Create Your Own Jewelry - Ann Kay

This title features over 100 inspiring ways to make stunning pieces from all kinds of materials, with practical step-by-step projects. It contains over 100 ideas and easy-to-make projects, plus scores of tips and inspiration for creating many different types of hand-crafted jewellery. It features every kind of jewellery - from bangles, brooches and pins, to necklaces, rings, pendants and earrings - plus designs for buttons, badges, cufflinks, hair ornaments and trinket boxes. All techniques are shown in fully illustrated step-by-step format - clear, simple and easy to achieve, with stunning pictures of every finished piece. It covers a wide range of different crafting techniques using easily acquired equipment and material: including metal, wire, beads, ribbon, felt, silk, shells, mosaic, ceramics and paper. Jewellery always makes a very personal statement, and creating your own pieces is a wonderful way of saying even more about yourself and your taste. Better still, many of these ideas are so inexpensive, you can give yourself a new look quickly and easily. This book is designed to teach you everything you need to know about making jewellery, and covers all the materials, techniques and equipment you will need. Projects include bracelets and earrings, necklaces and brooches and even cufflinks and rings, and cover all kinds of crafting techniques. Throughout the book there is an emphasis on having fun while inspiring you to create a fabulous and individual look, with the minimum amount of expenditure.• Over 100 ideas and easy-to-make projects, plus scoresof tips and inspiration for creating many different typesof hand-crafted jewellery• Features every kind of jewellery – from bangles,brooches and pins, to necklaces, rings, pendants andearrings – plus designs for buttons, badges, cufflinks,hair ornaments and trinket boxes• All techniques shown in fully illustrated step-by-stepformat – clear, simple and easy to achieve, with stunningpictures of every finished piece• Covers a wide range of different crafting techniquesusing easily acquired equipment and material: includingmetal, wire, beads, ribbon, felt, silk, shells, mosaic,ceramics and paper