We create beautifully crafted memorial jewellery, designed to preserve life’s most precious moments.
Our collections of Ashes Jewellery and Fingerprint Jewellery are lovingly handmade in Shropshire, UK, using sterling silver and solid gold. Whether holding a loved one’s cremation ashes, capturing the unique detail of a fingerprint, or preserving a baby’s delicate handprint or footprint - or a cherished pet’s pawprint - our jewellery is individually made to order, to keep them close, always.
Our carefully considered collections include fingerprint, handprint and ashes charms, necklaces, bracelets, rings, keyrings and cufflinks - each piece a refined expression of love. Designed with quiet significance and crafted to last, this is jewellery created to hold your memories forever.
Our Paws & Presence collection contains a selection of beautiful pet memorial jewellery made using your pets own paw-prints, hair and cremation ashes. We can also make any of our handprint jewellery designs with a pawprint, and any of our ashes designs are suitable for pet ashes.
Our new carefully curated collection of Stainless Steel fingerprint, handprint and pawprint jewellery is designed to be durable and affordable, perfect for thoughtful gifting and everyday wear.
We only require a small pinch of cremation ashes to create your memorial jewellery.
After you place your order, we will send a simple collection kit containing a wooden spoon and a sealable bag, so you can gather the ashes easily at home. We ask for approximately one teaspoon of ashes per piece of ashes jewellery ordered, although only a small amount is used in the making of each item. Any unused ashes are returned to you with your finished jewellery.
Each piece of cremation ashes jewellery is made individually, with the greatest of care. To ensure the integrity of each piece, ashes are handled separately throughout the making process.
At Hold Upon Heart, we’re experts at creating beautiful jewellery from fingerprints, handprints, footprints and pawprints, but you might be wondering how you actually capture your prints.
The good news is that we can work with prints you already have, or we can send you a simple, easy-to-use print kit so you can take them at home. If you’re short on time, we can also work with photos of all types of print - as long as you can zoom in and see detail, we can use it.
Hold Upon Heart is a small, independent business creating beautiful, made-to-order jewellery and gifts in the Ironbridge Gorge, Shropshire, UK. We lovingly transform cremation ashes, fingerprints, baby handprints and footprints, pet pawprints, photographs, and children’s drawings into meaningful keepsakes to be cherished.
With a five-star reputation and a hands-on, personal approach, you can trust us to care for your family’s most precious memories.

I’m Melanie — the maker behind Hold Upon Heart. It’s a small, deeply personal jewellery business built around family, love, memory, and all the little details that matter more than we often realise...

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This Mother’s Day, give more than flowers. Our baby handprint and footprint jewellery preserves those tiny fingers and toes in beautifully handcrafted keepsake jewellery. Gift the experience with a print kit and design photo, then let us turn your baby’s precious prints into something she can wear forever.
Surrounded by the beautiful Shropshire countryside and a trio of boys, Melanie created Hold upon Heart in 2012 with the aim of offering a stand-out collection of highly personalised memorial jewellery, including ashes, fingerprints, handprints and footprints and pet's pawprints, all capturing your cherished moments & telling your family's story. After all, our stories are what make us...