c.hadleydikeThe perfect gift for this Valentine’s Day is Light-up Earrings! It only takes a few simple steps and you can create them in about half an hour. All it requires are some materials, like conductive thread, sewable LED lights, LilyPad Button Board, some felt, and the design!!! Give someone special their very own personalized present by making these heartshaped earrings that will light up their day!!!
Gather your materials
- LIlyPad Coing Battery Board
- Sewable LED
- Conductive thread
- Felt
- earring Hardware
- Batterys
- needle nose pliars
- E6000 Glue
- Aligator Clips
- Pattern
Designing the Light-up Valentines Day Heart Earrings
The customization possibilities for these heart-shaped earrings are endless! I like to use odd numbers so that there’s always something different going on with the design. The light-up heart earrings are a cute idea to make someone feel special.
Making the Light-up Valentines Day Heart Earrings
I began with cutting out the earring base hearts and the small detailing hearts on my Cricut. It is also possible to cut and make these earrings by hand.
Next, it is time to figure out the placement of the LED and the detailing hearts. I chose to place them straight down the middle of the felt heart and place the LED so the half of the heart would completely cover the sewable LED.
Now that I know the placement I begin sewing. Ensure that all the negative ports are sewing to each other and all the positive ports are sewn to each other. It is always better to double-check so that you don’t have to undo it later. It is never fun having to pull out all the stitches and redo the sewing. Connect the sewable LED to the LilyPad coming Battery board and check that the circuit is good.
Once all the LEDs are lighting up it is time to add the detail hearts to the top. I chose to add them by gluing them on with E6000 however there have been many other projects that I hand stitched them on. Determine how you want the final look to be and then finish the earring that way.
The final step is to add the earring hardware so that you can rock these earrings out on the town!!!
Remember to always bring extra batteries with you so that if your power runs out you can still have the magical earring light-up!!!
Final Look of the Light-up Heart Earrings
Make your day with these beautiful light-up Heart earrings!
Check out the Full video on how to create these unique earrings on YouTube!!!
Want to begin your own adventure into Wearable electronics? Grab my free mini-course to start learning the basics!!!
Love these earrings check out some of the other light-up projects I have. Such as the felt flower light-up earrings or this fun Felt Pumpkin Pin. Get some inspiration and create some for yourself. Then post a picture below!!! I would love to see what you create!!!