Making your Own Jewelry Tags with Inexpensive Materials

There are many creative and inexpensive ways to create your own packaging for jewelry. For merchants who need jewelry to hang on display racks, it is relatively easy to make a great presentation.

What you need:

All you need is:

1. cardstock
2. computer and printer
3. pair of scissors
4. stapler
5. self-adhesive plastic hang tags
6. straight pin (for poking some holes)

The idea is simple: take a rectangular piece of cardstock about one and a half inches by four inches long, fold it in half, staple the top and then stick a self-adhesive hang tag to the back of it. Voila! You’ve got a way to hang and sell your jewelry.

You can hang a necklace or bracelet through the fold. For earrings, you simply poke two holes through the cardstock with the straight pin. Now you can place either studs or hook earrings through the holes and they are ready to sell.

Design a Simple but Presentable Jewelry Tag

Of course, you don’t want to use a blank piece of cardstock. You’ll want your company name on the front, and maybe a small bit of information on the back. That’s where the computer and printer come in.

Create a document in a program such as Photoshop or Illustrator, but even Microsoft Word is workable. Make a whole bunch of one and a half inches by four inches rectangle outlines on the page. Leave enough space between them to allow for cutting once they have been printed. A quarter of an inch is lots of room between them.

Write your company name (if you don’t have a company name, write something like “Jewelry by …” and then your name) in a nice font at the top of the tag. Add a bit of design if you desire (ie – lines, dots, etc.). If you want information to be on the back of the jewelry tag, you will have to use a program which can turn text upside down. Once you print and fold the tags, the upside down printing on the back will become right side up.

Once you are satisfied with the look and design, simply print the document on cardstock, and then cut out the individual tags. You can use white cardstock or colored varieties if you would like a colored background.

Open Side Jewelry Tags vs Closed Tags

Closed loop tags are those with a basic circular hole or shaped cut-out at the top of the plastic. These can be placed on display rods, but are best placed on shallow rods because they must be slid off of the end of the rod to remove. If you have a deep rod, it will be very hard for customers to get the back one: they will have to remove all the ones in front of it.

Some plastic hang tags have one side open. These are the most versatile because many tags can be hung on the same rod, and anyone can remove a tag from the center or back of the rod by unhooking it, without having to remove all the others in front of it.

Tips

For necklaces or bracelets without a clasp, remember to wrap the cardboard around the jewelry item before stapling.

Have fun with the creation of your packaging. Because you are creating this yourself, is easy to switch to another style if you decide you’d like to go with a different look.