Create jewelry with wedding flowers or petals from a special prom corsage. Pearl’s easy step-by-step instructions and photos make this a craft for any age at any skill level. To see Pearl’s full tutorial, visit her blog at The Beading Gem. Easy No-Resin Real Flower and Leaf Jewelry Tutorial Shop Supplies: The bezels and glass […]
Our customers that offer metal stamped customized jewelry have continued to grow their jewelry making business. Due to this success, the Metal Stamping Flat Tags are the second best selling category in our line. Customizing seems to be a niche that is ideal for the smaller sized business. Nunn Design has 7 different styles of […]
We were all sad to see BeadStyle Magazine come to a close (I miss you Naomi!!), but we are happy that the projects that we have created for BeadStyle over the years are now available for a free download on Facet. Here are some of the projects that are now up and available. There are some […]
Last month, at our Nunn Design 2017 Spring Art Retreat, we had the one and only fabulous Christi Friesen as our Artist in Residence. Christi is an internationally known polymer clay artist and we were lucky to nail her down for a weekend to have her come play! Christi spent her full art retreat exploring with […]
A jewelry trend that is still going strong well into fall of 2015 is layering necklaces. Layered necklaces range from a single necklace with connected multiple strands to layering by trend. They range from complimentary minerals and stones to layering by shapes, composition and balance. Regardless, adorning oneself with multiple layers of necklaces is becoming […]
It is so much fun to explore jewelry created by the hands of wonderful embroidery artists! Here are some pieces to inspire you. I have enjoyed seeing Jessica Long of Nameste Embroidery create amazing things on Instagram/@nameste_embroidery. Jessica has several time-lapse videos of herself working and it easily puts me in a trance. Jessica offers kits, […]
I had a lot of fun creating these pieces that are featured in this months issue of Beadworks Magazine. A popular trend right now is astrology. For this collection, I kept the feel of a boho style with leather cording and Nunn Design Faceted Beads. For the technique, I metal stamped on several of the Nunn […]
Have we been busy or what these past couple weeks ?! We have written tutorials to inspire artists of all skill levels to use colorized resin with our collection of open back bezels. All of our efforts have been in support of our current Buy & Try program that ends May 28th. All 7 of […]
Each year we comb through our product line and make tough decisions about what to let go of from our everyday line. Some of the items we let go of are due to lack of sales, but in other cases it is due to manufacturing. Regardless, it is time to retire items and prepare for […]
Over the past couple of weeks I have been scouring the web and learning as much as I can about Etsy. I set up an account and even started to sell my finished jewelry pieces all in the hopes of becoming more educated about what it is like to be out there in the world […]
Here is a tutorial of my daughter, Emillia, creating jewelry for her PT Wearable Art Costume using candy wrappers. This tutorial has a lot of steps, I won’t deny that, but the results are super fun! Supplies Needed: Nunn Design Open Frame Hoops Castin’ Crafts Opaque Pigments, Red, Blue and White Nunn Design 2-Part Resin […]
The team at Nunn Design sits down quarterly to work with the product line first hand. Our art day helps the team collaborate on new ideas for additional products, test existing products and it gives us all an awareness of what it is like for all of you to create with our jewelry findings and […]
Photo by David Goetze My oldest daughter Emillia, age 13, participated in the 7th Annual Port Townsend Wearable Art Show a couple weeks ago. It is a fun Port Townsend event that raises funds for women and children. Emillia spent the winter months refining her wearable art concept, creating her costume, her accessories, selecting her […]
I love the look of these colorized resin bezels with brass stampings. They remind me of vintage German glass reverse intaglio cabochons. With this tutorial, you can learn how to use open back bezels, colorize resin and how to embed brass stampings. This is a cheatsheet that you may be interested in; Pantone Color Nunn […]
The best part of Halloween is unpacking my collection of Halloween decorations that I have stored all year. Most of my pieces are artisan made and I love looking at all the fine detail that someone had put into my now treasured possessions. I feel that way about jewelry too. Year after year, I love […]