Blog Creativity Stamping Out Something New
| 12 March 2009
One of my goals this year for my business was to try new things to encourage my jewelry to become more unique. This month I purchased some fun new stamps for metal and a few new tools and started creating stamped earrings and charms for my bracelets. My favorite is my bird and heart stamp!
I start with a blank piece of metal, usually a circle disk in copper (although my sterling silver pieces just arrived so expect to see those soon!), place my metal on my nifty stamping pad and hammer away my little designs! I follow this with a hole punch at the top center.
In order to make a stamped design stick out from the metal you need to oxidize the metal. I do this with liver of sulfur, a nice smelly solution that works wonders! This process takes a few minutes and turns my copper almost completely black! This is when I spend time polishing my copper with some steel wool and then toss in my tumble for some cleaning!
A fairly lengthy process, but worth the results in the end! I am still thinking up other ways to use my new stamps! I also have an alphabet stamp set that I can use for personalized jewelry! One thing with jewelry is there is always a new technique you can learn!
