How To Make Ceramic Earrings

Form the pieces into thimble shapes.

How to make ceramic earrings.

Use a dab of flexible gel superglue to attach the post to the back of the clay shape. You ll need oven bake clay a pack of clay sculpting tools earring posts jewelry pliers super glue and earring jump rings. You can attach clay shapes to each other with metal jump rings. Mix equal parts white clay with pink clay and blue clay with white clay.

Cut off the clay that you will need from your slab. You can make dangling earrings with an ear hook and a jump ring. You can do this with a clay roller or with a rolling pin using two wooden rulers as guides. Roll out the blue clay and cut it into two equal pieces.

Start by preheating your oven to 225º and lining a baking sheet with parchment paper. To gather your supplies start in the clay aisle of a local craft store to get the best sense of your materials. Create different patterns using different colors sizes and shapes. For any polymer clay earrings that you ll be using jump rings for this would be the time to create the holes needed.

Press them onto the flattened clay base and press them flat. To make stud earrings all you need are posts and backs. Roll this clay out about 3 8 of an inch thick for flat shapes and pendants. For the pressed flower earrings roll out tiny balls of each color of clay.

Create your clay shapes using one of the above techniques.