{"id":1683,"date":"2009-08-12T01:24:46","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T05:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?p=1683"},"modified":"2009-08-12T01:26:44","modified_gmt":"2009-08-12T05:26:44","slug":"a-whole-lotta-stamping-going-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?p=1683","title":{"rendered":"A whole lotta stamping going on!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello friends<\/p>\n<p>If you create jewelry, you&#8217;re seeing this all over right now.\u00a0 Stamps.\u00a0 Metal.\u00a0 This combination is BIG right now, and I can see why.\u00a0\u00a0 When you work with metal, you can shape it in to whatever you want it to be (well, maybe not&#8230;I made a heart 4 times until I was happy with the shape&#8230;then proceeded to lose it between my house and the car). \u00a0\u00a0 And working with stamps &#8211; I have yet to master them &#8211; but they are so much fun.\u00a0 Saying whatever you want!\u00a0 Whacking away with a hammer to create something completely personalized.\u00a0 That&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve been up to lately.<\/p>\n<p>Back in May I attended Art and Soul in Hampton (you may remember<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?p=1088\"> this post<\/a>).\u00a0 I sat next to a wonderful gal from NY&#8230;she was the kind of person that just radiates energy.\u00a0\u00a0 We&#8217;ve kept in touch, and she nominated me in to a group called <strong>Charmsters<\/strong>.\u00a0 This group of artists dream up some really neat charm swaps with themes &#8211; like Summertime Blues, Heavy Metal, Love and Peace &#8230;.\u00a0 I just finished my first charms to swap and plan to put these in the mail tomorrow.\u00a0 The theme was &#8220;Say it with Metal&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0 I made 17 charms using copper sheet, really cool flower design stamps (that you can find <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fundametals.net\/index.php?main_page=index&amp;cPath=11_61\">here<\/a> at fundametals.net), and then I oxidized, polished and tumbled them.\u00a0 I was happy to see them all packaged up and ready to go.\u00a0 When I receive my swap charms, I&#8217;ll be sure to share pictures here.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1685\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1685\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1685\" title=\"charmsters-swap-stamped-met\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/charmsters-swap-stamped-met.jpg\" alt=\"Bloom {where you are planted}\" width=\"500\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/charmsters-swap-stamped-met.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/charmsters-swap-stamped-met-300x217.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/charmsters-swap-stamped-met-450x326.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1685\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bloom {where you are planted}<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1686\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1686\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1686\" title=\"charmsters-swap_2t\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/charmsters-swap_2t.jpg\" alt=\"All ready to go\" width=\"500\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/charmsters-swap_2t.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/charmsters-swap_2t-300x236.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/charmsters-swap_2t-450x354.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1686\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">All ready to go<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">My next project lately has been my Family Necklace.\u00a0 I made one of these mixed metal necklaces for a good friend recently, and wanted to create one for myself ever since.\u00a0 Again I used copper, sterling and brass sheet.\u00a0 Some of the charms I shaped myself, and the others I purchased.\u00a0\u00a0 I plan to redo a few of them, they&#8217;re far from perfect&#8230;but I&#8217;m going for that organic look! \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 I&#8217;ve included my children and my husband&#8217;s names, my Grandmother&#8217;s names, our wedding date, our last name initial and my monogram.\u00a0 I like the jingle &#8230;and instead of wearing my heart on my sleeve, I&#8217;m wearing it around my neck.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div id=\"attachment_1703\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1703\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1703\" title=\"family-necklace_23\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/family-necklace_23.jpg\" alt=\"Familly Charms\" width=\"515\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/family-necklace_23.jpg 515w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/family-necklace_23-300x244.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/family-necklace_23-450x366.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1703\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Familly Charms<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m using my new camera for the first time in these pictures.\u00a0 Would you believe I left my camera at the beach?\u00a0 I&#8217;ll get it when we go back before the end of summer.\u00a0 It&#8217;s about time I started using my Mother&#8217;s Day gift, wouldn&#8217;t you say? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1690\" title=\"siggie4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/siggie4.png\" alt=\"siggie4\" width=\"138\" height=\"75\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello friends If you create jewelry, you&#8217;re seeing this all over right now.\u00a0 Stamps.\u00a0 Metal.\u00a0 This combination is BIG right now, and I can see why.\u00a0\u00a0 When you work with metal, you can shape it in to whatever you want it to be (well, maybe not&#8230;I made a heart 4 times until I was happy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,12,13,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-reads","category-inspiration","category-jewelry-design","category-life-and-times","category-studio-scoop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}