Wood Burned Sunflower Earrings

Have you ever wanted to wood burn, but you just don't know how? Well here's where you start! Once you are finished with this instructable, you will have a beautiful set of sunflower earrings!

• Wood burner
• Two earring pendants
• Pliers
• Four jump rings
• Two ear wires
• Two earring backs
• An oven pan

To start your earrings, draw a rounded line at the bottom of the pendant. The edge of the wood and the drawn line together should look like the shape of an eye.

Next, draw your first row of petals, starting in the middle, then over to the edges.

Now, draw the second row of petals, making them a little smaller than the first row of petals.

Once all the outlines of the petals are finished, draw a line down the middle of each petal.

Before you start wood burning, check the tip that you have on your wood burner. Make sure it has a tip like a pencil, or like the one that I have in the first picture above. Set the temperature to 6 or 7, or if yours is not like mine, turn it about two thirds of the way up. Just like using a pencil, gently glide the wood burner tip across the rounded pencil line on the bottom of the pendant. If you have to push hard on the wood pendant for the burn to show up, then you will need to turn the temperature of the wood burner up. DO NOT TOUCH THE TIP OF THE WOOD BURNER!

Over the pencil line, wood burn the first row of petals right above the wood burnt round line.

Now, wood burn over the second row of petals that was drawn on the wood.

Once you have finished wood burning the shape of the petals, burn the line down the middle of each petal, giving it detail.

Now that all the details of the petals are finished, switch your wood burning tip to one like mine in the picture above. MAKE SURE TO LET IT COOL FIRST! If you don't have a similar tip, just use the pencil-like tip.

In a neat pattern, fill the empty space underneath the flower petals with wood burned dots.

Next, bend open four jump rings, two for each pendant. Make sure they are large enough to fit around the width of the wood pendant.

After both jump rings have been opened, place one ring through the pendant hole and pinch it shut with your pliers. Take the other jump ring, put it through the first jump ring and the ear wire then pinch it shut with the pliers. Put the earring backs on the ear wires. Repeat Steps 11 and 12 on the second earring.

Now that you have finished your earrings, enjoy wearing your new earrings or give them as a gift! Hope you enjoy!!

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