Bending Metal Spoon Bracelet

Dede Warren, Instructor
Saturday, April 23, 2011, 10:30-2:30p
Class Fee: $55.00

Come learn the simplicity of creating this fun, vintage spoon bracelet with local artist Dede Warren. Using a variety of jewelry tools, a bit of heat, a homemade bracelet mandrel and a few other surprises Dede will guide you in creating your own one of a kind spoon bracelet. Dede will bring most of the tools and supplies, chain and a clasp to finish the bracelet, while you bring the embellishments that you treasure to decorate it. Together we will create this fun bracelet that gets loads of compliments!

Supply List:
an old dishtowel, small craft hammer, scissors
small photocopy of a picture to personalize your bracelet,
rhinestones, buttons, lace, trim, etc...

All class fees are prepaid, and non-refundable. Contact class manager Dede Warren at 714-757-0558 to reserve your place in this class. You may also reserve your place in person at the store by check, cash or credit card, or via phone with your credit card at 714-680-8893. Call us if you need assistance...we'll be happy to help!

Riveting Ex Voto Cuff

Nancy Jamar, Instructor
Sunday, May 29, 2011, 11:00-3:00p
Class Fee: $55.00

Nancy will teach this ex voto cuff to limited seating of seven persons, with May 29 as our second seating. We will be using the new piercing and riveting tool and working with vintage and new items to create this stunning cuff bracelet.


The project incorporates a vintage filigree that will be shaped to your own wrist, an ex voto heart from Peru, cast pewter connectors, Nigerian silver beads, and aged rhinestone rondelles for just a little bit of bling. A beautiful cast metal cross set with rhinestones dangles from the ex voto in the front. Metals mix freely in this piece for added interest, and we will be riveting and cold connecting in this workshop.

This class is all inclusive...no supplies are needed. Just bring yourself, your tools if you have them, and if anyone purchases their own piercing and riveting tool, please bring it along to share.

Those interested in acquiring their own tool before this workshop can find it here. I recommend the 'long reach' tool, which allows you to work thicker materials or more layers in your projects.

All class fees are prepaid, and non-refundable. Contact class manager Dede Warren at 714-757-0558 to reserve your place in this class. You may also reserve your place in person at the store by check, cash or credit card, or via phone with your credit card at 714-680-8893. Call us if you need assistance...we'll be happy to help!

Literary Jewelry Necklace

Leslie Marsh, Instructor
Sunday, April 3, 2011, 12:00-3:30p
Class Fee: $70.00

Leslie Marsh is back for her second class in as many days, this time teaching her Literary Jewelry necklace. Measuring just 1.5 x 1 inch, this demure little book makes quite the statement. Leslie will supply everything needed as you create and solder your book using a cooking torch, sheet metal, and solder. As with her big books, part of what make these special is the beautiful coptic bound spine. You simply bring a metal button for your book cover and Leslie will generously supply the rest as we solder, stitch, and create the afternoon away!

Supply List:

• metal button for book cover
*feel free to bring chain and a clasp if you prefer something different!

All class fees are prepaid, and non-refundable. Contact class manager Dede Warren at 714-757-0558 to reserve your place in this class. You may also reserve your place in person at the store by check, cash or credit card, or via phone with your credit card. Call us if you need assistance...we'll be happy to help!

Coptic Bound Metal Book

Leslie Marsh, Instructor
Saturday, April 2, 2011, 10:30a-3:00p
Class Fee: $75.00

We are so happy to welcome back book artist Leslie Marsh. After teaching a small, private class with us last year, Leslie is once again traveling from Pennsylvania to share and teach her Coptic Bound Metal Books, and this time she's sharing them with all of us. Leslie will teach you the basics of working with metal, as well as soldering using a torch to embed vintage brass filigrees, and metal findings onto your book covers. Leslie will provide an extensive kit including book covers, watercolor paper, book binding supplies, soldering materials and equipment as well as her vast knowledge and skills as a book binder. You bring a few special embellishments and together we will create these amazing little books. Leslie will wrap up the class by teaching you to hand bind your book using the age-old method of coptic binding.

Supply List:
• 4 inches of lightweight chain
• metal findings or filigree for your cover
If you have the following please bring them, otherwise we will share:
butane torch, Solderite pad, eyelet setting tool, jeweler's hammer & bench block

All class fees are prepaid, and non-refundable. Contact class manager Dede Warren at 714-757-0558 to reserve your place in this class. You may also reserve your place in person at the store by check, cash or credit card, or via phone with your credit card. Call us if you need assistance...we'll be happy to help!

Heart Strings

Diane Cook, Instructor
Sunday, May 22, 2011, 10:30a-4:30p
Class Fee: $75.00

A vintage brass thimble is the beginning component for a necklace Diane Cook likes to call Heart Strings, made using luscious strips of Dupoini silk, snips of fiber and vintage tulle. This will be a day of great fun, as you begin adding various lengths of vintage or brass chain, wire wrapped baroque pearls or glass drops, tiny vintage shoe buttons, vintage rhinestones dangles, broken bits from a vintage rhinestone bracelet, or perhaps a vintage rosary or a favorite theme of charms. No doubt, you will see your Heart Strings soon fill to overflowing. But leave room for a tiny book you will design using a piece of hand-etched metal. Diane will even supply vintage paper for you to tuck inside, as this little books becomes one of the special dangles in your tassel, as you attach it to a chosen piece of chain.

Supply List:

• basic jeweler's plier set • several lengths of chain of your choice •
•6-8mm pearls, baroque pearls, glass/crystal or pearl drops, Czech glass beads
• 6-8mm crystal rondells
Optional:
small picture to fit into a locket (or use text),
2-4 piece of brass filigree or connectors,
vintage buttons with shanks, small lightweight charms,
vintage rhinestone dangle or crystal dangle,
broken piece of rhinestone necklace or bracelet

All class fees are prepaid, and non-refundable. Contact class manager Dede Warren at 714-757-0558 to reserve your place in this class. You may also reserve your place in person at the store by check, cash or credit card, or via phone with your credit card. Call us if you need assistance...we'll be happy to help!

Etched & Layered Cuffs

Diane Cook, Instructor
Saturday, May 21, 2011, 10:30a-4:30p
Class Fee: $75.00

In the summer of 2010, Diane Cook shared two of her Etched & Layered Cuffs in an issue of Belle Armoire Jewelry Magazine. Since then she has designed and created more cuffs than she can count. We are thrilled to host Diane as she shares her techniques for creating these one of a kind treasures!
You will begin this class by using your stamping skills on a blank cuff. The next step is etching, but once your cuff is etched... the layering begins; as little or as much as you like. This is the time to stretch your creative wings adding layer upon layer, embellishing to your heart's content. You may start with a rich brass filigree, a vintage brooch or rhinestone earring, a shoe clip, or a mother of pearl button. Vintage lace, ribbon, and tulle are also gorgeous layers you might consider as well. While the focus of our class is a stunning cuff of your own design, the skills you learn will easily transfer for use in your future projects.

Supply List:

• large & small patterned rubber stamps • StazOn Jet Black Inkpad
• basic jeweler's plier set • apron • layering goodies (your choice):
vintage metal brooch, shoe clip, rhinestone ear clip, shank button
brass filigree, rhinestone dangle, brass charms, lace, ribbon, tulle

All class fees are prepaid, and non-refundable. Contact class manager Dede Warren at 714-757-0558 to reserve your place in this class. You may also reserve your place in person at the store by check, cash or credit card, or via phone with your credit card. Call us if you need assistance...we'll be happy to help!