I’m what some people would call a wire aficionado. Your friends will say that about you when you start enhancing your craft projects with wire shapes. I’ve created and taught my own wire techniques for years. I’ve even done Groupon classes for enthusiastic wire-workers. When I create handmade greeting cards, scrap book pages or even key chains, I always add a quick hit of wire craftiness.
Once you get your fingers limbered up, you can make a pair of earrings in ten minutes or adorn a greeting card in a jiffy. You can personalize a picture frame in 30 minutes or create great big wire letters or shapes for your wall. Older kids can do it too, if you help them handle the tools. Here’s what you’ll need.
Tools
Materials
A brief wire tutorial
Some guy probably created wire gauges to keep crafty women confused, but it’s a simple system of opposites. The smaller the number, the bigger the wire, and vice versa.
Craft stores sell gold, silver and copper wire which are often alloys or coated for tarnish resistance. You can also buy these pure metal wires in a hardware store:
Working with wire
Add wire shapes to greeting cards
Enhance your scrapbooks
Add wire shapes to a picture frame
Once you’ve learned a few wire techniques and a developed a bit more dexterity, you’ll be able to transform a piece of wire into people, flowers or whatever you desire. You’ll have fun and in no time you’ll become a wire aficionado like me. Here are a few things to try along the way.
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Techniques from my wire-work classes
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