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How to Decorate Baltic Birch Earrings

January 02, 2023

Learn to decorate & design baltic birch earrings (& baltic birch buttons, too), using paint, stains, & beads. Designer Tricia Giazzon will show you how easy it is to do & how beautiful your designs will be.

Supplies Used:

Designer Series Baltic Birch Earrings Collection (9 pairs): https://jewelloom.com/collections/accessories/products/designer-series-baltic-birch-earring-collection-18-pieces-9-pairs?aff=6
Designer Series Baltic Birch Buttons Collection (20 pc): https://jewelloom.com/collections/accessories/products/value-pac-wooden-decorative-buttons?aff=6
Czech Glass Bead Mixes: https://jewelloom.com/collections/bead-mixes?aff=6
Fire Polish & other Czech Glass Beads: https://jewelloom.com/collections/beads?aff=6

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Transcript:

hey everybody it's Trish hope everyone's well uh today I'm gonna do a video for

you and it's going to consist of me showing you three different techniques on how to color your wooden charms that

you'll use for your earrings after that I'm gonna show you how to

make one and what kind of beads I use and techniques I'm also going to discuss in this video

what kind of sealers to use on your wooden pieces so all that being said

this is going to be a super fun video so let's get started so we're going to start out here with me

showing you some of these beautiful charms that you can get now at jeweloon.com

um this one is the daisy you can see how she put um holes at this a hole at the top and

then three holes at the bottom you certainly could dangle things off there or also utilize the open leaves to do

some unique things with it I've also got a leaf

super fun a lotus flower

a feather of sunshine and that was cool too

because it has the three holes at the bottom and my favorite the beautiful butterfly and you can see this has a lot

of detail to it okay and I'm going to show you how to color that detail it makes it nice to really

give it a lot of depth so we're gonna get started I have three

techniques here I'm going to show you as far as coloring goes and then I'm going to show you how to put some of the earrings together and just

simply you know so it's as easy as possible so what we're going to start

with here is our sunshine okay so we'll get our colored pencils

out these are the color pencils that I use okay

and so what I want to do here is I want to pick two colors that are closed in the color family

so I'm going to pick yellow and orange

and I'm going to start with the lighter color in the middle okay and it's just a simple

as starting to color it in I use the side of the pencil and the light touch

because I don't want it to get too dark just yet I want to see kind of where everything goes and I'm gonna work

out here just a little bit between these sun the sun rays

just like so and you know

um the sky's the limit on this guys you could use as many colors as you want

um and just really make them sing we're gonna do kind of simple today so

that way then beginners and advanced can do this

okay you can see how that's kind of looks like it's working its way out from the center

all right I'm just going to go between those rays now don't go down inside to the cutout

spots I don't recommend that I think that um the color doesn't do as nice down in

those those are much prettier if you just leave them the way they are so now I'm going to pick up my orange

and I think I'm going to go in here and I'm going to do orange in this ring

going around the Sun kind of give it a little bit of a pop

all right and then I'm going to start out from where uh we ended our yellow just

slightly inside that and I'm going to start slowly working my way out with the orange okay

so we're just kind of blending I'm going to work out to the edge

all right and I like how this gives it depth

you forgot a little yellow in here it gives a depth really guys by using multiple colors

and it gives it a really cool look in my opinion

we're just working out to the edge blend blend blend that's the name of the game here

this is super relaxing to do in therapeutic which is a big part of what jewel loom

is about okay

working that out and you can see we're getting a pretty good start there it's coming along pretty cute

so now I'm going to take my lighter pencil and I'm going to go back in here and I'm just going to kind of blend

out again with the yellow and just kind of connect those colors

where they kind of meet in the middle and kind of blend if you know what I mean

okay

so once you do that again and you're blending out into that orange just trying to avoid a harsh line

see how that's coming along for us and I'm going to go in with my orange and I'm just going to go around the edge

here and I'm trying to apply more pressure just to get like a darker look right around the edge

so it really gives the piece will pop okay but it just

really makes the pieces safe and I may even

just go in here a little bit on this side and just lightly color in a little bit of orange to give that Center a

little bit of depth okay so it's a simple as that with colored pencils now you can color the

back don't hesitate to do that as far as sealing colored pencil or any

of these techniques for that matter you can use a clear coat spray

you can use resin and with the patina paints that actually have a glaze that

you can purchase the zip right here that you could use as well okay so let's

get on to our next technique which is the potato paints

and for that what we're going to use we're going to use this little feather

okay and what you need is your patina paints

a little bit of water some brushes and I use a little paint

palette it just makes things a little easier now I use the Vintage patina paints their packaging has been updated

and I believe they change their recipe a little bit but they do the same exact thing so grab yourself some patina

paints and you're going to want to this is one of my favorite colors Verdigris

and then this is one of my new found favorite colors blue fluoride so you want to make sure when you get these

you're shaking and shaking and shaking because that way you're getting all that

paint distributed mixed through and you hear that little metal ball bouncing in there

that's what's mixed in for you so we'll just mix this for a second

[Music] okay so that probably wasn't long enough but

it'll keep us going now you see how I'm squeezing that and it's not coming out usually what I'll do then is just take a

little piece of wire and I don't have a spare piece here but I'm just going to trim a piece off of

my wire roll here and a little trick is just take a little

piece of wire in there this size should work and just kind of move it back and forth

and up and down to clear that out and then you can put some of it on your

paint palette it's still kind of slow but that'll work you don't need very much that's way way

way more than what we actually need but that's okay

so I'm going to put a little bit of fluoride color in there and I can see that's not quite mixed the way I want it

so I'll just take a popsicle stick and just kind of blend what I have in my palette here a little

bit that off I'm gonna do the same over here it's a little cheap you can do

all right so I'm just going to take a simple paint brush I have a variety here I can choose from but and we're gonna do

the same concept you're gonna start in the middle and what I'd like to do with this is I kind of will wipe my paint off

a little bit just kind of wipe it off on my my sheet here and just kind of work out from the

center the same way that we did with light Strokes because I just want to kind of see

how things are going to move along here all right so you're just going to take a

paper towel if you want to stay lighter in the middle and when you put it on just kind

of rub it and you can see how it pushes it down into the wood

as well as lightening it a little bit so again I'm just going to take a little

bit off of here because I don't want a lot okay I'm just kind of playing with it

here and seeing again I'm wiping that off

working it down a little bit just lightly Feathering it to those edges okay so we're going to

get a color blend

a little bit more in this morning because I do want that just just darker

okay and if you make a boo-boo no big deal you can always paint over it or just take your little paper towel and

kind of blend it out look at that guys that's cool already right

so then what you want to do is you want to make sure and clean your brushes off don't let them dry with this because

that that will ruin your brush quickly but you also want to make sure that you're cleaning it off in between and

it's just simply with water okay

clean that off and I'm just drying it with my paper towel and now I'm going to take the fluorite

color and I'm going to work with it around the edge a little bit here a little bit up in this Loop

and just kind of feather the edges with that and you can see that's already

given us depth by having those two colors there

okay you could add a third color if that appeals to you

another shade you could do a really light blue in the very center that would

be pretty I just keep working this I'm like okay well I want a little bit more turquoise in the middle

and that's a pop out just a little bit more and you can just keep layering until you get the exact look

that you want okay and I'll even take the other colors and kind of mash them

together a little bit both of them just to kind of get that middle color

to blend better see how that goes and same thing for this you can also

paint the back of this really make it look finished but that's the basic concept for that guys see how

you have the depth and I'm going to take a little bit more of these blue on the edge

and that's what I do I just keep layering it until I'm happy

with the way it looked and again you can seal it like we said it's always that you can sell these wood

pieces so there that is our feather all right so I'm gonna put this in water

my brush and we're going to move on to the alcohol inks

all of these are very simple techniques and anyone can do it's just a fun way to

play around with these gorgeous little pieces so I'm going to move this off and

on the way put it with our sun okay and I'm just going to wipe this up

because I don't want to get it on my arms as I'm using my alcohol inks just to make sure that

there because this is just a piece of paper I'm working on a spare piece of paper just to make a mess on because I

don't want my top of my desk okay you can certainly do that a piece of paper some paper towels some newspaper works

as well okay so here we go our butterfly

beautiful beautiful now this one's a little bit more intricate if you want to get intricate okay that's your choice

but I use alcohol ink so I'm gonna intricate pieces and these are ones that I just got off Amazon okay

and I'm just gonna pick a couple pink colors here what's nice about this is

you can you get this little paper here and you can write show the colors

besides the number so you can actually see what they look like on paper okay so

I'm looking at this and I'm pretty sure I want to do Maybe

pastel pink and Vivid Pink So that would be 6 and 17. okay so we'll play with

those there's six and seventeen that's two colors you could do three if

you wanted to add in the rose pink that's number eight we'll grab that too just for fun okay let's put these over

here I'm gonna want my black too for the body so I'm gonna grab my black

okay so we'll just start out by doing

some of the colors around the edges all right so let's start

with our darker color and I just want to use the fine tip with this okay if you had a bigger piece your coloring say for

instance the sun you could use the Chisel tab all right so I'm just going to start

around this Edge and I'm just going to kind of go a little bit with that one

[Music] 17.

I'm gonna take that off there and we're gonna work our way down some

and then we'll take our third one it's the rose pink move that out of the

way and grab that and continue it around now look as I'm coloring that that's not even going to show up so this is pretty

much not going to work on this piece so we will just stick with the two colors

we originally picked so we'll do this just around the corner grab some more dark pink and we're just

trying to give it a little bit of depth a little bit of interest you can do this if you want if not keep it simple do one

color totally your baby here

right I'm just gonna color around these little antenna

and I'm just going to take that light pink down in here between those antennas so it looks kind of finished

and then again grab my darker pink

and just start pulling that through bringing it around

and then finish it off with our lighter color this is just kind of a variegated

way to do it and what's nice guys with these alcohol inks I can grab into where I just colored that darker color and

kind of pull it into my light color if I want just to kind of make sure everything Blends and there's not a

sudden stop of color the other thing you can do is use the blender pen that comes with it

and it makes it nice that it's just like a white clear pen it's usually number zero in

the package okay so it's the same concept we're just gonna grab this we're gonna blend this

down kind of make this look like you know it was all connected it's not

going to have any sudden stops or starts and that just works perfectly and just

really gives you a pretty look okay so that's another concept I always write

after I'm done with it because I don't want that color Stained on there I just kind of rub it off

so here we go we're gonna go in with our pinks

maybe I'll grab a little bit of purple to put in the middle too so here I picked up this color and I'm just gonna

start coloring in areas okay I'm gonna do a little purple there I

think I'm gonna do a little purple up here maybe some on this

and just play with it and have fun okay there's our purple

there he is to him out here do some toward the center here

and you can see how these are kind of divided in little pieces that makes it really cool looking and gives you an

opportunity to really add depth to the pieces you know

and then we're gonna put some purple in the center here and again you can go in you can

blend you can you know just the sky's the limit and where's my

light one there we go put a little bit of light here

kind of spread it out a little bit so you get a little bit of purple there you get a little pink here you know

just to kind of give it that depth

and I'm sorry if I'm moving my piece around a lot that's just how I kind of color and go here

but that gives you the idea you can obviously use different colors a

teal would be gorgeous on here I think I'm going to take this little bit of pink that I put down here I think

I'm going to take my purple and just color over that one you can do

that with the darker colors and it means a little bit lighter over purple but still looks super super cute so I just

grabbed some fire polish a couple pieces out of the Czech glass

bags that Jewel sells here's one I've used a lot of these but

she has a variety of colors there are awesome pieces of Czech glass in here that you could use

to make earrings for days and then this is uh one of my favorites right here that one

in the turquoise so and I just have a little bit of fire polish guys too so

I'm gonna take wire okay and we'll start with our sunshine how about that this is for our our

feather and I'm going to grab some gold tone

uh beadalon German style wire and I'm just going to cut off maybe I don't know

eight inches that's way more than we're gonna need but hey what it's better to have more than less and I keep missing

that here we go so once you do that you're just going to

warm up the wire with your fingers that's strange

okay and we're going to make the little

um charms from the bottom here you don't have to use head pins I'm going to show

you how to not use head pins so if you just have some spare wire hanging around you can certainly do that

I'm just grabbing my tools here I need my wire working tools now

so I'm going to start out Simply by making a loop on the end of The Wire

actually let me flush cut that a little bit first okay and then

take that in the very tip of my round nose pliers move this out so you can see and I'm just gonna roll it

around on top of itself twice until I come back to the part that I

started okay right here and then I'm going to take

my chain nose or my tweezinger pliers and I'm going to bend this

just like so almost looks like a golf club at this point and then I'm just going to take this

wire I'm going to cut this end off here because that's not going to work

that off and I'm just going to take that wire and I'm going to take it down and I'm going to gently bend it

and put the end back through the loops on the bottom okay

and then I'm just going to take my chain nose pliers

and my wire straighteners just so everything stays really nice

and just give that a pull and I'm giving it a good tug because I'm going to move in closer give it just a

little bit more oops I want to go too crazy on it but you want that to kind of knot up at the

bottom just like so and then I usually will come in and I'll just kind of straighten it out a little

bit get it level with the wire and there is your own head pin you just created

this wire straightener just go over this again so we're going to make we're going to

want to make three of these but I can tell you my technique that I I just make them as I go it's just that simple so

I'm just gonna pick out some of I don't know why that is in there that needs to

go in the other Bowl um the fire polish and I'm just going to

Simply add a piece of fire polish onto the bottom look how cool that looks and then just a little spacer round bead

okay you can add as much as you want as long as angles as

you like so I'm just gonna do let's see I didn't orange so let's grab a yellow

all right so there's two and then we'll put one more ball on top

how about that that'll give us really pretty dangle there okay so

simply for me I'll show you um what I do to make my life easier I

use this little tool here it's a one step Looper and you just put the end of the wire

through that feed it through up to where your beads are and I always back

off just even a fingernail length so I don't crack my crystals and then just squeeze

and that is your first angle right there okay so we're going to continue with

that we're going to make two more head pins two more dangles again we're gonna

grab the end we're gonna wrap around twice

and we're going to end into a golf club shape

and then take the end of the wire and put that through those circles of wire at the bottom

just like so and then we're going to grab the wire

and

there we go there's one more so we're going to do for the one in the middle we're going to make it slightly longer

we're going to start with the yellow and the bottom okay

I'm going to need to trim that end off it has a little bit of a indent and the beads don't want to go over it

so there we go just take your fire polish you can even put some

Daisy spacers on if you like

oh so we're going to take that and then a piece of our Orange

we're gonna do three layers here with Daisy spacers okay because we did two beads with the rounds

on the other one this is the center so and then grab another yellow

and let's put one of those ball spacers on top

just that simple guys what a little bit of fire polish will do for you right so again

I'm gonna take this one step Looper in here and I'm going to put my wire through the

one side of it back off just like a fingernail length and squeeze

all right so I'm going to make one more of these guys and I'll be right back so we're back I have all three of my

dangles made they are super cute ready to go now

we're gonna make the top part I like to make it you can just go ahead and put a jump ring and an earring hook in here if

you want to but I like to um make it put a bead up here as well

so I'm just going to show you how to do a simple Loop since we were using the uh one step Looper for the other just to

kind of give you a bit of info so I just cut that in flush I'm going to move this stuff out of the way

and we're just going to grab the end of our wire with the tip of our pliers and

it depends on the size of loop that you want so I'm going to move mine down just a hair and I'm going to make sure I'm right at that end and I'm just going to

give that I'm going to do a twist of the wrist and I'm going to bring that around just

like so okay and then I'm going to go in the center of that with my pliers and

then push my wire back and you can see how you get a little lollipop look there

and that gives you that centered Circle okay so it's the centered Loop

so what I'm going to end up doing here is I'm going to attach this into

my piece I'm going to put a jump ring and then hook this in so it's going to go this direction side to side so

looking at this I want to build a top for this and I don't want it to be too high only because it'll already be a bit

of a long earring but it's up to you for the sizes you desire of course so

I'm just going to put a fire polish can't go wrong with fire polish a daisy spacer and these are just things

you have in your stash and like I said for the Czech glass those mixes are golden stuff right there

so there you go and and then another I'm gonna put a big piece of iron polish on

the top another Daisy spacer and another orange okay

just as simple as that

okay there we go so what you can do at the top of this you can make a wrap Loop if you like the

look of that I'm going to go ahead and do that I'm just going to take my pliers bend it over to the side bend the wire

over to the side grab my round nose pliers put those in and this is how I do it

everyone does them different of course but this is a good way that I found you go up and over

rotate your pliers I don't take mine out I just rotate them it's one less step for me

and hold on to that and then I'm going to cross it and I'm just going to adjust that so

that's sitting in the center there now I'm going to take my pliers out and I'm going to grab it with my tweezer or my

chain nose plier and I'm going to firmly hold that Loop while I do a wire wrap

okay and that's a wrap Loop right there if we'd stop right there that's a wrap Loop

you would just trim that and go but if I have all this wire left sometimes I like to play so I will bring the wire across

the front and just kind of go in between the beads and you can see I'm just kind of wrapping that

bring it around the back like so and then I'm going to go down the front of this bead

just like so and I'm going to take my pliers out I like to hold it at this point wrap it around that piece of fire polish

back through and that on to the bottom

get that adjusted because I want there to be some wire across the front of that as we go okay so you can see how I'm

adjusting that I'm going to hold that there with my fingers and just go around the bottom a couple times

and there you go we're just gonna travel that we have that top piece done this is

actually going to be the top the lemon throw up Loop and we're just going to connect that now with jump Rings it's

just that simple we're going to connect all these pieces and we're going to get our wire up as well and I have some five

millimeter jump Rings here just use whatever you have in your stash

and I'm going to connect to the bottom of the top that we made there

and I'm going to put this through the hole on my sun

with my pliers grab the other side with my chain nose and we're going to go front and back and

close that jump ring up right there and you want to make sure that you're doing this front to back always guys

don't go side to side or you'll have a mess on your hands so there's our top

piece we can go ahead at this point then and add on our ear wire

as you saw that flip that's playing on the back color it to your heart's desired if you like

so I'm just going to open up my ear hook in there

close that up front to back and now we're going to add on our dangles and I know I want the longer one

in the middle this is quite the earring so if you don't like long earrings scale back you know you know that you can just

make it your own but I like long earrings so I'm just gonna open my jump ring and

start by attaching our charms simple as that

okay let's work it back and forth until we get right where we want it

again through the center because that's our longest one

I know you guys will come up with some gorgeous designs and gorgeous ideas you always do

okay and our last one

I'm sure I have a hold of that there before I go to close it and again I'm working this back to four

back and forth back and forth there's a little bit of pressure toward the middle but not much

there we go so there is our finished earring I love

it oh my gosh that is certainly a statement piece so I'm going to show you here a few other ones that I've made

this is a leaf or a feather excuse me that I did prior to the video here and

here's our butterfly and our leaf

more Lotus and of course our beautiful Daisy

beautiful so guys that is it for me today I hope

you enjoyed this video and I hope you have a wonderful day and I'll see you in the next one guys

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