DIY Faux Leather Earrings (Boho Earrings)

Yay another faux leather tutorial. I have been working on leather projects for quite some time now and i intend to add as many different DIYs as possible. Today's post is a jewellery project. A fun and Boho styled Faux leather earrings. I will add more jewellery projects in coming days. And also some General information about the faux leather, its types, uses, and other such stuff. If you want to try out some other cool and easy leather DIYs check out my apron tutorial and this tassel tutorial.

and I'm super excited as I have compiled it to basically show you guys how I embroider using leather and sequins. you too can use them to create beautiful designs that are easy and quick.

I hope you enjoyed my blogging journey that I posted couple of days ago. If you have missed it you can check it out here.

Okay, so on to our jewellery project.

You will need:

1. Faux Leather
     I used 2 shades: bronze for background and camel color for the flowers.
2. Flower sequins
3. Small pearl beads.
4. Tapestry needle and thread.
5. Silk or embroidery thread.
6. Little beads to hand at the bottom.
7. The earring hooks.

What you have to do:

1. Cut out two stripes of equal length and width. This is entirely your choice as to how big or small you want your earring to be. My earring stripes were almost 3.8 inches long and I divided it into half for front and back of the earring. The width of the each strip is 1.5 inches.

2. Take the camel color leather and cut out 10 small flowers from it. 5 for each of the two earrings.

3. Take one little piece of leather and begin stitching the flowers to it with the help of tapestry needle and thread.

I added little sequins and pearl beads to make flowers more lively and colorful.

4. Take the white embroidery thread, place the two pieces of leather together and stitch around the border.

5. At one end, fix the earring hook and at other a little dangling bead.

Ta-da! You are done.
Wasn't it easy?

I have compiled a little video on this Earring. Watch me making it.

Note: This pattern is original pattern by Hobbiesinn. Please do not claim this pattern as yours. If you wish to share it, you may link to this pattern but please do not copy on your site. You can use it for personal use but DO NOT sell the pattern/pictures or distribute it.

You can however, sell the products of this design but do credit the design to me  @hobbiesinn. Permission is NOT granted for mass production or factory manufacturing of any kind.  Thank you for being respectful and for your understanding!

My Blogging Journey- 6th Anniversary Post

How it all started

Today is our 6^th birthday. I first posted on this blog on 16 February 2013.  It all started “Just For Fun” while I was still at college. I was always very crafty and would experiment with various arts and crafts. Back then, Internet was not so used by People in Kashmir as it is now. Facebook was other name for Internet, literally. Not many people knew that there is other side of this service other than the Facebook. For them internet meant Facebook! For many it still means the same. :D

I would look up for stuff on Google and immediately fell in love with the idea of blogging. I perceived it as a learning and teaching process. When I saw people around the world showing their crafts, I was motivated to do something like that too. I knew about blogs and stuff and came across the free blogger platform-Blogger by Google. After thinking a lot, I named my blog as Hobbies Inn – A little Inn for Hobby enthusiasts. And it still has the same name. Though I changed the domain from Hobbiesinn.blogspot.com to HobbiesInn.com.

To be honest I had no blog plan or I didn’t know about SEO and other things too. I would post occasionally about the crafts that I did. I was not aware how blogs work (Which I am now). But no matter what, as much as I enjoyed doing my crafts, I equally enjoyed posting about them.

Since I was a college student, my studies demanded much more from me. I was a top student and worked very hard on my subjects and hence I was not able to post that often. But Hobbies Inn survived, because, I am a very passionate crafter and arts and crafts is my first love and the blog stats was always positive and great.

I had a major dip in blogging In 2014, I posted only 7 posts, well we were drowned in devastating 2014 floods with hardly anything to eat. You cannot imagine a girl to craft in that situation and post about it! Also, we had no communication of any sort for almost 1.5 months as well! Moreover, my college projects and internship demanded so much from me. Tough time that was! We hadn’t seen such devastating floods in about 100 years. Whole city was submerged in water for more than 1 month. Read more about 2014 Kashmir Floodshere.

My blogging again saw a dip in 2016, for nearly 6 months, we had no internet or phone communication in whole state. We are habitual to frequent Internet/communication gags and that one was the lengthiest one I suppose. It was not the internet alone, we too were gaged inside our homes from June till November! That year I completed my college, had a bad case of chicken pox along with my sister, read almost 20 books in a month, tried my own weird hair styles, exercised a lot, procrastinated a lot too, had no idea about where my friends were, never wore anything else other than my pajamas, didn’t use phone (gaged), didn’t watch TV (It was gaged too), would listen to anything on radio though and that included vividh Bhariti… wow. And yes crafted a lot with everything that I had(I didn’t  photograph them or write about them, I couldn’t have even if I had wanted to. I just enjoyed doing them). When my supplies were over, I turned to gardening and that included pretty much watering the plants and de-weeding.

Never the less, we were depressed to the core. We were scared and sad, people were being blinded and killed. Many of us suffered psychological problems and the sufferings seemed unending. Read more about 2016 Kashmircrises here.

By the time all was over, I had lost motivation for everything, I had stayed too much Inside my home doing everything that I wanted to or didn’t want to that next few months of 2017 were spent in doing things that were none of them! It was very hard to again start studying and working on career goals.  

However, I managed to work on my blog a little. I created social media handles on Instagram and Facebook and also started a YouTube channel. I had a Facebook handle for my blog back in 2014 but I deleted it because it was getting burdensome at that time of my life. However, now I have a plan and a greater ambition for this little blog. I am posting more often and with more details. I am more focused and have certain goals to achieve. I have learned a lot not only in various crafts that I do but also in the profession of blogging. At this point, I am quiet motivated and have a plan.

Through all this thick and thin, my sister was my partner in crime, co-conspirator and full support system. When I say “I” it automatically includes my sister by my side. She critiques my projects and crafts and I make her proof read all that I write on this blog. Many of the projects here are outcome of both of our creative minds. She helps me in photographing the projects and reminds me of my unfinished ones as well. Crafting alone is good but crafting together is great.  

Now, the situation in Kashmir valley is different, more people are coming towards crafting and handmade business but Hobbies Inn stands as the only craft blog whose purpose is to learn and teach rather than sell. Our goal is to promote healthy habits and help people come towards creativity from their sedentary lifestyle. We try to expose people of Kashmir to more and more crafting and how can they achieve all that in terms of technique and where to get the supplies as well.

We try to change the meaning of “Internet” from “Social Media” to what it actually is. Kashmir is a beautiful place with beautifully talented people, our motive is to motivate them, kill the depression and anxiety and help them lead a creative and healthy lifestyle especially among women.

We post mainly about Crochet, Sewing, lifestyle, foods and other random crafts. We have also introduced our own stylized leather crafts and we hope to add more to these categories.

This is our Journey so far, hope you enjoyed reading it and hope to add many more great years to it. Keep reading, learning, loving and supporting. Your Support means a lot and keeps us going.

Thanks a lot.

DIY Embroidered Leather Sketchbook

Of course you can buy a sketchbook but at some point of any crafters and artists life, a handmade sketchbook is all that is “wanted”. The joy of creating ones own version of art supply is irresistible and of course using it gives even more joy.

There are several ways of making a sketchbook or a diary, however in this tutorial we will see how to join pages using stapler and glue and then making a cover of faux leather to give it a beautiful look.

The size of this sketchbook is A5 i.e. 8x6 inches.

MATERIALS.

• A4 size drawing sheets.
• Soft cardboard for cover.
• Stapler
• Eraser
• Craft glue/glue gun
• Faux leather.
• Sequins
• Tapestry needle and thread
• Binder clips
• Scissor.
• Sewing machine(optional)

STEP 1: FOLDING THE INSIDE PAGES

Before starting to fold the paper you need to choose your paper. The paper chosen must be of quality good enough to support your artwork. If you sketch often then a sketching paper will work good, if you are a watercolorist then I suggest you to use good weighted watercolor paper so on and so forth. Also, keep in mind that too thick paper will not fold easily so avoid going above 300gsm paper.

For this particular sketchbook I have used a 120gsm drawing paper. If you cannot get separate loose sheets in the market or your local art store then purchase an A4 normal sketching pad and use its paper.

Take 2 sheets together and fold them in the center. The more neat the fold the more perfect the sketchbook.

Don’t be sloppy!

Now open these pages and at the crease put them on the eraser on your table. Staple it where the eraser is underneath.

Pull the eraser out of the stapler pin and manually close the pin. Do the same at the other end.

I made total of 9 such sets of folded paper, i.e. I have used about 18 A4 sheets. My new sketchbook will have 36 pages.

Each set well stapled and folded neatly.

STEP 2: JOINING THE INSIDE PAGES TOGETHER

Now that we have 9 sets of inside paper we will join them together before proceeding to make the cover.

On the crease (center) of 1 set apply glue. Put the other set over it and paste them together. Make sure the pages are lined properly and neatly. Do the same for each set. Hold them tightly with the help of a binder clips till it is dried. Check my video below and see how I did it.

STEP 3: FOLDING THE COVER

The paper to be used for the cover should be heavier than the pages used inside. You can use a paper of more the 300gsm of weight or simply use the cover of the sketchpad like I did.

Fold it in the center. You can check my video below to see how I did it. Exactly the way a notebook cover is folded.

Tip: I like to make my cover ½ – 1½ cm larger in width and height than the inside pages so it neatly covers everything inside.

You can paste this cover with the help of glue to the inside pages here and decorate the cover as liked. This step completes the sketchbook unless you want to cover it with leather.

STEP 4: CUT OUT THE LEATHER COVER

I have not pasted the cover yet because I want to add leather to it.

Cut out the faux leather fabric + 1 inch more than the cover on all sides. Cut the corners too.

STEP 5: EMBROIDER THE COVER

Use the sequins and some leather flowers and stitch them in a floral pattern on the front side of the cover. This step may take time but it is worth it.

Here at this point you can also embroider your name or anything you may like to. Check out some small embroidery inspirations from Pinterest.

I used sequins and leather flowers because that did not require any special skill or material to do but just few of my crafty things put together. Hence, anyone can do it and it is not difficult at all.

You can check my video to see how I did it. I have fast forwarded it a bit to make the video short and enjoyable.

STEP 6: PASTE THE LEATHER COVER

After you are done with the embroidery, join the leather with the cover.

Apply the glue to one side of the cover paper and paste it to the leather. Let it sit till it dries.

Now either use a sewing machine or use a tapestry needle and thread sew the edges of the cover. It holds the leather in place, makes it durable and gives it a pretty look.

STEP 7: JOIN THE COVER TO THE INSIDE PAGES

Take a spare drawing sheet and paste it to the inside of the cover to hide all the thread.

Take the binder clips out of the inside pages, you will see they are completely dried and opens like magic.

Put these pages at the center of the cover and fix with the help of the glue.

Hold tightly using binder clips again and let it dry for at least a day.

After this you will have your sketchbook complete and ready to use.

This project does take time but all the work and time invested is worth it all. In the end you will have one of a kind diary/sketchbook that only you own in the whole world. You can take pride in using your own beautiful book for your beautiful thoughts/sketches. The perfect pretty sketchbook for perfect pretty drawings and perfect pretty you.

I love the fact that I did this little love from the very scratch.

Make your versions of this sketchbook and tag us in your creation on Instagram.

Watch the video tutorial below to understand it more effectively.

Don’t forget to pin it, subscribe to our channel and follow our blog.

See you till next time. Bye.

Note: This pattern is original pattern by Hobbiesinn. Please do not claim this pattern as yours. If you wish to share it, you may link to this pattern but please do not copy on your site. You can use it for personal use but DO NOT sell the pattern/pictures or distribute it.

You can however, sell the products of this design but do credit the design to me  @hobbiesinn. Permission is NOT granted for mass production or factory manufacturing of any kind.  Thank you for being respectful and for your understanding!