Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist, December 2017 Print Edition

Description

You?ll love this if:

• You want to discover the latest tools for cold connections.
• You need ideas for last-minute handmade holiday gifts.
• You want to learn to simplify your jewelry designs for marketing, selling, and varying your design offerings.

In this issue of Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist , Helen Driggs tells you all about the latest and greatest tools for cold connections, and No?l Yovovich shows you how to make a riveted hinge without heat. The Smokin? Stone for this issue is the beautiful blue star sapphire. Roger Halas shows you how to create a pendant using star sapphire with a design which draws inspiration from Halley?s Comet. Lara Ginzburg teaches you how to use enamel on metal clay while Kieu Pham Gray uses torch-reticulated silver in a stunning ring design. If you want to take a fairly complex design and learn to simplify it, check out the three easy, easier, and easiest choker designs by Erica Stice and Katie Hacker. For those last-minute gifts, you?ll find great ideas by Linda Lurcott and Kylie Jones. Deborah Yonick discusses the latest trends in personalized jewelry. And you?ll also find a gorgeous full-color feature article on the Jazz Age design exhibit presented by Cooper Hewitt, the Smithsonian Design Museum.

Order your copy of Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist, December 2017 today to:

• Get last-minute holiday gift ideas.
• Learn to combine enamel and metal clay.
• Find out all about blue star sapphire and how to use it in an outer space-inspired design.
• Explore the latest tools for cold connections and learn to make a cold-connected hinge for your jewelry designs.
• Take a jewelry design and explore ways to simplify it.
• Get the scoop on a national exhibit of Jazz Age jewelry.
• Discover so much more!