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Custom Cool Jewelry: Create 200+ Personalized Pendants, Charms, and Clasps
Custom Cool Jewelry: Create 200 Personalized Pendants Charms and Clasps | 
 enlarge | Author: Melinda Barta
Publisher: Interweave Press
Category: Book
List Price: $22.95
Buy New: $15.61
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 144
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 10.2 x 8.5 x 0.5
ISBN: 1596680741
Dewey Decimal Number: 739.27
EAN: 9781596680746
Publication Date: August 1, 2008
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Product Description
DIVCommon craft supplies find new purpose with the stunning, nontraditional jewelry designs in this guidebook. Basics items such as embossing powder, collage paper, wire, fiber, and fabric can be used to create one-of-a-kind, boutique-style pieces with a personal twist. From romantic wire-worked dangles and simple polymer clay beads to fabric charms and baked bead collages, the unconventional use of basic supplies provide a wealth of new possibilities for crafters. Each project component is shown in a number of color and design variations, inspiring readers to create their own jewelry pieces, and sidebars share insider tips, basic stringing and wirework techniques, and project and shopping resources./DIV
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 Mix and Match Your Way to Custom Cool Jewelry! September 5, 2008
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
I pre-ordered this book and I am so glad I did! This will make for one of the more frequently referenced books in my ever growing jewelry designing library. The sheer volume of the ideas sounds overwhelming but really, there are simply several variations of each project that really help you see new ways to combine various materials to come up with something totally unique, customized and cool. Ms. Barta must have been really inspired to make so many different pieces, but what I like best is that most of these ideas take supplies that are not necessarily traditional jewelry making components, like shrink plastic, scrapbook rub-ons and fabric and turning them into the most unique components. I, too, make one-of-a-kind jewelry because my philosophy is that life is too short to wear department store jewelry or home party jewelry that you are likely to see walking down the street on someone else. You should be you and your accessories are like the icing on the cake - it should really set you apart. These designs are fresh and spunky and show an willingness to experiment that I love. This is a winner of a book and you won't be disappointed if you purchase it!
This is my New Favorite Craft Book! September 22, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I found this book at the local bookstore, and bought it immediately. It was worth every penny. There is inspiration for almost everyone...Beading, Polymer Clay, Shrink Art, Altered Art....Pop Art. I liked the fact that the book was not really geared toward a total beginner. As an experienced crafter, I prefer to not pay for half of a book full of basic how-to instructions with only a few projects shown. The photos are great, as are the projects themselves. The ideas are fresh and most are quite simple. On the down side, many of the projects featured require the purchase of specialty findings and and bits that could add up to quite a bit of cash. However, the resource guide in the back of the book lead me to many great sites for products I didn't even know I wanted.
Empowering Design Ideas... September 22, 2008
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
If you're privy to the booming DIY scene, then you know that "custom" is the new IT word. Turn on any home improvement show or open any craft magazine and you'll see the word being used to denote something a step above the rest. Why? When Big Business cranks out carbon copy style after carbon copy style, individual and personalized imagery and objects are a welcome escape - a breath of fresh air in an often times stagnant pool of overly-recycled ideas and motifs. br /br /Melinda Barta, the managing editor of Beadwork and Stringing magazines, is definitely in touch with the movement away from pre-fab "style" and towards a more distinct design - your own. With her new book from Interweave Press, Custom Cool Jewelry, she empowers the reader with over 200 projects. Not only does she give valuable tips on making your own pendants, charms, and clasps, but she presents several stringing ideas to use your newly created custom pieces. This book is LOADED with useful ideas that spark the imagination and provoke potential.br /br /Melinda has a bevy of knowledge from working on various magazines (including PieceWork magazine), being author of Hip to Stitch: 20 Contemporary Projects Embellished with Thread, having a BFA in Fiber Arts from Colorado State University and being a teacher at schools across the country, including the prestigious Penland School of Crafts. She uses this versatile experience to enrich Custom Cool Jewelry and deliver projects from a truly unique perspective.br /br /What I love best about Custom Cool Jewelry is that it is a spring board for endless creativity. It fundamentally teaches the reader how to open up their personal style toolbox and use what's inside. A lot of craft and jewelry books simply dole out formulas on how to duplicate someone else's ideas. Custom Cool Jewelry is different. It enables the reader to make stunning jewelry of high quality from their own well of inspiration, utilizing the creative and truly cool ideas offered up by Melinda Barta in this must-have book.br /br /I definitely recommend this book!
It really is "cool" September 8, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book is worth adding to your jewelry making library. It is well written and beautifully photographed. The projects are clearly explained and I learned some new techniques, especially pertaining to bezels for pendants. Very nice.
One Very Cool Book! October 13, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
It's all about the pendant in Melinda's book and that's a good thing. You'll be able to create mixed media necklaces with unique one of a kind pendants. There are plenty of options for the reader with over 200 pendants, charms and clasps. The book has four chapters: pendants, charms, clasps and finished projects. The reader learns how to etch, use shrink plastic, cabachons, tins and more. Small pendants are really charms which you'll learn to create in chapter two.br /br /I love the wide range of techniques included in Melinda's book. The reader is not confined to learning one technique and the jewelry one can make with just one technique. If you don't like shrink plastic, you can make an etched pendant. Mixed Media is very hot right now and Melinda's book holds all the DIY secrets you'll need to create jewelry that is a personal expression of you. Melinda has written one very cool book!
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