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Custom Cool Jewelry: Create 200+ Personalized Pendants, Charms and Clasps
Author(s): Melinda Barta (Author)
- Publisher: Interweave
- Publication Date: 1 Aug. 2008
- Language: English
- Print length: 144 pages
- ISBN-10: 1596680741
- ISBN-13: 9781596680746
Book Description
Add a personal, handcrafted touch to any piece using just a few easy-to-find materials for one-of-a-kind results every time
Create jewelry that is uniquely you, with custom clasps, pendants, and charms made to fit your personal style. Includes over 275 quick and easy ideas for mixed media components as well as 7 full stringing projects.
Quick and easy projects- all projects feature easy techniques with stunning results.
Project designs ranging from clever to contemporary, artsy to stylish- featuring boutique-style projects with a personal twist
Hundreds of project ideas and lots of inspiration for customizing your jewelry and creating one-of-a-kind pieces. Shows how to create inexpensive alternatives to many store-bought jewelry components
Create jewelry that is uniquely you, with custom clasps, pendants, and charms made to fit your personal style. Includes over 275 quick and easy ideas for mixed media components as well as 7 full stringing projects.
Quick and easy projects- all projects feature easy techniques with stunning results.
Project designs ranging from clever to contemporary, artsy to stylish- featuring boutique-style projects with a personal twist
Hundreds of project ideas and lots of inspiration for customizing your jewelry and creating one-of-a-kind pieces. Shows how to create inexpensive alternatives to many store-bought jewelry components
Custom Cool Jewelry teaches you how to create personalized, affordable, and unique alternatives to store-bought beading components using a wide range of jewelry and basic crafting materials including embossing powder, collage papers, wire, fibers, glass etching cream, patinas, found objects, fabric, memorabilia and more.
Editorial Reviews
Review
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. –MyShelf.com
About the Author
Melinda Barta is the editor of Beadwork magazine and the former projects editor of PieceWork magazine. She frequently appears on television demonstrating craft techniques and has been a guest on the DIY Network’s Uncommon Threads and DIY Scrapbooking shows, the Style Network’s Craft Corner Death Match, and the PBS show Beads, Baubles, and Jewels. She is the author of Hip to Stitch and Custom Cool Jewelry (both from Interweave), as well as the teacher in the Bead Fest Video Workshop Custom Collage Charms (Interweave). Melinda has a BFA degree in fiber arts and a minor in apparel design from Colorado State University. She lives in Fort Collins, Colorado.
