Upcycling Jewellery

Expert upcycler Juliette Goggin teaches you how to upcycle your favourite objects and old jewellery into fabulous new jewellery pieces.

This course will help to inspire you to make some really creative jewellery for yourself and to give as gifts for friends and family.

Making your own jewellery is great fun, and adding some upcycled elements to the process can take the idea to a whole new level.

Each detailed project is accompanied by a step by step video so that you can follow each stage at your own pace. This will help you to get the techniques right each time and explain simply how to use the tools and materials needed for each piece.

You will be inspired to hunt through the broken jewellery that you already have to make new, upcycled, individual pieces. You will also learn how to use other unusual items as the basis for a project and to look again at what you might previously have thought of as just junk.

From these unlikely objects you will learn how to make bespoke bracelets, necklaces, pendants, lockets and brooches with unique individuality and flair, unlike anything you would buy on the High Street. By the end of this one week course you will have made several bespoke, creative jewellery pieces to wear, or give as gifts and the knowledge to make many more in the future.

You will learn some simple, hands on techniques to enable you to make quick and easy projects, as well as some more detailed tasks to make your creations more professional and long lasting. From basic techniques such as attaching jump rings and making wire loops for pendants, to specialised gluing and mastering soldering and drilling.

You'll learn:

• how to make bespoke jewellery
• how to use basic jewellers tools and techniques
• where to find upcycling inspiration
• jewellery findings and how to use them

The course includes:

• 1 on-demand video lesson - presented by Juliette Goggin
• lifetime access to the videos, notes and interactive class
• flexible classes - join and learn when and where you like
• downloadable lesson notes
• practical jewellery upcycling projects (with tutor feedback available)
• access on your mobile, PC, Mac or laptop
• small interactive online classroom - chat online to students from around the world and share your creative ideas

Time to complete the upcycling jewellery course:

Every student is different but in general we think the whole course will take around 3 hours 20 minutes to complete including:

• Video lesson: 20 minutes in total
• Course notes: 30 minutes per lesson
• Your jewellery projects: at least 2 hours
• Interactive classroom time: 15 minutes per lesson
• Tutor feedback review (Expert level): 15 minutes per lesson

Ready to get started?

Just add the course to your basket above - choose the 'Expert' option for personal feedback from Juliette on your jewellery upcycling project and questions.

Any questions? Contact us by clicking on the orange speech symbol - we'd love to hear from you.

Each project lists the required ingredients and tools at the start, however I will encourage you to make substitutions if some elements are hard to find, or if you wish to use your own imagination. Creativity is always encouraged.  There are quite a few projects detailed in this course – so it’s very flexible – you don’t need all of these materials – but if you have some all the better!

- Salt spoon/ spoons

- Silver polish and cleaning cloths

- Jump ring/rings or split rings

- Kilt pin with 2 or 3 loops for attaching jump rings for the kilt pin option

- Silver chain to your preferred length for the pendant option

- Epoxy glue( 2 part glue) such as Araldite

- If you want to solder your finished piece

- Optional Soldering Kit such as Dremel Versatip

- Heatproof mat

- Small clamp, or pliers

- Small paintbrush

- Flux

- Magnifying glass on stand if working with very small pieces.

- Safety goggles

- Ceramic thimble

- Durable work surface, I prefer to use a spare piece of wood placed on the work surface to protect whatever is beneath

- Adhesive putty, (Blu-Tack)

- Electric drill with a very fine, thin drill bit

- Scissors

- Wire (24-gauge beading wire works well)

- Eye Pin

- Wire cutters or wire snips

- Toothpick

- Pliers

- Chain

- Tiny tin with a hinged or press on lid

- Small hole punch, bradawl, or electric drill with a very small drill bit

- 2 eye pins

- Epoxy glue, follow manufacturer’s instructions

- Old plate

- Toothpick or spatula

- Pliers

- Jump ring

- Old chain, ribbon or leather for hanging