Pretty Paper Jewelry from Colla Carta Creo

While my previous post was all about the summer fruit trend, this week I'll focus on another crowd pleasing trend that combines one of my favorite things - handmade paper jewelry - with oh so popular tassels. Swingy attention-getters have caught on in the fashion world the past few years and are still going strong!


These red hot earrings are the work of Barbara Brandimarte of Colla Carta Creo in Dübendorf, Switzerland. The Etsy shop name translates loosely to create with paper.

With a degree in architecture, Barbara puts her skills to use designing high quality, contemporary paper earrings and necklaces.

To create patterned paper earrings, she builds up layers of hand punched paper and applies a digital print of her own design to the surface. These triangular earrings are topped with black paper and gold foil. I love a bit of shine and these are such dramatic beauties with extra long tassels.


Colla Carta Creo necklaces feature hand rolled corrugated paper strips combined with paper discs, ceramic beads, and a metal chain or flower patterned cotton cord.

The bright blue crimped bead necklace above includes hand folded geometric elements and lustrous beads. The dotted yellow oval earrings include graceful dangles of aqua Murano glass.

Barbara protects all paper elements with a transparent solution that will resist humidity and a few drops of water, but she does not advise submerging the jewelry. No swimming allowed!


The tassels are made of cotton thread and the findings Barbara prefers are rhodium-plated silver metal.


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