About this item
Fill the year ahead with handcrafted beads that you can make yourself by following tutorials from Bead-Making Lab!Imagine a year in beads. We're talking 52 handmade varieties all handcrafted by you! Bead-Making Lab makes this bounty of bead making possible with instructions for bead designs that run the gamut from sophisticated to playful.Bead-Making Lab is organized by material, and single-spread lab tutorials for each bead design make the book simple to use. The tutorials are brief, accomplishable, and rewarding. Choose from traditional materials like paper mache and polymer clay, or opt for new materials such as resins and shrink plastic. Once you've selected your medium, follow the lab instructions for the bead-making technique of your choice. Try a new technique each week! With how-tos including molding, carving, painting, gluing, drilling beach glass and pebbles, and creating fiber-art beads with felting and embroidery, you'll have a year of unique projects ahead of you. Bead-Making Lab also offers ideas on how to turn your beads into jewelry and gives you a sneak peek at some contemporary bead artisans' best work. Get busy beading, crafters!
About the Author
I'm Heather Powers, the creative force behind Humblebeads. I'm an innovative bead and jewelry artist, creating art beads collected by bead enthusiasts all over the world.
My greatest joy is to inspire others to find their creative voice. Through my writing and design work I hope to encourage others to grab hold of what captures their imagination and spirit.
My inspirations stem from my childhood home on the shores of Lake Michigan and in the woods of my sleepy hometown. Birds, tree branches, leaves, flowers and sundries from the sea reflect the beauty of nature that inspires all of my work. When I'm not looking to nature for inspiration, I study the artwork of artist who find their muse in the natural world. A few of these artists include Van Gogh, Monet and Gustav Klimt.
My work has been featured on HGTV's That's Clever, PBS' Beads, Baubles and Jewels, in bead magazines and books.
I also organize an annual Bead Cruise and run the popular blog, The Art Bead Scene. Visit www.beadcruise.com and www.artbeadscene.com for more information.
Visit my website to learn more about my work: www.humblebeads.com
