Hand- Painted Cherry Blossom Earrings

These cherry blossom tribute earrings were created out of a custom order from a client. She was looking for a gift and described what she wanted. I had so much fun making them in several designs for her to choose from that I made a bunch of blossoms.

I chose polymer clay to make them lightweight and some I made using Makrame Cane, a process where you make a long cane made of sections of clay. You cut small sections and each section looks like a tiny blossom. The other technique I used to create some options was to hand-paint the blossoms.

For another style, I used my gifted metal punch from a jewellery artist in Australia. This was my first time to cut some Aluminium Disks, and was super fun.  I think these look great hand-painted and built them using threader chains, and can also be on earring hooks.

The disks are 3 cm x 3cm and the drop length of the earrings approx 4 cm.

The components are stainless steel.