Paper on Metal Washer Jewelry

I am putting some of my "paper on metal" jewelry back onto the sales tables for craft shows. I had saturated the market for this style last year. But after a recent show, I remembered that although a piece of jewelry might be a year old to me, it will be brand new to someone else. Plus I like some of these pieces, so they're going back on display.

I did a completely different style of jewelry this year (I even did a quick Instructable on the process). I can't stick with one style for very long. I know that's not very professional of me, but this jewelry making thing is just a way to blow off some creative energy when I get bogged down in my other projects. I like making jewelry, but I think it might be because I have no real stake in it.

In fact, jewelry is an area where I have no expectations of myself or the outcome. Most of my other projects are carefully conceived, extensively researched and planned. I have very precise expectations of the outcome. When I tried combining the two parts of my brain, I got poor results (check out the experiments I did with 3d printing, Arduino and jewelry - the detailed three-part series turned into

a technical documentation binge instead of a jewelry making session)




So I went back to thinking of jewelry as a completely separate process. I treat jewelry making like a random story generator. The stranger the seed-ideas the more fun I have fleshing out the story, ummm, making the jewelry. How can I make the most unalike items that I can find come together into a cohesive composition.

I know I would get better results if I picked one style and "worked the problem" until I developed a dependable and attractive solution. But I don't, jewelry making is just entertainment and a way to blow off steam.





The pieces shown here all use a technique of cut paper circles adhered onto a painted washer. These were just experiments for me. I had craft cutter that had sat idle for months, some remnants of scrapbooking paper, and some nearly empty rattle-cans of paint.

What else could I do but make jewelry. I mean, they are all such traditional jewelry making materials right? At least I added some bits from a craft store to finish them off. Now it's official, it's real jewelry LOL

In the next post I explain more about how these pieces are made. And here's the reason I started playing with washers as art - the bright and colorful NeoPixel LED rings.

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