What you need for this whipped cream earring hanger tutorial:

• An old wire coat hanger
• Pliers
• Tulle in whatever colour you want
• Artists Modelling Paste
• Piping bag and tip
• Ribbon
• Glue gun
• Needle and thread
• Tray to do it all in so you don’t make a mess

Firstly you should take your coat and use the pliers to undo the top twisty bit.

Use the pliers to shape it into a heart. Use the twisty ends to secure it together. You can make the heart as big or as small as you need, it just depends on how many earrings you want to hang at the end ^_^

Cut out a piece of tulle which is big enough to cover your heart with a few inches either side for hems.

Thread your needle with the same colour as your tulle. Fold the tulle over the sides of the wire and sew in place. You might want to pin it all before you start sewing. You should make sure to sew it quite tightly, if it doesn’t have tension it won’t be able to hold up earrings.

You should stitch like this:

Keep going around to the other side:

Make sure to pay extra attention to the pointy bit at the top of the heart. You might need to cut the tulle a bit to make it fit.

Cut off all the extra tulle around the edges.

Now time for some whipped cream :D Put your heart onto the tray. At this point you should make sure the heart sits flat on the floor, if it’s not flat it won’t sit against the wall. You might want to put some cling wrap down on the tray to make it easy to remove later.

Get your modelling paste and icing bag ready. You can buy modelling paste from most art stores.

I got the idea to use modelling paste rather than silicone etc from Hikaria who is the master of making sweets! Modeling paste will be more durable for a wall hanging, keep it’s shape well and doesn’t have the safety issues that silicone does.

Use a spoon to fill your piping bag with the paste.

Eventually we are going to make 3 rows of little icing swirls but we want the top ones to be much higher than the sides so we need to make an icing platform for it to sit on! Use your piping bag to make a line around the edge of the heart, you should put it directly on top of the wire.

It doesn’t matter if it looks terrible or is broken up because we’re going to cover the whole thing up with more icing later :D

Put a bit of extra icing at both of the points of the heart.

Put it outside to dry for a while. Depending on how hot it is in your part of the world, drying might take some time.

After it’s dry to the touch bring it back in. Use your piping bag to make a bunch of icing swirls on either side of the first line you made.

You should now pipe the top line of icing swirls on top of the first line you made. It should form a nice little dome ^_^ I forgot to take a photo of that step sorry! Make sure the icing covers all of the wires.

Now let the whole thing dry! It was quite cold when I did mine so I left it for a day then I turned it over and let the back dry for another day.

This is the back:

Once you are completely sure it’s dry gather the rest of your materials.

Cut a length of ribbon for it to hang on.

And hot glue it to the back of the heart. Make sure you do it in a way that’s not visible from the front.

And there you have it! It’s a gigantic whipped cream heart ^_^

To attach earrings just hook/pin them through the holes in the tulle. I made the ribbon hanger longer to make it easy to access the back of studs.

Here’s a close up of all the cream. Because it’s made from modelling paste it should be very hard, be careful because the tips of the cream are pointy!

And so the cycle of sweets themed storage continues XD My next sweets storage is going to be candy cane themed, any guesses to what it is? :P

Hope you enjoyed the earring hanger tutorial, let me know if you try it!

Gather all of your materials and decorations together. I suggest that you lay down some paper towel or tissues to work on so you can see everything easily and you don’t get your work surface all glue-y.

The type of glue I am using is called “Epoxy”, it comes in 2 tubes one is resin and one is hardener. There are other types of glue available for deco but epoxy is the strongest and most hard wearing, if you use a decent amount your jewels won’t be going anywhere! Epoxy is good for rigid surfaces (like plastic), it is not good for things that need to bend (like fabric). It comes in different formulas which take different lengths of time to dry, for a project like this use the 5min one. Also unlike some other glues it doesn’t smell bad so you won’t pass out from the fumes ^_^

We need to start with the largest items we’re going to glue. That’s an important rule of paving deco, put the big pieces in and then fill the gaps with everything else.

So squeeze out an even amount of glue from each tube onto a piece of plastic. I just used the packet that some of my diamantes came in.

Using an orange stick mix the two bubbles of glue together. Make sure the consistency is even and it’s mixed well.

I’m going to put a bow on my pink headphone first so using the orange stick I apply a little glue to the back of the bow and also to the headphone where it’s going.

Hold it in place until the glue becomes tacky then allow it to dry completely.

Repeat the process on the other side. I decided to use a bead shaped like a heart on this one. Apply the glue…

Hold the jewel in place.

For paving you need a lot of jewels in different sizes. Rather than buying 1000 of each size if you are doing a small project like this check the scrapbooking section of your local craft store for pre-stuck designs like the photo below. It has many different sizes.

Because they already have a sticky backing on them, they’re fairly useless to glue, you’ll find that if you use the provided sticky back they will eventually slide off your item or if you glue them with the backing on they will still fall off because the glue isn’t touching the actual jewel. So you need to gently pull the sticky backing off… I stick it to my finger and use my nail to pry them free.

And you should be left with this:

Now for this project you need some larger coloured diamantes too..

To pick up the diamantes one by one I find the easiest way is using a match stick with a piece of blutac on the end. New blutac is too sticky so roll it on carpet or fabric first so it picks up some dust and isn’t as sticky ^_^ Other people I know use tweezers but I find that awkward.

Starting with the pink bud add glue to a small strip down the back.

Starting with the largest jewels again place a line of 3mm pink diamantes straight down the back.

While the glue around it is still wet fill in around the edges with tiny clear diamantes. The key to this looking good is to try to fill in every single little gap as much as you can. Wait for it to dry before continuing.

Once the back is dry continue on the side,place a row of large pink diamantes and fill in around it with clear. It’s kind of like making a mosaic, trying to find the right gems to fit the right spot.

When that side is dry continue around to the other side until the jewels meet in the middle, the entire thing should be covered. When you’re done it should look a little like this:

Now let’s start on the other side! The principle is the same, but this time use blue jewels instead of pink ^_^

Do the sides first and then keep going until the jewels meet in the middle.

Once everything is completely dry it’s time to tackle that last little white bit where the cord comes from…

Holding it by the ear piece cover that in clear diamantes.

So then leave it to dry! If you think it needs it, you can give the entire jeweled area a clear top coat. I don’t generally do it because if you are using acrylic jewels it can melt the top layer and make the facets of the jewel less obvious. If you decide to top coat then go with a quick dry clear nail polish. This is what you end up with when you’re done…

Haha you can tell that James can home and took these pictures because they’re so arty!

I think pastel blue and pink look so cute together ^_^

You can see the paving a little more clearly here…

I hope you enjoyed this and it helped! If you have any questions feel free to ask and I’ll do my best to answer :)

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