| | |  | | Home » Creating Crystal Jewelry with Swarovski: 65 Sparkling Designs with Crystal Beads and Stones | | | | | | | Description: | | Elegant, old-world jewelry with modern style.Working with world-famous Swarovski crystal beads, author Laura McCabe creates luminous necklaces, earrings, pendants, and rings for beaders of every skill level. The author provides complete step-by-step instruction for 20 projects (10 for beginners) -- and presents 45 more in a photo gallery of design variations, teaching readers how to vary colors and shapes to create custom effects. All 65 designs are made with only three simple beadwork techniques: flat peyote stitch, tubular peyote stitch, and spiral rope. Laura McCabe also provides a chapter on making decorative embellishments, such as bezels, picots, berry clusters, and branch fringe. The concise instructions are illustrated with easy-to-follow illustrations. - Beaders of any skill level can create their own high-end, boutique-style jewelry
- Goes beyond stringing to teach readers three basic beadweaving techniques and principles of design
- Only book on market endorsed by the worldÆs leading manufacturer of cut-crystal beads
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• ISBN13: 9781589233454
• Condition: New
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| | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Laura McCabe | | Paperback:
| 128 pages | | Publisher:
| Creative Publishing international | | Publication Date:
| February 01, 2008 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 158923345X | | Package Length:
| 10.5 inches | | Package Width:
| 8.4 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.4 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.3 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 39 reviews |
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 specific seed beads names/numbers/effects used would have been helpfulJul 23, 2010
I enjoyed the book and found the projects clear and attractive. The colorways are lovely but with the profusion of seed beads available and the incredible variety as well as similarities/effects of some bead color families--particularly delicas--it would have been helpful to know the specific seed beads she used to get the results. For a novice beader, the profusion of different seed bead options/effects are confusing, particularly when you haven't seen many of these beads in person before, and you often don't know what you're buying exactly since online bead sellers cannot really convey the effect of the smallest beads in photos. If the author is reading this, please publish a list of sead bead numbers/color names used in the projects, like Diane Fitzgerald did after publishing her fabulous book on 3D beading.
 Crating Crystal JewelryApr 18, 2010
Very disappointing book, relies on razzle dazzle, short on variety. had I seen it first in a bookstore I would definitely not have purchased it.
 Sparkling CrystalsApr 08, 2010
Great source of information. So much fun creating Beaded Crystal Jewelries while using this book.
mmm...sparkly....Dec 23, 2009
This is a beautiful book and really shows Laura's attention to detail and colour blending. Her Instructions are clear and easy to follow, with both detailed written instructions, and diagrams for those who like me are visual learners.
So far I haven't made anything from start to finish from the book, but I rarely do that with any beadwork books I buy, as tend to design my own pieces. I tend to buy technique books and inspirational books, and this qualifies as both. It does have detailed instructions for bezelling different sizes and shapes of Swarovski stones and rivolis, which I found very useful.
great bookDec 23, 2009
Great book with very helpful illustrations. Approximate time needed for projects is also a plus. I love it and will be using many of the techniques in future projects
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