cricut faux leather earrings with iron-on, triangle up close

I haven’t dabbled much in jewelry making, but after I made these earrings I want to make so many more!  They are a super easy project to make with your Cricut machine. JOANN carries the Hildie & Jo line of jewelry making supplies. I picked up some of their earring hooks and jump rings. I also picked up a needle nose plier and a little ImpressArt hole punch. JOANN stores also have the exclusive Cricut Wisteria and Cricut Wisteria EasyPress online and in stores right now.

Supplies for DIY Faux Leather Earrings with Cricut Foil Iron-on

Supplies for Cricut Faux Leather Earrings

Cricut Explore Air 2 Special Edition Wisteria Machine Bundle
Cricut EasyPress Special Edition Wisteria Bundle
Cricut Fine Tip Blade (comes with machine)
Cricut 2 pk 12″x12″ Standard Cutting Mats
Cricut Faux Leather Pebbled 
Cricut 12″x24″ Foil Iron – On – Rose Gold
Cricut 5 pk Basic Tools Set
Hildie & Jo Earring Hooks (I couldn’t find similar ones online, but my JOANN had a large selection of them in store)
Hildie & Jo Jump Rings
Needle Nose Pliers
ImpressArt Hole Punch
Cricut Design Space File
Instructions:

You can create any earring shape you would like in Cricut Design Space. Open a new project and click on Insert Image. Use the search bar to search for “tear drop” and “leaf”. You can really do any shape you want. If you prefer a basic shape, click on Shapes and insert one of those.

Cricut faux leather earrings in Cricut Design Space

You can also open my Design Space file for these exact earrings——-> HERE.

Once you have your shapes selected, you will want to decide how you want your iron-on accents. I used the Slice and Weld tools in the Layer panel to slice different shapes for my earrings. (You can learn more about using those tools in this post.)

Cricut faux leather earrings in Cricut Design Space Slice Tool

Once your design is finished, click on Make It. Make sure to mirror your second mat, because you will be cutting iron-on.

Cricut cutting Cricut faux leatherSelect Faux Leather for your first mat and cut it out. Change your material to Foil Iron-on for your second mat and cut it out.

Use your Cricut weeding tools to carefully weed your iron-on.Weeding Cricut foil iron-onCricut foil iron-on weededCricut foil iron-on on faux leather

Heat up your Cricut EasyPress. Remember to look online for the recommended settings. Temperatures vary depending on what type of base you are using under your EasyPress.  For faux leather and foil iron-on with the EasyPress mat, the recommended temperature is 255 for 30 seconds. Once you press your iron-on, let it cool before removing the protective liner.

EasyPress faux leather and foil iron-onNow it’s time to insert your earring hooks. Gently fold the top of the earring in half. Use the ImpressArt hole punch to punch a hole through both sides of the leather. Using ImpressArt hole punch on Cricut faux leather.Using your needle nose pliers, open a jump ring and insert it through both holes. Put your earring hook on the top (make sure it’s facing the right way) and close the jump ring. Repeat with the other earrings. Cricut faux leather earrings applying jump ringNow you are done! Enjoy your darling new earrings.
Cricut faux leather earrings complete

Cricut faux leather earrings with Cricut foil iron-on

If you have any questions, let me know in the comments below!

Cricut faux leather earrings with iron-on, outline Cricut faux leather earrings with iron-on, half Cricut faux leather earrings with iron-on, triangle Cricut faux leather earrings with iron-on, stripes

37 thoughts on “DIY FAUX LEATHER EARRINGS WITH CRICUT IRON-ON

    1. Hi Crystal! I haven’t tried it myself, but my friend did with the Cricut brand real leather and it worked. It may depend on the type of real leather. But I think it should work.

  1. Hey Jenny! I found your site through your Cricut Community profile in Deign Space. I love these earrings and all of your other beautiful Projects! I admin a group that focuses on sharing projects through the community. We are looking for talented creators and I would really love if you joined us and shared your creations and tutorials. https://www.facebook.com/groups/CricutMakers

  2. Do you finish the backs of the earrings in any way. Most of them I have seen at craft shows or in local boutiques have been the same on both sides. My faux leather is white on the back.

    1. I don’t finish the backs on mine. Each brand of faux leather is different so some have the same front and back. If you don’t like the backs you could always iron on a solid color to make them look more finished.

  3. Hi! I love these! However I’m finding that my faux leather keeps getting caught every time I try to use a regular fine tip blade. Do I need a deep cut blade? Or something else? Maybe it’s my mat? Thanks!

    1. Hi Katie! I have always used the regular fine tip blade. Are you using Cricut brand faux leather? You could try the deep cut blade and see if that helps. I haven’t had issues with mine getting caught before though so I’m not quite sure what’s going on.

    1. I just have the protective sheet from the iron-on over the faux leather. It never hurts to use Cricut’s iron-on protective sheet though, or a piece of parchment paper.

  4. Hi… did you use the blade that came with your cricut? Im finding that my standard blade doesn’t always cut through my faux leather… even if i change the setting to “more”

    Any advice is appreciated

    1. Hi Jenn! I do use the regular fine tip blade with Cricut faux leather. If you are using a different brand of faux leather it might be thicker than the Cricut brand and then the deep cut blade would be a better option.

  5. How do I find your earrings patterns on design space? I clicked where you said click and they didn’t come up? Any suggestions? They are so cute!
    Thanks
    Trish

    1. Hi Trish! When I share files they won’t open on the Cricut app but they will on a computer. Then you can save them to your profile and they should work on the app.

  6. Wonderful Post!
    the link to your Cricut file for these earrings no longer works. Any chance you could update that, I’d love to be able to make these ones. they are so beautiful!
    thank you!

  7. Hello,
    I can’t get the file to open. It opens and then disappears. Do you have any advice? I have recently switched from Silhouette, and I am literally having nothing but trouble with Cricut software 🙁

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