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Creating a Personalized Cameo Necklace with your Kids’ Photos

Learn how to take the perfect photo to create a personalized cameo necklace of your loved one

Cameo jewelry has been around for centuries. A piece of jewelry that has the profile of some famous or mythical female is great. But what if you could get the profile of YOUR favorite person?

At Heart On Your Wrist, our cameo necklace that does just that.

Just send us an image of your loved one(s), and we’ll create a piece of silver jewelry from it.

Here are some ideas on how to take a picture that will make a great cameo piece of jewelry. If you have any questions, just contact us, and we’ll be happy to help you take the right photo, or choose from the photos you might already have.

How to take a great picture for a cameo

A photo from ear level against a plain background will make a great cameo

Take the photo directly from the side, at ear level
Have your subject look straight out to the side, not down
Take your picture against a plain background
With longer hair, consider putting it in a ponytail or a bun
Send us the full resolution image, so we can capture every detail

The most important thing is to get your subject from the side, so his or her facial features are distinct. You’ll want to take the photo directly from the side, at ear level, not from above. If your subject is facing the camera, you won’t capture the outline of their face.

With small children, it’s best for the photographer to get down (or raise the child up) to be able to shoot from about their ear level.

If you have a squirmy baby that won’t hold still, it can be easier to take a photo while they’re sleeping. (This tip works with oppositional teens, too 🙂

Have your subject look straight ahead, not down, so that you have a more distinct chin line.

Try to take your picture against a plain background, so that your subject’s facial features are clear.

If your subject has longer hair, consider putting it in a ponytail or a bun, so that you can see the outline of the head better.

Then, just send us the full resolution image, and we can get to work creating your cameo.

Questions, comments? Feel free to contact us. We’re here to help!

How Many Words Can I Put on My Handwriting Jewelry Piece?

We don’t have a limit but we do try to provide guidelines on what we recommend on the product page.

The more words you put on a charm, the smaller the handwriting ends up. But many words in small handwriting can still look really nice on a charm.

(NOTE: we will always reach out to you with options if we think your handwriting might not come out in a way that would make you absolutely thrilled.)

For example, we have done one large word on a silver handwriting guitar pick and it looked great.

Guitar pick (with jump ring added so the customer could put is on a necklace)

We also did an entire letter on a pick and while the writing was small, it was readable and looked amazing.

Silver Guitar Pick with Your Handwriting, shown with original handwriting

If you are unsure if something will fit on a charm, or want to know the best options, just send it to us. We’re more than happy to take a look!

Questions, comments? Feel free to contact us. We’re here to help!

Creating Personalized Silhouette Jewelry with Your Own Photos

Silhouette jewelry is a unique style of personalized jewelry that allows you to capture an image of your favorite person or people (or even pet), and turn it into a truly meaningful and unique keepsake.

You send us an image of your loved one(s), and we’ll create a piece of silver jewelry from it.

Here are some ideas on how to take a picture that will make a great piece of silhouette jewelry. If you have any questions, just contact us, and we’ll be happy to help you take the right photo, or choose from the photos you might already have.

How it works

Our expert digital artists painstakingly select the person or people from your photo, then create a version that’s completely black. Next, we remove the background and replace it with white. Getting the details just right is essential to make sure the final silhouette piece captures your subject’s unique qualities.

Then, we take that silhouette and etch/engrave it onto the charm that you’ve chosen, and use that to create your one-of-a-kind piece of jewelry.

The image at the top of this post is our My Silhouettes Necklace, but we can also put your silhouette on just about any product that we sell, including key chains (popular gifts for dad) & charm bracelets.

photo of a family, and a silhouette of the photo on a sterling silver key chain — Show off your beautiful family with their silhouette on a sterling silver key chain

How to take a great picture for a silhouette

The silhouette will capture the outline of your subject. Ideally, your subject will be standing at your level, against a fairly uniform background. Having arms or legs a little away from the body will make for a silhouette that captures the subject’s distinct outline.

The subject has her legs & arms slightly away from her sides. By turning her head, we also get some of her hair & facial features in our silhouette

You can encourage your subject to get a little crazy. These can make for great silhouettes, and that really capture your child’s spirit.

If you keep your arms too close to your sides, you’ll get something like this. Maybe not the most exciting silhouette?

Encourage your subject to relax a bit and have fun!

If you’re not sure which image would work best, just ask us. We’ll be happy to look at the images you have and help you decide.

Questions, comments? Feel free to contact us. We’re here to help!

Jewelry for Expecting Moms & Dads – Ultrasounds & More!

We create a lot of jewelry for moms — a necklace with their kids’ names in their own handwriting, or a child’s special drawing on a bracelet, or with the kiddos’ names stamped on a key ring.

But we’ve also had the chance to craft some jewelry for expecting moms. We have wonderfully creative customers, and they’ll ask us questions, like:

If you can put a kid’s drawing on a charm, can you put another kind of image on there?

The answer is heck yes!

I thought we’d share a few fun examples of some pieces we’ve created over the years.

Your ultrasound – on a necklace!

Sterling silver necklace with a silhouette of a baby in an ultrasound, shown with the original ultrasound image — This is our My Silhouettes Necklace, with a very young silhouette subject!

Some Subjects are even younger…

Image of an embryo, enhanced and etched onto a sterling silver heart charm to make a necklace — Our Your Baby’s Footprints on a Heart Necklace. But for this one, the expecting customer wanted us to enhance & etched an ultrasound of their embryo from their ultrasound

Heartbeats on jewelry looks great, too

Sterling Silver Handwriting ID Bracelet, etched with a baby's heartbeat — Our Handwriting ID Bracelet for Him, with a heartbeat

Silver Money clip with heartbeat etched on it — Our sterling silver Handwriting/Artwork Money Clip, but personalized with your baby’s heartbeat

Have an idea for YOUR personalized piece of jewelry? Let us know! We love working with customers to create that perfect piece that’s most meaningful to them.