Jewelry with a Personal Touch

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In a world filled with mass-produced jewelry and accessories, customization becomes more important. Consumers want to express their uniqueness to the world around them. As a savvy jewelry maker, offer your clients an opportunity to say who they are in their own way and their own words.

Personalized detailing has grown into a large influence on jewelry design. The original personalization--the monogram--is still going strong. Name pendants are increasingly popular as well, especially as spellings are growing more unique. While you might find "Alice" on a pendant at the corner store, finding the Welsh version, "Alys," can be more difficult. Your customers with unusually spelled names will be thrilled to discover they, too, can join in the personalization trend.

Influenced by the Internet

Jewelry showing hashtags or online account names is growing in popularity. Create them in metal, leather and more, using a variety of techniques. Form names in a cursive script using wire, or on metal or leather bands with stamping tools.

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Personalized for the Family

Birthdays, anniversaries and other milestones are also being marked using personalized jewelry. Mother's rings with a birthstone for each child are one of the earliest examples, and charm bracelets with each child's name aren't far behind. The personalization of gifts for mom and dad has only grown.

Create necklaces for mom with a pendant for each child--each pendant with a child's name or initials and birthstone. For true customization, offer these on the spot in your retail location or craft show booth. For dads, create a tie tac with birthstones or an everyday bracelet. Consider offering the component frames, then filling them with Apoxie® Sculpt, setting with birthstones or Crystal Passions crystal chatons in the proper colors and letting it air-cure.

Jewelry with a Personal Touch

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A Sense of Place

Location jewelry lets consumers express pride in where they're from, where they're going and where they are now. Pendants, earrings, finger rings and belt buckles are all perfect for personalization.

Use zip codes, state names or outlines, longitude and latitude, area codes and national and state flags. These can be created as interchangeable charms, large pendants, stampable drops, wire-worked names and a lot more.

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Quotable Quotes

Inspirational quotes, Biblical verses, song lyrics and poetry, even shared jokes, offer customers more ways to create a personalized style that also has deep meaning.

These designs can be created for individuals, for couples, for families or for groups of friends. A couple may want a verse of a reading from their wedding on customized rings. A pair of friends may exchange pendants with the punch line to a joke only the two of them understand. Parents can request bracelets for each child as they head off to college, with an inspirational quote.

Stampable Metal Blank Components

What's More Individual?

Even identical twins don't have the same fingerprints or signatures. What else could be more personal and individual? Jewelry designers are using the variety of materials now available to help their customers create with these ultimate personalizations.

Help your customers create metal clay pieces with their own fingerprints, their children's or spouse's fingerprints, even the family pet's prints. You can also put prints in polymer clay pieces and ink-stamped on paper or porcelain and sealed under glass cabochons, mica sheet or layers of clear sealants.

With so many options out there, everyone can find many unique and creative ways to add their personal touch.

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