You can design whatever earrings you want, but I have attached the files for the ones you see in this Instructable.

The thing to keep in mind is the main earring piece needs to be 1 piece with cutouts. It needs to be able to exist independently as one piece or it won't work for this project.

Once you have the design you want, you need to add a hole or loop to attach it to your piece of jewelry of choice. As you can see in my design, I tried it two different ways. First was adding a circle at the tip of it and creating a hole. The second is I put the hole right in the design. I like the second method better, but you'll probably have to manipulate your design (I had to pull the point out further so that there was room for the hole) to get it to work. Make sure there is enough room around the hole so the paper won't rip easily.

Now that you have the basic earring shape and hole added, you need to create the cutout pieces for the stained glass. Take all the "holes" where the stained glass is going to go and create an offset. If you are going to have multiple pieces try to make sure they don't overlap or they will be difficult to glue down. If you want to do just 1 color, make it so the offsets all overlap and they should meld into one piece. Then, you can edit it if you want to make sure you have straight lines just so that it is neat, you won't be able to tell in the end if it is neat or not so it is not a big deal. Just make sure whatever you do, all of the holes will be covered completely. You don't want gaps.

Also, make sure the pieces don't extend over the edge of the earring or cover the hole.

Cutting Out Pieces

Time to cut everything out. You can really use this for any type of jewelry but I will talk about earrings because that is what I made.

For each pair of earrings, you will need to cut out 4 of the main design (2 for each earring). Then you will need to cut out 2 sets of the stained glass materials.

The holes probably won't cut well because they are so small, but don't worry. We will fix these at the very end with a pointy tool of some sort.

Cut Settings

The settings I used for cutting out my file folders are (these settings work for most of mine, there are a couple that are thicker for some reason and this doesn't cut them as well, but I'm still usually able to tear them out on the line it cuts):

Blade Depth: 4

Speed: 4

Force: 20

Passes: 1

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I used a caliper to get the diameter of my jump ring to decide how big the hole needed to be.