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The Center for Metal Arts is announcing the opening of the Second Annual Charles Lewton-Brain Foldform Competition. The deadline for entries is July 1, 2013. This year the competition is using an online submission form to streamline the process. Visit http://tinyurl.com/d6xbu8b for entry details. 2012...
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Join Jewelry Making Daily for this month's "must-see" webinar with Nina Cooper, owner of jewelry-making supply company Nina Designs! On Thursday, May 23, 11 am PT (12 noon MT, 1 pm CT, 2 pm ET) , Nina will join us LIVE to talk about how she launched her business and how you can too with...
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Happy Earth Day! In honor of our amazing planet, it seems only fitting that we think about ways to "reduce, reuse, recycle" today, and it's easy to do--even in jewelry making! Yes, even jewelry making can be a very environmentally friendly hobby. Antique Shoe Buckle Bracelet by Marilyn...
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Exciting news! One of my favorite jewelry artists and crafters ever , Susan Lenart Kazmer is joining Jewelry Making Daily for a live interactive webinar! On Friday, April 26 at 1pm ET, Susan will join us LIVE to talk about her new cold enameling technique, in Step-by-Step Cold Enameling with Susan Lenart...
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It's funny how our interests change. Each time I sit down to write to you on a particular topic, I think back about what we've discussed about it before, and I find more and more that I am liking techniques I didn't like in the past! Take color and metal, for example. I used to be a purist...
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By Lexi Erickson (Foreign Correspondent) I found bail design inspiration everywhere in Europe, even between the cutouts of the balconies of the Swiss chalets. My most recent trip to Europe was not a pleasure trip (yeah, right) but a "working holiday." My first college degree was a BFA in Art...
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I've been very lucky to have generous mentors throughout my career who've shared their wisdom about jewelry making, metalsmithing, jewelry design, and gemstones. For the past decade, much of what I've learned about fine jewelry design and the jewelry business has come from my dear friend...
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Ever the fan of found-object jewelry, I love seeing jewelry artists who use natural found elements such as shells, twigs, and rocks, etc. when making jewelry. It's the ultimate in upcycling, to pick up something from the ground, something just discarded by nature, and turn it into a work of jewelry...
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Some of Thomas's intricately sawn jewelry designs snapped when he spoke to my metal guild this past summer. One of the most basic metal jewelry artist's tools is the saw. Even beginning metalworkers who don't solder yet will most likely use a jeweler's saw to cut out components for their...
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By Helen Driggs Coyamito Agate (Chihuaha, Mexico) Barlow's Gems. Photo by Jim Lawson. The earth makes beautiful things. With heat, pressure, and time, raw planetary stuff eventually morphs into fantastic minerals of every color, size, and shape. In their natural forms they are unbelievably beautiful...
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399. Three hundred and ninety-nine! That's how many participants (plus me, 400!) are in this Bead Soup Blog Party (the second one for me). I'm so excited to be participating in the Bead Soup Blog Party again! Last time, I discovered some amazing new jewelry artists, made a few new friends, and...
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You guys are so lucky! My favorite metal clay jewelry-making book is included in our big annual Hurt Book Sale, going on now--and it comes with a free metal-clay tutorial DVD so that you can enjoy very visual, detailed one-on-one sculptural metal clay jewelry-making lessons with the author and metal...
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Every time we release a new DVD, I get excited about the new possibilities of being able to have a one-on-one jewelry-making lesson with an expert in jewelry-making techniques. Whether it's soldering, hammering and texturing, etching, electroforming, or wirework, each one is just as fun and informative...
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Versatile. That's the first word that comes to mind when I think of polymer clay jewelry making. The other words that come to mind when I think about making jewelry with polymer clay are forgiving, affordable, colorful, fun, and easy, but the first has to be versatile. Okay I'll just come right...
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Ask any jewelry designer (or designer of most anything, for that matter) what inspires them, and I bet more often than not, they'll say nature. I find myself picking up random things in the wild everywhere I go because they have a neat pattern or texture on them. I bought a particular apple at the...
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