Jewelry Classes with Jen offers high quality detail-oriented online jewelry classes you can afford.
You just found a practical guide for learning how to make your handmade jewelry look professional right from home!
What is important in making jewelry?
Quality craftsmanship is key. The difference is in the details.
Jewelry Classes with Jen offers the online classes you need to learn how to make professional looking handmade jewelry you are proud to wear and show off to your friends – or even sell.
With our online classes you can learn how to make jewelry at home …
You only need a small selection of hand tools and a well-lit, durable work surface to participate.
The online classes in the JCWJ Learning Center feature a curriculum that is designed to help you grow from basic beading and jewelry assembly and blossom into creating stylish artisan jewelry using copper, silver and even some gold if you like.
The fundamental skills you learn will create a solid foundation you can use to make fabulous jewelry. And if you decide to continue with more serious silversmithing (which requires large, expensive equipment and commercial torches) these techniques will give you a leg up.
Hi! I’m Jen.
I have a unique ability to envision 3-D design. Yep, I’m one of those people who can look at blueprints and see the building in my mind.
Why should you care?
Because I also have a great talent for using that gift to design jewelry and explain in detail how you can make it.
Historically speaking, artisans spend their career developing techniques that set their work apart. But I believe my purpose is to share my jewelry design system and the forming techniques that support crafting consistent components. My primary goal is to foster your creativity through providing a framework that makes it easy for you to explore your potential.
I’ve utilized my unique strengths to create a process virtually anyone can use to draft a custom pattern for making jewelry components. Then use targeted forming techniques to follow that pattern and make multiple pieces with consistent results easily.
With this approach, the time it takes to go from idea to a functional sample is reduced from days of trial and error to mere minutes.
Imagine the possibilities!
To unlock your jewelry design ability, you’ll need to understand my approach …
That’s why I created the Jewelry Classes with Jen Online Learning Center.
My technique isn’t something you can learn in a single workshop like traditionally offered in the jewelry making world.
It’s a complete system based on accruing measurement reference and supporting forming fundamentals you’re unlikely to learn anywhere else.
So, I created this affordable online platform to give you access to an ever-growing library of lessons that provide you with a solid foundation and help expand the potential of your creativity.
Whether you have previous experience or not, you’ll find the practical advice and detailed lessons in the Learning Center to be highly valuable.
To help guide your learning in a manner that makes sense and connects the dots along the way, there are 3 outlines you can follow.
Where are you at in your jewelry making journey?
Just getting started with making jewelry? Have no fear! We’ve got you covered.
Check out our Beginner Jewelry Making Journey – Build your Foundation …
This journey is perfect for a complete novice or anyone who feels like they could use a comprehensive review of jewelry making basics. It starts with basic assembly, where all you need is just 2 pairs of jewelry pliers. You’ll love the detail offered in these lessons! In no time, you’ll confidently be opening and closing jump rings. Then you can assemble some trendy jewelry like chain necklaces for stacking or explore the art of chain maille.
Once you break the ice with jewelry assembly, I guide you through jewelry making projects that help you grow your skills in tandem with collecting the tools and supplies you’ll need. This way, you won’t have to spend a lot of money right out of the gate. You get the opportunity to see if you enjoy making jewelry before jumping in with both feet.
Take a closer look at our beginner jewelry making journey now …
Looking to improve your forming skills and create patterns for consistent results?
Our Signature Course: Measuring Charts Made Easy is perfect for you!
If it’s a challenge to make earrings that match, or jewelry with a consistent repetitive link, then you will love Measuring Charts Made Easy.
This online course guides you in creating your very own jewelry design reference binder. You’ll learn how to craft a variety of jewelry components AND how to customize them to suit your design needs. It’s like creating your very own recipe book for jewelry designs.
This is the foundation for my unique approach to making consistent components. This course will prepare you for creating more elaborate patterns in future lessons and ultimately your own designs. Plus, the course provides over 15 stylish projects to make as you learn.
Discover the fabulous projects you can make using just 2 simple design elements …
Seeking innovative designs for clasps and other components to make versatile jewelry?
The Make it Modular Journey for Intermediate Jewelers is a great choice for you.
This series features lessons to create a collection of versatile segments, focals, bracelets and necklaces that can be mixed and matched for a wide array of styling options.
These unique designs offer the experienced DIY jewelry maker an overview of the power my jewelry design system offers as you explore how universal components and connections can work together for making modular jewelry.
While some of the lessons in this journey are appropriate for beginner makers, the key components are based on the Measuring Charts Made Easy system – so it’s recommended you complete the Signature Course as a prerequisite.
Membership to the Jewelry Classes with Jen Online Learning Center gives you access to all 3 of these jewelry making journeys, with a universal focus on what’s important when it comes to making jewelry.
While each path provides a suggestion for the order you view the content, the lessons often overlap or tie in with each other, always providing the important details you need to craft with quality in mind.
For instance, many of the fundamental lessons from the Build your Foundation beginner journey are referenced in the signature course Measuring Charts Made Easy content. They’re used to assemble the components into fabulous pieces of jewelry.
And clasps in the Make it Modular series often incorporate the measuring chart methods from the Measuring Charts Made Easy series. (You get the idea.)
Whichever lesson you are watching has the related content linked below the video, so you can be sure to know how to make your handmade jewelry look professional.
Even if you select a lesson out of order, it’s easy for you to find supporting lessons and related content. Like an impromptu demo in a live class, I have various fundamental skills filmed – only the bonus in the Learning Center is that they’re available for you to watch as needed. These videos include the jewelry making knowledge that’s so important for making quality-crafted pieces.
Get started with our online classes and gain confidence in your ability to make handmade jewelry that looks professional today …
Want to sample our online jewelry classes before you join?
Discover the premium quality of our instruction and get started making jewelry like a pro now with our free lessons!
The details are important when it comes to making quality-crafted jewelry.
I will show you how to grasp the material with your tools and precisely where to apply pressure to yield specific results. Plus, I openly share tips and tricks that only come from years of experience.
It’s amazing how burs a goldsmith uses for finishing prongs can be transformed into a hand tool by simply mounting them in a hand-held pin vise to quickly finish the ends of the wire you’re using. And there is so much more! I love to offer the elusive answers that help you make jewelry that will wear well and stand the test of time.