DIY – Wall hanging earring holder
Written by Miranda on April 27, 2009Ada and I always lose our earrings. So we decided to do something about it by making a wall hanging earring holder. That way, we can display our earrings, and have a place to put them. This is what the finish product looks like. (By the way, this one is mine, the purple one below is Ada’s in case you’re wondering why the step by step shows a different color).
Materials needed:
- 1 x blank stretched canvas
- 1 x round tip medium acrylic brush
- 1 x flat tip large acrylic brush
- 1 x acrylic color (base color)
- 1 x acrylic color (tree color)
- 1 x tin foil
- 1 x thumb tac
Start by wrapping a notebok or a piece of cardboard with the tin foil. This will the surface on which you mix your paints. If you suck at mixing colors, you might just buy the exact color you want at an art shop instead of buying a bunch of colors and mixing. You can then squeeze the paint onto the tin foil.
Paint the entire surface area of your stretched canvas with your base color. I also recommend that you paint the edges as well cause it’ll look nicer once you hang it up. Give the base color about an hour to dry.
Next you add the tree using the rounded brush.
If you want, you can paint the edge as well. The picture below shoes the bottom of the painting. See how the tree truck continues onto the edge of the canvas? Give it another hour to dry.
Finally, use your thumb tac to poke holes onto the canvas. You can do as many or as few as you like. I personally like to poke two holes fairly close together so that I can place a pair of earrings side by side. Insert your earrings and hang.
Total time: approx 3.5 hours (including sitting around waiting for the paint to dry)
Total cost: approx $40 Canadian
Now go make yourself one of these!
- Miranda
L. Chabrow said:
July 17, 2010
Nice idea. I make earrings (for myself) and found this page via Google.
I made an earring holder out of a frame and the kind of mesh used on the front of old radiator covers. It is maxed out on space, so I’m looking for ideas for a second one.
Thanks for sharing!
mpang said:
August 11, 2010
We’d love to see pictures when you’re done!!