Posts tagged with 'metal'

  • Become a Metal Master at B&B

    POSTED BY TAMMY POWLEY, OCTOBER 25 2007 08:00 AM | PERMALINK

    The Bead & Button Show has announced some of the master jewelry classes that will be offered at the next show, and one of them includes a class with the metal master himself, Tim McCreight:

    Direct Casting: Ancient Methods for Contemporary Work

    This energetic and unusual workshop will explore ancient casting techniques as a way to develop skills in thinking three dimensionally. Working with pewter, you will focus on low-tech approaches including charcoal, cuttlefish, and sand casting, all of which...

  • Jewelry Visions Awarded

    POSTED BY TAMMY POWLEY, OCTOBER 22 2007 08:00 AM | PERMALINK

     

     

    Do you have jewelry vision? Are you a top-notch designer waiting to be recognized for your fabulous jewelry designing talents? Then you are the perfect person to enter the MJSA Vision Awards Design Competition. MJSA stands for Manufacturing Jewelers and Suppliers of America, and every year they run this huge awards competition. Pictured above left is one of the 2007 award winners:

    2nd Place
    Palladium Distinction
    Nina Basharova of New York City

    “Rock Candy Ring” in 950 palladium with black...

  • Metal Metallics Beading Wires

    POSTED BY TAMMY POWLEY, OCTOBER 17 2007 08:00 AM | PERMALINK

     

     

    Even if you don't normally feel like a metal chik, maybe you are more of a bead-a-cious babe, you can still get your metallics on with metallic beading wire. All the three big beading wire giants now make some very cool metallic colored beading wire, so you can match up your copper or brass beads with stringing medium to match. Pictured is Metallics by the Soft-Flex Company.

     

     

    Then there's Beadalon's answer to metal wire with their silver colored wire pictured here. Beadalon does not sell...

  • Metal Chik #8: Very Vintage

    POSTED BY MICHAEL GLENN, OCTOBER 15 2007 12:00 PM | PERMALINK

    The vintage look is hot right now. This week we're going to take a look at a fabulous art nouveau collection and get some ideas on how to accessorize - vintage style!

  • Metal Chik #9: Hot Glass and Cold Enamel

    POSTED BY MICHAEL GLENN, OCTOBER 11 2007 12:00 PM | PERMALINK

    It’s all about enamel! This week we’re going to take another look at Peggy’s fabulous collection, this time focusing on enamel. Then we’re going to show you a way of recreating this look that’s simple, modern and a lot of fun.

  • Get Wired on DVDs

    POSTED BY TAMMY POWLEY, OCTOBER 10 2007 08:00 AM | PERMALINK

     

     

    Sharilyn Miller has some excellent new wire jewelry DVDs out: Rings of Beauty and Tribal Treasures. You can pretty much guess what you'll learn to make on the first DVD, rings - lots and lots of different rings using wire and also some beads here and there. The other DVD shows how to make a wonderful "tribal" style bracelet.

     

     

    Sharilyn, who you probably know from her jewelry books and time spent as an editor over at Somerset Studios, shows how to make a bracelet that looks more like an...

  • Beads Change Lives

    POSTED BY TAMMY POWLEY, OCTOBER 09 2007 08:00 AM | PERMALINK

    Many of us already know that the pleasure we find beading and making jewelry brings us a lot of self-confidence, but it probably isn't something you really think about on a day to day basis until you hear a story like this from the blog, A Little Something,which documents the beading experience of a small group of female refugees now living in the US. This is an excerpt from an essay, entitled "Eight Dollars," which you'll find on the blog. It's written by Sharon McCreary, who works with this...

  • Metal Chik #7: Baubles, Beads and Bright Shiny Things

    POSTED BY LINDSEY CHEN, OCTOBER 08 2007 12:00 PM | PERMALINK

    Adam drew his inspiration from 80’s-era Jean Paul Gaultier when he chose beads to design a necklace with beads from Beadaliferous, New York City’s bead shopping paradise. Watch as Adam gives a modern day feel and gives us tips and a how to demo on creating a beaded necklace.

  • Beading 101...and some beaded works of art!

    POSTED BY VICTORIA TILLOTSON, OCTOBER 08 2007 12:00 PM | PERMALINK

     

    Victoria's Double Flame Earrings with Amethyst and Topaz Beads

    I am probably the only jeweler on earth who knows almost nothing about beading! For me, beading is all about adding a little sparkle to my otherwise all-metal jewels, as in the earrings above. So although I use some of the techniques that Adam showed in our metalchik how-to this week, I was excited to learn more about the fundamentals!


    Adam did such a great job explaining everything that I feel that I only need add a couple...

  • Mad Metal Chain on the Cheap

    POSTED BY TAMMY POWLEY, OCTOBER 03 2007 08:00 AM | PERMALINK

     

     

    In video episode number 4, Victoria brought us on a virtual shopping trip to Metalliferous. Along with some cool tools, she showed us the yards and yards of chain you can bug there by the foot. I love working with chain. It's a super easy way to make jewelry, and today, the whole "link look" is really popular.

    If you've been thinking of branching out into chain but aren't ready to make a huge investment yet, one option is your local craft store. You'd be amazed at how many jewelry...