Designer Style Jewelry

If you’re interested in learning how to make your own jewelry, Designer Style Jewelry: Techniques and Projects for Elegant Designs from Classic to Retro is a must-have addition to your crafting library. This useful guide to jewelry making will give you all the inspiration you need to start creating one-of-a-kind necklaces, earrings, bracelets, rings, and pins. In fact, Designer Style Jewelry: Techniques and Projects for Elegant Designs from Classic to Retro was named best general craft book for 2006 by Craftrends Award of Excellence.

Author, illustrator, and designer Sheri Haab has written a number of award-winning craft books for both children and adults. She has been designing jewelry since childhood and is a certified metal clay instructor who teaches classes in the Utah area. In 2007, she plans to release instructional DVDs on making metal clay jewelry, resin jewelry, and PMC jewelry.

Designer Style Jewelry: Techniques and Projects for Elegant Designs from Classic to Retro begins by providing an overview of the tools and supplies you will need to complete the book’s sample projects. Many of these items can be found at Hobby Lobby, Michaels Crafts, or other large craft stores. However, Haab has also provided an appendix that lists her favorite online sources for purchasing jewelry making tools and supplies.

Many people associate handmade jewelry with beaded necklaces and other similar projects. However, there are a number of different materials that can be used to create beautiful and stylish jewelry. For example, the same rubber stamps, paper punches, and family photos you might use to create a layout for your scrapbook can become part of a clear bauble bracelet or shrink plastic earrings.

The sample projects included in Designer Style Jewelry cover a wide range of styles and techniques. In the book, you’ll learn to create:

• Wire jewelry
• Crocheted jewelry
• Shrink art jewelry
• Polymer clay jewelry
• Resin jewelry
• Retro picture jewelry

Many of Haab’s projects have a fresh, fun, and casual feel—making them appealing to both the young and the young at heart. Several pieces feature flowers or hearts and bright colors are one of her trademarks.

Although Designer Style Jewelry is written to be accessible to novice jewelry makers, experienced crafters will find plenty of innovative ideas for their own projects. Many of Haab’s designs can be easily modified to suit your own personal tastes.

• Buy Designer Style Jewelry: Techniques and Projects for Elegant Designs from Classic to Retro from Amazon.com
• See instructions for a sample project from Designer Style Jewelry
• Read LoveToKnow Crafts’ interview with Sherri Haab
• Learn more about other books written by Sherri Haab
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• Get a sneak peek of Haab’s latest projects on her blog

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