Using bottle caps as bezels for resin is a great way to make jewelry without spending a lot of money on materials. If you are just starting to work with resin, I recommend using bottle caps for your practice pieces – they are free, and you probably have some lying around your house. Plus it’s [...]

The Altered Object: Techniques, Projects, Inspiration by Terry Taylor is a mixed-media art book that is half inspiration, half technique. It has inspiring artist profiles, beautiful photos of mixed media artwork, and tips and techniques for altering objects. Altering objects to create art is definitely in style these days – you can make very unique, [...]

Remember my post on resin collages? Well, I finally got around to doing something with one of my collages. I cut out little rectangles exactly the right size to glue onto these little balsa wood tiles. Using mod-podge, I affixed them to one side of each of four tiles. (Note: the tiles ended up curling, [...]

Thanks to Stacey from ZNE for sending me a link to a great project using mica (and a bunch of other things that sound like fun). Here’s the link. I’ve been experimenting a bit with the composite mica that I bought…pictures coming soon…not sure I love what I did, but it’s a new material for [...]

My regular readers are probably familiar with my 3D resin pendants – but embedding objects in resin in only one of its many potential uses in jewelry making and other crafts. For example – it is a great medium for making collages, and because it stiffens and seals paper, creating a collage with resin is [...]

One of my favorite things about being a jewelry artist is that it allows me to try so many different crafts, and incorporate aspects of all of them into my designs. There are no requirements in making art jewelry – some art jewelry isn’t even really wearable – so it’s a perfect art form for [...]

My husband recently found some rusty old coins from around the world. Some of them are probably very common, and are from english-speaking countries like Australia, but others like the one pictured above have interesting writing on them that we can’t read, so we can only guess where they are from. They are mostly from [...]

Have you ever wondered what the inside of a dvd player looks like? Honestly, I never had. But then my (cheap) dvd player broke, with a netflix movie stuck inside it. So…I took it apart. One of the screws was on so tight that I ended up breaking the plastic exterior, and then I figured [...]

I wrote a guest tutorial for Jewelry and Beading on using felt beads to make an easy, cute pair of earrings. You can make the felt beads yourself if you know how to felt wool, or buy them if you want more of an instant gratification project. I sell the ones I make in my [...]