What is your favorite summer fruit? Watermelon is mine. I can eat watermelon only all day. So my summer fruit earrings series has to include watermelon. Hope that you will enjoy this one as well.
My thoughts were:
A slice of watermelon looks more delicious than a whole one. So I sketch out a slice of watermelon, but I thought that adding few bites off the piece, will give a more interesting and fun look, the watermelon slice looks even more appealing this way. Like my pineapple one, I want to make both the stud and dangling style of earrings.
Save the design to SVG format.
Upload the SVG design file onto xTool Creative Space, I choose 1.5mm basswood for my earrings, so cut all pieces with 100/4/1.
But for the one using the diamond beads, I will lightly engrave or score the circle for bead placing reference.
Since I'm making just the testing pairs, I use acrylic paint pen to color each small piece after the cutting, but if I'm making in volume, I will paint the whole board first then do the cutting.
Then glue the pieces together, after dry, with the appropriate hardware, I used large jumper ring for the watermelon slice and the leave, I then add the smaller jumper ring in between, so the earrings will be make dangling.