Rubber Stamped Jewelry
Rubber Stamped Jewelry

Author: Sharilyn Miller

Publisher: North Light Books

Published: 2003-09-23

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 9781581803846

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A world of creative jewelry design at your fingertips! Now you can combine the self-expressive qualities of rubber stamping with the elegance of jewelry-making. It's easier than you think! Sharilyn Miller provides all of the tips and techniques you need inside. She clearly illustrates the basics of jewelry-making, then provides step-by-step guidelines for creating beautiful embellishments with rubber stamps and easy-to-find materials, including polymer clay, decorative fibers, shrink plastic, foam, copper and glass. You'll also find 20 exciting wearable art projects, complete with easy-to-follow instructions and attractive full-color photographs. Throughout, Miller helps you craft imaginative, attractive pieces of jewelry that are ready to wear or give as gifts!

Making Metal Jewelry
Making Metal Jewelry

Author: Jen Cushman

Publisher: North Light Books

Published: 2013-01-10

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9781440322563

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Stamp, forge, form and fold your way to stunning metal jewelry! Discover the stunning beauty inherent in asymmetry, raw edges, rust and an intimate story as you explore the manipulation of metal your way. Jen Cushman will lead you step-by-step through 21 projects that unleash metal's wonderful potential for a style that is delightfully imperfect and organic. Even if you've never wielded a hammer before, Making Metal Jewelry will have you creating jewelry pieces you'll be proud to wear this weekend! Everything you need to know to get started right away awaits you inside. Explanations of different types of metal, wire, patinas, metalworking tools, soldering basics and more. Complete step-by-step instruction for a variety of jewelry pieces including earrings, rings, bracelets, necklaces and pendants. Inspiring variations on several of the projects, and online links to additional project ideas. Begin your new relationship with metal today. Let Making Metal Jewelry unleash your metalworking potential and start creating jewelry that's authentically you.

Wrap, Stitch, Fold & Rivet
Wrap, Stitch, Fold & Rivet

Author: Mary Hettmansperger

Publisher: Lark Books

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 1600591256

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Making gorgeous handcrafted jewelry can be an amazingly simple process that even beginners will quickly master--as long as they have this guide by their side. Written by an experienced artist and teacher, and generously illustrated with attractive how-to photos and drawings, it demonstrates a wealth of easy techniques in superb detail. Twenty dazzling projects--including a twisted wire choker, bangle bracelet, bead pod pin, and mixed metal earrings-- are created by wrapping, stitching, and folding metal, and by making cold connections with basic screws, bolts, pop rivets, eyelets, brads, and nails. Sophisticated photographs of each piece highlight its rich textures and visual complexity. Would-be jewelers will love this--and beaders, memory crafters, and anyone eager to explore metal jewelry will want it, too!

The Crafty Chica Creates!
The Crafty Chica Creates!

Author: Kathy Cano Murillo

Publisher:

Published: 2022-01-04

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 0760372187

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The Queen of Latina Style, Kathy Cano Murillo, is back with fantastic art and craft projects—including brand-new ideas and previous favorites—in The Crafty Chica Creates.

Stamp Artistry
Stamp Artistry

Author: Rice Freeman-Zachery

Publisher: Quarry Books

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 9781610594653

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Rubber-stamping is one of the most exciting artistic techniques because its applications are virtually limitless. No matter what medium they work in, artists and decorators continue to find new and exciting ways to incorporate rubber-stamping into beautiful, one-of-a-kind creations using simple techniques. Stamp Artistry showcases the innovative techniques and cutting-edge materials being used in stamping. This collection of creative projects will inspire you and teach you how to combine stamps with fabric, leather, beading, clay, metal, glass, and more to create artwork for every part of your life. Covering the gamut of rubber-stamping know-how -- from basic tools to professional tips to an extensive resource listing -- as well as complete step-by-step instructions for every project, this how-to guide is a must have for artists who want to incorporate the latest techniques and trends in their work. Book jacket.

Bead Meets Metal
Bead Meets Metal

Author: Kay Rashka

Publisher: Kalmbach Books

Published: 2013-04-22

Total Pages: 97

ISBN-13: 0871167786

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Come take the journey with Kay as she shows you how to begin adding soldering, dapping, sawing, and other skills from the metalsmith’s repertoire into your beading. Kay’s projects will also show beginner metalworkers how to incorporate the rich, colorful, sumptuous look that semiprecious beads bring to metal jewelry. These necklaces, earrings, bracelets, and pendants present such a complete range of techniques, all fully and beautifully illustrated with step-by-step photos. You’ll be amazed at the eye candy you can create!

Stamped Metal Jewelry
Stamped Metal Jewelry

Author: Lisa Niven Kelly

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2013-03-10

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 1620333198

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Metal stamping is one of the hottest trends in metal jewelry. Using purchased metal stamps and sterling silver blanks, you can personalize your metal jewelry designs with words, textures, and creative designs. Lisa Niven Kelly, creator of the online Beaducation workshops and website, specializes in the technique and has been teaching stamping for more than six years to enthusiastic students. Although stamping is a simple technique, the right tools and skills will help you create professional and exciting results. Stamped Metal Jewelry teaches multiple metal stamping and texturing techniques, and the projects incorporate wirework and metalsmithing to create fabulous necklaces, beads, charms, bracelets, cuffs, and earrings. The book opens with an extensive section on stamping, wirework, and metalsmithing tools and techniques. With these skills, you can begin the inspiring jewelry designs with confidence. Nineteen projects cover a variety of techniques and designs such as creating charms, incorporating stamped links into beaded projects, making stamped links from flat wire and wire-wrapping them together, stamping on blanks and layering them, riveting, texturing metal, oxidizing, and more. In addition to Lisa's projects, the book features contributions by nationally known guest artists Tracy Stanley, Kriss Silva, Lisa Claxton, Kate Richbourg, Janice Berkebile, and Connie Fox.

Soldered Alchemy
Soldered Alchemy

Author: Laura Beth Love

Publisher: Fons & Porter Books

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9781440243523

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Wire wrapping and soft soldering come together for jewelry-making magic! For too long, solder has been an afterthought in jewelry-making - used only for bezels and connections - but not anymore! In Soldered Alchemy, you'll learn new, creative ways to make solder the starring element of your jewelry. Twenty-four gorgeous projects with detailed photos walk you through the basics of decorative solder, bridging wire with solder, adding copper or vintage patinas and more.

New Stamped Metal Jewelry
New Stamped Metal Jewelry

Author: Lisa Kelly

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2017-05-22

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1632505045

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Cutting-edge stamping techniques and designs! Since the publication of Lisa Niven Kelly's first book on metal stamping, the craft has undergone a revolution, with more design stamps available than ever before. This hotly-anticipated followup, authored together with Taryn McCabe, gives you even more new ways to create personalized stamped jewelry. Inside you will learn fresh techniques such as mandala stamping, and find patterns for more than 20 projects: a trendy chevron necklace, chandelier earrings, garden-themed cuff, and more. Easy-to-follow, full color step-by-step photos accompany all basic techniques, as well as the jewelry projects, to guide your way. Discover the unique looks you can achieve working with a variety of metals--silver, copper and brass--while advancing your metalsmithing skills. Whether you're new to metal stamping or your hammer is in need of fresh inspiration, New Stamped Metal Jewelry has the instruction and inspiration you're looking for.