Stamped Metal Jewelry

by Kelly, Lisa Niven

• ISBN13: 9781596681774
• ISBN10: 1596681772
• Edition: DVD
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-07-27
• Publisher: Interweave Pr

Summary

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 Jewelryteaches 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.

Author Biography

Lisa Niven Kelly is an award-winning wire jewelry artist and a regular contributor to Bead & Button, Art Jewelry, Beadwork, and Step-by-Step Wire Jewelry magazines. She has been teaching beadwork and wirework nationally for more than 15 years Lisa is 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.

Table of Contents

Tools

Various stamping tools

Tools for additional jewelry fabrication

Materials

Stamping on precious metals

Stamping on other metals

Set up your workspace and start stamping

Metalsmithing techniques compatible with stamping

Texturing

Sawing

Riveting

Dapping

Hole Punching

Wire Wrapped Links

Oxidizing

Projects

Basic Stamped Pendants - LNK

Linked Shapes - LNK

Id Bracelet - LNK

Say It On Your Wrist - LNK

Stamping on Readymade (prefabricated) rings - LNK

Riveted Prefabricated Shapes - LNK

Leather Plaque bracelet - LNK

Simply Charming - Tracy Stanley

Silver Framed Gems - Kriss Silva

Crisscross Earrings - Lisa Claxton

Wire Wrapped Link Bracelet - LNK

Stamped and Riveted Bail - Kate Richbourg

Collage Pendant - Tracy Stanley

Stamped and Riveted Ring - LNK

Crown Jewels - Janice Berkebile

Stamped Ladder Bracelet - LNK

Riveted Bead - Kate Richbourg

Textured Metal Pendant -LNK

Full Circle cuff bracelet - Connie Fox

Gallery

Resources

Index

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