Easy Fall Earrings in Bulk Tutorial

Today I'm going to show you how to make some really beautiful jewelry in bulk using resin. So this is epoxy resin. It's the kind that cures overnight. Mine is part A and B and you mix those in equal parts. But your resin might be different so just check your label while you're before you mix it. So I'm making two different ones. In this one we're doing like a Halloween theme and in the other cup we'll do more of just a plain fall theme. So for the Halloween theme I put some yellow flowers and they're all dried flowers and then I tore the green stem up and put it in as well so I wasn't wasting anything and it gives it more texture. And then this is a copper colored foil flake. You know how you see a lot of people using the gold foil flakes which I love but for the Halloween theme I thought the copper would look really pretty in it. And I put in this entire container of black glitter in there as well and I'm mixing that up really well and that one is finished except for I'm just going to add a few more of the green stems. And that one's done and we'll move on to the fall color which the fall color I think just is more of a delicate look and you'll see what I mean. I'm starting off with these orange lily petals. They're dried and anything I'm using in this video you can find in the description. I put the links on there. It's all from Amazon and you can go on there and you can find what I'm using. This I'm just tearing up the dried petals and you want to tear them pretty small because some of the molds that we're using are really tiny so don't really tear them too too big. I love the way this turned out in the end. These are my favorite. The Halloween ones are fun but I really love this fall one. But if you're doing any type of fall market or even just want to give gifts this these will be perfect because you can make a bunch of them at once. I also like to give them as teacher gifts for my kids which usually anything that I give them is all homemade. I make candles, I make soaps, and I make tons of different jewelry so I'm able to give them those things as gifts throughout the year or if you have any birthdays around fall time. So just add in some other things like this. This is white glitter so I added some of that to give it some more shine and mix that in and that turns out really really pretty. But I still feel like it was missing something so I decided to add in some of these. First of all some of this rose. This is actually one that my husband gave me and I dried it. It was in a bouquet and I thought that the cream color would go really well in this so I went ahead and put that in and mixed it up and I still feel like it was missing something so I added some of some of the green stems which you know if you don't use these you're just going to end up throwing them away. So in a project like this where it needs texture I just think it really adds something to it. This is some of that green glitter flakes and this completed it. I was satisfied once I put that in it and I really love how those turned out. So here's the new mold I got. This came in a pack of two so both of these came in the same pack which they were really affordable and they make a ton of jewelry at once which I love that. They're all circles but they're different size circles and I'm using my popsicle stick. It's a jumbo popsicle stick stir and I put it directly into my mold with it. Now when you get to the smaller ones sorry if you hear my dog barking once you get to the smaller circles I use a little dropper and it makes it so much easier because you'd make a big mess if you tried to do it with the popsicle stick but I'm going to link all that in the description as well if you need to know where I got this. So see how I'm using the dropper it makes it so much easier and if you want to you can take a toothpick and take the little pieces of flowers at the end and add it into those little circles if you couldn't get any with the dropper in there. The important part about this is to make sure you fill it all the way full and don't over fill it you'll have to do some sanding at the end if you do. So here's so the one we filled in was the Halloween now this one is the fall and you sell these you know the both at the same time a year so this is really great to do together and you can do it all at once and it makes the process so much faster and then you just fill all those in like you did your other mold. Also if you have a question about my accent I'm from Appalachia so if I'm saying some of the words strangely I've had comments on that in the past that's because I do have a different accent if you can't tell in everything that I say it is there. So just a heads up so fill all those just like you did your other mold and this process is a little bit tedious but you get so much joy at once that it's so much so worth it. Let that cure overnight and then take them out of the mold. See how some of them have a bit of a patterned front and some of them are rounded so they are slightly different. Some of the thicker ones like this I actually like to take my hand drill and drill into it right at the top and then I put a little eye screw in it and that's how I use it and to do the eye screw this is how I do it. I just start it in there and I actually turn the jewelry piece instead of the screw. I just find that to be so much easier and hold it with your pliers and see how I'm turning the jewelry piece instead and then the trick to this is not to turn it too far so once you have hit it down close enough stop or you're going to break off your eye screw into the piece and that's a sad day. I've done that a few times. So see how this smaller piece is also a bit thicker so I also use an eye screw on that. Then you just take your jump ring put it into the eye screw and for this one for the larger pieces I feel like they're too heavy to use as earrings so I like to make necklaces out of those. I don't like to have a big heavy earring and I have so many customers that also say they don't want a heavy earring so I just make these into necklaces. These are so thick that you could fit so many different types of resin fillers in there and there'd be so many ideas you could make with these. Any type of charms or anything like that. It turned out really cute. So here's one of the fall themed ones we're going to do as well. Any of the thicker pieces I did with an eye screw mainly because they fit in there better and they're cheaper than the bails which I'm going to show you how to do in a minute. It's a different process completely than the eye screws. Again you're just going to put your jump ring in and then your corded necklace on top. I get these corded necklaces in a bulk pack and they're really cheap and you can make a ton of necklaces with them and I'll have that in the description as well. They have a bit of shine to them and they're definitely fall colored. I love them. This is how I do the bails. So see how these are flatter? The eye screw wouldn't work well in these. So I take my UV resin and just make a line or whatever it is to match the bail. This is a line because it's a long piece. Then I hold it up so that it's not going to fall out and gently place it where it goes and then I put it under the UV light just until it sets. That way I can do the finishing touch in a minute. And usually what I'd like to do is do those all at once. I match them up just like I'm doing now so that I know what one goes where and I do all of those and then I go on to the next project or the next step. I put a big dollop of resin, the UV resin, directly in the middle and then I take a toothpick and I very gently go to all the edges and I cover the back of the bail too. That's going to make sure that bail is absolutely not going anywhere. It can't budge. It's stuck. It's got UV resin underneath it. It's got it on top of it. It's not going anywhere. And this is kind of just similar to how you do the doming effect. And what I also love about this is you don't have to do any sanding or anything to the back because you have put that level of UV resin on the back. And you just keep on going and do that to all your pieces that you have the bail on the back of. And I'll put those in the description as well for the link. Just very gently. Now this process can also get tedious but just keep in mind you get a ton of jewelry from this project so you can make a great profit from this when you're done. Just keep on putting it under the UV light. And what you don't see in this video is me sticking these pieces over under the UV light in bulk as I'm going. So that UV light's staying on as I'm doing a little project each one and then I'm adding it and it's staying under. Each piece will be about three minutes total on the back. So this is the studs. I've left them in the container to show you how to do it this way. I've had people tell me different things on how they like to do their studs. Someone recommended this way to me which it works good but I still prefer to take them out and do them one by one just because I just think it's cleaner and it doesn't get anything along the edges. But for this way you leave them in the mold, you put the UV resin down, then put your back down and you I only do like a row at a time so that you don't have the backs in the wrong place. Make sure they're in the center then hit them with the UV light just to set them. Put more UV resin on top and just use your toothpick to go around the edges and very gently make sure the back is covered. And see this way I feel like it could get a little bit out of the mold slightly. Now I've also heard people say that they stick the back down into the resin when it's still curing which you can do that but I don't want my back to be visible like in this type of earring where I don't have any mica powder or anything like that in it. Your earring will be visible and I don't want that to show through if I can help it. So I prefer to put it on at the end but there's so many ways you can do it and you can do it however you want to. Whatever is easiest for you and you can do trial and error. So see when you do it this way you have to pick it off sometimes even sanding the edges if you have to or you can take like a little paring knife or I use seam ripper scissors too to get those little pieces off. But when you do it one by one out of the mold you don't usually have those to work with. So they turned out really cute and this is all the jewelry that we got out of our mold and now I'm going to show you how I package my stud earrings. And so these display cards they came in a huge bulk pack and they don't sell them anymore unfortunately. I get a lot of questions about where I got these and they don't sell them anymore. It's so sad. I still have some because I buy them in bulk but I do have other options I've already researched for when I run out of these and I'll put those links in the description to give you some other ideas you might be able to use if you're wanting to make packs of stud earrings like this. I also have a lot of videos to tell you how to make different types of studs on my channel if you want to visit and check those out because I've made a lot of different types of studs because they sell really really well in these packs and I'm kind of just mix and matching these if I can. So I have some fall and halloween theme. Notice how I put the fall on top the halloween the middle and the fall on the bottom. And then this pack of rubber backs I love that then they last forever and it's super super cheap and they last forever and I like these better than the metal backs because they don't irritate my ears as much and they stay on better I think. And these packs turn out really cute and now they're ready to sell. So this these molds I got this many packs of studs out of it and then some of these I'm going to turn into necklaces and some of them I'm going to turn into dangle earrings. So the bails what's really nice about those is that you can put that corded necklace right through those and you don't need a jump ring or anything but now the dangle earrings you will need to put a dangle jump ring in there and then an earring hook in there and that makes your earring it's as simple as that. So if you just do these things step by step you will have a ton of earrings by the end of it. If I had to estimate the time I spent actively working on it I would say about three hours but you know you had to cure it overnight so it does take time to cure but me actively working mixing the resin putting in the molds and then configuring them all about three hours of work. Now if you're new it might take you a little longer because you'll have to do some trial and error but you could always start smaller if you're newer to resin and then you could work your way up. So I use these display cards when I am configuring dangle earrings and I also use the rubber backs on these. These are perfect for my dangle earrings. Just put your rubber backs on and I loved how these turned out. I love the fall ones I kept up here for myself. Look how pretty they are. This is how much earrings and necklaces I got from this project. I think they turned out really beautiful. If you like this I have a ton more projects on my YouTube channel. Please check it out and I hope that you have a really blessed day and I hope you enjoyed it. Bye!