Making Your Own Beads - Polymer and metal Clay
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Making Your Own Beads - Polymer and Metal Clay
(paperback) 112 pages, colour (2008) £16.95 + £2.00 p&p Discount p&p offer! - click here (Code no sp5128) Inventive Metal Clay is the third in a series of how-to books for beaders from Irina Miech and includes another collection of 18 inspiring projects to jump start your metal clay creartivity. Metal clay is easy to use and has exciting potential when beaders transform it into beautiful finished jewellery. This book has three sections - Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced - and explores how to set cubic zirconia, natural stones & cabochons, use texture plates, bead forms, cork clay and brass screen, apply gold foil and enamel to fired metal clay, and incorporate fine silver wire and bezel strip. |
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Making Your Own Beads - Polymer and Metal Clay
(paperback) 112 pages, colour (2007) £16.95 + £2.00 p&p Discount p&p offer! - click here (Code no sp5127) Combine easy-to-use metal clay with beads & wire to create dazzling jewellery! Metal clay requires relatively few tools and yields stunning jewellery which is 99.9% precious metal (and can be assayed and hallmarked). The author uses step-by-step photos and clear instructions to make one-of-a-kind components which can be used in bracelets, necklaces, earrings and brooches. beginner & Interneiate projects, gallery photos and a materials and tools chapter. See also Irina's other books Metal Clay for Beaders and Inventive Metal Clay for Beaders. |
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Making Your Own Beads - Polymer and Metal Clay
(paperback) 128 pages, colour (2009) £14.99 + £2.00 p&p Discount p&p offer! - click here (Code no sp5122) Make your own gorgeous jewellery using liquid and metal polymer clays and mixed media! Polymer clay is the most artist-friendly and versatile medium for creating magnificent and truly original jewellery. The author has 18 stunning step-by-step jewellery projects showing how to use metal and liquid polymer clays as well as how to simulate the look of glass, enamel, metal, fine porcelain, pearls, mosaics and chalked ceramics with clay. Mixed media elements include rubber stampiong, pastel chalks, embossing, leafing, image transfer, collage, crystals and beads. |
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Making Your Own Beads - Polymer and Metal Clay
(hardback) 144 pages, colour (2009) £16.99 + £3.25 p&p Discount p&p offer! - click here (Code no sp5036) In this unique comprehensive reference guide, the author shares time-tested but inventive techniques for making exquisite beads from precious metal clay. She emphasises hollow forms with sophisticated surface textures and points out that metal clay techniques are much less labour intensive than traditional metalworking. The introductory section covers forming, joining, firing and finishing and creting texture plates are covered in depth. There are 22 outstanding projects for making beads each with different techniques. These include wrapped, capped and simple spheres, mirror-image beads, box beads, draped beads and beads with something extra such as 'box in a box' bead! |
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Making Your Own Beads - Polymer and Metal Clay
(paperback) 144 pages, colour (2009) £16.99 + £2.50 p&p Discount p&p offer! - click here (Code no sp5125) The authors teach jewellery makers and polymer clay users how to go beyond making colour choices based solely on 'rules' and learn to use colour confidently to create spectacular jewellery. Identify favourite colours and use them as starting points for successful schemes. make invaluable reference tools for creating designs. 11 helpful exercises and 10 projects to help analyse personal preferences, mix a personal palette and study colour interactions. Inspirational artist gallery pieces included. |
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Making Your Own Beads - Polymer and Metal Clay
(hardback) 160 pages, colour (2009) £16.99 + £3.00 p&p Discount p&p offer! - click here (Code no sp5037) Metal clay is a new and ionnovative material which combines the workability of clay with the beautiful finish and durability of precious metals. As the material is so easy to shape and embellish by hand, it is perfect for making one-of-a-kind beads, whether to create a spectacular focal bead for a piece of jewelry or to make several to string with other beads in necklaces, earrings, bracelets or other accessories. This book teaches how to make 15 different fine silver beads, and the projects with their materials lists and step-by-step photos are organised to build skills gradually from beginner to more advanced techniques. There is also a gallery of the work of 19 other artists with detailed descriptions to inspire. |
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Making Your Own Beads - Polymer and Metal Clay
(paperback) 128 pages, colour (2008) £12.99 + £2.00 p&p Discount p&p offer! - click here (Code no sp5006) This is one of the most popular polymer clay books around at the moment, and exceptionally good value. It helps the artist make their own beads to create unique and beautiful jewellery. Roll and shape beads by hand so each one is different, create sculptured forms or make moulds from found objects so the style can be replicated again and again. 35 step-by-step projects include clearly explained techniques so that you can put newly acquired skills into practice immediately. |
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Making Your Own Beads - Polymer and Metal Clay
(paperback) 144 pages, colour (2006) £9.99 + £2.00 p&p Discount p&p offer! - click here (Code no sp5020) This book first appeared in 1997, a time when polymer clay was undergoing a revival in the USA and UK, but its full creative potential had yet to be explored. This book introduced crafters to the vast range of polymer clay techniques from millefiori to imitative to sculpture. This 2006 edition is an updated version with new information on clays, tools and supplies, conditioning techniques and safety, but it is still a definitive book in the field for artists of all skill levels. Look out also for her other two books The Art of Polymer Clay Creative Surface Effects (2007) and The Art of Polymer Clay Millefiori Techniques (2008). |
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Making Your Own Beads - Polymer and Metal Clay
(paperback) 136 pages, colour (2009) £16.99 + £2.00 p&p Discount p&p offer! - click here (Code no sp5023) Make unforgettable jewellery with polymer clay and wire. Create organic and sophisticated and distinctly contemporary jewllery by combining polymer clay and wire using a range of innovative techniques. There are 15 step-by-step projects for necklaces, bracelets, earrings and rings with detailed instructions and stunning photography. The author's fundamental knowledge of jewellery design here shows how the reader can achieve elegantly 'primitive' pieces and achieve organic effects from colour-mixing to texture effects. |
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Making Your Own Beads - Polymer and Metal Clay
(paperback) 96 pages, colour (2006) £15.95 + £2.00 p&p Discount p&p offer! - click here (Code no sp5026) This book is an essential resource for both beaders and metal clay artists. Beaders can enhance their pieces with custom-made pendants, findings, rings and more. Metal clay artists will be able to incorporate crystals, pearls, glass and gemstones into their designs. 14 beautiful projects with full colour photos and detailed instructions for making beads, pendants, rings, bracelets, earrings and more. Guidelines for working with syringe, sheet and lump metal clay, with a photo guide to tools, materials and supplies. Inspirational galleries with variations on each project use the techniques in this book to create dozens of stunning pieces! |
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Making Your Own Beads - Polymer and Metal Clay
(paperback) 48 pages, colour (2009) £6.99 + £1.75 p&p Discount p&p offer! - click here (Code no sp5029) Learn how to make colourful unusual beads and turn them into stunning pieces of jewellery with this good value practical guide. The author shows the reader how to create a whole range of necklaces, earrings, bracelets and more. The techniques are simple and the results stunning. |
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Making Your Own Beads - Polymer and Metal Clay
(paperback) 176 pages, colour (2008) £14.99 + £2.50 p&p Discount p&p offer! - click here (Code no sp5045) Donna Kato shows the reader how to re-create the intricate fascinating millefiori of Venetian glassmaking in polymer clay. How to work with the clay, the basics of planning and creating canes and then exactly how to use those canes to make jewellery, art objects and more. Dozens of techniques and projects, from simple to stunning, are included as are examples of beautiful work by more than 50 renowned millefiori artists in polymer clay. Look out also for her other two books The Art of Polymer Clay (2006) and The Art of Polymer Clay Surface Effects (2007). |
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Making Your Own Beads - Polymer and Metal Clay
(paperback) 128 pages, colour (2008) £12.99 + £1.75 p&p Discount p&p offer! - click here (Code no sp4077) Sue Heaser has brought out yet another stunningly visual book on simple no-kiln techniques for making beautiful jewellery - this time using metal clay - Precious Metal Clay (PMC) or Art Clay, two different varieties. Metal clay, a recent invention from Japan in the 1990's has taken the jewellery and craft world by storm - powdered precious metal combined with an organic binder and water can be sculpted and heated to high temperatures. The binder burns away and leaves solid silver or gold items. This book shows how to use metal clays which can be fired at lower temperatures than the earlier versions using a small blowtorch or a gas hob in the kitchen. There is also a chapter on using a small jewellery kiln, including projects with dichroic glass and the fragile paper or sheet clay. |
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Making Your Own Beads - Polymer and Metal Clay
(paperback) 128 pages, colour (2008) £15.99 + £2.00 p&p Discount p&p offer! - click here (Code no sp4080) If you want to try your hand at metal clay jewellery but are intimidated by time commitment or cost, this book is for you. Basic techniques and more than 25 simple stylish jewellery projects offer a perfect introduction without spending a fortune on tools and materials - no kiln needed. earrings, bracelets and necklaces using a minimal amount of metal clay! |
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Making Your Own Beads - Polymer and Metal Clay
(paperback) 176 pages, colour (2007) £14.99 + £2.50 p&p Discount p&p offer! - click here (Code no sp4081) In her second book, Donna takes this versatile medium to the next level, demonstrating dozens of inventive techniques for creating exciting surface effects for beads, pins, bracelets, pendants and boxes. Basic enough for a beginner, but with so many innovative suggestions for advanced artists as well. Sections include mica shift techniques, transferring images onto polymer clay, creating texture, paints, inks and pigment powders, special effects with liquid polymer clays and sculpture and mould making. There are many images of finished items by 69 other artists. |
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Making Your Own Beads - Polymer and Metal Clay
(paperback) 160 pages, colour (2007) £15.99 + £2.00 p&p Discount p&p offer! - click here (Code no sp4068) This comprehensive book. by one of the UK's leading polymer clay specialists. features step-by-step instruction in more than 50 techniques including exciting ways to work with new materials such as liquid and metal clays. It is one of the most colourful and inspiring polymer clay books on the market, using polymer clay for a variety of applications from beads, jewellery and buttons, to decorative boxes, mosaics and miniature models. A must have!! |
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Making Your Own Beads - Polymer and Metal Clay
(paperback) 48 pages, colour (2008) £7.95 + £ 1.25 p&p Discount p&p offer! - click here (Code no sp4024) Fifth in Christi Friesen's 'Beyond Projects' series where detailed photos, step-by-step instructions and a quirky sense of humour make this series a great way to explore sculpting with polymer clay, no matter what the skill level. This G'day book is for cuddling up with a Koala, planning a platypus, getting going on gum tree leaves and flowers, engineering an echidna, constructing a kangaroo and basically having a clayfully good time. Not just for making Australian animals, this book has helful nudgings to stir up the reader's creativity and stoke the imagination - part projects, part travelogue - all fun! |
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Beads and Jewellery - Bead Jewellery (MORE in this category)
(paperback) 48 pages, colour (2007) £7.95 + £ 1.25 p&p Discount p&p offer! - click here (Code no sp3852) Fourth in Christi Friesen's 'Beyond Projects' series where detailed photos, step-by-step instructions and a quirky sense of humour make this series a great way to explore sculpting with polymer clay, no matter what the skill level. This book is full of feline fun. The big cats lions and tigers and pumas roar to life as focal beads, masks and sculptures. Not to be outdone, a parade of kitties and moggies will show who really rules. Throughout this book, embellishments of beads, fibres and surface treatments will make this a book you want to cuddle up with! |
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Beads and Jewellery - Bead Jewellery (MORE in this category)
(paperback) 128 pages, colour (2007) £12.99 + £ 2.00 p&p Discount p&p offer! - click here (Code no sp3827) Step-by-step techniques for creating beautiful ornamental beads from polymer clay, a versatile and easy-to-use material which lends itself to a wonderful array of shapes and decorative effects perfect for making everything from simple spacers to elaborate feature beads. Techniques from conditiong raw clay and making basic shapes to decorating them with foils, powders and millefiori. Faux effects such as amber, ivory, turquoise and silver. Galleries by internationally renowned artists. Up-to-date information about equipment and safe working practices. . |
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Beads and Jewellery - Bead
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(paperback) 48 pages, colour (2005) £7.95 + £ 1.25 p&p Discount p&p offer! - click here (Code no sp3828) First in Christi Friesen's 'Beyond Projects' series where detailed photos, step-by-step instructions and a quirky sense of humour make this series a great way to explore sculpting with polymer clay, no matter what the skill level. This book shows how to make focal beads and other delights in the shape of amusing dragons . |
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(paperback) 48 pages, colour (2006) £7.95 + £ 1.25 p&p Discount p&p offer! - click here (Code no sp3829) Second in Christi Friesen's 'Beyond Projects' series where detailed photos, step-by-step instructions and a quirky sense of humour make this series a great way to explore sculpting with polymer clay, no matter what the skill level. This book shows how to make focal beads and other sculptures in the form of exotic flowers and leaves, furry creatures, bugs and frogs. It also uses inclusive embellishments including pearls, semi-precious stones and beads. . |
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(paperback) 48 pages, colour (2006) £7.95 + £ 1.25 p&p Discount p&p offer! - click here (Code no sp3830) Third in Christi Friesen's 'Beyond Projects' series where detailed photos, step-by-step instructions and a quirky sense of humour make this series a great way to explore sculpting with polymer clay, no matter what the skill level. This book shows how to swim through making sea turtles, fish, sea horses, starfish and a myriad of other ocean fun. The emphasis is on colour, composition and creativity, but the real treat is seeing how to add embellishments of pearls, semi-precious stones, shells and beads to your creations. . |
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