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Custom Cool Jewelry: 200+ Personalized Pendants, Charms and Clasps
Create jewelry that is uniquely you with "Custom Cool Jewelry". Add a personal, handcrafted touch to any piece using just a few easy-to-find materials for one-of-a-kind results every time. All it takes is basic jewelry-making and crafting skills.Think outside the box with Melinda's unconventional uses of common crafting supplies. Learn to bake bead collages with resin in the oven, emboss antique playing cards, roll up some polymer clay, stamp and stitch fabric focal pieces, and wire-wrap to your heart's content.
From flirty and romantic wire worked dangles to simple and understated polymer clay beads, you'll wear your jewelry with pride-be ready for the compliments!You can learn to create some of the most surprisingly simple charms out of unsuspected, yet easily accessible materials. You can make charms out of fabric and eyelets or wire work sweet little charms with bead frames.Each project component is shown in a number of color and design variations, with each partially strung on colorful wire with a few beads to inspire readers to create their own complete jewelry pieces. |
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Creative Beading, Volume 3: The Best Projects from a Year of Bead&button Magazine
Exciting new beadweaving techniques, creative stringing ideas, and playful wirework projects. That's what readers have come to expect from "Bead&Button" magazine, and that's what they'll find in "Creative Beading, Vol. 3," the annual bumper book of the best projects from a year of this favorite beading magazine. More than 75 jewelry projects showcase seed beads, gemstones, glass, pearls, fibers, and more, in projects ranging from a peyote stitch necklace to a simple strung bracelet, from a crocheted collar to a wirework brooch.
A complete basics section makes this collection a must-have for every beader. |
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Jewelry Making & Beading for Dummies
Features step-by-step projects and full-color examples Create unique jewelry to wear with everything from jeans to a ball gown! Want to make your own jewelry? This easy-to-follow guide gives you lots of hands-on instruction in making simple, fabulous jewelry and working with beads. From wire wrapping and knotting to weaving and polishing, you'll get all the skills you need to make necklaces, bracelets, earrings, pins, key chains, wine charms and items for the home. Discover how to * Create funky and elegant designs * Work with leather, silver, and stones * String, knot, and weave beads * Avoid common mistakes * Host a trendy jewelry party |
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Easy Beading: The Best Projects from the First Year of Beadstyle Magazine
Stringing beads in appealing combinations is surely one of the greatest--"and now it's one of the most popular, as crafters everywhere discover that with just a handful of beads. they can make stunning pieces to wear or give. "BeadStyle magazine gives those crafters great projects in an easy-to-follow. step-by-step format, issue after issue after issue. Now the best of "BeadStyle has been gathered into one handy, inspiring volume packed with more than 140 projects. including earring, bracelets, belts, necklaces and even a watchband. "Easy Beading has something for everyone who enjoys making something that's greater than the sum of its parts. |
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Making Bead & Wire Jewelry: Simple Techniques, Stunning Designs
"This inspiration-filled volume [has] instructions for more than 70 unique jewelry pieces from a diverse group of designers. Learn the tricks of using a jig, wire wrapping, twisting, coiling and hammering to create incredible effects. Combine...wirework with beautiful glass or semiprecious stone beads to create wonderful necklaces, chokers, bracelets, earrings, hair clips, pins and eyeglass chains."--"Crafts Magazine," |
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Chinese Knots for Beaded Jewellery
Suzen Millodot shows how to create a mouth-watering array of original necklaces and bracelets using decorative Chinese knots, beads, pendants and semi-precious stones. Simple knotted necklaces look elegant and stylish when combined with beautiful ceramic, metal or wooden beads. Just one knot with several semi-precious beads is stunning. Matching bracelets catch the eye and can be worn on any occasion. Once the techniques are mastered, designs can be as extravagant, or as simple as you want - no specialist equipment is required and no special skills. The techniques are explained clearly with many detailed step-by-step photographs, accompanying diagrams and helpful advice, and inspirational projects are included to develop skills and inspire creativity. |
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