How to Make Your Own Jewelry Display

Whether you need a display for your own jewelry so that it's easier to find in the morning, or you're making displays and packaging for jewelry you sell, making your display elements is both easy and fun.

Things You'll Need

• Velvet in dark, neutral, or muted colors Sewing scissors Paper scissors Pins Needle Fabric glue Cardboard Card stock Wooden cigar box or other wooden box

Instructions

How to Make Your Own Jewelry Display

1. Create a personal jewelry display box using a wooden cigar box or other plain wooden box. Open the lid. Measure the inside bottom and sides. Cut out pieces of velvet and lay them, right side up, in the box to ensure that all sides will be covered. Remove all the velvet pieces and cover the bottom of the box with fabric glue. Carefully lay in the velvet for the bottom and gently press down. Do the same to all the interior sides of the box, one at a time. Leave the box open overnight to dry.

2. Cut 2 strips of cardboard so that they are as long as the box is wide, and about 1/2 inch less wide than the box is tall. Cover the cardboard with glue and wrap it with velvet so that both edges of the velvet meet on one long edge of the cardboard strip. Dry it overnight. Set dividing pieces into the box so that they cut the box into even sections. Once you have decided where they should be placed, remove them, squeeze fabric glue on the exposed cardboard edges and gently but firmly ease them into place in the box. The only edge that should show should be the edge completely covered in velvet. All the other edges should be meeting and glued to the bottom and sides of the box. Leave the box overnight to dry.

3. Rather than using jewelry display boxes, you can also create small displays for jewelry sale using pieces of cardboard cut to several sizes that will fit on a display table. Cut pieces of velvet that are 2 inches longer and wider than the cardboard pieces. Coat one side of each piece of cardboard with fabric glue. Gently press the wrong side of the fabric to the glued cardboard so that the right side is facing you. Make sure there is 2 inches of excess fabric bordering the cardboard on all sides. Turn over the cardboard and squeeze glue at the borders of the opposite side of the cardboard. Fold over the fabric and press gently. Allow it to dry overnight. Use these flat, velvet-covered pieces to display large pieces of jewelry on a table.

4. Make larger displays for jewelry collections using larger pieces of cardboard that have been folded in half. Make sure that they are able to stand up on their own when unfolded at slightly wider than a 90 degree angle. Repeat the above steps to cover with velvet, leaving borders around 3 of the 4 sides of the cardboard. Do not wrap velvet around the bottom edge that will rest on the table, as this will interfere with its stability. To display necklaces and earrings on this larger display, stick pins into the board and hang the earrings and necklaces from them.

5. Make packaging for jewelry in small boxes for sale by cutting pieces of card stock to approximately 1/4 of an inch shorter and narrower than the interior of the packaging box. To display a necklace, cut two evenly-spaced slits about 1/8 of an inch deep into one side of the card stock and slide the strands of the necklace in so that the pendant is showing on the front of the card stock, but that the rest of the chain can be tucked underneath out of view as it lies in the box. For earrings, use a needle to punch two holes in the center of the card and slide the wires through. The earrings will display neatly in the box.