Show off your style with sublimation! Make all sorts of custom sublimation jewelry, including earrings, necklaces, and even charm bracelets!
More and more sublimation blanks are coming onto the market and recently I realized that there were a lot of options for jewelry! Sublimation jewelry is a fun way to create matching accessories for your outfits or to show off some of your favorite photos.
In today’s post, we’re going to walk through making four types of sublimation jewelry—dangle earrings, stud earrings, a rhinestone necklace, and a charm bracelet! You can use pretty much any heat press for these, even the Cricut EasyPress Mini!
Watch the Video
Get a video walkthrough of all of the jewelry pieces I made by clicking play below! Or read on for a written tutorial.
Grab the Geometric Pattern Bundle in my Craft Library
For many of these jewelry projects, you may want to use photos. But you can grab this free geometric pattern bundle that I am using on both sets of earrings!
This file can be found in my Free Craft Resource Library. The file number is: S32.
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Printing Your Sublimation Files
You can use whatever images you’d like for your sublimation jewelry. For this project, I sized down my images to be small to fit my different jewelry pieces and I put them all on a single sheet of paper so I wouldn’t waste extra paper.
You can see my posts How to Use Photoshop for Sublimation and How to Use Cricut Design Space for Sublimation if you need a place to start.
I used my Brother sublimation printer for these images. Make sure to reverse your image so that it transfers correctly!
Preparing Your Sublimation Jewelry
All of these projects are prepared the same!
Start by removing the plastic film from the sublimatable surfaces. Every piece of jewelry I bought had a coating, and some where hard to see. I found a weeding hook to be super helpful!
Start by cleaning your blank using some alcohol and a microfiber cloth. You can use a lint roller as well.
Tape your blank (the white sublimation piece) to your transfer using heat-resistant tape or heat-resistant spray adhesive. I found the spray to be a lot easier on these little blanks, but tape works as well.
Press according to the time, temperature, and pressure settings below! Make sure to use butcher paper below and above your project to keep your ink from transferring to your press.
Sublimation Dangle Earrings
Let’s start with these dangle earrings. These have been around for a while but they are super fun to match to your outfit and are super easy to make. These are a great money-maker as well. They aren’t expensive to buy and they are easy to transport to and from craft shows or to ship if you’re selling online.
You can do both sides, one at a time. Press the first side with the blank facing up and the image facing down. Then flip and press the second side.
- Sublimation dangle earrings
- 360°
- 40 seconds
- Medium pressure
To assemble, just use jewelry pliers to add the earring findings to the earrings.
Sublimation Stud Earrings
These little stud earrings would be so cute with little kawaii characters or pictures of the grandkids! These are a bit more difficult to assemble and I didn’t follow their instructions fully.
To start, there is a bag of sublimation pieces and adhesive circles. The sublimation pieces are silver on one side and a sort of shimmery bright white on the other. You’ll want to sublimate that bright white side.
- Sublimation stud earrings
- 385°
- 60 seconds
- Medium pressure
To assemble, I ditched the adhesive circles and just used a tiny drop of super glue instead to seat the sublimation image in the earring back.
And then instead of using glue to adhere the glass cabochon on top of the sublimation image, I used a small dot of UV resin. Yes this is more difficult and requires you to buy a UV resin kit, but I found that the UV resin was completely invisible whereas glue made my image cloudy.
Double-Sided Sublimation Rhinestone Necklace
If you want a little sparkle, there is a lot of rhinestone sublimation jewelry to choose from! I chose this bling necklace which is actually double-sided. Unlike the dangle earrings above, though, you’ll sublimate each disk individually. I did them at the same time.
- Sublimation rhinestone necklace
- 385°
- 60 seconds
- Medium pressure
To assemble, you can use the adhesive circles that come with the necklaces, but I found it easier to use a tiny dot of glue. Glue the disks you sublimated to each side of the necklace, taking care to make sure your images are straight up and down.
Add the chain and you’re done!
Sublimation Charm Bracelet
Finally we have a sublimation charm bracelet! I feel like this would be great for a grandma with photos of all the grandkids or for a mom who always wants to have her littles close to her heart.
For these, there’s just a single sublimation square/heart disk for each charm, three charms in all. I pressed them all at the same time.
- Sublimation charm bracelet
- 385°
- 60 seconds
- Medium pressure
These are super easy to assemble—just peel back the backing on the adhesive piece inside each charm.
Place your sublimated image for each and you’re good to go!
Hope you felt inspired by this post to make your own sublimation jewelry! I would love to hear what sort of projects you’re making with sublimation down in the comments.
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