Simply Beautiful Beaded Jewelry

by Heidi Boyd

If gorgeous beaded jewelry always catches your eye, you'll love making (and wearing!) your own necklaces, bracelets and earrings. Simply Beautiful Beaded Jewelry includes 50 projects plus variations in designer Heidi Boyd's simply elegant signature style. Inside you're bound to find plenty of designs to strike your fancy as well as a helpful section that shows you the basic supplies and techniques you'll need to get started. As an added bonus, many of the projects have variations in different colors and styles to help you customize your jewelry to your personal style. Just think how proud you'll feel the first time you can answer, "I made it myself" to a compliment on your fabulous new multistrand necklace or your sparkling, swingy crystal earrings. With Simply Beautiful Beaded Jewelry , it truly is easy to get started–in no time at all you'll be showcasing your own original beaded creations and making them as gifts.

Genres: Crafts, Beading, Nonfiction

128 pages, Paperback

First published February 28, 2006

Reviews

[Cindy · Rating 5 out of 5]

I vote Heidi Boyd best beading author!
Here are the reasons:<
1. There are big pictures of most projects
2. You achieve instant gratification due to easy projects
that look like a million bucks. Really.
3. There is a wide variety of useful functional items to make such as several hair accessories and a badge holder. (who doesn't know an office lady that would love a snazzy badge holder?)
4. Stand Out Project: Vintage Pearls necklace, mine was a definite success.

[Erika · Rating 4 out of 5]

Beautiful and timeless projects, great pictures, good instructions, helpful intro guide. There are several projects I'm interested in this book such as pearl earrings (lots of other earrings as well), decorated hair chopsticks, french flower bobby pins, rhinestone hair elastics, several chic bracelets, and elegant gemstone necklaces. I'l have to get this book again when I have more time to teach myself how to do it!

[Kim · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good for beginners (which means me!) and wonderful photographs of jewelry ideas. Also has a comprehensive introduction to the different kinds of ways to put beaded jewelry together, listing things like crimp pins, eye pins, etc.

[Leigh · Rating 3 out of 5]

A little simplistic, but would be especially good for beginners.

[Melissa · Rating 3 out of 5]

great illustrations

[Barb · Rating 4 out of 5]

Comprehensive

This book has excellent instructions on many designs. It is well worth the money and will bring you many hours of jewelry fun!