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Dangly Awareness Ribbon Earrings

These Dangly Awareness Ribbon earrings can be made with a wide variety of materials and in the color(s) of the awareness ribbon of your choice. I am using 1/4″ maple plywood.

REMINDER: TEST, MASK (if needed) & DON’T FORGET TO VENT & SET FOCUS HEIGHT

Let’s Make These Earrings!

If you have not worked with the material you are using, I highly recommend making a test cut using a small, simple shape to prior to starting the project to determine the settings you will need to use.

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  1. Place your material into the Glowforge.
  2. Upload the design to the Glowforge dashboard. Move the design to the location where you want to cut the board.
  3. Set your material to the appropriate setting.

Materials and Supplies Needed:

  • 1/4″ maple plywood (I used this plywood from Home Depot)
  • masking
  • paint, dye or stain
  • baby wipes
  • denatured alcohol
  • a sealant of your choice (for this project, I used clear spray)
  • earring wire hooks (2)
  • jump rings (4)
  • jewelry pliers
  • optional: sandpaper (about 400 grit)

Tools:

  • Glowforge, laptop
  • very small paintbrush
  • Cricut weeding tool and Xacto knife
  1. In the left bar, set the outline of the earrings to “Cut.”
  2. Then set the markings to “Score.”
  3. Double check to make sure that your design is not grayed out, which would indicate it is out of print area and needs to be moved.
Glowforge Dashboard making Dangly Awareness Ribbon Earrings
  1. Now, press the “Print” button at the top right of the dashboard.
  2. Press the flashing button! 🙂
  3. Remove the earrings from the Glowforge.
  4. Peel off the masking. If desired, clean off scorch marks with baby wipe and little bit of alcohol. If needed, lightly sand with about 400 grit sandpaper.
  5. Using your paintbrush or acrylic paint pen or whatever colorant you’ve decided to use, color in the ribbon area of the earrings. I prefer to leave the teardrop shape natural wood and not paint or dye it. However, this is just personal preference. A nice color to contrast the color of the ribbon may look very nice!
  6. Let dry.
Dangly Awareness Ribbon Earrings
earrings with various colors of ribbons
  1. Seal and let dry. I used clear sealant spray. Make sure the sealant is completely dry so you do not leave smudge marks for the next step.
  2. You’re almost done! Now, using jewelry pliers, attach two jump rings to each earring and then attach the earring wire hooks.
Dangly Awareness Ribbon Earrings

I hope you enjoy making these Dangly Awareness Ribbon Earrings! Please let me know if you have questions. And I would love to hear about what other projects you would like to see next! Please send me an email at info@forgingmyway.com or comment below.

See you soon!

Ally

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