Jewelry Making Ideas

Jewelry making ideas to spark your creativity.

Jewelry is a very competitive market so your homemade jewelry needs to stand out from the crowd. Jewelry that is unique or special in some way is more likely to sell. Finding new and innovative design ideas isn't always easy but finding a jewelry niche that you can make your own will set you up for success.

Here are some good ideas to get you going!

• Vintage jewelry

  Study vintage jewelry to get inspiration. Looking closely at how jewelry in the 1940s and 1950s was made can motivate some great jewelry making ideas. Victorian jewelry has many inspirational aspects. Go on line, eBay is a good place to start, and study vintage pieces to get some good ideas that you can customize. You can also create jewelry using vintage items such as old keys, parts of old machinery like typewriters and clocks, vintage buttons, vintage photos, cards and letters, antique silverware, marbles and fragments of old glassware and china.



• Chakra jewelry

  Healing jewelry made from gemstones and crystals which can balance the chakra energy centers are popular. Find out about the materials used for chakra jewelry to get good jewelry making ideas. Good outlets for this type of jewelry are yoga studios, new age stores, health and natural food stores.



• Pet jewelry

  Create a fun line of necklaces or collars for pampered small dogs and cats. What about handcrafted pet identification tags set with gorgeous stones? You can create pet and owner matching jewelry! Pet stores, pet grooming salons, veterinary offices, and pet shows provide good venues to sell your pet jewelry.



• Niche jewelry

  Creating niche jewelry may be as simple as adding a particular charm to a necklace or bracelet in a motif relevant to your niche market. For example young girl ballerinas love jewelry that has a ballet related charm attached. Sell these items through your local ballet studios. Animal lovers love cat and dog charms added to their jewelry. Animal charms work well with visitors to zoos. Zoo gift strores would love to carry your animal-themed jewelry.



• Recycle

  Turn trash into treasure with your unique recycled jewelry designs. Create beads from comics, candy foil, stamps and junk mail. Make earrings and cuffs from old vinyl records, bracelets from silverware and eating utensils. Use fragments of beautiful old porcelain, tokens, leather, sea glass, tin cans, bottle tops, keys, safety pins, electronic bits and pieces in your jewelry designs. There has never been a better time to produce eco-friendly jewelry.




• Names and numbers

  People love wearing jewelry that has their lucky number or special letter included. It gives the jewelry a personal signifigance for them. People like to wear special numbers to mark birthdays, significant dates or for luck. There are many ways to work number charms and letters into jewelry designs.



• Board game jewelry

  Create a line of jewelry that incorporates bits and pieces from board games such as Mah Jong tiles, Scrabble tiles, Monopoly tokens, houses, property cards and money, dice, chess pieces, poker chips, Clue/Cluedo tokens, playing cards and dominoes. These pieces have great nostalgic appeal for anyone who has spent hours happily playing these games.



• Exclusive, custom-made jewelry

  Create an exclusive line of jewelry for a fashion boutique that complements their particular merchandise. The boutique can brand the jewelry with their store name and enhance their merchandise mix. Approach suitable boutique store owners with this idea and suggest the type of jewelry that would best accessorize the fashions they carry.



• Jewelry making parties

  Running jewelry making workshops can be both rewarding and profitable. It is simpler to run a workshop around a specific theme such as making glamorous earrings for evening wear or teenage friendship bracelets.

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