Custom Cool Jewelry

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.

ISBN 1596680741   Pages 144 ISBN13 9781596680746 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Interweave Press Inc   Weight (grammes) 553 Imprint Interweave Press Inc   Published in Loveland Format Paperback   Height (mm) 259 Publication date 01 Oct 2008   Width (mm) 216 Library of Congress 2008003845   Spine width (mm) 10 DEWEY 745.5942   Academic level General DEWEY edition DC22

Myshelf.com: There are lots of books showing you how to string beads, weave with them or make jewelry out of various types of clay, but this book takes a sidestep to all that and shows you how to make unique jewelry out of all manner of things. You won't need to go to the store to find many of them, and some don't cost anything at all. Ready for a recycler's dream? This book is certainly that. All kinds of unlikely items get pressed into service and come out looking different and interesting. Got some odd metal buttons? How about making bezels for them to make them into cabochons. If you are a papercrafter you might possess some rubber stamps. Don't just make cards with them, press them into polymer clay to make textured beads. Rub on transfers, have a go with shrink plastic, ransack your oddments box and make your own clasps... it is all about having a go with a little and coming up with a stylish piece that says a lot. Odd beads and bits of broken jewelry have never looked so chic. I couldn't take my eyes (or hands) off this user-friendly book that got me thinking of all sorts of new ideas after I had tried some of theirs. I also liked the fact that it was a mine of ideas, which didn't require you to obtain certain materials to reproduce pieces. Overseas readers (i.e. anybody outside the States) ought to be able to make most things. One for the keeper shelf, or a good present for anybody who likes making jewelry and has lots of bits and pieces.

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