10 Holiday Jewelry Gifts You Can Make & Sell Right Now

You want to hear something crazy? You don't have to make jewelry to make money selling jewelry. And here at Christmas time people are looking for personalized gifts that don't cost a fortune. And today we're going to personalize a whole bunch of blanks, jewelry blanks, from Monarch Fine Jewelry. We're going to be using our X-Tool X1. We're using the X1 because it's got four different laser sources in it. We'll be using the 20 watt diode, the 55 watt CO2, We'll be using the five watt UV and the 30 watt fiber. And we're going to show you how much they cost, how much we'd sell them for, how we made them, and most importantly, who we'd sell them to. Do it, do it, do it, make it with Kim and Garrett, make it. What is up? Welcome back. We know you love to do it builder to make it. And we're here to help you sell it. Before we get started we wanted to give a huge shout out to Katie and Melody over at Monarch Pine. They have a huge selection of blanks for laser engraving. They have jewelry, accessories, and all kinds of personalizable gifts. Now I've had so much fun shopping on the Monarch Pine website. I personally picked out all of the blanks that you see here today. Because I think they would be great sellers at a craft show, for personalization, or they would be something I would wear, or know somebody who would. I kind of felt like this was all for you. These are all things I see you wearing. Now we are using the X-Tool X1 today, because it has all of the different laser sources that I think are great for personalizing jewelry. But you don't have to use this particular machine. You can do all of this with pretty much any laser. But we will be showing you what we're using, why we're using it, and some of the things we learned along the way. We have 10 personalized gifts today and two bonus projects. We're going to start with our necklaces and we'll be using the 5 watt UV laser to start with. Now the 5 watt UV laser is it's called cold laser engraving so your products don't heat up. So they're great for metals. It's also great for plastics if you want to Do things like engraving on acrylic, plastic handles of products or lids to plastic containers, things like that. The cold UV laser is a great tool for those things and it does some amazing crystals. You've seen those 3D crystals. It does some amazing work with 3D crystals. Now because the fiber and the UV packs here are not kind of a hot swappable, we're going We're going to do all of our UV laser products first. Then we will do the swap and the recalibration and we'll go through our fiber products. Product number one, the Heartbeat Necklace. This is a classic heart shape with the EKG beat next to it. It comes in silver and gold. And why I love the Monarch fine blanks is because most of the blanks come with a jig you can use. It's great if you just throw in a horizontal bar, You're able to line it up a whole lot easier. Now we did use the UV laser and so the great thing about the X-Tool X1 is it does have this nice onboard camera. Not only does it have the full bed camera for its auto positioning, but it also has the close shot camera. So I can click on close shot, select right here to where this heart is. I've got some tiny text written on there which is perfect for the UV laser and I can position it exactly in the center of that heart where I want it. It took about two minutes, 45 seconds to engrave. We picked up the blank for $3.50, and I think we could sell it for $24.95. Now Garrett and I were joking earlier for me using my girl math I think I would sell it for $22.50 because then that rounds down in my head to $20 and that means I'm getting them for about $20 and the great thing about getting something for $20 if you offer them in some sort of a bundle or discount saying Buy two, get one free, or buy two, get one half off. Either way, I feel like I'm saving some money, and now I'm definitely getting them at $20, maybe even less. I can pick up three of them, and I know there will be three people that I know personally who would love a beautiful necklace. Product number two, the Petite Pawprint Pendant Necklace. I couldn't fit another P in there. If you know anything about people and their pets, there's definitely a market for this kind of thing. People love their fur babies. Oh, yes, especially dog lovers. Dog lovers love dog products, and jewelry is certainly one of those things. Necklaces, bracelets, earrings, any kind of jewelry with a little paw print on it is going to sell great. What I love about Monarch Pine, not only can you find the jigs on the page, but you can also find settings, something to help you get going with the product so you're not starting from ground zero. or wasting a bunch of products on testing engravings. Now, that's where I found my settings on the Facebook group. We're using the UV laser. And the cool thing about the UV laser is it's known for its detail engraving. Now, you can see this is a petite paw print, so it's very small. But you can still personalize it, especially if you're using a UV laser. Put on the UV pack here like we talked about before and that gives you the ability to use the Galvo and engrave tiny. So these I'm going to show you up close say I heart my fur babies and not only was I able to get that on the palm of the paw print I was able to put a pet's name in each of the little pads so you can get some very very fine detail engravings. You can still read them, and it's beautiful. It's a beautiful font, and it's a beautiful engrave. So the total engrave time for the paw was 3 minutes, 15 seconds, well, 17 seconds. And we picked these up for $3.25. Each additional charm is only $0.90. And then I think you could sell this for like, I don't know, $29.95. Well, especially if you add multiple charms on there, I'd still stick with that $22.50 girl math in there, but if you add on those additional charms, you can add additional cost in there. So maybe you want each of your, each of your fur babies gets their own little paw print, and you can add those right on there, so you have multiple charms on your necklace, charged additional. What would you charge? Seven dollars? An additional charm? Yeah. I would charge seven dollars or two for ten. Always do it a bundle. I always do a two for ten deal. I'm always down for a twofer. These are great because yes, you can sell them at like craft shows and stuff, but think about your ASPCA, any of those little events that they have, you show up and start engraving paw prints on site. I mean, you'd be raking in the cash. Thinking B2B, yes. You can sell this to veterinarian clinics and offer personalized pet jewelry with another business, something like that. Product number three a three heart charm bracelet. This is a snake chain and it comes with three Open heart charms they come in silver and gold And gold. Now again, we're sticking with our UV laser and what's cool about this is again I can lay these charms right on a little board and the machine is going to do an auto height Adjustment and I can use that close-up camera To put the tiniest little engrave on these charms. You don't necessarily need a jig. A jig does make things easy, but in this case I didn't have a jig. So I just laid those on there. I did a close-up shot for each different personalization I wanted to do on these charms. Now, like Garrett said, you can personalize these. These make great gifts for moms. Grandmas, of course, you can put kids' names on there, but there are other things you can use them for. Think about sisters, best friends. What was your favorite idea? Cruises. You wanted to put the different cruise ships and cruise dates on there. I think anything that you would collect or like events you would collect or do. Easily could be a charm of some kind. Yeah. I don't know. Maybe you want to visit all of the stadiums across the country. And every time you visit a new baseball stadium, you get yourself a new heart charm. I don't know. Yeah. Charms are always fun and they're an easy collectible. Means people will come back again and again. So total engraving time for all three hearts was just about two minutes. You pick this whole thing up for five dollars. And I think you could probably sell it for 25 or 29.95 still. And then I would say, again, for each additional charm, seven bucks, two for ten. Now, the charms are great, too, because you can get additional charms, five for $4.75. So that'll have them continue to come back if they are building some sort of a collectible charm bracelet. But if you're doing it for mom, grandma, sisters, best friends, it's such a nice personalized gift. Now, as we got smaller and smaller with the UV laser. We noticed that the font would start to disappear. So, we started to use a thicker font. We were going with Anton. Anton seems to be Kim's font of the year. She's using Anton on everything. You probably just saw it in our thumbnail. Now, so. So, a thicker font, because it's such a fine point on that UV laser, a thicker font will definitely help the personalization stand out a little better. Yeah, make it a little more bold. That is our pro tip on this one is. If you can't see a script font because it is so tiny, go with a bold typeface. Product number four, the adjustable ring. Now, these come in silver and gold, and because they're not one continuous loop, you can easily bend them in and out to adjust the size. And you can do that with just some needle-nose pliers. And what makes this so great is that you can give this as a gift for anyone. You don't have to know someone's ring size because it is adjustable. And with this being that stainless steel, it is going to be tarnish resistant and it's going to be nice and shiny and look beautiful. The other great thing about the X tool and a ring like this is that you can use that curved surface engraving. So you can go a little further down either side of this ring. Here you can see I'm using a little play-doh trick where I'm holding the ring steady and face up by putting it into the play-doh. Now I could rotate it through the play-doh and engrave on all sides if I wanted to. But if you just do in the top there, a little curved surface engraving with the X-Tool is perfect for something like this. Total engraved time on the design that Kim did was a minute, 27 seconds. So this is a quick personalization and you can pick each of these rings up for three dollars and twenty five cents. So you can get a handful for just under 20 bucks. Oh yeah, well, and I would sell them for about $20 each. I do think that that's a great price range for these, especially if you're personalizing them. I think for $20 for the ring and then add $4.95 for personalization, I don't think that's a bad idea. That's where I was going. I was thinking $19.95 was a little cheap, especially for personalization. I would bump it up another Another ten bucks? I would bump it up five bucks, I would say twenty-five. Five for personalization. Bring them in just under $29. That's how I would do it. Product number five, state-shaped pendant necklace. Here we have Virginia, but they have all 50 states in both silver and gold. I love this product right here because I love things that people love, and people love localities. They love familiarity and they love nostalgia. So these are great for things like a little heart for a city that you lived in or maybe where you got married. My heart belongs in Virginia, your hometown or college area. So I put a little Virginia Tech logo in the center of our Virginia pendant here. But you could do other college states and logos. Within reason, so you don't get yourself in trouble. But I think those are great personalized items. What about military family? Think about, hey, I was stationed here or something like that. That would be a great memorabilia gift to represent some place that you were stationed. Military memorabilia. Yeah. Now, these were $3.50 each. And again, you can sell these for $24.95. The engrave was super fast. What was this, 15 seconds? Yes. Super fast engrave. You could actually probably do these at your booth and just pump them out. What actually happens when you become a MakerPlace member? First, you get instant access to our monthly library of premium, production-ready SVG cut files worth over double the subscription cost. Just download, load into your laser software, and start cutting sellable designs in minutes. Plus, you unlock access to our Make It Mafia community, where you get behind-the-scenes content, Topic submissions and direct support. Add in site-wide discounts on materials and exclusive business training webinars, and it pays for itself. Membership starts at just $5 a month. Tap the link to join the family today at kngmakeit.com. Product number six, the polished stainless steel jewelry dish. Now these come in the silver, the gold, and the rose gold. We're going to do something different here since it's such a larger accessory, we're able to fit a bolder design on here. We thought we would do some testing. Yeah this is the perfect opportunity to compare the 5 watt UV laser with the 30 watt fiber laser. So we've engraved the first one using the 5 watt UV laser. Now I talked about a little bit of lessons learned that I've gathered here along the way. I did learn that for this engraving I think You can feel a little bit of texture, just a slight bit of texture by engraving this large surface area. I did engrave it at 600 LPCM. Now that is way, way too high. I was using 600 doing the fine detail engraving, which is a great idea when you're doing something super small. But for something like this with this larger surface area, you want enough detail so that it has a nice smooth engraving. But you don't need 600 dpi. I should have engraved it at 200. But because we're going to do the compares, we're going to do them both at the same settings, the same dpi. Now, I think this turned out great. Again, I could feel a little texture there, but it's nice and smooth and it looks beautiful. This took about 34 minutes to do this engraving, again, because I use such a high dpi. And another thing about this laser and the X-Tool X1 is that you can. I did have, let me show this. So I do have the, thank you, the little jig that I put this in. But when the bed raises up and does an auto measure, it's going to measure at the top of this surface area. One of the cool features of the X tool is that I can say I wanted a specific area measurement. So I was able to shoot into the center of this dish and have it measure the height of this item So that my laser. beam was the correct height from my area from the center of the dish. So that was pretty cool and I was able to get that nice engraved 34 minutes. From there I swapped over to the 30 watt fiber laser. Now this isn't a super hot swap it does take a few minutes to it's an easy swap but it takes a few minutes to recalibrate the laser because you are Removing the laser source and putting a new laser source on you do need to realign the mirrors and Do that little realignment and make sure everything looks great Once you do that We were able to put the other heart tray into the jig and go ahead and use like I said the same DPI And I engraved this one now this one engraved in 24 minutes So it was a little bit faster, but I will tell you now here This is what I want to do. I hadn't let Garrett touch these because I wanted his honest reaction Now feel the two. Oh, now which one's this one in my hand? That is the UV laser. The UV laser, I can barely feel it. It's a rough surface, but this... Is deep. This is like a deep engrave here. Yes. That's because we're using this. That's because we're using that 30 watt fiber and it is really removing some of that metal surface area. Again, I also did it at 600 DPI. It wouldn't be quite so rough. Now I will say here I did this one at 200 and you can still feel it. Oh, yeah, you can still feel it. Not as rough, though. Not quite as rough because it's not quite as deep. Right. So keep that in mind what you're doing. I'll tell you what, the UV, I can't tell the difference. Yes. Visually, I can't tell the difference between the UV and the fiber. Maybe a little blacker. Maybe. What? On the fiber? On the fiber. But otherwise, they look pretty good. I mean... Yes. So if you have the option to use a UV laser or a fiber laser when you're engraving something like this, I think you can go either way. I think they're both great tools for engraving metal and getting a beautiful jewelry engrave on them. Yeah, I like to know that it really doesn't matter what power source I have on the back. I'll be able to pull off this jewelry. Don't worry. You can pick these dishes up for $5.25, and I think this is just a little accessory thing. I would say $19.95 for a sale price. I think you could go a little cheaper than that, but it's not plastic. It is metal, so it is going to be around a long time. These would make great stocking stuffers. I think you could bundle these. That's what I was thinking. Go ahead. I was thinking these would be more of a bundling thing. I would bundle it with a piece of jewelry. Pair the accessory with some jewelry. And then, of course, these are great gifts for mom, best friends. Yeah, great to pair along with a necklace and lay that in there and put your necklace in there. It's just, yeah, great bundle item. Product number seven. See you then! The horizontal bar necklace. I like this necklace because it's nice and classic. I see them everywhere on everybody. Yeah. They come in black, gold, silver, and rose gold. I'm liking this rose gold. It's got a more defined tint to it. We are sticking with the fiber laser on this one. Now, the difference was this one only took 27 seconds. But you, again, touch the engraving here. Oh, I know. It is better. Like, you can feel the engrave. And I feel like the fiber laser gives a little more defined engraved edge. Like, it's ended. You can tell where the engrave ended. And it doesn't see noise. I think the UV laser gives you that really fine detail. So you just like, yeah. The deep, it's a little bit deeper. A little deeper, yeah. I guess it casts a shadow, and it just feels a little more substantial. Now, like Garrett said, these are classics, so these are great gift items for anyone that would wear a necklace. Now, these are very nostalgic, so things like your coordinates. So I engraved the coordinates of where we got married on this one. I will personally be wearing this one myself. I'm really excited about it and I think you can dress these up and dress them down So they're a great versatile gift that people can wear anytime. I do. I like the black. I think the black looks classic I didn't even test and grade that, I don't know what it's gonna look like. Is it gonna be silver? I'm assuming yes. Yes, you can pick this up for three dollars and twenty five cents And again, I think twenty four ninety five is a reasonable price or girl math of twenty two fifty Product number eight, the stainless steel money clip. It's polished again. Looks nice. The neighbor, nobody carries a big wallet anymore. The day of the fat wallet is dead. I also carry a money clip. I throw a couple of cards and my money in here. Nobody really carries cash anymore. I keep it. I keep my cards together. I really like this one though, because it engraves. Beautifully on the front. And it only took seconds. What did it take? 27 seconds? 24 seconds. 24 seconds. This is where efficiency matters. One at 24 seconds is great, but 25 or 50 of these is even better. If you could pick these up for $3.25 and sell them for $19.95. I mean 50 is a way is a way bigger number than one and yes what if you can batch them the other great thing about the X-Tool X1 or even just the X-Tool software is it does have those batching capabilities because this has an auto mode as soon as I put in multiple products on the laser bed And close the cover, it automatically recognizes that I have multiple products on the bed and says, hey, do you want to do a batch fill? Yes, I do. Yes, we can do that if we're doing multiple money clips, or I'm going to do batch fill with the next product, too. These are great for granddad, dad, grandson, son, all the men. Yeah, cool. Corporate gifts, military gifts are really, this is an anytime kind of gift. And it's great for like employee appreciation, groomsmen, grooms parties. Product number nine, the compact mirror. These come in silver and gold. And these were super popular in the 80s. They're super popular anytime because every woman carries a little compact mirror in their purse. So these make great gifts for anyone, any female that you know of. These are great gifts. They're also great things like inspirational quotes. I put an inspirational quote on mine, sororities, things like that. There's just lots of uses for this one. We did use the fiber laser on this one. And like I said in the last one, this is another great product to do batching. You can lay these out, close the door. It's going to automatically recognize that you've got multiple products on the bed. And it will also recognize whether you have this item sitting this way or this way or upside down. The xTool software recognizes what orientation your product is on the bed and then will adjust your image. that you have selected and turn it the right way because it recognizes the orientation of the product on the bed. The engrave on this was about 90 seconds or a minute and a half. You could pick these up for five dollars and 75 cents. I think you could probably sell this for $24.95. With an engraving on there, $29.95. And these, like you said, you can personalize these, but you can pre-engrave these with a bunch of motivational sayings or funny sayings, and they'll make great stocking stuffers. I have a lot of things that I would agree about here, mostly related to the 80s and ski season. Jewelry, honorary mention, the minimalist bangle bracelet. I love anything that you can sell extra charms for. Yeah, this is why he loves this one. This is ripe for charms. Right. We talked about the three heart charm bracelet earlier. This is another one to think about charms. You can add multiple charms here. You can add the hearts. You can add the paw print. Monarch Pine has all the charms on there. And this is a great collectible charm bracelet because it doesn't have to be the same thing over and over. It could be multiple different charms and you can add to them year after year. Again, it brings you back. For a repeat sale. Yeah, who was that one lady we met that had that one charm bracelet that was just stacked and she's like, I need a whole other bracelet because I'm not taking any of these charms off. Yeah. All of these products are great but without packaging and presentation your perceived value isn't where it should be. Now we always love a good accessory to go with our jewelry and xTool X1 not only has that fiber UV and MOPA laser it comes standard with a 55 watt CO2 so that's going to allow you to cut things like acrylic. We've done this little acrylic jewelry stand here which I have I have a lot of jewelry hanging on. You can cut. The 1/8 inch MDF, 1/4 inch MDF, these are all the things that we use daily in our business. It's going to allow you to do that cutting and some of the other products besides the metals and things like that. Moving into, yeah, especially the colored acrylics, that's always a good one. Because it's a 55-watt CO2, you can cut clear acrylic, translucent acrylic. Color doesn't matter. Yes. And with that diode, diode is great for engraving wood, cardstock, some plastics, but the engraving ability with a diode. Outstanding. Yeah, I really wanted to feature with the 20-watt diode, talking about presentation. One of the great things about selling jewelry at something like a craft show or for the holiday season is to be able to bow and go. I love that little term, bow and go. Put a bow on something, they can grab it and take it with them. So this little jewelry box here does have a little necklace inside we created. The little card insert. You can personalize this because we're using some craft paper card stock. We engraved this with our 20-watt diode so we were able to engrave that text that you see. We were able to cut the the outside the shape out with that 20-watt diode so we did engraving and cutting and scoring. Oh and the scoring here so you know exactly where to fold this. It already has the little fold marks in there for you. And I'm able to insert that into any of these little jewelry boxes. The other thing you can do, which I didn't do yet, is engrave the top of it. If somebody does want to personalize it, you could personalize this with your business logo or personalize it as a to, from, happy holidays kind of gift. From Santa. From Santa. Inspiration on the top of it. Inscription is where that is. So can you use the X1 to create products for your small business? Absolutely. I didn't know you could do it. You do it. You do it. But this machine itself doesn't make the money. You need the right product, the right customer, and the right packaging. And you've got to charge the right amount to make sure your product is profitable. What I like about the xTool X1 is that we're not limited to one type of engraving. We were able to do some metal engraving with the fiber laser, the detailed engraving with the UV laser. We were able to make some accessories with the CO2 by cutting the acrylic. We were able to make the jigs with the 55 watt CO2 and we were also able to use that 20 watt diode to do some cutting, scoring, and engraving on some cardstock. If you enjoyed this video or If you liked this video or you learned something new, give us a thumbs up and if you're not yet subscribed, click on the bell icon to be notified when we post a new video. Click that subscribe button and hit that bell to be notified of our new videos each week. I'm about out of time. I gotta go finish up Kim's Christmas gifts. You gotta go finish up some Christmas gifts and we'll see you at next time where we'll do it, build it and make it again. A big thanks to the Make It Mafia. We love you guys. That is the best community over there. 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