I’ve been so excited all weekend to share this tutorial with you. I’ve had to enforce some serious self-constraint to stop myself posting the whole tutorial over on Instagram. If you follow Fall For DIY or We Make Collective you might have seen a few teaser photos cropping up. I just couldn’t help myself!
Now spring is in full swing I’m trying to inject a little more colour into all aspects of my life and these DIY Mini Macaron charms are just the best way to brighten up anything! Make earrings, necklaces, push pins, keyring charms, embellish your clothes with them or, like me, just arrange them to look like a tiny macaron counter and get a bit over excited about it…
Materials
Polymer Clay | Screw bails | Earring blanks | Bead reamer (or sharp skewer)
To make the lovely pastel colours that are so synonymous with macarons, you’ll need lots of white polymer clay to mix with your colours. Make sure you have plenty on hand and start mixing up your colours. Play with the colours to mix up different hues. When you’re happy with the colours break off small pea sized pieces of clay and roll into a ball.
Squash the ball in between your fingers and then cut into two along the widest edge with a craft knife. Put these aside and roll a piece of white clay half the pea size into a ball. Squash this down until it’s a little smaller than the flat side of one of the outer shell halves. Put the two halves of the shell back together with the white filling in between and gently squash to seal them in place.
Now use your sharp bead reamer to cross hatch a small section of the shell on both sides all around the filling. Be rough with the point of the reamer to create the ruffled edge. This step is not totally necessary but I think it finishes them off nicely and stops them looking like colourful burgers!
If you’re planning on hanging the macarons on pendant necklaces or keyrings now is the time to screw in the bails. Heat in the oven to harden. Follow the instructions on the polymer clay packet and make sure you don’t over heat as this can affect the colour of the clay.
Now you have your mini macarons ready to play with and make into anything your macaron loving hearts desire. I’ve used some strong all purpose adhesive to glue mine onto earring blanks and create the sweetest studs ever! I also made a little macaron box just because it was too cute not too! Can you think of any other ideas for all these macarons? I’ve got so many I need help thinking up new things to do with them!
This is SO cute!! Ahh I’d love to have a pair of earrings in each color!
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Maybe that’s what I’ll have to do with all of these. One for easch day of the month ;)
Maybe that’s what I’ll have to do with all of these. One for each day of the month ;)
So cute! I don’t have piercings, so I’d make them into a necklace or charm bracelet – well spaced they could make an adorable pastel rainbow of yummyness ^_^
Oh! These would look beautiful on a charm bracelet. If you make that I would LOVE to see it! Thanks Heather xx
Love this DIY! These are solo cute :)
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Helene from Excuse me I am French
Thank you so much Helen! xx
Ahhh these are just too super cute! <3
Thank you so much Stephanie! xx
There are just no words for how amazing these are!!!!!! I love them!!!
You are too sweet Marlene! Thank you xx
Hoooooooowww are these soooooooo cute?! I loooooove them!!!
Thanks Amy! I love anything miniature but I think macarons win the cutest small thing ever!
Come on!! These are the cutest I’ve ever seen :D
haha! Thanks Sandra xx
Now that’s how I would like my macaroni. They are amazing!
Cheers, Tobia
Macarons of course!
haha! My spell check kept changing macarons to macaroni too! Thanks Tobia x
Ahhh I love them! They are SO tiny! I need some of those earrings in my life hehe.
Emma x
oh, dear. These are just too cute!
So cute! Makes me wish I had my ears pierced! x
I might have just found my happy place. I have clay, I have a love of macaroons – I see no downside to making hundreds…
Thanks for the awesome idea and tutorial!
That’s so pretty!!! Beautiful photos also :))
JUST
TOO
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I love mini charms, and these are so lovely! I also adore the shade of yellow on your nails!
I make macarons for a living and this is THE most cutest thing ever! Looks like I know what I’ll be making for my aunts and younger cousins when I go for vacation in Philippines ;)
Please please please put these up on sale through Etsy or something. They are SO cute but I’m not crafty at all! Haha I love them!
Deliciously cute!
Love these to bad i cant make them
This is such an amazing tutorial! Thank you. Would these be suitable to make with eyescrew to make a charm to hang off my daughters bracelets?
Thanks!
Hi,
Waow – these are amazing! Just wondering what you used to get the colour into the white polymer clay?
Thanks!
This is so CUTE <3 I ordered some polymer clay when I first came across this post. Now that it has arrived, I can't wait to get started!
They are so adorable and cute! I would love to make them. Thanks for the tutorial!
Do you sell these charms? So darling!
Soo tiny! Squee! I love them! I really want to make some now, and they especially look adorable in the little box! So realistic!
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