We are currently running the classes and courses below from our studio in Leeds, West Yorkshire. Click here for directions. All materials are included in price. The maximum number of students I can take is 4 so if you are a group of 5 or more who wish to learn together I am willing to travel to your premises. Contact us using the contact form or by phone 0113 2576380.

Beginner's PMC Jewellery

Learn how to use all the different types of PMC; clay, paste, sheet and syringe in one day. Make several charms using various techniques, rolling, texturising, oxidising and setting small stones. Firing using torch and kiln and polishing to a high shine.

Beginner's Baby Fingerprint Jewellery

Learn how to imprint baby fingerprints directly into the clay and firing it in the kiln. You will be taught how to bring out the definition of the print by oxidising and polishing your keepsake jewellery to a professional finish. Also make and take prints from moulds.

Intro to Art Clay Silver

Learn how to use Art Clay Silver 650 Low Fire Clay. Roll, texture, shape, add small stones and oxidise the silver. Firing using torch and kiln and polishing to a high shine.

Beginner's Silversmithing Course (5 weeks)

In a fully equipped workshop learn how to saw pierce, drill, file, shape, texture metal and make either a bangle or pendant of your own design.

Intermediate PMC Jewellery

Make a pendent and matching earrings using cubic zirconia stones and PMC syringe.

Intermediate Enamelling on PMC/ Art Clay Silver

Add colour to your metal clay jewellery with the ancient art of enamel.

Intermediate Ring Making in PMC

Make 2 rings using PMC. One flat band and one 3D with a stone setting.

Intermediate Silver Bead Making

Learn how to make round, lentil and tubular beads using PMC.

Children's Drawings and Hand/Foot Prints in PMC

Move your keepsake jewellery up another level. A follow on class from Beginners Baby Fingerprint. In the morning learn how to take hand and footprint impressions using the inkless wipes and transfer onto the computer in order to make a stamp using photo polymer plates. Then make a piece of jewellery in the afternoon with your new stamps. This is a fast pace day so you need to have done a beginners course.
 
Advanced PMC Jewellery

Make intricate filigree designs using the syringe. This is a must if you intend to take the art clay certification course or want to progress to the Masters Register. You will make a pair of filigree earrings and a pendent and earring set using metal clay, stones and PMC syringe as part of the design.

Advanced Baby Fingerprint and Keepsake Jewellery Business Course

If you're serious about turning your keepsake jewellery making into a profitable business this is the course for you. You need to have already done a Fingerprint Jewellery or PMC or Art Clay Silver Beginners course. On day one you will make a pair of cufflinks, learn how to set larger stones and make fancy bales. Day two covers all aspects of setting up a business including, costing, pricing, marketing, promotion, design, corporate image and suppliers.

Wedding Day Silver Training (3 days)

This training course is only for those who wish to become part of the Wedding Day Silver team. You will be taught how to transform leaves and flowers from bridal bouquets into pure silver keepsake jewellery. This is an intensive practical and business course with an assessment task.  Please see business opportunities for more details or visit www.weddingdaysilver.com or contact us via the contact form

 

Cath McRae, Team Member Blackburn area

 

Booking & Cancellation Terms & Conditions

 

 

 

 

A non refundable deposit of £25 per person is required to hold a place on a course. Cancellations with less than 3 weeks notice but more than 48 hours will have the deposit allocated to another course. Cancellations with less than 48 hours notice will forfeit the deposit. Where a course has been booked and paid for in advance (i.e. Gift Voucher etc.) and a cancellation is made with less than 24 hours notice we will offer you a place on any course where a place becomes available at the last minute or on a course that has not been fully booked. New paying customers will take priority for places. If you have arranged for your course to be taken other then at the Clarise Jewellery Studio and have to cancel then you will forfeit the whole tuition fees.

We reserve the right to cancel any course that does not have the minimum of two pupils booked on. In this situation we will offer you the opportunity to transfer your deposit to another date or we will refund your deposit which ever you would prefer. We also reserve the right to cancel any course that may be necessary if any circumstances beyond our control result in us having to do so. Again in this situation you will be offered the opportunity to transfer your deposit to another course or and immediate refund of your deposit which ever you prefer.

If you cannot make our set course dates then contact us for a private course. We charge the same amount as the set course plus and additional £25 per person per day for 2 or £50 per day for 1. If there there is demand we will add another course date and you will not have to pay the private supplement.