DIY Earring Holder

I have been wanting to make my own earring holder for a long time. Several of my friends have made them and they're all over Pinterest and they're so cute.  So, I finally got around to making one the other week. This little Diy project was really easy and it cost almost nothing. You can get really creative with this one by choosing different types of colors and mediums. These would make great gifts for any occasion. 

Here's my step by step process...

I picked out a cheap frame at Michaels, it was $4, and I already had some paint at home, but I'm pretty sure I bought that paint at Michaels for around $3. Anyways, the point is it's cheap. 

I painted a light coat because I wanted some of the black to show through. You know, give it that rustic look. 

Well, that didn't work out the way I thought it would. My cheap, fake wooden frame had some kind of coating on it to make it look like wood, which disagreed with my paint.  All the paint began peeling off, that kinda sucked.  Maybe sometimes cheaper isn't better. Guess I should've sprung for the real wooden frame. 

I was determined to make this frame work in my favor.  So I thought I'd either switch to using spray paint or just try and sand off whatever the frame was coated in. I didn't have any spray paint, but I had plenty of sand paper.  I got to sanding and it didn't take long to get most of the paint and coating off the frame. 

I repainted my frame and it worked!  Next I got out my burlap that was leftover from making my pallet garden beds and cut it to fit the frame. 

I busted out my trusty staple gun and attached the burlap to the frame. Just a side note here, I actually doubled up the the burlap thinking it would make it stronger for holding heavier earrings. If you don't have any heavy earrings in your jewelry arsenal then one layer of burlap should be fine. 

At this point I was pretty much done. Just had to trim off the excess burlap. 

My finished project! I have it just sitting on the counter in my bathroom, but I'll probably end up hanging it on the wall to free up the space. I'm happy with the way it turned out and I'm sure I'll make more. Like I said, you can get pretty creative with this project. I choose to use burlap, because that's what I had on hand, but you could use small chicken wire or window screen as your backing and you could do a ton of different things for the frame.