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 Keep Your Vacation Memories Alive
by Linda Kline
Just about everyone has a seashell or two they’ve carried home from vacation. It’s very easy to turn vacation treasures like this into an exquisite charm or pair of earrings, using your favorite metal clay
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 Tools For Making Magic
by Trudy Edlebeck
I am going to talk about the tools you need for silver clay. Not how many tools you have to have, but how few you actually need to get started making magic.
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 A Few of My Favorite Things
Tools for working with metal clay
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 Art Clay Silver - My Other Medium
by Trudy Edlebeck
Trudy Edlebeck’s initial Metal Clay column on Art Clay Silver, her other medium
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 Precious Metal Clay – Oh the Possibilities
by Linda Kline
Linda Kline’s initial column on the design and creative uses of metal clays.
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 Turning Leaves to Silver
by Trudy Edlebeck
It’s time for our first “magic” trick. We are going to make a piece of silver jewelry from an ordinary leaf. The first step is to find the perfect leaf. This is easy because Mother Nature has given us an abundance of wonderful shapes
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 Designing With The Syringe
by Linda Kline
The syringe is a wonderful, versatile metal clay product. It can be used to decorate and add surface interest to your designs, to bezel set kiln friendly stones like cz, to make rings and for creating beautiful filigree projects.
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 Make An Impression
by Trudy Edlebeck
It’s time to create magic once again. This week we are going to create “long life” and “good luck” with a little “love” thrown in. Abracadabra! Three fine silver pendants appear before your eyes.
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 Hollow Forms, Beads and More: If you can imagine it, you can create it!
by Linda Kline
The construction of hollow form objects and beads is effortless with a product known as cork clay. This totally malleable composite of softened cork may be molded and formed into any imaginable shape.
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 Magical Gemstone Flower
by Trudy Edlebeck
Today we are going to create some sparkly magic and make a pure silver flower with a cubic zirconium (CZ) center. While my assistant Pandy is gathering all my needed items, you can gather yours
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 Oh Christmas Tree
by Linda Kline
If you’re like me you’ve probably got several friends on your Christmas list that leave you clueless when it comes to picking out their holiday gift. Here’s a quick and easy idea that’s sure to please, and it will be cherished for years
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 Ring In the New Year
by Linda Kline
We all love rings! Some of us wear them on every finger -- and even our toes. With the right tools and some careful planning, it’s easy to create stunning rings using metal clay. Here’s how it’s done.
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 Double Dangle Earrings
by Trudy Edlebeck
Metal Clay is magic – from a soft, gooey glob to a great pair of earrings in a couple of hours! Are you good, or what?! Wear your new earrings proudly and cast your magic spell wherever you go.
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 Valentine’s Day Treasure Earrings
by Linda Kline
Use PMC Sheet to Express Your Love With Custom Pendants or Earrings. Sometimes it is not what you say, it’s how you say it. This Valentine’s Day, tell someone how much you love her (or him) with a wearable treasure
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 Pure-Silver Corner-Linked Bracelet and Earrings
by Trudy Edlebeck
There are so many exciting things about this bracelet that I hardly know where to begin. You’ll notice that each square has a different texture, which makes it a wonderful way to play with all those texturing tools
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 Hollow Form Bead Construction
by Linda Kline
Linda takes you through a step-by-step process on how to make silver hollow-form beads with metal clay. She further explains and details the techniques of Keum-Boo, which is the process of applying 24k gold foil to silver
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 The Potter’s Coil
by Linda Kline
I’ve incorporated the concept of a “potter’s coil,” on a smaller, finer scale into my work with metal clay. This technique is perfect for making bails, setting Dichroic glass cabochons, and creating stylized designs like this pendant.
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 Star Power Earrings
This time, I’ll show you a new way to mold clay that enhances the quality of your molded image and makes removing the clay from the mold super-easy. My texture sheet is a polymer clay tear-away, a technique developed by Gwen Gibson and taught to me by Celie Fago.
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 Vicki’s Silver Clay Earrings
by Linda Kline
These earrings were a custom commission from my friend and student, Connie Abodeely, for our friend, Vicki Abodeely, in honor of her birthday. I find that the creative process flows effortlessly.
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 Dichroic Glass Donut Pendant
by Linda Kline
I love Dichroic glass. Once more, this time with feeling – I LOVE Dichroic glass! It is absolutely beautiful and mesmerizing in the way it reflects so many different colors as it changes with the light and the color it’s worn against.
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 Rumplestiltskin’s Toggle Clasps
by Trudy Edlebeck
Rumplestiltskin, it is said, was able to spin pure gold from ordinary straw. Imagine that! Pure gold from straw!! Well, Rumplestiltskin has nothing on us because today we are going to make sparkly toggle clasps
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 Create a One-of-a-Kind Pendant
by Linda Kline
Imagine taking a simple piece of paper and transforming it into a stunning piece of pure silver jewelry. It sounds as crazy as turning a lump of clay into silver, doesn’t it? But metal clay defies the limits of rational thinking. j
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 Rings Made with “Wormy” Magic
by Trudy Edlebeck
Worms into rings??? Wow! That sounds as magical as Rumplestiltskin’s straw into gold and a lot “tastier” than eating worms. Now if we could do that … . Well that is just what we are going to do today!
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 Silver Magic Cones
by Trudy Edlebeck
This time we are going to make a pair of fancy cones to use at the ends of a multi-strand bead choker or necklace. You’ll need all the usual supplies for working with silver clay plus a little PMC and a toaster oven for baking it.
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 Setting a Freeform Natural Cabochon Pendant
Designer: Bridgette Rallo
There are a few things to keep in mind when setting a natural cab in a bezel and then attaching the setting to a pendant backing. First of all, this is an advanced technique. It will require patience, practice and an ability to follow directions.
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 Weaving a Chainmaille and PMC Medallion
by Bridgette Rallo
“A PMC cabochon is the perfect accent for a traditional chainmaille bracelet” Learn the Dragonscale chain maille pattern and how to professionally integrate a PMC medallion to form a stunning bracelet
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 Pendant Solution
by Bridgette Rallo
Have you ever wanted to make a pendant out of a flat stone you found on the beach? Or maybe you have a specimen mineral slab with a natural edge and you would just love to be able to wear it.
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 Sew a Fine-Silver Bead
by Sonia Reidel
I’m not exactly sure where the idea for this bead came from, but it brings together most of my favorite things: pearls and precious metal, fabrication, beading, and sewing. I sewed tiny gold-filled beads and pearls to both surfaces
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 Create a Wood Grain Brooch with a Fibula Pin Closure
by Bridgette L. Rallo
It’s no secret that artists have looked to Mother Nature for inspiration ever since humans first daubed ochre paint on cave walls in an effort to capture the wild landscapes of their world.
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 Design for Texture and Bling with Trendy Tech Tags
by Bridgette L. Rallo
Texture is the art and soul of PMC. If I had to choose one just quality that makes PMC so very special, I would have to say it is the artist’s ability to incorporate almost any texture into a finished piece of jewelry.
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 “Spring is Here” Stamping on PMC
by Cynthia Luhrs
This project focuses on stamping on PMC (Precious Metal Clay). We’ll stamp on clay and make a pair of earrings and a pendant using stamps with Latin words for an old world feel.
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 Combine Multiple Components for Unlimited Creativity
by Bridgette L. Rallo
I’m sure that I’m not the only PMC jewelry artist who has spent hours gazing longingly at the beautiful array of rubber stamps out there on the market. Unfortunately for jewelry makers
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 “Charmed I’m Sure”
by Cynthia Luhrs
I just love charm bracelets. The way the charms tinkle against the bracelet and beads, and the movement of the bracelet. I also like that the bracelet has special meaning to me. This project focuses on applying patinas to PMC.
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 Coral Fantasy Necklace
by Bridgette Rallo
As artists, we all hit the proverbial wall once in a while. You know the feeling … you just can’t come up with a design for a particular stone or string of beads, nothing seems to look right … it’s very, very frustrating.
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 Fern Noir
by Bridgette Rallo
Design is a complicated subject, no matter what medium an artist works in. In art jewelry design, there are two approaches that appear over and over again: design repetition and what I like to call design contra posto.
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 Charmed I’m Sure
by Cynthia Luhrs
Monograms are so popular nowadays. This project focuses on creating a polymer clay inlay on PMC (Precious Metal Clay). We’ll stamp on clay for texture and inlay the polymer for your own custom monogram.
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 Eternal Journey Necklace
by Bridgette L. Rallo
It’s an old wives’ tale, a scientific principle and a romantic mystery, all rolled up into one foolproof adage: opposites attract. If ever there was a design concept guaranteed to draw attention to your jewelry
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 Galaxies Far Away Pin/Pendant
by Bridgette L. Rallo
Computers are multipurpose gaming machines, work stations, stereos and movie screens. So why not design a piece of jewelry that you can wear in more than one way?
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 Cool Filigree Necklace
by Cynthia Luhrs
Filigree has such a pretty lacy look, especially when the sun hits it. I wanted to create a piece that evoked the ocean and cooling breezes. This project focuses on using PMC (Precious Metal Clay) in syringe form.
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 PMC Vintage Button Mold
by Cynthia Luhrs
Buttons are popping up everywhere. I see them used to make rings, on bracelets, necklaces and even hair accessories. I came across a vintage button of a daisy that I fell in love with.
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 Sea of Japan Pendant
by Bridgette L. Rallo
In keeping with the professional side of working with this amazing material, I’ve decided to incorporate some beginner’s traditional Silversmithing techniques in this month’s lesson.
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 Ice Pendant
by Bridgette L. Rallo
Who doesn’t love a snowflake? I can’t think of anyone who hasn’t marveled at least once at the beauty and symmetry of a perfect snow crystal. It’s a natural masterpiece.
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 Fire Spitters
by Bridgette L. Rallo
To most people, the word ethnic signals something unique to a specific culture, like “thousand-year-old” tea eggs are to China or dreadlocks to Jamaica. But in the language of jewelry, “ethnic” is synonymous with detail.
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 Belize
by Bridgette L. Rallo
I’ve selected a magnificent Rainforest Jasper cabochon and tried to design a setting for it that evokes a little slice of unspoiled life. The tiny, golden-eyed frog hovering above the cabochon on the pendant adds a third dimension
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 Bora Bora Necklace
By Bridgette Rallo
When I think of summer, I think of the sea. And when I think of the sea, I think of pearls! I don’t mean just any pearls – I love big, lustrous, Tahitian-style pearls, preferably peacock gray or black, bursting with shimmer and tropical style.
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