Metal Clay Blog
Bead Dreams Metal Clay Winner 2015
I’ve just learned that I’ve won first place in the Bead Dreams 2015 contest metal clay category! I’m so excited and thrilled! Every year the Bead and Button Show holds the Bead Dreams contest. It’s been a few years since I’ve entered. This year I entered some of my new work based on a recurring
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Metal Clay Essentials Eyebrow Brushes
Metal Clay Essentials Eyebrow Brushes by Patrik Kusek Share this Image On Your Site Please include attribution to patriksstudio.com with this graphic.
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Metal Clay Essentials – Drinking Straws
5 Indispensable ways to use straws in metal clay by Patrik Kusek Share this Image On Your Site Please include attribution to patriksstudio.com with this graphic.
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Metal Clay Essentials – Exacto Blades
Metal Clay Essentials 5 Great things to do with Exacto blades in metal clay Share this Image On Your Site Please include attribution to patriksstudio.com with this graphic.
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A wonderful new resource for metal clay
Starting today at Noon EST a new resource for metal clay goes live! The Go To place for metal clay. Join today! Many thanks to Terry and Corrin for creating this wonderful group! https://www.facebook.com/groups/metalclaynow/
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What’s your story? Part 2, The need – marketing
Last week I told my personal story, my business partner Roxanne Goodfellow has her own story. Together we have our story, the MiraVos SF story. So what is your story? Not only your personal story but your marketing story. Your marketing story tells people both visually and verbally what you or what your company is
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What is your story?
With the launch of my new jewelry line MiraVos SF some of you had questions about marketing, branding, graphic design and web design. I do have a background in graphic design. As a matter of fact I’ve spent my entire professional career in the creative industry in one way or another. In the 80’s I
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Sand Casting Silver Jewelry
I’ve been busy designing a NEW project to add to my upcoming workshop on sand casting jewelry. Sand casting is perfect for making one-of-kind designs. However not only can you recycle scrap silver, PMC etc but you can use one master pattern to create many different iterations of the original design. The technique is
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Learn sand casting and recycle your scrap silver
Learn sand casting and recycle your scrap silver I just re-posted a workshop that I’m teaching at The Ranch Center for Arts and Crafts in Snohomish, WA near Seattle. Learn how to use your old scrap silver to make new jewelry by sand casting. A low entry cost, easy way to make real silver cast
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Rust prevention in the jewelry studio
During the beginning part of every year I preform my usual ritual of studio tool maintenance and studio clean up. Although maintenance on some tools and equipment happens year round, the start of year usually leaves me extra time to do some serious cleaning. This year I noticed that some of my tools had garnered
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Playing with fire on CraftCast!
Reviewing my notes for my new CraftCast class. This one is going to fun! Learn how to use scrap silver in sand casting to make new jewelry! You learn the basic tools needed to get started wax carving and sand casting. Not into wax carving? You’ll learn what other materials you can use to make
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Join me, Alison and a host of others tonight on CraftCast for…
Don’t miss tonight’s FREE LIVE online webinar, I LOVE Tools #5 Join us at 7:30pm ET Click HERE to register. Even if you can’t make it, make sure and register so you get a link to the recording. You will get to see some amazing tools plus get lots of coupon codes to use for
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Prepping for my metal clay narrative frames workshop at Rio
Working on the final details of my Narrative Frames Workshop at Rio Grande. We are gonna work with metal clay AND resin! There might be a spot or two left. Check here for the latest info. If you are in my workshop don’t forget to bring images to put inside your frames! Bring images in
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50 Texture made with a ball stylus, polymer or metal clay
I found this great little video on YouTube by Aniko of My Mandarin Ducky. www.mandarin-duck.com She has wonderful videos on polymer clay and a great Etsy shop with polymer clay tutorials. Check it out this video on how to make textures using a ball stylus. There are 50 designs!
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What is difference between gold plating and vermeil? and the color of gold
While you are out holiday shopping you might find this info interesting when you buy gold. Of course from Rio Grand! Mark Nelson describes the different colors you can achieve using various gold alloys. Plus he talks about the different types of gold plating and the legal definition of Vermeil. Thanks to Martha for suggesting
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Death has never looked so beautiful
Last night I heard a wonderful lecture by Paul Koudounaris PhD. author of Empire of Death and his new book Heavenly Bodies, Spectacular Jeweled Skeletons. Who knew these wonderful masterpieces existed? I was first introduced to Paul’s work when I stumbled upon his first book Empire of Death last year in the book shop at
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