Hoops? Dangles? Chandeliers? Yes, yes, and yes! Earring Chic has them all (and more!) and will dazzle you with projects from all of your favorite North Light designers. Heidi Boyd makes great earrings for day, while Margot Potter injects her incomparable whimsy into her pieces and Fernando Dasilva will get you ready for a night on the town. Inside Earring Chic you'll find: • 35 projects by jewelry masters, all hand-selected from our treasury of fabulous projects • Chapters that let you work your way from beginner to advanced. Detailed step-by-step instructions and photos will ensure your success, as will comprehensive techniques and materials sections. • Every style imaginable—stringing, chain mail, wire wrapping and shaping, hammering, beadweaving—they're all here. • Materials from the everyday to the exotic, including glass and plastic beads, wood beads, seed beads, crystals, wire, jump rings, chains, pre-made and custom components and findings. So pick a pair (or two) to make for yourself (you deserve it!) or to give to a friend. Earring Chic will inspire you!
Make something beautiful you'll love to wear! Step-by-step images and instructions walk you through making fashionable beaded necklaces, bracelets, and earrings. These 100+ easy projects include glitzy pieces for wearing on the town, sophisticated styles for the office, and everything in between. Compiled from the first two Chic & Easy annuals and edited by Alice Korach.
30 projects to make one-of-a-kind earrings Earrings are the cornerstone of any woman's jewelry collection. They are among the most popular jewelry-making projects because they are quick to create and don't require a large investment in materials. From simple hoops and drops to intricate clusters and wireworked pieces, this book has earrings to suit every style. From the author of the bestselling Teach Yourself VISUALLY Jewelry Making & Beading, Earrings VISUAL Project Guide includes 30 appealing patterns for a variety of earring styles, plus variations, each one illustrated with step-by-step photos. Features an introductory section covering the tools, materials, and techniques involved in making earrings Includes variations for each project so you can customize earring designs to suit your style Stands apart from the competition by providing step-by-step photos that make it easy to follow along If you're an advanced beginner to intermediate jewelry maker, you'll be inspired by the unique, beautiful jewelry projects in Earrings VISUAL Project Guide.
The 56 projects in this third volume in the series are simple and stunning, and most can be completed within a few hours. They cover a variety of accessories from necklaces and bracelets to earrings and rings. A color photograph of the finished piece and a quick intro for inspiration precede the step-by-step instructions. The editors include a section of basics to get novices started. Individual projects include a luxurious scarf necklace, a multistrand twist bracelet, turning wheel earrings, and a lovely silver cascade jewelry set.
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!
Crystal Chic introduces readers to the basic techniques of working with hot-fix crystals, letting them explore their creative potential through step-by-step jewelry projects that incorporate a variety of materials and techniques. Projects using stamping, resin-making, polymer clay, filigree, and metal highlight other applications for crystals and teach additional jewelry-making techniques. Tips and patterns make the designs easy and accessible. Individual projects include a checkerboard crystal, a metal bat bracelet decorated with crystals, a crystal-embellished ribbon interwoven through heavy chain, and many more.
Create an entire earring wardrobe—no stylist required Stephanie Wells’s unique, trendsetting Double Happiness earrings have been regularly spotted on Oprah, Alicia Keys, Rachael Ray, and Beyoncé. Here, the award-winning designer shows you how to make 40 of her signature earring styles—without sacrificing time or budget. You’ll learn basic jewelry making skills, as well as Double Happiness techniques for making frames, wrapping wires and beads, and connecting multiple wraps. Whether your style is chic, glamorous, rock-and-roll, or bohemian, you’ll find easy-to-make earrings that will revive—and revolutionize—any outfit.
“Military Chic” is where high fashion meets “The Art of War”. You think the fashion industry is just about gorgeous clothes and beautiful models? More happens behind the scenes than you think. Gigi LaFaux is a fabulous gal. She’s a whip-smart philanthropic architect who can discuss international politics as easily as debating the latest hot celebrity makeover. But she’s giving up her successful architectural career to follow her passion: fashion. Moving from Calgary, aka “Stampede City” where cowboy hats and boots are the height of fashion, Gigi jumps right into Toronto’s fashion scene as Volunteer Coordinator for Canada’s premiere fashion event, Collections Week. The first day Gigi arrives at Collections Week to find the organizers missing in action. After facing challenges such as non-existent guest lists, irate media representatives, no floor or seating plans, and complete chaos, Gigi and her team take charge. When Veronikkah Hendricks - the event’s drug addicted and increasingly schizophrenic coordinator - and her self-absorbed assistant, Francie Scrimshank finally show up, after a trip to the hair salon, they’re no help at all. Veronikkah’s behaviour is erratic; she can’t make decisions and has a short temper thanks to her constant chemical cocktail of cocaine, Quaaludes, and alcohol. Francie is worse, with a cell phone at her ear constantly and preoccupation with herself. Her clothes, makeup, and hair are all more important to her than running the event. While trying to organize her volunteers and ensure Collections Week runs smoothly, Gigi runs into an unexpected love interest: Hot Brad. Not only is he a gorgeous model, but he’s smart, too. The problem is sometimes he’s flirty with Gigi, while other times he snuggles with his male model counterparts. Is he gay or straight? Over three days, Gigi and her volunteer team solve crisis after crisis, making Veronikkah look good, until Gigi discovers a dark side behind the glittering façade of Canadian Collections Week. After suffering limitless humiliation and insults, Gigi and her volunteers are subjected to the indignity of cleaning Veronikkah and Francie’s disastrously dirty office, where Gigi discovers evidence of illegal activities. She finds documents and receipts implicating Veronikkah in a string of spending sprees using Collections Week funds for European vacations, expensive dinners, and haute couture outfits. Embezzlement isn’t Veronikkah’s only illicit activity at Collections Week. Gigi finds drug paraphernalia in the room and discovers the so-called “Bolivian Designer Showcase” (intended as a partnership to broaden the market for designers from a less fortunate country) is actually a front for Canada’s biggest cocaine deal. Veronikkah plots to include the drug in VIP gift bags at the Bolivian showcase, and plans to pin it on Francie and the volunteers if she is caught. Not wanting to get busted for illegal activities, Gigi and her volunteer team intend to get even with Veronikkah for treating them poorly and potentially ruining the reputation of Canadian fashion designers. Gigi once again takes control of the situation by overtaking the runway at the Bolivian Designer Showcase, revealing Veronikkah’s plans to her colleagues and the media. In the mayhem following Gigi’s announcement, Veronikkah slips backstage, captures Hot Brad, and blames him for her downfall since he has her laptop computer. With a bit of luck, Gigi stops Veronikkah with a well-aimed stiletto heel in the eyeball and saves Hot Brad’s life. It turns out Veronikkah is right about Hot Brad participating in her descent: he is not a model at all. He’s an undercover journalist named Christian VanDorn investigating Veronikkah’s activities. His boss, Chloe Kirkpatrick – Veronikkah’s lifelong nemesis – orchestrated the journalistic investigation and both relied on Gigi’s inquisitive nature to put everything together. Following Collections Week, Gigi and Chloe become friends and plan to create a lifestyle company together, complete with clothing line, magazine, store, and events. Gigi and Christian are dating (he’s definitely straight!), and everything is perfect. Gigi is now able to pursue her passion for fashion.
The 56 projects in this third volume in the series are simple and stunning, and most can be completed within a few hours. They cover a variety of accessories from necklaces and bracelets to earrings and rings. A color photograph of the finished piece and a quick intro for inspiration precede the step-by-step instructions. The editors include a section of basics to get novices started. Individual projects include a luxurious scarf necklace, a multistrand twist bracelet, turning wheel earrings, and a lovely silver cascade jewelry set.
