copper wire jewelers - issue 3
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The art and musings of the members of Copper Wire Jewelers.ning.comTRANSCRIPT
Artist Index
Audrey Garden Lady: Page 2 Beadngems: Page 15
Crazy 2 Wear Designs: Page 22 Designed for Time: Page 12
Fine Windings: Page 6 Joy in Wire: Page 16
Karen Olwen Designs: Page 3 KSANDRA Jewelry: Page 22
MDavis Designs: Page 10 Mes illusions Baroques: Page 16
Miss Molly’s Designs: Page 4 M-ixes Jewelry: Page 4
Shaktipaj Designs: Page 21 Sweet Dreams: Page 11
Twisted Sister Creations: Page 11 Wired 4 Style: Page 25
Editor’s Notes: Page 1 I Need My Space!: Page 13 Puzzled by Pricing?: Page 7 Successful Selling: Page 5 Teaching Craft Classes In Your Home: Page 23 Thoughts about Copyright: Page 19 What To Do When Disaster Strikes: Page 17
Article Index
Editor’s Notes
Musings on numerical gymastics, featured articles,
and the new Ning
Lois Linquist ABeadedAffair.com
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A lifelong crafter with expensive taste, jewelry design was a natural move for Lois Linquist. She founded Copper Wire Jewelers in an effort to unite and connect with people who share her passion.
Through her online store, A Beaded Affair, Lois offers high-quality wire, findings, and beads for her fellow artisans’ designs
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Artist: AudreyGardenLady Shop: AudreyGardenLady.etsy.com
Copper is my passion. I love it's deep richness.
My designs are inspired by nature and I adore
using gemstones, yet I strive to keep it affordable.
Every woman should be able to wear gems!
Here are some of my latest designs-Hand crafted
wire wrapped Crosses and bracelets by
AudreyGardenLadyon.etsy .com
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Artist: Karen Olwen Designs Shop: karenolwendesigns.etsy.com
I have had a lifelong love of fantasy
literature and Celtic mythology - elves,
fairies, wee folk, dragons and epic quests
have always captivated my imagination,
and in my jewelry I try to combine this with
my love of nature to create unique and rich
pieces that you won't find anywhere else.
The Elven collar was inspired by Tolkien’s
Lord of the Rings series - it was constructed
with a soldered wire frame as a base, which
was then filled with wire netting. On this ground I
added graceful loops and swirls of wire
accented with rose
quartz beads. I then
oxidized the piece to
bring add depth and
character.
The cuff is a piece fairly
heavy gauge copper
sheet etched with a
beautiful Celtic knotwork
pattern, then oxidized to
highlight the design.
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Artist: M-ixes Jewelry Blog: twitter.com/MixesJewelry Shop: www.m-ixes.eu/
Wrapped Earrings with Copper, .999
Fine Silver and Copper artistic wire.
I formed Circles from 18 gauge Copper
artistic wire, wrapped all together with
24 gauge solid Copper wire, added
some antique Copper and .925 Silver
beads and a faceted 6mm Cubic Zircon
Dangle. The beads alternate, so from
one side the Silver will show more, on
the other side the Copper will show
more. For Closure hooks I formed wires
from .999 Fine Thai Silver. They will
secure in the open loops on the back,
very Safe. The bare Copper will oxidize
and get a nice Patina over time while
the artistic wire keeps it red Copper
shine.
The inspiration for this set comes from a visit to Key West some years ago. I remember worn and peeling paint on rows of pastel colored homes with decks overlooking the ocean. Each peeled-off paint chip was a work of art in itself, revealing years of color upon color as the cottage was reinvented by successive owners. I pictured weathered Adirondack chairs on the back porches where they could sit and drink iced tea as they watched treasure hunters stoop to pick up shells washed up on the shore. With that memory as my inspiration, I wanted to create the same weathered beauty in my jewelry. I started with layers of torch-fired enamel to build up the color on the copper that I chipped off and re-fired, revealing the copper and other color layers underneath the top layer as they all fused together. The result is exactly what I had hoped it would be: a weathered set that is comfortable to wear and is as casual as an afternoon in Key West.
Artist: Molly Alexander Blog:beautifullybrokenme.blogspot.com
Shop: mjalexander386.etsy.com
Successful Selling
Advertise Regularly: The second in a three-part
series on how to build sales and market your shop
Anna Lee Husband OracleGemDesigns.com
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Toronto jewelry designer Anna Lee Husband offers artisan gemstone delights under her Gahooletree, SassyDLite, and Anna Lee
jewelry brands. Anna Lee is a writer, business owner, wife, mom, dog owner, and marketing consultant who earned her Hons. B.B.A. at
Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, ON.
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Puzzled by Pricing?
The top ten pricing mistakes to avoid when it comes to placing
a value on your jewelry.
Danette Steimle FineWindings.com
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Danette Steimle is the designer and owner of Fine Windings located in the stunning Pacific Northwest. Somehow the lush beauty of the area always seems to find its way into her designs, as in the Canopy collection found on FineWindings.com. Danette is a business owner, editor, designer, wife, and mom.
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Copper wire and turquoise beaded pendant
necklace.
Copper wire wrapped around and woven,
adding a few beads, and a coyote, on a
copper chain with copper tube spacers to
form this necklace.
Artist: MDavis Designs Shops: mdavisdesigns.artfire.com
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Artist: Jane Christie Shop: twistedsistercreations.com
Eye-catching...?
This piece is made of a taxidermy
human eye sandwiched between two
pieces of copper sheet (one done with
repousse). The eyebrow is made with
some copper mesh I picked up at a
gardening store. I antiqued the
copper with liver of sulphur and
polished it up with Renaissance wax.
A fun piece, but not everyone's idea of
beauty...but it makes you "look"!!!
The goal of Sweet Dreams
is to create original pieces
that can either be worn, or
framed and hung on a
wall. Heavy metal jewelry -
light metal jewelry
designed to inspire new
dreams - as they reflect
organic images found on
my travels. With my
wonderful black dog by
my side I am sometimes pulled to look at things in the ground,
blown onto fences, or scattered on a beach that I might
otherwise have missed.
Personal wearable art, sculpture and garden art
keeps my husband, my dogs and me very busy -
and always on the look out for something
overlooked.
Artist: Susan-Jillian Smith Email: [email protected]
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Designed for Time
Matching DragonScale weave
bracelet and ear ring.
Artist: Lloyd Braunberger Shop: designedfortime.com Blog: designedfortime.blogspot.com
I Need My Space!
A stained glass & jewelry artisan shares advice on
creating your own work space.
Lois McIntire crystalwandcreations.com
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Lois McIntire specialize in Custom Jewelry, Stained Glass, Computer Aided Designs (CAD), Commissions & Stained Glass Repairs.
Based in Historic Kokomo, Indiana, her work is available from Crystal Wand Creations.
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Our first class will feature
Perri Jackson
Is now offering a series of wire and bead working classes throughout the state of Florida
Beadngems in Florida
Perri will be teaching the Soutache Braid in various levels and projects over the 3 days of classes.
Classes are being held at the Comfort Inn Universal Studios
Friday Evening, Girls Night Out 5 p.m to 9 p.m. October 15, 2010 Class will be Soutache Earrings. Cost of class is $60.00 which includes your kit, instructions and a light snack. Doors open at 4:30 p.m. which will allow time for meet and greet, and shop-ping with event hosts BeadngemsinFL.
Saturday Morning, Soutache Braid Pendant/Clasp, 8 a.m. to Noon. October 16, 2010 Classes will be Soutache Pendant/Clasp. Cost of class is $80.00, which includes your kit and instructions. Class will begin promptly at 8 a.m. Limited Seating to 15 students.
Saturday Afternoon, Soutache Braide Pendant/Clasp, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. October 16, 2010 Classes will be Soutache Pendant/Clasp. Cost of class is $80.00, which includes your kit and instructions.Class will begin promptly at 8 a.m. Limited Seating to 15 students.
Sunday Class, Soutache Braid Bracelet, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. October 17, 2010 Class will be the Soutache Bracelet. Cost of the class is $135.00, which includes your kit and in-structions. Class will begin promptly at 9 a.m. with a one hour break for lunch 12:00 to 1 p.m. Seating is limited to 30 students.
For more information and a registration packet, including hotel room rates for this weekend, please email Shelley Costantino at [email protected]
or you can download a packet at our website beadngemsinfl.com
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Artist: lilibulle Shop: etsy.com/shop/illusionsbarock Blog: lilibulle-illusions.blogspot.com
"la chanson de l'oiseau"
lot of fun making this necklace, The bird focal
is in polymer clay , made with a stamp that i
have designed, and painted with the "faux
ceramic " technique", little nest in copper too.
2 filigrees are combined with polymer clay .
Artist: Joyce Wenker Email: [email protected]
Joy in Wire
What To Do When Disaster
Strikes
A creative solution to a “ruined” enamel-on-copper piece using
copper wire and copper foil.
Linda Reynolds etsy.com/shop/ciaobela
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Linda Reynolds is the designer and owner of Bella Linda Designs. Linda started making jewelry over 10 years ago, and has a passion for organic shapes and materials and always strives for originality, beauty and functionality in her jewelry designs.
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Thoughts about Copyright
Changing our mental approach to creating jewelry.
Perri Jackson ShaktipajDesigns.com
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Perri spends her time bending really small wire into pleasing shapes for Shaktipaj Designs. She’s been doing this and other things like it
for roughly four-fifths of her lifetime.
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Artist: Perri Jackson Shop: ShaktipajDesigns.etsy.com
Blog: ShaktipajDesigns.com
Shaktipaj Designs
Soutache Swirls Bracelet
I love all the little details of embroidery, fine
tailoring, and wire - so it just seemed natural
to combine all of them!
Just recently fell in love with the beautiful
color variation in copper - I know, I'm slow!
This piece uses 30g copper coils over 24g
to create a beautiful fiber type braid in the
band - inspired by classic and ornate
soutache braiding on military uniforms.
Of course - there has to be bling included -
Bam! Swarovski to the rescue!
I write tutorials for all sorts of detailed textile
inspired wire projects - come visit my shop
and be inspired to explore adaptations of
your own favorite 'alternative' medium.
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Queen's Crown necklace and matching bracelet.
Two huge matched carnelian cabachons, netted
and joined with a deeply patinated snake chain, cut
into sections and formed into pleasing
curves.There is just a hint of bright copper for bling.
The oval components remined be of a crown thus
the name.
I collect the things I like then let them tell me how
they should look. I twist and poke until the pieces
tells me it is done.
Artist: LaMata Lewis
Shop: crazy2weardesigns.com
KSANDRA
Artist: Aleksandra Jovanovic Blog: ksandrajewelry.blogspot.com
Copper wire, glass beads
Teaching Craft Classes In Your
Home
Practical advice for conduct-ing craft and jewelry classes
out of your home.
Laurie Silva busycrowstudio.blogspot.com
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In addition to teaching craft lessons herself, Laura Silva also creates beadwork, wire wrapping and more for her Busy Crow Studios..
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This is an owl I call Chuck. He is named after a
friendly homeless man we met. I used coiling and
wrapping to make this guy. He is the biggest so far
in my owl collection. He's 3 1/3 x 2 in.
Artist: Terry Pugh Blog: wired4style13.blogspot.com
Wired 4 Style
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Copper Wire Jewelers Magazine, Issue 3, July 2010. Founding Editor: Lois Linquist ([email protected])
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