Metal Stamping - Keepers

Our most recent Keeper's meeting was held at Aunt Melissa's house where we learned how to stamp on metal.  I've been wanting to learn how to do metal stamping, so this was one of my favorite meetings!

 

There was a large varitey of items to stamp. 
Some of us chose washers, dog tags, spoons, forks, or knives.

 

Aunt Melissa had this example of a stamped fork for her herb garden...

 



Aunt Jennifer is really good at metal stamping so she came to show us some tips. 

This is a spoon made into a necklace charm.

Lillia chose a spoon.  First you have to smash them out flat on a hard surface like a concrete block.  We laid her spoon on an old sock or rag and then covered it with a piece of leather.  When you smash out your spoon make sure it is covered by the leather, so your spoon doesn't have dents from the hammer.

 



Now it's time to pick out what you want to write on your metal piece.

To make sure her lettering was even on the spoon, Aunt Jennifer used a piece of tape as a "line."

There also were wooden hearts we could stamp on as well.

 

We also made necklaces from washers and scrapbooking paper.

  

 First we traced our washers onto the paper which we cut out.  We then glued them onto the washers and took a nail file and sanded down the edges of the paper.

 Aunt Melissa put a layer of glossy accents on our necklace washers which had to dry for 24 hours...so at our next meeting we finished the necklaces!

 

At our second meeting Aunt Melissa showed us how to put the clamps and findings on the ends of our necklaces.

 



Bethany and Elainah :)

 



Everyone intently working on their necklaces.  There were many different beads we could add to the necklace's if we wanted to...

 



Keeper's is always so fun! 

 

Thanks to Aunt Melissa and Aunt Jennifer for teaching us all about metal stamping!

 

~Kaitlyn