If you make any of these faux leather earrings, please share a photo in our Facebook group, or tag me on social media with #makershowandtell. But I’ve found it’s best to use a combination of the machine cut and manual hole punching techniques.

If you want to watch how I create simple earrings from a completely new shape in Cricut Design Space, be sure to watch the YouTube video at the top of this post. WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT MAKING FAUX LEATHER EARRING WITH A CRICUT? Now it’s time to put a jump ring through the hole(s) of your earring. Use your needle nose pliers to open up a jump ring and place the end of the ring through the hole. It also could be because you prefer using the hole punch to make the earring holes in faux leather earrings. My earring designs have two layers — one is intended for the faux leather (the brown layer) and one is intended for a foil vinyl iron-on layer (the pinkish layer). If you don’t want to do the iron-on layer, they’ll look good with just the faux leather layer.If you do decide to cut out the foil vinyl iron-on layer, you’ll want to weed the vinyl and then iron the designs onto your earrings before you go any further. I did this using my Cricut EasyPress.For faux leather and foil iron-on with the EasyPress mat, the recommended temperature is 255 for 30 seconds. Once you press your iron-on, let it cool before removing the protective liner. Or you may want to change the location of the earring hole altogether (if you want the earrings to dangle a different way, for example).

Now some of the earring designs have pre-cut holes, but a few do not. Those that do not are this way on purpose so you can choose whether you want them to hang straight or curved. If you want them to hang straight, just punch a hole at the top with the leather punch and you’re good to go. This is largely because the Cricut doesn’t always cut the earring hole completely through. If the hole isn’t cut completely, it’s necessary to manually punch the earring hole, and the 1/16″ hole punch results in a nice, clean earring hole cut. Much gratitude to many readers who requested this project (Lois W., Dori L., Pam C., Melissa P., Kara, Nena H., Helen L., Sarah B., Meredith B., Karen, Sandy, Julie M., Kristie G., and Dianna F.). This could be because the hole is too close to the edge and you want to keep the earring hole from tearing. Faux leather is really quite thin, so you can cut it on both the Cricut Explore and the Cricut Maker with a regular fine-point blade. You can even cut faux leather with scissors. It’s a very simple, fun project and when you’re done you get cute earrings to wear or gift to others.

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Of course, you don’t have to make these earrings with the foil vinyl — I just thought they looked really pretty that way. And, you can resize these earrings to suit your taste. Right now they’re definitely on the large size, but I see no problem making them smaller. Get my free SVG cut files and patterns for the Faux Leather Earrings I always like to make ONE earring shape with a hole first, then DUPLICATE that shape to create the second earring. Now that you know how to make earring holes in faux leather earrings… what if you want change or hide the current earring hole, or create your own earring hole? No matter the reason, you can easily hide an earring hole to keep it from cutting by using the “Contour” feature in Cricut Design Space. After uploading your earring SVGs to Cricut Design Space, you have to first UNGROUP them so you can manipulate them individually.