Download the printeable version of the worksheet. Worksheet – How to make a Starbox PDF
See a speedy demo – Starbox Demo Movie
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Found a cool challenge at crafster.org to create jewelry to the theme ‘Colors of the Sea’. This gave me the motivation to finally use some techniques from a new book. So I have ventured into working with wire. The technique I tried is hammered wire, it is easy and you just need a small hammer and a steel or marble block. I am lucky to have a special steel block my father in law ‘turned’ himself, but I have been told that an off-cut of marble from a kitchen shop is just as good. The picture shows the same pendant from two different angles.
The fabulous book is ‘Making Colorful Wire & Beaded Jewelry’ by Linda Jones – lotsa pictures, clear instructions and ways to take the basic technique and use it many cool and clever ways.
This was one of those ideas after a few glasses of wine. And having had the idea I could not wait long enough for the shops to open to buy the correct paint – Foolishly I would rather spend 5-6 hours painting with the wrong paint! The paint I needed was textile paint, the paint I had was normal paint and really old textile medium. It worked fine except it sat on top of the jean forming a skin instead of soaking in like normal textile inks that I bought the next day and used to finish the jeans. Oh well, they are sooo loud that hopefully folk will not notice the difference in texture.
The inspiration for my first pair are Matisse cut outs. I have ideas for many others but not so sure that I would wear them, so I am thinking along the lines of painted hats instead!
