I spent some time upcycling belts into jewellery this weekend and I thought; hey maybe someone else has some belts they’d like to upcycle.
I started out with two old belts and ended up with four pairs of earrings and two pairs of hair clips.
How to upcycle belts into jewellery
What you need
- Belts you no longer use
- Scissors
- Paper and pen
- Earring hooks (you can detach hooks from mismatched earrings if you don’t have hooks)
- Earring flatbacks (you could also break these off mismatched earrings as well)
- Hair clips
- Epoxy glue
What you do
Leather hand earrings
- Cut leather shapes out of a soft flexible belt
- Punch holes for hooks, personality I used the precut holes on the belt to save time (you can punch new ones but if you’re stuck for time the wholes are there already)
- Attach earring hooks
Leather studs
- Cut leather shapes out of stiff leather belt
- Mix epoxy glue
- Glue flatbacks to the back and wait for it to dry
Leather hair pins
- Cut leather shapes out of stiff leather belt
- Mix epoxy glue
- Glue pins to the back and wait for it to dry
I kept the rest of the leather and the buckles for future attempts at upcycling belts… Comment with any ideas you might have
