I had a lovely couple book a bespoke workshop with me today to celebrate their copper wedding anniversary. We work in copper to create these metal embossed plaques, so it was perfect for them! Obviously they did not need two house numbers, so one created the house number and the other created a plaque featuring…
We’ve long needed a key holder in our hallway, so with the new year I decided it was time to create one! As I’ve been working a lot with my Celtic knotwork and metal embossing recently, I thought it would be good to combine the two again and create a metal embossed key holder. This…
Last week I finished a metal embossed keepsake box project, and now that it has been received by the intended recipient, I can show it to you. I used a balsa wood box for the base, which I painted in chalk paint, mixed with a little acrylic paint to get the shade I wanted. The…
When you need a new house number and you can emboss metal… well, you have to make a metal embossed house number! I made our new house number out of copper. As we are both Celtic artists, I chose one of my Celtic knotwork designs for the border to represent ourselves. You can see from…
After an introduction to metal embossing, my students moved on to working with copper and working on their own designs. As you can see, they had lots of fun, and really went to town and created some fantastic pieces! They worked on these over several sessions. I know some are destined for going up in…
This week I taught a metal embossing class for beginners. I showed everyone the basic techniques for creating a small metal embossed plaque, and everyone chose a design to work with and embellished it with their own little details. There was one more plaque created, but somehow I seem to have missed that one! Metal…
