Amulets and Talismans: Simple Techniques for Creating by Robert Dancik,Tonia Davenport

By Robert Dancik,Tonia Davenport

Making jewellery with Meaning

The stuff you acquire - the price tag stubs, the cash, the items of shell from a seashore - carry that means and value, reminding you not just the place you have been, but in addition the place you are in a position to going. Making these things into wearable items of paintings - amplifying their strength to develop into amulets and talismans - is a worthwhile event that is effortless to do.

Working with the main uncomplicated of instruments, you are going to examine cold-connection jewellery concepts to extend your inventive procedure. as well as fundamentals like growing bounce earrings and utilizing a dossier, you are going to also:

  • Make your personal hook and latch clasps
  • Cut home windows from sheets of metal
  • Inlay designs into polymer clay
  • Incorporate concrete into your work
  • Achieve patinas with heat
  • Journal your strategies onto fake bone
  • Turn paper pulp into reasonable rocks
  • Create "time pill" beads from Plexiglas
  • And a lot, a lot more!

Discover the rewards of constructing your individual amulets and talismans by way of studying new thoughts to force your creativity in a wholly new direction.

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