Portable Jewelry Display Portfolio
by Carolina Gonzalez

Here's a close-up view, showing how earrings hang inside the portfolio:

. . . and a view of the buckle fastener that holds the portfolio shut:

Carolina shares this complete, easy-to-follow tutorial for making your own portable jewelry display portfolio (including lots more photos!) in her blog.

You can find it here:

Carolina's Jewelry Display Portfolio Tutorial

Thanks so much for sharing another great jewelry display project with us, Carolina!

Earring case designed by Kelly of
Richmond Craft Mafia
It's ingeniously created from an interesting trunk and a spool of ribbon.

Go to Kelly's easy earring case tutorial, which is not only well written, but also well illustrated with helpful photos.

Thanks for sharing this fantastic earring display tutorial, Kelly!

"Why pay for jewelry displays for your booth when you can make your own?

Ring and bracelet display by Joan Kraus

I took an old black kid glove and stuffed it with dryer lint.

When I sewed the end closed, I had a great display piece for my bracelets and rings!"

Thanks so much for this great ring and bracelet display idea, Joan!

Jewelry booth photo courtesy of JewelHut

According to Laura Carter of JewelHut, this jewelry booth structure is easy to build, set-up, teardown, transport and store.  It can adjust from 9'4" to 10" on-site, and requires no special skills.
Laura's plans "give you the tools and knowledge to create a unique, one-of-a-kind selling space that you can be proud of."

Booth photo courtesy of JewelHut

The JewelHut booth instructions include the booth plans, a list of materials, tools, and four options you can use to enhance your booth.

The plans can be emailed to you in PDF format or shipped to you on floppy disk or CD.

To purchase the plans: Jewelry Booth Plans by JewelHut.

Reminiscent of Guinivere, Galadriel, and other legendary ladies of long ago, this jewelry display would be wonderful for an art show, a gallery window, or a photography session.

Can you tell what this ethereal setting is made from?

Look closely and you'll see an ordinary styrofoam wig stand; a bit of fine, sheer fabric; and a piece of cheap netting – under dreamy blue lighting.

It's incredibly simple – and incredibly cheap! – but also very beautiful and moving.

Cheap jewelry display ideas are all around us!

Some of the best finds come from garage sales, thrift shops, and your own closets.

"I don't have pierced ears and I don't like clip earrings -they fall if the clips are soft and they hurt my ears if they are hard.

Through the years I've had a few ear climbers but they're not easy to find here! [Carolina lives on the Canary Islands.]

They seem to have run out of fashion and now I only find them on gothic jewelry online shops and the like; so, I decided to make some.

I love unusual and ethnic jewelry and, being into the tattoo world, you get to see a lot of it.

When you make about 20 pairs of earrings a week, it's wonderful to have a new shape to play with!

When I had done four or five sketching prototypes and was happy with the result (that includes wearing the piece along one day to see if it is sturdy enough), I started thinking about putting some on my online shop… and then I realized I had no idea how I was going to make good pics of them.

When I placed them on my light box, they looked like everything – except ear climbers.

Taking pics of them on my own ear was definitely not a choice! There is nothing wrong with my ear (ha ha) but it would really take too much time and tries.

Again, tattoo art saved the day.

I remembered that on my tattoo supplies catalogues there were piercing anatomic displays.

In case you didn't know, piercings may have many different shapes and lengths depending on the part of the body where they are going to be placed so silicone piercing displays are just that, body parts.

Lips, eyebrows, noses, etc. And of course, ears.

I looked for the catalogues and hand sculpted a real life size ear of air-dry clay.

After about 25 minutes of drying I inserted a bamboo stick (mini-note for beginner sculptors: let the clay dry a little before making any holes to the piece; they will be more even).

After it dried I sanded it and adjusted any small cracks (very superficial cracks are very common in air-dry clay pieces as it really shrink when they dry) and then painted it with acrylics and varnished it.

As you can see in the pics, I also added a hole in the lobe to show matching earrings if there were any.

My first idea was to leave it like that to be able to punch the bamboo stick on a vase filled with sand or something like that.

But then I remembered I had this gorgeous lamp stand I had painted and I thought it would be perfect for the style of my whole display, which is very gypsy and colourful.

I just glued the bamboo stick – et voilà! An ear climber display!"

Carolina, thank you so much for sharing another of your wonderful jewelry display ideas!

]]> http://jewelrydisplayideas.com/2007/05/11/make-an-ear-climber-ear-cuff-display/feed/ 1 http://jewelrydisplayideas.com/2007/04/12/wigjig-jewelry-stand-tutorial-3/ http://jewelrydisplayideas.com/2007/04/12/wigjig-jewelry-stand-tutorial-3/#comments Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:39:39 +0000 Rena Klingenberg http://jewelrydisplayideas.com/2007/04/12/wigjig-jewelry-stand-tutorial-3/ Here is the third in the series of clever jewelry display stand tutorials from Beads, Wire and Jewelry Making Supplies by WigJig:

Small jewelry stand by WigJig.com

This stand is ideal for displaying a single earring, bracelet, or other small jewelry item.

You can find the complete, easy-to-follow tutorial for making this jewelry display at WigJig wire jewelry stands tutorial #3.

See all three jewelry display stand styles:

Jewelry display stand 1

Jewelry display stand 2

Jewelry display stand 3

Collapsible jewelry stand by WigJig.com

This one is collapsible, for easy transport to and from jewelry shows and parties.

You can find the complete, easy-to-follow tutorial for making this jewelry display at WigJig wire jewelry stands tutorial #2.

See all three jewelry display stand styles:

Jewelry display stand 1

Jewelry display stand 2

Jewelry display stand 3

Wire jewelry stands by WigJig.com

You can find the complete, easy-to-follow tutorial for making this jewelry display at WigJig wire jewelry stands tutorial #1.

See all three jewelry display stand styles:

Jewelry display stand 1

Jewelry display stand 2

Jewelry display stand 3

Rebecca Compton of Get Wired sent in this necklace display tutorial:

While looking for cheap necklace displays to use for my next craft fair, it occurred to me that I should just try something with the random supplies that I already have….

First, I cut up a cardboard box (I used a Priority Mail box someone mailed to me). The taller the box, the taller your display will be.

I cut a rectangular portion using the top flap and bottom flap.

I then took some thick fabric (I used an old sweater) and duct taped it to the middle and top portion.

It really just needs to cover the middle portion, but I liked the look of it going onto the top a bit. Don't cover the bottom flap.

I then found some fabric to cover the whole thing. I used black velvet for one, pretty blue fabric for another.

Pin the fabric around the cardboard, good side in. You may want to draw a line to show where to sew.

Slip the cardboard out of its new sleeve and sew the sleeve shut. Flip the sleeve inside-out, showing the good side.

Slip the fabric sleeve over your cardboard that is partially covered with thick fabric. It should be a tight fit.

Carefully sew up the ends. I folded the fabric in a bit and sewed it as close to the "inside" of the display as the fabric would allow.

When you approach the middle of the sewing line, insert a piece of long ribbon on each flap.

This will be for the tie/bow.

Since my cardboard wasn't too thick, I also sewed the fabric TO the cardboard. It prevents the fabric from pulling away when the display is tied and looks much nicer.

Bend the two flaps so the pieces of ribbon meet. Tie it as tight or loose as you think looks best. A loose tie is slightly less stable, but stands up taller.

Ta da! You have a very cheap, but nice looking necklace display."

Thank you for sharing that fast, easy, and inexpensive jewelry display project, Rebecca!

More necklace displays you can make yourself:

Make a necklace display

Paint a necklace bust

Be sure to visit Rebecca's Etsy shop, Get Wired, to see her unique wire jewelry designs.