Stamped Metal Jewellery - Creative Techniques & Designs for making Custom Jewellery
By Lisa Niven Kelly
Softback - 136 page - full colour book with DVD
July 2010 - Metal Stamping is one of the hottest trends in metal jewellery. Using Metal Punches/Stamps and Sterling Silver/Metal Blanks, you can personalise your metal jewellery designs and creative designs. Lisa Niven Kelly, creator of the BeasUCation Workshops, specialises in the technique and has been teaching Stamping for more than 6 years to enthusiastic Students. although Stamping is a simple technique, the right tools and skills will help you create professional and exiting results. "Stamped Metal Jewellery" teaches multiple metal stamping and texturing techniques, and the projects incorporate wire-work and metalsmithing to create fabulous necklaces, beads, charms, bracelets, cuffs and earrings. The book opens with an extensive section on Stamping, Wire-work and metalsmithing tools and techniques, 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, Oxidising and more. In addition to Lisa's projects, the book features contributions by known guest artists, Tracy Stanly, Kriss Silva, Lisa Claxton, Kate Richbourg, Janice Berkenbile and Connie Fox.
MEASURES 8.5 X 9"