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!
This is our My Silhouettes Necklace, with a very young silhouette subject!
Some Subjects are even younger…
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
Our Handwriting ID Bracelet for Him, with a heartbeatOur 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.
The short answer is: don’t worry. If you can read it, we can use it.
After many years and thousands of images, we’ve seen it all. Our expert artists have developed LOTS of tricks & techniques.
Not only can we bring out the handwriting in just about any image, we’ll painstakingly restore it to ensure sure the handwriting, and your jewelry, will come out great.
Handwriting Ring Made With Your Handwriting, shown with the original handwriting image, where the writing was etched in clay
And, rest assured, if we ever had any issues with the handwriting on your order, we’d reach out to you before making your jewelry. After all, we have a satisfaction guarantee, so we won’t send you anything you won’t love!
Handwriting Military Dog Tag with original handwriting
Send us your image for a free look
Still not sure, or have questions? Just contact us! We’re more than happy to take a look at your images and let you know what we think.
Visitors to our site often ask questions about hand stamped jewelry. We thought this would be a good opportunity to give some answers!
What is Hand Stamping?
Hand stamping is a way of imprinting (debossing) letters, numbers and symbols into metal.
In traditional hand stamping, the artist will position a metal die above the metal and strike it with the hammer, pushing it down into the metal, and leaving an imprint of the end of the die in the metal.
For example, to hand stamp “Emma” into a silver charm, you’d need three stamps: “E”, “m” (used twice, of course!), and “a”.
One at a time, you’d line up a die, and strike it with the hammer to deboss the letter into the charm.
In the end, the result is based on the experience, skill, & care taken by the artist.
Look for finished jewelry that has the lettering placed in a visually pleasing way, with the letters nearly (but not quite perfectly!) spaced & aligned. This gives the piece its handcrafted, organic & personal feel.
Fun fact: This is how the winning teams in the NHL have their names added to the Stanley Cup!
Will the Hand Stamped Letters Fade or Wear Off?
Nope! They are deeply stamped into the metal, and they’ll stand up to many years to wear.
What’s the Difference between Hand Stamping and Engraving?
Engraving involves removing metal to create the words or images. For example, traditional hand engraving involves using a cutting tool to precisely scrape metal away from an object, leaving the words or patterns desired.
Stamping, by contrast, doesn’t remove metal. Instead, the artist will use a hammer and a set of specific metal stamps to create depressions in the metal to create the words, dates, patterns, images, etc. These depressions are usually darkened to create a stronger contrast with the surrounding metal, so that the the message that’s been stamped stands out more clearly.
Questions, comments? Feel free to contact us. We’re here to help!
We can find your previous orders & images so you don’t have to
It’s happened quite a bit, actually.
A customer gets in touch with us really upset, because they’ve lost their personalized jewelry, and they can’t find the original images they sent to us to create the pieces.
No worries!
We can look up your previous orders, and find the images that you sent us
We keep your images & order info on file, so reordering is easy
If you have your previous order number, terrific.
If not, we can track down your order by your name.
You can skip the upload (even if you didn’t lose a file)
When ordering, just reference your previous order, and we’ll use that image.
Questions, comments? Feel free to contact us. We’re here to help!
