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How to Create your Own Jewelry

Are you looking to learn a new skill while stuck inside this winter? Check out these guides for making your own jewelry using different materials. Check out CREATIVE BUG: a digital resource you can access with your library card number!

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  • Start Your Own Etsy Business

    Crafts, Jewelry, Furniture, and More

    Rich, Jason,
    A book for those wanting to start their own business using Etsy- a platform many use to sell their own designs. This book has combined advice and tips from experts and business owners to create a guide for you. Included in this guide is creating…
    Book, 2017Irvine, California : Entrepreneur Media, Inc., [2017] — 745.50688 Ric
  • Artisan Filigree

    Wire-wrapping Jewelry Techniques and Projects

    Bombardier, Jodi
    This guide shows readers how to combine wrought iron work with delicate detailed wire work to create beautiful designs. A guide written by Jodi Bombardier who is the author of Weave, Wrap, Coil and a contributer to Step by Step Wire Jewelry.
    Book, 2013Loveland, CO : Interweave Press, [2013] — 745.5942 Bom
  • An extensive collection of techniques and data aimed at professional jewelry designers but also available for students who are looking to have a go to guide for developing their craft.
    Book, 2010Loveland, Colo. : Interweave Press LLC, [2010] — 739.27 You
  • This is an easy to follow guide available to those who want to learn how to solder to enhance their jewelry making. It is great for beginners because it gives them the basics and walks them through 40 projects from bracelets to mini scrapbook…
    Book, 2014New York, NY : Lark/Chapelle, [2014] — 739.27 Blu
  • Jessica Sharpe has created this guide to help you learn about polymer clay and how to turn your ideas into items and add them to jewelry. This is a guide for how to make polymer clay charms with 50 project ideas and step by step instructions. There…
    Book, 2014Hauppauge, NY : Barron's Educational Series, Inc., [2014] — 745.5942 Sha
  • The Jewelry Recipe Book

    Transforming Ordinary Materials Into Stylish and Distinctive Earrings, Bracelets, Necklaces, and Pins

    Soriano, Nancy
    This recipe book takes materials that you can easily find at your local craft stores. There are 35 mini chapters with 3 different levels of skills available which makes up about 100 beautiful pieces to be made.
    Book, 2015New York, NY : Artisan, [2015] — 745.5942 Sor
  • 30-minute Jewelry

    What Can You Make to Wear in Half An Hour or Less?

    McCullough, Beverly
    There is a 30 minute guide to many different activities so why not jewelry making too? This guide is for all experience levels with 60 different projects you can learn and complete in 30 minutes. There are time saving techniques, step by step…
    Book, 2015Hauppauge, NY : Barron's, 2015. — 739.27 McCu
  • The Complete Guide to Making Wire Jewelry

    Techniques, Projects, and Jig Patterns From Beginner to Advanced

    Devenney, Wing Mun
    Wire is a great material to use in making your jewelry- it can move anyway you want it to, comes in different shapes, colours and sizes. You can use it with leather, cord, crystals, beads, and a lot of other materials. This guide shares different…
    Book, 2015Hauppauge, NY : Barrons Educational Series, Incorporated, [2015] — 745.5942 DeV
  • Leather Jewelry

    30 Beautiful Step-by-step Leather Accessories

    Peterson, Linda
    Leather has been used to make many things over the years from bracelets to jackets to tote bags. Linda Peterson shows readers how to make 35 different projects with step by step instructions. Projects for everyone and even options on how to upcycle…
    Book, 2015London : CICO Books, [2015] — 739.27 Pet
  • Copper Jewelry Collection

    Versatile Projects to Expand Your Skills

    This book is full of tips, techniques and tricks on how to make jewelry using copper. The skills displayed in this book are wirework, metalwork, how to add colour and patina, etching, putting copper with metal or clay and others.
    Book, 2014Waukesha, Wisconsin : Kalmbach Books, 2014. — 745.5942 Cop
  • The Art of Resin Jewelry

    Layering, Casting, and Mixed Media Techniques for Creating Vintage to Contemporary Designs

    Haab, Sherri
    Resin jewelry has become pretty popular in the past few years- resin is a liquid plastic that hardens when a component is added to it. There are now easy to mix, low odor products available to people and Sherri Haab has created this guide to help…
    Book, 2006New York : Watson-Guptill Publications, 2006. — 745.5942 Haa
  • This guide teaches how to string glass beads, pearls, semiprecious stones together. There are 75 projects from international designers sharing rules for success with photographs to help you navigate the projects. Included: step by step instructions,…
    Unknown, 2009
  • Stamped Metal Jewelry

    Creative Techniques & Designs For Making Custom Jewelry

    Kelly, Lisa Niven
    Lisa is an excellent instructor with plenty of experience teaching workshops and metal stamping is a workshop she has done for 6 years. Using metal stamps and a metal surface you can create whatever wording, image or design you want. These can be…
    Unknown, 2010
  • First Time Jewelry Making

    the Absolute Beginner's Guide

    Powley, Tammy,
    This guide covers different types of jewelry making including bead stringing, wirework, chain making, resin and many more. A beginners guide with easy to follow instructions.
    Book, 2019Beverly, MA : Quarry, 2019. — 745.5942 Pow
  • Learn to Make Amazing Resin & Epoxy Clay Jewelry

    Basic Step-by-step Projects for Beginners

    Isber, Gay,
    Gay Isber is an award winning designer and author of the Making WOW jewelry. Isber has created this guide for beginners to learn how to work with resin and epoxy clay. There are 10 step by step lessons and DIY projects.
    Book, 2020Mount Joy, PA : Fox Chapel Publishing, [2020] — 745.5942 Isb