The Artisan Spotlight Category Archive

Welcome to the Artisan Spotlight archives. The posts are listed in chronological order. Click the post title to read more.

May 16th, 2013

Make Upcycled Found Objects into Jewelry

Melissa Williamson, Graphic Designer for the Nunn Design Team, Creates Jewelry with Upcycled Found Objects Melissa is the person responsible for all of the things you see graphically from Nunn Design. From our weekly newsletters, blog and Facebook posts, website, catalogue, postcard, collage sheets, to our packaging. Anything you see graphically designed – she is [...]

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February 28th, 2013

Artisan Spotlight: Carmi Cimicata

If you aren’t following Carmi on her Resin Crafts Blog, then you are missing out.  Carmi’s blog is chock full of great ideas and step-by-step photos of how to achieve great success with resin and epoxy clay.  I highly recommend following Carmi and learning all you can from her.  Her projects are great!  Her designs [...]

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February 26th, 2013

Introducing Cheryl Spector

Throughout 2013 we will be featuring each member of the Nunn Design Team. Today it is my pleasure to introduce to you someone you may already know, Cheryl Spector. Cheryl is our Office Manager.  We keep her hopping with order entry, order processing, book keeping, payroll, taxes, editing, spec’ing items for the online gallery, making sure we know [...]

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November 30th, 2012

Bring on the Bling

2012 Innovation Team Member Stephanie Gard Buss has an easy project featured on Jewelry Making Daily today.   Chances are you might have a cool old button in your stash, but if not, Stephanie will walk you through the easy steps of making your own bling statement bauble! Download these simple step-by-step instructions (PDF ) and [...]

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November 22nd, 2012

Artisan Spotlight: Rochelle Nation

2012 Innovation Team Member Rochelle Nation has created many great pieces throughout the year for Nunn Design.  I have enjoyed watching for what she would come up with next; especially once she was introduced to epoxy clay. “I have completely fallen head over heels for Two Part Epoxy Crystal ClayTM !  It’s such a fun [...]

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November 16th, 2012

Innovation Team Member Erin Prais-Hintz

What I love about Innovation Team member Erin Prais-Hintz’s jewelry is her use of color, texture and words that provoke thought.  These thoughts can inspire us to “love what you do, be happy from the inside out, experience your dreams wide awake, be creative, be unique, and live the life you always imagined”.  Erin states  [...]

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November 8th, 2012

Innovation Team Member Sharon Borsavage

Sharon produces art because she must.  She describes herself as a person obsessed with beads and making jewelry.  “I have always had a passion for passion itself”, states Sharon.  “To be able to create a mood or stir an emotion in someone through my creativity, makes me feel that I have done my job”. Sharon [...]

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November 1st, 2012

Artisan Spotlight: Karen McGovern

Not only does Karen McGovern produce beautiful unique jewelry she has a big mission behind her work.  “Art and nature are one and same to me.” Karen states, “You cannot have one without the other.  My goal is to create art that represents this link and raises awareness and funds for the wildlife conservation.” Now, [...]

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October 25th, 2012

Innovation Team Member Stephanie Gard Buss

It gives me great pleasure to share with you the delightful Stephanie Gard Buss.  Stephanie has been on the Nunn Design Innovation Team since January 2012 and has been such a delight to get to know (I feel like I’m signing her high school yearbook…).  She is funny (and will get my previous joke), a [...]

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October 18th, 2012

Artisan Spotlight: Debbi Simon

How Debbi Simon finds the time to do all that she does, I just don’t know.  Besides being my ad rep for Interweave Publications, she always seems to show up somewhere teaching a class, being featured in a magazine, or offering video classes at Craftsy or Beaducation. I have found Debbi to be consistently pushing [...]

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