Kindle ã Stamped Metal Jewelry Û Lisa Niven Kelly
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 Stamped Metal PDFEPUB or website specializes in the techniue and has been teaching stamping for than six years to enthusiastic students Although stamping is a simple techniue the right I have wanted a copy of Stamped Metal Jewelry by Lisa Niven Kelly since it first came out in 2010 At the BeadButton Show we had the extreme pleasure of being kitty corner from Beaducation Fortunately and unfortunately this meant that I had to walk by each and every time I took a break Fortunate because I love them Unfortunate because I could spend a pretty penny in their booth I broke down on the last day of the show and bought this book as well as some other stamping supplies The book is full of inspiring design ideas for making your own custom jewelry She covers a range of techniues such as hammering texturing cutting sawing hole punching dapping riveting oxidizing polishing annealing and stamping FunFrom the back cover Using metal stamps and sterling silver blanks your jewelry can be personalized with words textures and creative designs
Lisa Niven Kelly Û Stamped Metal Jewelry Book
Stamped Metal JewelryTools and skills will help you create professional and exciting results Stamped Metal Jewelry teaches multiple metal stamping and texturing techniues 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 techniues With these skills you can begin the inspiring jewelry designs with confidenceN A few weeks ago I picked up a metal stamping kit so I suppose it was inevitable I'd end up reading this book I'm disappointed though there's nothing here someone who's even heard of metal stamping won't already know in terms of techniues and though the design ideas do serve to demonstrate those techniues most of them—well if you saw them on Etsy and let's be honest here you're going to try to sell your crap on Etsy at some point you wouldn't exactly stop scrollingI wouldn't call this a bad book I guess but for the money you're much better off just watching a few tutorial videos on Youtube for free and since at least one of them will be Niven Kelly's showing your gratitude by buying some overpriced supplies on her website I'm told their stamps are good; I own some but I haven't had a chance to compare them yet