Project - Make Your Own Jewellery Stand

Hi All,

Well I realise that my posting here is somewhat sporadic but I am awake super early so thought I would post a little project for you.  I absolutely loved making this, I originally did it for a TV show on Ideal World but with Christmas fast approaching I thought now would be a good time to share it with you.

It is made from an old jewellery stand that had seen better days.  With today's economy why not dig some old items of household stuff and revamp them!  This will take you an afternoon to make but it is well worth it!

For this project you will need:

Old Jewellery Stand, Basic Craft Kit, Air Dry or some other clay, Gold Paint (if your clay is not gold), WS Designs Templates, Bodice and Fan Panel, Fantasy Film or shiny paper, Fancy paper of your choice for the skirts, ribbon roses, cream pearl card, red high tack tape, dries clear glue, Brilliance pearlescent beige ink pad, a favour net, cream ribbon and an afternoon.

Everything you need for this project can be purchased from my favourite craft shop Stampeezee

Step 1


Tidy up your jewellery stand with paint if needed, form a rough piece of padding for the middle with air dry clay, paint the clay if necessary and leave to dry.  If you have not got clay pad out with some firm sponge.  This will help give your finished stand some form and make your skirts puff out.







Step 2

Take an old loo roll centre and paint it gold, wrap it around you rough central piece tightly using double sided tape.  This helps give a solid point to stick to later

Step 3

Draw around the WS Designs Fan Panel Template onto your chosen fancy paper and onto some fantasy film to match your colour scheme.  You will need approx 15 to 20 panels in all, more if you want to make your finished skirt quite full.  To get the most out of your paper or film top and tail the panels, you dont need to draw the top circular piece on the fan.  Also when drawing on your film, use a permanent pen.  On some of your paper layers cut out the heart too so that the fantasy film will show through

Step 4

Draw around the WS Designs Bodice Template onto your chosen pearl card stock, you will need to do this twice as the stand has a back and a front.  Remember to follow the instructions on the template and to score and fold the top of each boddice.  If you have not used a textured card to start with then you can run the pearly card through an embossing machine like a cuttle bug or a sizzix.

Step 5

To add some interest to this gently run a pearlescent beige ink pad across just the raised parts of the bodice

Step 6

Place your finished bodice pieces onto the jewellery stand so that you an mark out where the bottom of the bodice comes to, actually you are looking to mark the three points of the bodice seen above so that you know where to start attaching your skirts

Step 7

Run high tack tape where your mark is and any where else you feel appropriate so that we can attach the favour net.  The favour net helps fluff out your skirts and adds interest at the bottom of the finished stand

Step 8

Attach your skirts in layers so that you can see the fantasy film through the heart shape.  You only need to attach the top of the skirts as you want the bottoms to stay loose.  You can attach either with some dries clear glue (not too much though) or I prefer to use red high tack tape

Step 9

Your highest layer should come above your earlier mark and you need to tape it all quite flat using a big strip of normal clear tape, you really want it to look like a waist and the tighter you tape it the better your under layers will puff out

Step 10

This next bit is really only cosmetic and you dont have to do it, I just thought it would be nice to see some of the lovely gold from the film through the bodices so I scrunched up a wadge of left overs and stuck them around the top of the skirts in a wad to create a sort of padded area.  The peg was there to hold it in place until the dries clear glue had dried

Step 11

Hold both of your bodices together and punch two or three small holes in each side, thread one side loosely with cream thin ribbon

Step 12

Attach the bodice to the stand by lacing up the other side of the bodice, finish off each side with a nice bow or leave the long ribbons

Step 13

Add some ribbon roses or paper roses in a complimentary colour, you can use silicone or dries clear, which ever you like

Step 14

Plump up your skirts, add a few gems if you want to and stand back and admire your handy work!