Create Your Own Jewelry

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 scores

of tips and inspiration for creating many different types

of hand-crafted jewellery

• 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 shown in fully illustrated step-by-step

format – clear, simple and easy to achieve, with stunning

pictures of every finished piece

• 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

This collection of stylish jewellery projects has been compiled by Ann Kay from the work of some of the most innovative jewellery designers and craftspeople today. A highly experienced editor and writer, Ann has a postgraduate qualification in graphic design and has studied jewellery-making with two well-known jewellers in London.