Sunday, February 13, 2011

Look what one of our writers is up to! Great news Lisa!

JTV Gem Expo: Jewel School Announces Exciting New Jewelry-Making Products and Guest Experts

Jewel School by JTV Margot Potter and Lisa Pavelka Lisa Pavelka, award winning artist, designer and author, has entered into a long-term relationship with JTV to help their customers take their jewelry crafting to the next level. Her goal is to provide you with the necessary items and details to create high end jewelry that can be worn to the most formal events or sold at an upscale designer shop. Lisa expressed that she is delighted to join the Jewel School family because this gives her an opportunity to reach people who can’t always go to design classes and workshops that are often far away from home or too costly to attend.  Margot Potter(left), our Jewel School design expert, is pictured with Lisa (right).

Lisa has just launched a new line of professional artist quality clay suitable for jewelry making. Lisa is recognized as one of the world's leading experts on the mediums of polymer clay and metal clays, as well as resin art and crystal design. She has made dozens of television appearance and has authored four books and two DVDs on polymer clay art. She is also a featured magazine columnist and contributor for Metal Clay Artist magazine.
Jewel School by JTV Lisa Pavelka polymer clay jewelry making kits

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Valentine's Day is coming !!!

Valentine's day is coming and it can be a big motivator to create and design hearts. 
I love to design hearts all year round in my work, hearts for me have a strong meaning in my life. I grew up in Mexico surrounded by them, mostly the "Milagro style hearts".




©2010 Lorena Angulo

The heart symbolizes how we love, who we love and why. It also means how we love ourselves and how we take care of ourselves and our health. A heart is a symbol of passion, passion for what we do and for life. 
Live your life to the fullest!



Do you like to create hearts? Why do you like them?
Show us some pictures of your hearts ! We will love to see them !



Keep Playing, Keep Creating !!

Love,


Saturday, February 5, 2011

Win a free MCAM back issue of your choice!

We're so delighted by Stacie Hooder's excellent review of MCAM and a giveaway of the current issue on the CraftGossip blog at http://jewelrymaking.craftgossip.com/giveaway/metal-clay-artist-magazine/ that I've decided to do a giveaway of our own. If you are the next person to leave a comment on our blog about Stacie's review we'll send you a free copy of the MCAM back issue of your choice! (Print copy-within North America, Digital-anywhere.) Note: The winning comment should demonstrate that you actually have read Stacie's review. ;)

Good luck!

Jeannette

p.s. We're looking for great photos of terrific metal clay pieces for our gallery and cover!!
Please be sure to take your photos in the highest resolution possible on your camera.


Friday, February 4, 2011

Back again.....



Hi everyone....
Well, here is my latest ring for the RAW project on Flickr! This time I used the bottom half of one of my epoxy cones and carved out a large cone shaped opening into it. I was going to set a large rivoli stone into it but I changed my mind and decided I liked being able to see the inside of the cone. So, I changed my design a bit. I gilded the inside with some 24kt gold sheet and lightly burnished it down. I was going to only use the cone bottom but it looked lonely on the band so I added some metal clay discs of mine that have just been sitting around. I domed one up and one down and I wasn't crazy about the way they looked together...I thought they needed a little somethin' somethin'! So, I slid a epoxy disc in between them. That did the trick! Playing around can have unexpected results!
Everything is held together with one BIG rivet...although, there is a little bit of chemical bonding with the pearl....but that doesn't bother me as it gets the job done!! I also really liked beating the heck out of a gold band that was a size 5, up to a size 9! I didn't think it would be so easy! And fun!! I am really enjoying these little projects...these epoxy experiments are really interesting! I made some in the last couple of days ago that did some really interesting things that I wasn't expecting!! You will see them as rings in the future! Hope you like this ring...stay warm in your studios and have fun!! Kelly Russell www.Beadfuddled.blogspot.com....just in case you want to see more of my work....

Thursday, February 3, 2011

My first RAW ring for February

I had a super fun time making my first ring a week for February. This time I decided to just have fun and play with metal and the cork. 

I riveted the brass band to the copper base and twisted the copper rays to hold the cork in place. 
Simple and FUN !!!




6/52 RAW 2011
Lorena Angulo

Keep playing, keep creating !!

Love,

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Ring a Week 2011

I had the wonderful opportunity to participate in RAD (ring a day) last year. This challenge thought me a lot and gave me more confidence in my work. I met a lot of incredible talented artists from around the world, who share the same passion for art and jewelry. 
A lot of the artists who participated in RAD where a little sad that our journey was over. This is the main reason why Thomasin Durgin decided to form a new group for us to continue with our journey.
RAW(ring a week) counts with 264 artists who are creating rings in any medium or material. Everybody is welcome to join the group at any time. 
Lots of my friends are now participating in RAW like Kelly Russell, who has been posting in the blog about her rings. I am very happy to see them all in this challenge.


My first month of RAW is over. 
I managed to create 5 rings.



© 2011 Lorena Angulo
RAW, January 2011



Keep playing, keep creating !!

Love,

New MCAM review and giveaway on CraftGossip.com!

We were absolutely thrilled when Stacie Hooder, the fantastic jewelry making editor at CraftGossip.com, let us know about her new review of Metal Clay Artist Magazine, and even more excited once we had a chance to read what she's written. Stacie has gone into detail about the things that make our magazine special, and about why she feels it's worth subscribing to even if you don't have room for one more metal clay book or magazine (in which case she recommends subscribing to our digital edition).

We're extremely proud of and grateful for Stacie's superb review of MCAM, and we're also excited about the giveaway she's doing. If you'd like to win a free copy of the current issue of the magazine, visit http://jewelrymaking.craftgossip.com/giveaway/metal-clay-artist-magazine/ to read Stacie's review and leave a comment on her post before midnight CST on February 16th. And if you already have the current issue, we hope you'll leave a comment about what you think of it! :)

Thanks again, Stacie, for this fabulous review of MCAM!

Margaret
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