How To Make Leather Earrings Stiff. Let the leather soaked in cool water for 10 minutes until making sure it’s thoroughly soaked. Sometimes it might take longer than 10 minutes.
If you need more space for your leather, or if you want a bit of dangle, you can form a figure eight with a bit of wire (use round nose pliers). Would like the leather to be stightly rigid/stiff so that the bag will stand up straight and not sag. Place the piece of leather you want to flatten on to an ironing board.
Cover the side that is facing up toward you with brown paper.
Use your hole punch to make a hole about 4mm in from the inside end and the flat outer edge. With your other hand, slide your faux leather earring shape or shapes onto your jump ring. Skiving is how most leather workers even out the leather they are working with. We use what is called a leather gauge to measure our leather when listing it.