Organic, expressive, and exciting, the projects in this book reflect a truly original artist’s vision. Mixed Metal Mania makes metal jewelry accessible to a brand-new audience. This book starts by teaching the basic techniques and giving helpful tips, and then moves on to simple projects before building into more challenging work requiring new skills learned. Kim St. Jean also includes the stories of inspiration behind each project, adding to the unique appeal of this book. For jewelry designers who crave something distinctive, Mixed Metal Mania is a dream come true.

Step inside Kim St. Jean’s workshop as she teaches advanced beginner to intermediate jewelry makers how to create 30 mixed-metal and mixed-media projects that celebrate the process as well as the finished product. Readers will learn to build color with enameling, add detail with etching, create unique settings for unusual components, and more. St. Jean’s organic, earthy designs belie an amazing attention to detail and professional craftsmanship that inspires her many fans.

Come take the journey with Kay as she shows you how to begin adding soldering, dapping, sawing, and other skills from the metalsmith’s repertoire into your beading. Kay’s projects will also show beginner metalworkers how to incorporate the rich, colorful, sumptuous look that semiprecious beads bring to metal jewelry. These necklaces, earrings, bracelets, and pendants present such a complete range of techniques, all fully and beautifully illustrated with step-by-step photos. You’ll be amazed at the eye candy you can create!

Making gorgeous handcrafted jewelry can be an amazingly simple process that even beginners will quickly master--as long as they have this guide by their side. Written by an experienced artist and teacher, and generously illustrated with attractive how-to photos and drawings, it demonstrates a wealth of easy techniques in superb detail. Twenty dazzling projects--including a twisted wire choker, bangle bracelet, bead pod pin, and mixed metal earrings-- are created by wrapping, stitching, and folding metal, and by making cold connections with basic screws, bolts, pop rivets, eyelets, brads, and nails. Sophisticated photographs of each piece highlight its rich textures and visual complexity. Would-be jewelers will love this--and beaders, memory crafters, and anyone eager to explore metal jewelry will want it, too!

This book is the complete guide to simple soldering. Soldering Made Simple takes all the mystery and fear out of soldering so that amateur jewelry makers — even those who have never held a torch — feel empowered and confident. Friendly and thorough instructional text and step-by-step photos help readers build skills gradually, which they can then employ with the included projects. Joe Silvera presents soldering techniques that use a simple setup, a handheld butane torch that is safe and easy to operate, and a few other supplies.

The popularity of copper is soaring! This book is a unique collection of copper jewelry making techniques and projects from Art Jewelry magazine. All of this content has been combined in ways to make it new and easily accessible to the reader. With a range of skills and techniques being used, including wireworking, metalworking, adding colors and patinas, etching, combining copper with metal or polymer clay, and more, this book appeals many jewelry makers.