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"You can make anything with wire...It's just a fabulous, fabulous medium." This line at the beginning of Janice Berkebile's new jewelry-making workshop, Easy Wire Stone Capture , sums up how I've been feeling about wire lately. It really is an incredibly versatile medium that can...
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Learn to Mold Epoxy Clay and Stud it with Crystals, Stones and More Epoxy clay is a fun and relatively new jewelry-making material that's so easy to work with! It is known for its adhesive superpowers that allow you to set stones in it or adhere stones to metal (or even metal to metal) with no heat...
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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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How Do I Wub Thee? Let Me Count the Ways I am the first to admit when I'm wrong about something, and God knows I'm not perfect or always right. So, about three or four years ago at Bead Fest, while showing a student how to make a bail for a pendant, I said, "Let me borrow your pliers."...
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Anytime I get a chance to share a stone-cutting or jewelry-making project by Roger Halas, I take it! He's a man of many talents and frequently shares them in Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist magazine. This stone-cutting project is great for the lucky folks who know (or are learning) how to cut gems...
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I always like things that are just as pretty on the back as on the front. I know of several professional jewelry designers who put a secret design or tiny gemstone on their pieces as a special little hidden gift for the wearer alone to know about. Nunn Design's pendant bezels and ring bezels (on...
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Sterling silver has always been my favorite metal to wear, collect, and work with, and like many of you, my fingers are crossed for the day it becomes affordable again (if that ever happens). Meanwhile, I get my little joys from finding a $10 sterling silver fork or cup in an antique store that has been...
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Search for Steampunk on Etsy and you'll find over 215,000 results . . . and 35 million on Google. About two years ago, it was only 70,000 on Etsy and 6.5 million on Google. Wow. Needless to say, Steampunk is not going away anytime soon. But what is Steampunk, anyway? Steampunk gets its name from...
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Here's a favorite post from Jewelry Making Daily archives a couple of years ago. Enjoy! JMD member freshbakeddesigns shared these mismatched earrings in our member gallery. Love the copper heat patina! Several years ago at the AGTA gem show in Tucson, I was shadowing a gem buyer, my friend and mentor...
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This one was way out of my comfort zone, but I had to bring it home. I call it "Leonardo Meets Tim Burton." Do you know what it is? Those of you who have followed my writing on JMD know two things. My absolute passions are writing for JMD and Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist and teaching. Well...
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Setting stones in bezels isn't necessarily hard to do, it just requires more precision and attention to detail than possibly any other jewelry-making technique I can think of, except maybe cutting the stones themselves. Whenever I venture to create a bezel "from scratch," I try to remember...
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I'll be honest: I'd never heard the term " cold connections " until I became the lucky girl editor of Jewelry Making Daily. I'd always just called them connections, cold joins or by their "given" names, like rivets, screws, jump rings etc. Those terms are all still accurate...
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Wouldn't you love to get your hands on this yummy collection of metal jewelry-making components? It's Nunn Design 's 2013 Winter Collection and I'm in love! A bangle bracelet that you can stamp on or embellish with ribbon, crystals, or anything you like; a vial of crystal chatons; a pair...
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I can't think of any one jewelry-making technique that can add as much personality and meaning to your designs as metal stamping , can you? With just a few whacks of the hammer and a set of alphabet metal stamps, you can add any message (love, encouragement, personalization) or milestone date to...