Creating Beaded & Wire Earrings

Creating Beaded & Wire Earrings
Gifted by CICO Books
www.cicobooks.com
Reviewed by Kelly Spence

Whether your look is more "Vintage Fun" or "Classic Chic," "Historic Charm" or "Glitz and Glamour," you'll find the earring designs to suit your jewelry making style in Creating Beaded & Wire Earrings, an inspirational project book by designer Linda Jones. The 128 pages of this extensive jewelry-making reference book are filled with 35 step-by-step tutorials for stunning and stylish earrings, along with 250 gorgeous color photos to guide you along the way.

If you love making earrings and are looking for new and exciting designs to try, Creating Beaded & Wire Earrings is the project book for you. You'll find a wide range and variety of styles and techniques among the creative and innovative earring tutorials included in this collection. Learn new ways to weave and wrap wire, from tight coils to square spirals, elegant loops to hammered squiggles. Find new ways to feature beads of all kinds and sizes, from seed beads to crystals, glass beads to gemstones. Follow along with the amazing and clear tutorials step by step to create the exact designs you see, or use the imaginative ideas you find to inspire your own original creations.

You might expect an entire book featuring only wire earring projects to get a bit repetitive, but this could not be further from the case with Creating Beaded & Wire Earrings. Each earring design is completely unique and brings something different to the table. You'll be amazed at all the variety you see as you delve deeper and deeper into this project book. Plus, find an introduction to tools, materials, and basic techniques at the start of the book, as well as a jig pattern, a birthstone chart, and a photo gallery of gorgeous earring designs to help inspire your own creations at the end of the book. Creating Beaded & Wire Earrings provides you with all the knowledge, instruction, and inspiration you need to begin making your own beautiful bead and wire earrings!