Book review: Custom Cool Jewelry
June 22, 2009 by Cyndi Lavin
Filed under Book & Magazine Reviews, Classes, Events & Shows, Interweave, Metal Fabrication, Mixed Media, Other Bead & Jewelry Sites, Polymer Clay, Tutorials & Techniques, Wearable Art
Custom Cool Jewelry
by Melinda Barta
Melinda Barta came up with a brilliant idea for this fun book. Instead of spreading her many talents out too thinly, she concentrated on just three areas: pendants, charms, and clasps.
It’s often hard to find exactly that perfect piece to customize your jewelry, and if you can make your own pendants, charms, and clasps, you can add them to readily available lain beads to create a masterpiece that is distinctively yours. Melinda includes over 275 quick and easy ideas for mixed media components as well as 7 full stringing projects. Once you start making these components, you’ll never run out of ideas about what to do with them!
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.
Check out The Bookshop for lots more links to books about jewelry-making in addition to this fine guide!
