Product Description

• Exciting medium, new formulations: perfect for crafters at all skill levels
• Award-winning, best-selling author with great crafts credentials
• First book on resin that provides detailed techniques and varied super-appealing projects

Resin jewelry is made from liquid plastic that magically turns solid when a hardener is added. Pretty cool! The popularity of these resins for jewelry making has soared with the introduction of easy-to-mix, low-odor products, ideal for crafters. Now best-selling author Sherri Haab shows how to put the miracle of modern technology to work making necklaces, bangles, bracelets, pins, earrings, and rings. Projects range from simple to sophisticated, from Bakelite-style heart pins to faux amber earrings to glitter gem bracelets, from scrimshaw bracelets to cloisonné pins to transparent resin necklaces backed with gold leaf. Packed with tips on tools, supplies, finishing, and creating special effects, including ideas on combining resins with polymer clay, The Art of Resin Jewelry is a beautiful and practical introduction to an exciting craft.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #310936 in Books
• Published on: 2006-06-15
• Released on: 2006-07-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780823003440
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
• Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices

About the Author
Sherri Haab, author of the best-seller The Art of Metal Clay, is an award-winning author, illustrator, and product designer. Her incredibly popular children’s titles include The Incredible Clay Book and Nail Art; both have sold more than one million copies. Designer Style Handbags, Dangles and Bangles, The Hip Handbag Book, and Designer Style Jewelry have all been published by Watson-Guptill to great acclaim. She lives near Provo, Utah.

Customer Reviews

Leading in new directions
I enjoyed Sherri's art metal clay book so I picked this one up as soon as it came out. She does cover the basic info on resin. Safety and all the important stuff you need to know is laid out a simple straight forward manner. Gives the average hobbyists enough to protect themselves and complete any of the projects or some of their own designs with out hitting a wall because of something they forgot to put in the book. The use of mold making to make the Faux jewelry along with the complete guide to making the molds is worth the price of the book. The ideas about using the resin as a cap to other media made jewelry gives one ideas on what one can do with this material. Other than the use of yogurt containers for the mold frames I don't eat that much yogurt LOL.Making the frames for the molds out of cardboard shouldn't be a problem. The use of flexible candy and candle molds gives a large selection to the artistically impaired person for subject matter.
I like the section on making beads form resin sort of like faux glass for the beginner with out a lot of tools for lampworking.
I own it and will be using it.

A taste of Resin that will leave you wanting more
As a Jewellery teacher who teaches Resin, I have been waiting with baited breath for this book to hit the shelves. Books on Resin are like hens teeth, I have used Kathie Murphys Book as a reference for years, now Sherri's book will happily be added. I especially liked her techniques showing people how to make molds by using margarine/yoghurt containers, polymer clay molds for inserts and her combination of media. Creating Faux work such as Amber is always a winner with students. The projects are accompanied by well written text, easy to follow instructions and excellent photographs, the gallery at the start is wonderful, who would not be inspired by the fabulous work of Lulu Smith and Robert Dancik. To be frank, the projects in the book, with the exception of the glass bracelet and the seed pod bracelet are not to my personal taste, a bit too glitzy and "home made" as opposed to "hand made", but I did not buy to copy her work, I bought it to show techniques and then apply in your own designs, it is perfect for that. I am a Sherri Fan, recommending her Art of Metal Clay to my clay students too, so she now has two books on my recommended list. I hope she does another one, taking this fabulous medium to a higher artistic level.

Good book for people new to resin materials
Book clearly shows current products and provides warnings about some of the more toxic products one can use. Several articles on making your own molds and has pictures to clarify text. Being new to resin I found it a very useful first book. While I will use it for jewelry I will also use it for
making parts for model railroad parts. Resin is low cost enough to experiment. Will use it for faux amber, love the stuff, but real amber is way too expensive and color variations are hard to find.