Butterfly earrings are not very easy to make, but the earrings that result from them are quite beautiful. Well, what else would you expect from a butterfly? I liked the green earrings that I made. I had included green butterfly beads as well and loved how the whole thing turned out! Another of my earrings that I ended up keeping with me, since I couldn’t bear to part with them!
Today’s earrings is yet another beautiful paper craft, that is, paper weaving. Woven paper is actually a very ancient art and a very common one. I am sure quite a few of us would have done this during school days. It was quite popular when I was a kid. These woven earrings are quite robust because of the repeated folding. And can be made in a variety of sizes. We can even make small bead-like [Continued..]
Paper hearts are really great to make! They are simple and however badly you end up making them, they still turn out great And they are the next earrings that I try.. The green heart earrings, with the green bead at the bottom of the collage, is the one I made for my sister-in-law. She has this amazing sense of colour and I am absolutely hopeless! And she had suggested this combination and I am [Continued..]
The leaf earrings are made from a single rectangular piece of paper, which is pleated to give the leaf-like shape. Pleating such a small piece of paper requires some practise, so it is best to try it out on a relatively larger piece of paper before progressing to smaller bits. As with all paper earrings, these make great accessories. I feel these look great in autumn colours such as yellow and brown and greenish yellow. [Continued..]