Costume Earrings

Easy to Make and Colorful Additions to Your Wardrobe

"Costume" Earrings

Do you have any outfits that you just can't find the right earrings for? Or do you have a cute pattern on, say, a shirt of which you would love to have matching earrings.

For example, I have two tropical shirts with the same pattern but different background colors.

The design is a scattering of postcard beach scenes, tropical flowers and tropical-theme postage stamps. I thought the stamps would make cute matching earrings for both shirts.

I selected a stamp which says "Barbados Experience" and scanned it into Adobe Photoshop.

I rotated the canvas to get it vertical (Image>Rotate); then used the Crop tool with Perspective checked so I could correct the slight skewness of the original. Next I enlarged the canvas (Image>Canvas Size), adding one inch to both the height and the width.

I created a new layer for the scalloped stamp border, selected the Brush tool and loaded Mandy Steward's Layer your own Postage Stamp brushes from Scrap Girls.

Using the Eyedropper tool, I selected a pink from the Barbados stamp design for the brush and stamped the design.

I put it on a new layer so that I could adjust the size to exactly frame my Barbados stamp (Edit>Transform>Scale). You need to double-click to apply the transformation. Next I cropped away the excess and saved the file as a JPEG.

I finished my earrings in PrintShop because I find it easier to lay out a single page there.

Find printing and assembly instructions to finish your "Costume" Earrings here.