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Bead Chic: 36 Stylish Jewelry Projects & Inspired Variations

Description

Bead Chic, Chic You

Bead Chic will show you how to take inspiration that you love and forge your own creative path. After learning basic jewelry techniques, you’ll be launched into 36 gorgeous projects. Each project comes with a variation, so you’ll learn how easy it is to adapt virtually any project to suit your individual style, making you your own designer.

• Each of 36 stepped-out projects features an inspiring variation, including some from today’s hottest jewelry makers, including Jean Campbell, Tammy Powley, Cathie Filian and more.

• Clear step-by-step photography and instructions allow beaders of all skill levels create projects exactly “as-is” in the book, while variations show how swapping out just one or two elements can make an entirely different look.

• You’ll get to play with beads, a variety of stringing materials—from coated wire, to shapeable wire to commercial chain—and findings, all easily found at local and online craft retailers.

Let Bead Chic bring out the designer in you!

Reviews

Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-08-25
Summary: "bead chic"

GREAT BOOK. EASY & THOROUGH INSTRUCTIONS, VARIETY OF STYLES & BEAUTIFUL CREATIONS. ANYONE CAN LEARN TO MAKE JEWELRY USING THIS BOOK. PICTURES ARE CLEAR & INSTRUCTIONS ARE EASY TO FOLLOW.

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-08-22
Summary: "Accessible Beading and Desiging Info"

Obviously, I am a tad bias because I have a few pieces in this book, and I consider myself a friend of the author; however, I think anyone who has enjoyed previous books by Margot Potter will also enjoy this one. It definitely has her unique stamp on it, mixing a design flare with an accessible how-to philosophy. See my full review of this book at the following link:

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-08-20
Summary: "Bead Chic expands your vision of how to design jewelry!"

Bead Chic
36 stylish jewelry

projects and

inspired variations

by Margot Potter

This is an immensely charming, delightful and educational jewelry design book. Author Margot Potter, who has written many popular jewelry design books and contributed to countless more, has a history of going her own way. Part of her statement as an artist is, "I color outside the lines". With this, her latest book, Bead Chic, she demonstrates how the reader can take a basic design premise and build upon it from all sorts of directions. That truly is following her premise of coloring outside the lines. It brings freshness and a unique flavor to jewelry to view variations upon basic initial premises. Bead Chic offers these variations, at times by other designers. It is then explained what is the same and what is different about the variations. I think this is uniquely cool, and very illuminating to the reader to see the results!

I believe Bead Chic contains within it a very original concept which we all need to grasp. As Margot states,in her introduction, "My goal is to inspire you to be creative. I know you're busy and I know you're crafting in the spaces in between. I am here to give you solid technique advice and the creative tools you can use to free your vivid imagination. Think of this as a beaded jewelry recipe book.Jot down notes. Add your own variations and original ideas. Before you know it, you'll be a master designer!"

It is a great promise, and Margot Potter has the experience to demonstrate the techniques to perfection. She always takes great care to show how to do each technique in the book very clearly. I appreciate that in a jewelry design book. You will not be left in the lurch with Bead Chic. Right off the bat you will be able to see what materials and tools you will need, and then there is a good, well photographed technique section at the beginning of the book.

After that the author covers chapters as follows: Scale, Color, Texture, Pattern, Foundations,and Focal Elements, with resources at the end.

These interesting chapters show the author's ability to fling classic traditional design books off to the side a bit and lead the reader to the same beauty and excellence by addressing brand new ways of seeing creativity in making jewelry. When was the last time you saw a design book discuss scale, for example? And yet it is imperative to understand how critical scale is when you design a piece of jewelry.In the "Scale" chapter, I fell in love with a glamorous necklace called "Chaos in Pearls". It is a black and white fabrication using gunmetal chain in two sizes and Cream colored Swarovski Elements Crystal pearls, with black faceted rounds . Totally fabulous and, furthermore,easy to make and not expensive! I would grab this one for night or day wear and feel really hip and pretty.

The author then shows how scale alters this design by creating a bracelet called "Mod Bubbles" on the following page. It is clearly explained what is the same and what is different about the two pieces. This is what is great about this book. You will learn as you go how to perceive these similarities and differences for yourself, and then you are free to design your own original pieces, using the same solid premises you now understand.

Margot is a great teacher!

What else did I love in this book? "Steel City Earrings" were fabulous, and the divine variation by one of the contributors, Barbe St. John, called "South Beach" had the same wire segments, yet used different colors of beads and added an extra segment. So fun and lusciously colored!

Speaking of color,for a really different look, in the "Color" chapter, check out the "Psychedelia Bracelet", made of striated rainbow calsilica ovals counterpointed with one onyx oval of the same size.Each stone is "pseudo-wrapped" between each bead with funky silvery jump ring spacers. It is a great stand alone bracelet by Margot! I love it;I want it! Don't forget to check out the three-color co-ordinated beaded dangles at the clasp! Turn the page, and you have Andrew Thornton's bracelet, "Woodstock Summer": using the same color scheme, but changing the style of the bracelet to a more fully charm-like dangle style. The dangles now take center stage, where before they were accents to Margot's design.

I confess I do have a favorite piece in this wonderful jewelry book. Although all of the designs are great, I love "The Grid Necklace", in the "Foundations" chapter. As Margot quotes in the beginning of this chapter, "Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them." -- Henry David Thoreau.

This means, for jewelry designers, learn to use the correct materials when you are designing.

I suppose I am drawn to "The Grid Necklace" because it is wire wrapped and has crystals. These are two things I find irresistible. However, it is also totally original and really mod looking, as the author herself mentions. I love the mod look! Check out Melanie Brooks' variation: "Keyhole Grid". It is fantastic, too. Completely different in style due to changing the color from silver to brass, her grid is built around one lovely focal bead instead of the whole necklace.

I am delighted to review such a different type of jewelry design book. Margot Potter is a very special, energetic, and talented woman. She never stops turning over new leaves and learning new things for her own benefit and to share with the world. Bead Chic is a fantastic collection of beautiful learning experiences for the fortunate reader to expand horizons as a designer!

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-08-12
Summary: "Great design information"

This is my kind of fast beading. Margot mixes up wire, beads, and easy to do techniques to create fun, colorful jewelry. It's a book for people who like working with wire but don't want to do the filigree fanciness of a lot of the classic wire wrap projects and people who enjoy bead stringing.
The introduction includes information about the supplies, tools and techniques you'll need to create the projects in the book. They are well photographed and explained. A good starting point for any beginner or hobbyist, it explains how to make wrapped loops, how to do rosary style chains, how to texture using a hammer and basics of creating clasps with wire.
The projects are simple, but written to explore different concepts in jewelry making. The first chapter is about scale. She shows a project like the Chaos In Pearls, and at the end of the project she shows a bracelet made using the same techniques but different colors and sizes of beads.
The next chapter is color.The projects are simple and very wearable. At the end of each project, she shows a different example in different colors which show how dramatically the look is changed by changing up the palette.How colors and bead types can change a project from funky to elegant to feminine to Bohemian.
Texture comes next. Again, by changing texture and layout of the skills used in the project, you can make something completely different. The Curlicue earrings are reinterpreted as a delicate pair of tendril earrings.
The following chapters are Pattern, Foundations and Focal Elements.
While the projects are simple, the design information is wonderful. I like the way she gives examples and encourages creativity.
My favorite projects in the book are Jacob's Ladder Bracelet, the Effortless Elegance Earrings and the Love Hurts Earrings.
The Love Hurts Earrings are my very favorite. Combing copper donuts, texturing techniques, wire and beads with alphabet stamps, it's a technique I'll use a lot.