Metal stamping is one of the hottest trends in metal jewelry. Customize your jewelry with the convenient Stamped Metal Jewelry eBook and video download bundle!
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. Grab the Stamped Metal Jewelry bundle now and customize fun and beautiful jewelry tomorrow!
Introduction
Materials and Tools
Tools
Materials
Basic Metalsmithing Techniques
Hammering and Texturing
Cutting and Sawing
Hole Punching
Dapping
Riveting
Oxidizing and Polishing
Annealing
Getting Started Stamping
Safety First!
Set Up Your Work Space
Start Spinning
Projects
Easy Stamped Pendant
ID-Style Bracelet
Stamped Prefabricated Rings
Linked-Shapes Bracelet
Say It on Your Wrist
Wrapped-Link Bracelet
Stamped-Ladder Bracelet
Stamped & Stacked Ring
Textured-Metal Pendant
Leather Cuff
Double Decker Pendant
Silver-Framed Gems Pendant- Kriss Silva
The Crown Jewel- Janice Berkebile
Crisscross Stamped and Riveted Earrings- Lisa Claxton
Bold Stamped and Riveted Beads- Kate Ferrant Richbourg
Snazz-It-Up Pendant with Bail- Kate Ferrant Richbourg
Simply Charming- Tracy Stanley
Riveted Collage Pendant- Tracy Stanley
Full Circle Bracelet- Connie Fox
Gallery
Resources
Basic Wirework Techniques
Contributors
Sources for Supplies
Index
Lisa Niven Kelly is an award-winning wire jewelry artist and a regular contributor to Bead & Button, Art Jewelry, Beadwork, and Step-by-Step Jewelry magazines. She has been teaching beadwork and wirework nationally for more than 15 years. Lisa is a the founder of Beaducation.com, a groundbreaking source for online step-by-step video jewelry-making classes and a source for wirework and metal stamping tools and supplies.