Imagine getting paid to use your creativity to dream up designs for beautiful jewelry. You can enjoy an exciting, creative, high-paying career when you become a jewelry designer!
Jewelry designers (also known as accessory designers) are artists who spend their days defining style with their distinctive, eye-catching pieces. 
In this creative career you can find work as part of a busy design studio, although many jewelry designers choose the freedom, independence, and flexibility of running their own business.
You can choose to make whatever type of jewelry you love... Found, funky objects, or anything you wish
When you become a jewelry designer you might work with a fashion design company to set new trends each season, or you might make a lucrative income selling your inspired, hand-made artwork to eager buyers. If you start your own jewelry design business your earning potential is only limited to your drive and determination.
As long as you have the desire, you can become a jewelry designer. No special education or experience is necessary to break into this career and succeed.
Of course, it takes hard work, creativity, and a true passion for fabulous designs to achieve success as a jewelry designer, but you can break into this career much more quickly and easily with the FabJob Guide to Become a Jewelry Designer.
Selling Your Jewelry Designs
- Define what will motivate buyers of your jewelry
- Develop jewelry marketing materials (including a popular, economical option often used by artists to promote their work)
- Prepare your portfolio and jewelry samples to show to clients and buyers
- Develop style sheets and price sheets to show off your jewelry collections (includes samples)
- Use a website to sell your jewelry (a shopping cart might not be a good investment right away)
- Sell jewellery through consignment with galleries or boutiques
- Protect yourself as a jewellery designer with strict terms of sale
- Sell jewellery directly to consumers at craft shows and promotional events
- Develop low-cost strategies to promote your jewellery to individual buyers
- Contact wholesale jewellery buyers at retail stores and present your samples
- Make big sales at jewellery industry tradeshows
- Select the right shows for you
- Design a booth that will help you get the right attention for your jewellery
- Decide when a sales rep is needed