WEAR IT: JEWELRY
7. Use the liner brush to outline the image and
sprinkle on the micro glitter.
8. Add fishhook earring wires.
Materials
» Disposable cookie sheet (should
be free of grooves in the center)
» Nail file or sandpaper
» Ballpoint pen
» Magazine
» Mexican novela comic cover or
comic cover of your choice
» Small tinsnips
» White craft glue
» Aleene’s Paper Glaze
» Small punch tool
» Fishhook earring wires
» Thin liner brush
» Micro glitter
Materials
» Cardstock
» Watercolor paper
» Assorted acrylic paints
» Assorted brushes
» Water-based gloss varnish
» Fishhook earring wires
» Scissors
» Super Glue
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Watercolor Paper Earrings
Latin Lover Tin Earrings 1. Cut small shapes from cardstock, like rectangles,
1. Reduce the novela comic cover to 25%, and make circles, and squares. These are your templates.
2 color copies. Set aside. 2. Use the templates to cut out pairs of the shapes
2. Take the disposable cookie sheet and cut out the from the watercolor paper. For example, cut out 2
center. Throw the sides away. squares, 2 rectangles, etc.
3. Cut a shape out of the tin, then use that shape as 3. Using acrylic paints, base-coat watercolor paper
your template to cut out your earrings from the shapes and let dry.
tin. Mine were 2"× 1" wavy-edged rectangles. File 4. Combine the shapes on top of each other to
the edges of the cutouts with the nail file. make abstract earring pieces. Use Super Glue to
4. Place the tin on top of the magazine (a harder affix them to each other.
surface won’t work as well) and, pressing firmly, 5. Paint on a coat of varnish and let dry.
use the pen to draw grooves into the tin. If you 6. Poke a hole at the top and add the fishhook.
have embossing tools, you can also use those to
make the designs. >>Variation: Use your favorite images on the painted shapes.
5. Use the punch tool to add a hole at the top of
each earring.
6. Use the white craft glue to affix the comic cover Kathy Cano Murillo is the founder of craftychica.com and
image to the center of each earring. Cover with the author of Crafty Chica's Art de la Soul: Glittery Ideas to
the paper glaze and let it sit until clear. Liven Up Your Life (Rayo Books).
