Mixed-Media Jewelry

If you love mixed-media jewelry, you’ve come to the right place! Learn how to make resin jewelry, and be inspired with designs for earrings, bracelets, and necklaces.

DIY Mixed-Media Resin Bangles

    The Cloth Paper Scissors team only creates special kits for our store if that kit is something we would want to make ourselves. So we always try the kits ourselves to make sure they are really worth your while! The DIY Holiday Bangle Kit is no different.     The team spent an afternoon finding…

Ruth Rae’s Inspiration: Mixed-Media Jewelry

  I’m thrilled that artist and author Ruth Rae has a new set of mixed media videos out! I have admired Ruth’s work for years, and working with her on this project has been a pleasure and an honor. Her four videos include Fabric Collage, Dimensional Collage on Wood, an Art Dress, and Mixed-Media Etched…

Bracelets, Brooches, and Steampunk Clocks, Oh My

When teaching my classes at Art Retreats I try to plan the projects so that the students can go home and recreate the same project in their own kitchen. There is no need for the expense and fuss of elaborate tools and a big fancy studio. Many students who attend retreat classes are total newbies…

Making Torch-Fired Enamel Jewelry: 4 Safety Tips

Art-making is pretty safe compared to other hobbies. Mixed-media jewelry, however, has some risk involved. That’s why an overview of safety tips is one of the first things that Barbara Lewis, author of Mastering Torch-Fired Enamel Jewelry. “Working with fire and powdered glass has some inherent dangers,” she says. “Let’s see how we can protect…

Name Your Necklace: A Free Mixed-Media Jewelry Lesson from Jen Cushman

Today’s guest blogger is Jen Cushman, a popular instructor and a regular contributor to Cloth Paper Scissors magazine with her Mixed-Media Metalsmith column. Check out her Resin Assemblage value pack here–it features Jen’s two DVDs (Mixed-Media Chalkboard with Cast Resin and Clay Heart with Wings Assemblage), plus ICE Resin and molding putty. Enjoy this preview of Jen’s friendly teaching style! ~Cherie Wire…

The Charms of Mixed-Media Jewelry

When I was a little girl, my aunts started a gold charm bracelet for me. For several years, on each birthday and Christmas, a tiny package arrived with a new charm. I still have it-wore it on my wedding day as my something blue, because some of the charms have blue stones. What luck! You…

Make Art to Wear: 4 Free Tutorials for Wearable Art

You can usually spot an artist from across the room. She (or he) is the one with the hand-stitched shirt, the unique cuff, or the hat that adds panache. Artists have style, and they're constantly looking for art to wear! Vintage neckties make a base for embellishment on these art-wear necklaces. In this free eBook,…

New eBook: 5 Free Found Object, Steampunk, and Resin Jewelry Ideas

Show off your artistic nature by making and wearing stunning and unique mixed-media jewelry from found objects and resin.   Mixed-media jewelry by Becky Nunn. In this free eBook , Mixed-Media Jewelry: 5 Free Found Object, Steampunk, and Resin Jewelry Ideas, you’ll learn how to make resin jewelry, how to make molds to duplicate found…