Many years back I got into making jewelry, anything from beads to polymer clay. In keeping with my holiday spirit and celebrating Valentine's Day (over a month early hehe), I decided to make these super cute polymer clay heart earrings with a touch of pearl. You can watch the video here. 

Supplies:

• Polymer clay
• Heart shaped mini metal cutter
• Gesso (unless you have colored polymer clay)
• Acrylic paint (unless you have colored polymer clay)
• Sculpey Gloss Glaze
• Glossy Accents
• Flat back pearls of various sizes
• Stainless steel earring posts
• Hot glue

I should mention, and maybe this will be a tip for others, that the polymer clay I had was from several years back. Needless to say it was kind of dry. I ended up putting the piece of polymer clay I wanted to work with in a ziplock bag, and then I placed that bag into a bowl of hot water and let it sit for about 30 minutes. It softened up the clay enough to work with!

Roll out your clay!

Next I took the heart shaped metal cutter and cut out a couple of hearts. As you can see it was a little off on the lower right side, so I just took my X-acto knife to even it out a bit. 

Then I popped these girls in the oven at 275° F for 15 minutes.

Before I painted, I hot glued the stainless steel posts to the hearts. 

I first applied Gesso as a base, and then 2 layers of paint. Again if you have colored clay, you can skip this part. I'm just too frugal to go out and buy colored clay. hehe.

This is my favorite product, Sculpey gloss glaze. I applied 2 layers of this as well, waiting 30mins between each layer. This glaze is just amazing. It adds a beautiful glaze and it fills in any imperfections. 

And I don't know what happened with the lighting, so forgive me, but lastly I applied these flat back pearls. I used Glossy Accents to bond the pearls to the hearts. 

And there you have it! Cute heart earrings. You can switch up the colors and the bling. 

DIY | Valentine Heart Tree

As a continuation to my DIY Valentine Mason Jars, I have added a video on how to make a Valentine Heart Tree. Very simple and cost close to nothing. Most items bought at the Dollar Store and the branches were found right outside in my backyard! Click here to watch the video!

Supplies:

• Branches
• Liquitex Gesso
• Sculpey Gloss Glaze
• Eva Stickers; 100 hearts from the Dollar Store
• Elmer's School Glue
• Studio g extra fine glitter; pack of three - from AC Moore
• Sew Easy baker's twine from Michael's Craft Store

DIY | Valentine Mason Jars

Valentine's is just around the corner and because I've been in such high holiday spirits I thought why stop after Christmas and New Years? So I have gone on to decorate for Valentine's Day. 

 Now the hubby and I don't particularly celebrate Valentine's day, in fact it's unlikely that we will even exchange gifts on this day, but that doesn't mean you can't decorate for the occasion. 

 I will have a series of videos coming out within the next month catered to all those who love to celebrate love.

This particular video is part of a two part series actually. This first one will go through the steps to decorating a few mason jars to make them into a vase or candle holders. You can watch that video here. Most of the supplies I used to make this are either from the Dollar Store or I had laying around the house. 

Supplies: 

• Liquitex acrylic paint; Basics line; in colors Light Portrait Pink and Quinacridone Magenta
• Floral Garden Lace Ribbon (heart ribbon had no specific name except "ribbon") - both from the Dollar Store
• Mason Jars
• Studio g extra fine glitter; pack of three - from AC Moore
• Sculpey Gloss Glaze
• Eva Stickers; 100 hearts from the Dollar Store
• Elmer's School Glue
• Studio g extra fine glitter; pack of three - from AC Moore

Stay tuned for part two in which I go through how to make a Valentine's heart tree to go along with the mason jar.