Vintage Electronics

How to Make an Easy Earring/Necklace Stand

There many steps to follow in making hand-crafted jewelry.  There are however necklace and earring stands that may be simple to make. This article will show you how to do that.  If you would rather get a stand then you can just keep an eye open for any jewelry display update that might be published in your favorite mag or online blog.  It your position is low then the stand below will do fine if you take it slow and make it correctly. 

The materials you will need are :

Different kinds of templates
Black/white froth core board
3mm box board sheet
Glue
Double-sided black tape ( 12mm wide )
Tube black acrylic paint
Paint brush
Thick card for your template
Stanley knife

The process :

1.  Print out the templates; re size it if you need with the use of a photocopier. 

2.  Paste your template on your thick card using glue and cut out the shape. 

3.  Employing a biro, trace the shape of your template onto a foam core board.  Employ a Stanley knife to cut out the shapes ; if there’s straight edges use a ruler. 

4.  The stand at the back of the template is usually a bit shorter, so that the length from point to end should be 22cms.  Trace this shape onto the box board then cut it out.  For the earring stand, you can use the same template, just center the ruler through the point and ran a line on all sides of the ruler-3cms wide and nine cm.  Long. 

5.  Score a line after you finished cutting out the stand, about a centimeter down to make the bend.  You can refer the stand to a picture frame if you are not sure about it. 

6.  Attach a piece of double sided tape to the 1cm block on the side which has already got a scored line.  This should be attached to the foam core. 

7.  Next you have got to bring them both together.  You will find it a little bit of a juggle, but it’s's ok.  Then line up the two bottom edges.  Don’t worry if the stand will hang out a few millimeters, it really is not important because when it’s standing upright, it won’t be seen from the front.  After that, you can now attach the stand to the foam core on the other side of the tape. 

8.  Lastly, as the box board comes in a natural cardboard color, you have got to paint it to match the white or black, have it dry for 2 hours. 

Now that you have your display unit you can showcase your jewelry items.  If you have just stumbled onto the current page and aren’t positive how to make any jewelry then there are many sites that offer simple tutorials on, how do I make a beaded snowflake, how do I make a toggle necklace etc?  Just doing a fast search on jewelry making will gives you tons of new jewelry pieces that you can make.