Creating Beautiful Bezels with ICE Resin by Susan Lenart Kazmer

A couple years ago, I discovered ICE Resin, a product developed by Susan Lenart Kazmer...she is one of the most inspiring artists I've ever met.  If you're not familiar with her work, click on the link above to view her amazing work.    

Susan worked with Spellbinders to develop a line of bezels and pendants...and I became very familiar with the products. I got to teach and demonstrate the products, literally around the world at trade shows and art events...here's a flashback from the blog archives where you can see some of the places and people I met...Creating Beautiful Bezels with Spellbinders Media Mixage...for me, it was an incredible experience to work with the products and to share them with other artists and crafters.  I'd not created any jewelry peices for years...so it was a nice reintroduction to jewelry making. 

And, over time as I worked with the products, I discovered a few techniques and tricks of my own when working with ICE Resin.  For example, the resin in the photo above is tinted with artists pastels...the resin looks like Lapis...it's a cool technique that I love to share in the workshops I teach today.

And, over time, as I have moved on and done other things, artistically and professionally, I still get asked to teach ICE Resin workshops...I absolutely love getting to share the techniques with students who attend.  The student work is always very inspiring.  Very often we create memory pieces...I ask students to bring family photos and personal letters and we set out to preserve family memories by creating pendants and bezels with those treasure images.  

During the course of the workshops, I often end up with some beautiful pieces that I've created with the students as examples and instructional pieces...I've started adding them to my etsy shop,          Ken Oliver Crafts. They're often too beautiful not to share.   

I'm still teaching ICE Resin workshops and in fact, I have a workshop on October 24th in my hometown.  The event is called ICE at the Edge, You can click on the link...or click on the ICE at the Edge banner at the side of this page for more details.  The event will be smaller and more intimate than many of the workshops I teach, and we're going to be in the most beautiful venue...our classroom over looks the Ohio River in Southern Indiana.   

I am getting really excited about ICE at the Edge. Students are traveling from as far away as Florida, Connecticut, and Minnesota to attend.  

If you'd like to enroll, it's really easy, and affordable and the workshop includes dinner...

And, at the end of the workshop, you'll have created 4 beautiful pendants that you can wear yourself, or give as gifts.  

As you can probably tell, I love working with ICE Resin...it's let me create and express my art in lots of new ways...I'd invite you to visit my etsy shop to see more...and hopefully, you'll think about coming to ICE at the Edge to learn how to create these beautiful pieces yourself.  I hope to see you there!  

Stephenie Hamen Trunk Show at Art at the Edge

It's less than a month until Art at the Edge, and I am really busy making the final preparations for the event....and really pleased to let you know that mixed media artist, Stephenie Hamen will exhibit some of her wonderful artwork during the event.  It's another perk of Art at the Edge...a trunk show and exhibit by one of the Midwest's trendiest mixed media artists.  

I have always been amazed with her talent and all that she does...by trade, she's an educator...in her early career, she taught children with hearing disabilities...she's also a well-known arts and crafts educator, producing classes and video instruction for some of the biggest companies in the industry...she is also a wife, mother, a foodie, a blogger, a master gardener...

and one of the best mixed media artists I've ever had the privilege to work with...you are going to love her style.  

She's traveling all the way from Wisconsin to attend Art at the Edge...and we're really lucky that she's going to share some of her amazing art with us over the weekend.  

Stephenie will bring some original art and some prints for her trunk show at Art at the Edge...I am very honored that she's joining us for our event and overjoyed to share her art with you.

If you'd like to learn a little more about Stephenie...you can catch up with her on her website, on Facebook, Instagram, on Twitter or Linkedin.

  

www.stepheniehamen.com

facebook: http://www.facebook.com/stephenie.hamen

twitter: @craftystephenie

Instagram: @craftystephenie

LinkedIn: Stephenie Purl Hamen

If you haven't heard about Art at the Edge yet...it's a cool arts and crafts event October 24th and 25th in Newburgh, Indiana...you can click on the Art at the Edge or Ice at the Edge banners on the right side of this page to learn how you can participate.