About this item
Make your accessories super kawaii with the Japanese art of decoden! Inside Bling It Up!, you ll find 16 outrageously whimsical projects for embellishing your phone case, nail extensions, sunglasses, vanity kit, and even your sneakers with impractical indulgence! Decoden is a highly stylized, colorful, and over-the-top Japanese decorative craft that literally means phone decoration, but which has grown to encompass all sorts of fun applications. It involves decorating objects with tons of charms and bling. This book shows you how to make your own fabulous decoden compositions with cabochons, charms, trinkets, baubles, and findings. Author Choly Knight provides step-by-step instructions for making a host of blingy fashion accessories. She offers insightful tips on materials and techniques, and explains how to make your own charms with mod melts and polymer clay.
About the Author
CHOLY KNIGHT is the author of eight best-selling craft books from Fox Chapel Publishing, including Quilting Simplified, Sew Me! Sewing Home Décor, Bling It Up!, Awesome Duct Tape Projects, Craft Projects for Minecraft® and Pixel Art Fans, and Pixel Craft with Perler Beads. Choly has her finger on the pulse of what today's young crafters really want. She has been crafting for as long as she can remember, and has drawn, painted, sculpted, and taped everything in sight. A power-seller on Etsy.com, Choly enjoys combining all her passions of writing, fine art, craft art, and design, as she provides techniques, tutorials, and excitement for her many readers and fans.
