Beading Inspiration: How to Use Color in Jewelry DesignChoosing and using color in jewelry design can be difficult. That’s where Beading Inspiration comes in! The experts at Bead&Button and BeadStyle have packed this book with step-by-step guidance on how to find great color combinations using four proven sources of inspiration—nature, fabric, decorative arts, and the color wheel.
The book on how to make vintage-style jewelry, this guide teaches readers how to create over 25 beautiful heirlooms of their own. Using a range of affordable and widely available materials, Deborah Schneebeli-Morrell presents classic and unique projects, including: -An elegant evening necklace with a Victorian feel -A silver charm bracelet with old mementos and pressed silver beads -A silk evening bag with matching velvet trim -A brooch made from old china -A multicolored filigree bracelet - And more!
The New Clay: Techniques and Approaches to Jewelry Making
Everything you need to know to work with the new polymer clays is covered clearly in this book. Excellent working diagrams show how easy it is to make the most complex looking design.
You can solve some of the most dastardly, downright confounding crimes ever committed. But first, check out some helpful tips that only the best detectives know about deciphering secret codes; writing messages in invisible ink; and dusting for fingerprints. Now you're ready to go out into the world and catch the evil criminals who have been preying on innocent citizens. From a jewelry heist to a Halloween homicide, you're on the case and people everywhere are safer because of it.
Featuring 18 exciting projects presented with detailed step-by-step photography, color variations, and practical illustrations, this fresh approach to seed bead jewelry teaches crafters how to combine materials, techniques, colors, inspiration, and design ideas for jewelry with a contemporary edge. Inspired by a wide range of sources—from Indian Punjabi folk costumes to Native American beading—the designs in this inventive resource fuse materials such as silver, copper wire, seed beads, Czech glass, and crystals into these traditional arts in order to achieve a unique outcome.
