| 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.
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Quick and easy projects – all projects feature easy techniques with stunning results.
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Project designs ranging from clever to contemporary, artsy to stylish – featuring boutique-style projects with a personal twist
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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.
Paperbound, 8½ x 10¼, 144 pages
43 illustrations, 150 photographs, 2 charts
ISBN 978-1-59668-074-6
About the author:
Melinda Barta is managing editor of Beadwork
magazine, Stringing magazine, and the former projects editor of PieceWork
magazine. She has a BFA degree in fiber arts and a minor in apparel design from
Colorado State University and is the author of Hip
to Stitch (Interweave). She lives in Fort Collins, Colorado.
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