Imagine Create Explore Volume 1

You love to be adorned in handmade beautiful mixed media jewelry. The 15 projects in this book chronicle an affair with the shiny, the delicate, the found object renewed, and will whet your craving to mix medias and impress your own artistic statement on bling to wear or give as a gift. Wherever you are on your creative journey to create using jeweler’s grade resin, ephemera, and bezels designed by master metalsmith, artist Susan Lenart Kazmer, the rings, earrings, necklaces will...
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You love to be adorned in handmade beautiful mixed media jewelry. The 15 projects in this book chronicle an affair with the shiny, the delicate, the found object renewed, and will whet your craving to mix medias and impress your own artistic statement on bling to wear or give as a gift. Wherever you are on your creative journey to create using jeweler’s grade resin, ephemera, and bezels designed by master metalsmith, artist Susan Lenart Kazmer, the rings, earrings, necklaces will inspire you to try your hand at these projects. The amazing works that fill “Imagine Create Explore Mixed Media Jewelry Volume 1” were designed by 2011-2012 ICE Resin Creative Team Members Cat Kerr, JoAnnA Pierotti, Michael Jack Putman and Lesley Fisher, Andrea Ring, Tina Schiefer, Kathy Thompson, and Special Project Team Member Cindi Bisson. You’ll delight in a sense of the whimsical, the secrets in a garden, keeping the beauty of a walk on the beach near your heart, the depth of a night filled with starlight, and more. Techniques for adding color and texture to resin, layering objects in a bezel, cold joins, wire work are just a few of the ways to create mixed media jewelry that Cat, JoAnnA, Michael, Lesley, Andrea, Tina, Kathy and Cindi share in Volume 1.