The earring came out as nicely as I had expected, except for the small grooves leftover from malleting down the disc into the flower.

The process was pretty simple; for the flower, I cut out a flower from sheet metal with a sketch I rubber-cemented onto it. Then, I filed down the edges to make them less sharp. After that, I soldered in a disc in the center of the flower. Finally, I cleaned up the imperfections. For the leaves, I cut out a circle and used the circle cutter to cut out leaf shapes from the circle. Then, I used a center punch and a table clap to shape the leaves.

The shapes of the leaves, soldering, and wired wraps went very well and beyond what I had expected. I was unsure about how I would morph my leaves into a natural shape, but with the help of the table clamp, a center punch, and some masking tape my leaves came out perfectly. In addition, the soldering joint of the flower was completely filled so no lines of places empty of solder showed. Then, the wire wraps were pretty simple and easy to make, yet still very cute.

My greatest challenge was sanding the flowers. It was a long, tedious process and took me quite a few days. After I had used the diamond tips to rub away the extra solder, the surfaces of the flowers had become concave, so I tired to use sanding discs to make the surface flat again. Then, Mr. Suter told me I could used 200 grit sandpaper to sand it down. After using that, I went back to the normal sanding process and finally got my flowers flat. I also had a small issue with inlaying the central discs of my flower, but used the flat end of a center punch and a small rawhide mallet to get it in.

I could have improved on my technique with the dremel so i would not have had as much difficulty sanding my flower down.