Artisan Spotlight, Team Nunn
7 Art Day Jewelry Projects from Team Nunn Designer Melissa
The Team at Nunn Design had a very successful art day this past month! There are so many great pieces of finished jewelry to inspire you with – we are breaking the art day highlights into several blog posts!
For this blog post we are featuring the creations of Melissa, Team Nunn’s Graphic Designer. Melissa will be labeling all the components and techniques that she used as well as providing you with links as to where the findings are on our wholesale website.
We hope that this will inspire you to see a Nunn Design Finding in a different way or aid you in seeing an old finding for the first time. Regardless, we hope your creativity is inspired and nurtured.
1. Clever use of an Open Back Bezel Pear:
I love how Melissa used an Open Back Bezel Pear like this! So very clever! The depth of the open back bezel allows the loop to rest overtop the Open Frame Hoop.
Learn the Techniques!
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- Nunn Design Resin (reskit)
- Open Frame Hoop Grande (ofhg-sb)
- Open Back Bezel Pear 14mm (obbp14s)
- Jumpring 12mm Square Wire Circle (jr12swc)
- Small Fine Cable Chain (sfcc)
- Small Jumpring (jrs)
- Large Jumpring Large (jrl)
- Lobster Clasp 18.9mm (lc18.9)
2. Use the Backside of a Charm:
Another clever accent was created with using the backside of one of the Itsy Charms! Love that!
Learn the Techniques!
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- Nunn Design Resin (reskit)
- Primitive Tag Drop Single Hole (ptds)
- Charm Itsy Spiritual Infinity (cisi)
- Large Jumpring Large (jrl)
- Satellite 2mm Bead Chain (s2bc)
- Ball Chain Crimp Connectors (bccc)
- Jumpring Small Thick (jrst)
- Lobster Clasp 18.9mm (lc18.9)
3. Make it Double Sided:
I love the Organic Bead with colorized resin. It is a perfect pop of color. Melissa added pressed organics with Nunn Design resin to both sides of our Eclipse flat tag to make a double-sided piece.
Learn the Techniques!
- Dried Flowers on Flat Tags with Resin
- How to Preserve Organics
- Colorized Resin on Organic Metal Beads
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- Nunn Design Resin (reskit)
- Castin’ Craft Opaque Pigments
- Metal Beads Organic Flat Mini Circle (mbofmc)
- Flat Tag Grande Circle Eclipse (ftgce)
- Small Fine Cable Chain (sfcc)
- Small Jumpring (jrs)
- Lobster Clasp 11.9mm (lc11.9)
4. Mix Metals and Textures:
There are so many fun aspects about this bracelet; mixed metals with leather, a lot of texture and movement and organics with resin.
Learn the Techniques!
- Dried Flowers on Flat Tags with Resin
- How to Preserve Organics
- How to Use Ribbon End Leather Connectors with Deerskin Lace
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- Nunn Design Resin (reskit)
- Flat Tag Grande Half Circle (ftghc)
- Jumpring 9mm Textured Circle (jr9tc)
- Jumpring Large Rope (jrlr)
- Deerskin Lace 5mm (dsl5b)
- Ribbon End Leather Connector 5mm (relc5)
- Jumpring 6mm Textured Circle (jr6tc)
- Fine Textured Cable Chain (ftcc)
- Small Fine Cable Chain (sfcc)
- Large Jumpring Large (jrl)
- Lobster Clasp 18.9mm (lc18.9)
5. Inspired by Stanhope Jewelry:
Fun little peek-a-boo window frames! Melissa made these while thinking of Stanhope jewelry. She took a pencil and shaded the bottom of an Open Back Bezel with graphite and then pressed it onto the transfer sheet, to transfer onto it the outline of the shape she needed to then trim.
Learn the Techniques!
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- Nunn Design Resin (reskit)
- Transfer Sheet Birds & Trees (tsbt)
- Open Back Bezel Square 12mm Single Loop (obbs12s)
- Jumpring Small Thick (jrst)
- Earwire Kidney Small (ewks)
6. Geometric and Organics:
Melissa spent her day working through projects that were featured in the 2018 Summer School Program. She hammered the flat tag prior to adding organics and resin to both focal pieces.
Learn the Techniques!
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- Nunn Design Resin (reskit)
- Metal Beads Organic Flat Mini Circle (mbofmc)
- Metal Bead Faceted Drop Itsy (mbfdis)
- Flat Tag Large Inverted Triangle (ftlits)
- Large Jumpring Large (jrl)
- Satellite 2mm Bead Chain (s2bc)
- Ball Chain Crimp Connectors (bccc)
- Jumpring Small Thick (jrst)
- Jumpring 6mm Textured Circle (jr6tc)
- Lobster Clasp 11.9mm (lc11.9)
7. Collar Pins, Dried Flowers and Colorized Resin:
Collar Pins are a trend that Melissa is following. I love the piece she created!
Learn the Techniques!
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- Nunn Design Resin (reskit)
- Castin’ Craft Opaque Pigments
- Lapel Pins Mini Star (lpms)
- Itsy Link Double Loop Rectangle (ildr)
- Small Fine Cable Chain (sfcc)
- Small Jumpring (jrs)
SHOOT, I’m going to have to post the other team members on another post! Too many awesome projects for one day!
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Wow! What a treat to see what you created and then to have the photo with all the pieces identified is fantastic!
I can just imagine being there for the day with the creativity swirling in the air. Thank you so much for sharing with us and making it so easy to follow along so we can do it ourselves.