Metal Craft Discovery Workshop: Create Unique Jewelry, Art Dolls, Collage Art, Keepsakes and More! 
asked by vegaswinner on November 29, 2006 6:47 AM
Metal is the newest big trend, and crafters are hungry for ideas for using it in everything from jewelry and home décor to scrapbooking and mixed media art. In Metal Craft Discovery Workshop, artists Linda and Opie O'Brien show easy ways to manipulate, emboss, twist and join metal without using complex soldering or traditional metal-smithing methods. They provide:
-20 unique projects including a bottle cap bracelet, mesh book cover, magnetic photo card, tin can doll and mixed-metal clock
-An extensive technique section that teaches etching, hole punching, image transferring, and metal aging
-Creative approaches for using copper, tin, brass, aluminum, found objects and recycled metals
-A special gallery section featuring even more inspirational work
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Lots of great ideas and tips. A wonderful book for any artist seeking to expand their skills. This book will stay on my desk
to refer to time and again. The step by step how to's alone make it well worth the price. I have now added an aviation snips to my tool chest and have cut up every tin in sight. Get it! You will love it!
to refer to time and again. The step by step how to's alone make it well worth the price. I have now added an aviation snips to my tool chest and have cut up every tin in sight. Get it! You will love it!
reviewed by papi on November 29, 2006 6:35 PM
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I'm a mixed media collage artist, which very regularly implements metal into my design, this book is amazing! It shows different transfer techniques as well as giving your metal a patina (either with ammonia or patina kits that can be purchased at Michaels).
It has some great inspirational pieces.
I'm also a fan of product lists (instead of vague references), which this book has in spades. It will flat out tell you what product works best.
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It has some great inspirational pieces.
I'm also a fan of product lists (instead of vague references), which this book has in spades. It will flat out tell you what product works best.
A++++
reviewed by stix on November 29, 2006 7:14 PM