Stamped Metal Jewelry: Creative Techniques and Designs for Making Custom Jewelry »

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.

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.

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Inspirational mottoes on jewelry are a fun means of self-expression. A few jewelry findings, some flat metal pieces, a hammer, and a collection of metal alphabet stamps are the basic requirements for these projects. Many resemble glorified ID bracelets and dog tags. Kelly, founder of Beaducation.com, demonstrates her teaching skills on the enclosed DVD. Teenagers, in particular, will find this a good introduction to metal crafting.

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