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Thing-A-Ma-Jig Review

The Thing-A-Ma-Jig is such a cool tool for beaders! You’re making customized and unique pendants, links and clasps for your jewelry designs. It’s like magic but still so easy to do! You just twist and turn the wire round the pegs, and you have a new pendant! The wire you can use with a Thing-A-Ma-Jig comes in...

Pantone color chart in Jewelry making

To work well with colors when your making jewelry is essential, but not always easy. Luckily there are many tools out there which are very helpful. One brilliant idea is to use a pantone color chart! Also it’s a very fun way to do it. By getting a Pantone color chart and a book you get giant leaps closer...

Ferido Epoxy Adhesive

Check this out! I’m so excited, found a marvelous epoxy glue made especially for jewelry making. It’s called “New Ferido Epoxy Adhesive” and the possibilities of usage is endless! This two-part epoxy adhesive molds like clay and can be rolled, sculpted, inlaid or set with foil-backed crystals and gemstones for a custom jewelry design.

Zebra Jewelry pliers

Found this lovely Zebra pliers set for jewelry making. You just gotta love them, and I’m definitely getting them. They must be the coolest jewelry pliers on the market, and I found them very cheap here. If you just want a good set of complete jewelry pliers even cheaper, you have that here. Anybody else who has...

PMC3 Precious metal clay Silver

Precious Metal Clay is an easy-to-shape clay, that when burned transforms into a pure silver piece. PMC3 is the most recent version of  the PMC clays. PMC3 shrinks less than original PMC, is easier to manipulate than PMC+ and gives a stronger finished piece than either PMC or PMC+. Since PMC3 can be fired  at lower temperatures...

Firing PMC3 with a Torch

It’s time to magically turn your interesting lump of clay into a beautiful piece of silver. To fire it with a hand-help torch us an excellent way to fire your PMC3 jewelry creations! These butane torches are the same ones used to make crème brûlée, so you don’t need to invest a lot of money with this...

Translucent Liquid Sculpey review

This is an amazing type of clay, the liquid and translucent consistency makes it so versatile! I’m using mine all the time in polymer and metal clay projects. Handling Liquid Sculpey Transluent Liquid polymer clay has a creamy consistency, but over time it thickens though. To thin it out, add a drop of Sculpey Clay Softener. The liquid clay can...

The Secret of The Magic Crimper…

Even though I as very excited to try out this tool, I was still a bit afraid it wasn’t going to pull it off. But WOW, I’m impressed after giving it a try! The Magical crimp forming plier from The Beadsmith is said to crimp nice round beads with tubular 2 mm crimp beads. That’s exactly what...

New Magic Crimper beads!

  Just wanted to show you my most recent finding. Last week I ordered the crimp beads for my Magical Crimper, and now I’ve finally received them! Im telling You, I have great expectations on this crimping tool, and I bet you do too! For the project I bought some sterling silver flex wire .019′ (0,48 mm). It’s the recommended wire size for...

New beading findings!

  I can´t believe it, I finally got my Magical crimp forming tool! Saw a glimpse of it in Oslo a few months ago and now its finally mine. It´s supposed to make completely round crimp beads… I´m so excited to try it out!  You should use crimp beads like these together with the magical crimp...