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Sara Richardson used stamped resin beads in her Culture Cuff. They’re not words, but they send a clear message: we love you, yeah, yeah, yeah! |
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Adirondack® Acrylic Paint Dabbers are a mess-free way to apply color to your stamps. |
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Mixed-media messages
Découpage is a way to adhere flat layers
to a surface, with an easy-to-find craft store gel medium. It's a
great method to wrap your worthy words around tube beads, to string
into unique message jewelry. Fabric transfer also makes special
jewelry: anything in fabric seems to me to be an instant heirloom, and
stitching is such a marvelous textural detail.
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Text Beads by Belinda Spiwak show mysterious torn pieces of writing découpaged onto ceramic beads. |
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The Passionate Egg by Marlene Blessing is a beaded brooch that opens to reveal a poem appliquéd inside. |
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Metal stamping makes a lasting impression
Talk about pounding your message home. Use a hefty brass-head hammer with metal stamps to imprint metal blanks or gently use your fingers to impress the stamp image into polymer or metal clay. Metal stamping tools come in several font styles in complete alphabet kits as well as individually. You can even have your name made as a stamp to add a signature charm to your work.
Word jewelry is an evergreen trend, something we love for years. We’re given baby name bracelets as children, and you can't deny our desire to communicate in other areas of fashion, such as T-shirts! From displays of ownership to phrases meant to inspire or simply entertain, our word jewelry sure tells it all.
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Good Impressions by Lisa Niven Kelly shows you how to personalize precut sterling segments with stamped words and link them together for a special gift. |
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In her Inspire Bracelet, Cindy Wimmer textured a stamped element and wired it with washers. The rough textures really suit the industrial chicness of stamped letters. |
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Learn how you can tell it all! Check out Lisa Niven Kelly's book and DVD combo, Stamped Metal Jewelry. The book is chock-full of how-tos and designs, and the DVD treats you to a video workshop. More fun than I can find words for! |
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Your free project!
Enjoy using your own custom-stamped components in Jean Campbell's square-stitched Eastern Ombre choker project. |
How do you express yourself with word jewelry? Share it here on Beading Daily.