Back to Basics
Greg Stopka
Jewelsmiths • Pleasant Hill, California
As a jeweler who specializes in restyling and redesigning clients’ jewelry, Greg Stopka loves finding ways of using parts and pieces of old jewelry to create new treasures. And although the Mystery Box Challenge required him to piece together a collection of random materials, he found it to be a refreshing departure from his norm.
“This was more out of the box, more creative,” he says. “It gave me the ability to challenge myself to sit down and sketch and see what I could create.”