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Summary: Learn about tools you need for making tin stamped Christmas ornaments with expert craft tips in this free holiday video.
Marie French's creative fire has spawned gallery shows of mixed media collections, mixed media jewelry pieces, collages, tinwork and hand built clay pieces. Her work has traveled the...read more
"Hi! This is Marie French with Expert Village. Now, we're going to discuss where to find your tools. A lot of these tools, number one; you can find at a hardware store. A ball peen hammer you find at a hardware store. You can find it a Rio Grande. You can find it at Fire Mountain. You can find it at Michael's craft stores, craft stores anywhere. Your local hardware and craft store will have all of this stuff. A ball peen hammer is most important. Next, nails. Now, where do you think you get nails? I would say the hardware store. You can find them at garden stores sometimes. You can also go to the local hardware store, and here you can find punches. Small circles and small lines. These will punch out super, super circles. These relieve punches can really be found only in a few places. Here you might look into Indian jeweler supply. They carry some of these relieve punches. This is specific to make punches. You'll see a lot of that. You can also find some of this sort of thing in Tandy's leather supply and some of your other leather supply companies. The letter stamps can be found again, at Tandy or you can look it up on the Internet and find different companies that do carry these alphabet stamps. Tin snips. The hardware store. Any hardware store will carry tin snips. Also, you can find them at Rio Grande, your Fire Mountain supply store. You can find them at Michael's. You can find them at craft stores most of the time. Tin snips are easy to get. Buy the best pair you can afford because they'll last you for years and years to come. Tin, if you're going to buy it and not recycle, which I suggest recycling, you can find this at a hardware store as well. Again, contractor stores will also have this. Your wood, please just find it outside. Enjoy it. Look forward to having you for our next segment."
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