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Artist Project Series: Little Red School House Ring by Jeannette Froese LeBlanc

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Our tenth artist for the Artist Project Series with Creative Fire using EZ960® Sterling Silver Metal Clay is Jeannette Froese LeBlanc, the promotor, write and editor for Creative Fire. Jeannette is also a teacher who holds a Master’s degree in education as well as several Bachelor’s degree’s in history and arts. Jeannette was inspired to create this …

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Patterned Wire Chain Bracelet by Annie Kilborn

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This a fun and simple project for making a chain bracelet or necklace using decorative patterned wire. I chose the “Copper Triple” 16 gauge patterned wire for this project. However, we carry many different wires in various patterns and metals that will be great for this project. There are some options listed below. You can …

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Artist Project Series: Penannular Brooch by Julia Rai

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  Our ninth artist for the Artist Project Series with Creative Fire using EZ960® Sterling Silver Metal Clay is Julia Rai, an award winning artist, teacher and writer. She is well known in the international metal clay community. Julia explains, “Penannular style brooches have been used to fasten clothing since the late Iron Age. This …

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Deb DeWolff: Graphite Etching & Enameling with Sunshine Colors

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    Referring to Jan Harrell’s “Enameling with Graphite and Sunshine Colors” video, I created my own enameled copper piece! I enameled both the back and front with graphite sketches on the front:       I mixed my own custom colors using Sunshine Enamels and distilled water. For pastels I mixed the colors with 19-1231 Mixing White. For …

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EZ960®: METALCLAYSTUDIO

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We are always delighted to share pieces that have been created with EZ960 Sterling Silver Clay. The pieces pictured below were created by seven different students in Russia at the METALCLAYSTUDIO. The METALCLAYSTUDIO offers training on working with metal clay with both basic and advanced classes. Thank you to the folks at METALCLAYSTUDIO for sharing these photos …

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Artist Project Series: Marco Fleseri

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Our third artist for the Artist Project Series using EZ960® Sterling Silver Metal Clay is Marco Fleseri. Marco has created a unique and intricate cuff bracelet he calls “Nelumbo vertabralis.” He says this bracelet was inspired by vertebrae and lotus flower petals (“nelumbo” is the genus name for the lotus family of plants). To view …

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Artist Project Series: Cindy Miller

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We are happy to share the second featured artist for “The Artist Project Series” by Creative Fire. This series features 12 artist who are letting us observe into their studio while they create a piece of art using EZ960™ Sterling Silver Clay. The second artist is Cindy Miller, a full-time studio artist from Alabama. She has created a …

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