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You can still enter our active giveaways.
The giveaways continue with four fabulous titles from Kalmbach Books!
Build Your Own Wire Pendants by Kimberly Sciaraffa Berlin is filled with 20 projects to help you learn how to mix and match basic frames, bails, and embellishments to begin creating your own one-of-a-kind wire and bead pendants.
Kimberly says, “This is an easy-to-follow guide that introduces you to the joy of making unique pendants to enhance your current jewelry designs. If you’ve never made a wire pendant before, I hope this book will inspire you to pick up a pair of pliers and give it a try.”
Great Designs for Shaped Beads by Anna Elizabeth Draeger will help you master designing with tilas, peanuts and daggers. With 24 great projects to give you some ideas for these new and exciting bead shapes, you’ll be able to incorporate them in your bead work with no problem.
Anna says, “Each project includes a design option or two to give you ideas for stitching a variation on the main project. As you work, you may discover even more ways to incorporate the techniques or components into your own designs.”
Project: Earrings will make other ear lobes envious with these 44 fabulous projects to adorn yours! Taken from the pages of Bead & Button, the projects are split into three sections – loops & stringing, bead stitching, and wire work & chain mail. Clear instructions and great photography make these projects easy to follow. You might even be inspired to help dress the envious ear lobes with a handmade gift or two.
Bead Soup by blogger, jewelry designer and author Lori Anderson will show you what inspired work is created when beaders swap their stash. Given a focal bead, a unique clasp, and coordinating beads, Bead Soup participants bring their style to the mix and before long a flavorful new piece of jewelry is created!
Lori says, “When you have a few beads left over from a project or strand of beads, toss them into a bowl. Before long, you’ll end up with a colorful blend that is so full of possibilities, you’ll be making soup recipes for weeks!”
Are you brimming with ideas for jewelry yet? To enter for a chance to win each of these great titles, simply leave a comment. The giveaway ends December 5. Sorry, this giveaway is open to US mailing addresses only.
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By Stacie Hooder
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88 Comments so far
What a wonderful giveaway! Thanks!
I really need to get back into beading.
I’d love these books.
Well, if I did win these books, which are great by the way, I surely wouldn’t have to worry about having enough ‘jewels’ to wear or giveaway. Happy Turkey Day!
Just learning.
What an awesome giveaway! Thanks so much!
This is a wonderful giveaway. Count me in on it!! Thank you for this giveaway.
Awesome giveaway. I would love to win this one.
What fun tese would be. Thanks for the opportunity!
I am new to jewelry making …. awesome giveaway … thanks so much!
Would love to win these!! Thank you for the giveaway
I would to love to win these!!
Thank you so much!!! What a great holiday gift. Lots of fun making and sharing.
A good fit for a beadworking friend. Thanks for the opportunity!
Wonderful set of books to add to my library.
What a great set of books!! Thanks for the chance.
oh my – the abundance of ideas is incredible!
I have a container almost filled with mismatched and odd shaped beads. I’m sure these books would give me some very creative ways to use them. Thanks.
I have been away from my beading and wire work. These just might jump start this procrastinator.
i am new at beading and i could sure use these books. thanks for the chance.
Would love to win one of these fabulous books!!
Love all of these books! I have really wanted Bead Soup and the Wired Pendants books!
Thank you for offering these books as a giveaway!
Just thinking about doing the projects in these beautifully-done books, makes me feel peaceful and happy…and very excited about being able to make holiday presentsthat are so personal AND so inexpensive! As a Sandy survivor, those are VERY important considerations! hooary.
oops..I meant “hooray!” Happy Thanksgiving, everyone, anyway.
How great! I have been trying to improve my beading skills and have been practicing with wire, but I need to learn the techniques from the pros! This would help so much.
Oh the lovely pieces I could make using these great books
amazing books i would love to have copies!
Great looking books.Would be fun to work on over the winter months!!
so many different patterns to try!
Sweet giveaway! I am always on the search for knowledge and wisdom!
Looks like they are brimming with inspiration. Just what I need!
Just got into making artsy bracelets, I would love to win one of these books! Thanks for the chance.
Carmen L
These books look great!
I’d love to have them also!
thanks for a chance to win!
thanks for the chance!
love instructional books!!! especially the earring one – that would be the one I would open first!
What cool books. Thanks for the giveaway.
I would definitely need a book if I were to tr this craft. tfs Tami
I would like to try my hand at wire pendants, and the other books look equally fun and inspirational
These look like a bunch of great books to give me some new ideas!
Bead making the more i learn ,the glamour i feel,love it.
This is a really great giveaway! Thanks!
Oooh, image all the shiny things I could learn how to make!
What a great set of books and would love to have them.
Would love to learn more as I just stocked upon supplies!
My daughter has recently took up jewelry making. ( this is a ‘me time’ project, as she is a busy mother of 4 herself !) These wonderful books would give her so much inspiration. !
I love these books. Kanda
These look so interesting! I’m intrigued!
Would love to win these. Pictures on covers look great.
A fabulous giveaway! thank you!
What a great giveaway – tons of inspiration in this array of books! thanks!
What a wonderful selection of books
Wow, fabulous books! I love working with beads and I see lots of creative ideas just from the covers of those books!
I love the idea of bead soup. I always have a few left over beads or find random beads that i forgot to put away after a project.
The covers are inspiring! Hope to see more!
OMG – I don’t know which one I want most.
I would love to win this for my beautiful daughter Amanda.
Please Please Please!!!!!
I don’t have enough beading books! Feed my creativity.
Pick me! This collection would be the final touch for my Christmas gifts for my daughter! And just maybe I’d get those bracelets she’s been promising me.
Thank you so much for the giveaway, I hope I win for my daughter.
Thanks for the giveaway! Pretty please count me in!
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You can never have too many sources of inspiration!
Collecting beads for years, would love to learn wire working. These books would be a blessing
Wow! This is some offering! I’d love to win this!
I would love to win these books. Thank you.
Would love to win these. Thanks!
I have just started to get into making jewelry. I am now obsessed! So fun to create.
All of the books look so neat – thanks for the giveaway.
great looking projects thanks for the books
I have always thought about giving jewelry crafting a try!
I could use all four books but the wire wrapping is the one that I need the most because my skills are lacking it that field. Thank you for this wonderful giveaway.
What a fabulous giveaway. Would love to win.
What fun! My daughter would love these for Christmas!
Thank you,
I have always wanted to try making jewelry but never know how to get started
I would love love these books. I’m just starting to get into jewelry making and these would be great helps!
I would like this.
Thanks for the giveaway!
Love crafting! I was making chokers for awhile & handsewing the beads on, I’ve always wanted to get more involved in the wire side of jewelry making, so many great ideas!!
yes i would love to win!
Awesome Giveaway!
Would love to win to share with my friends and family and make it into a PROJECT to do before Christmas. Being I supply the materials…and whatever my guest makes they can have!
Winning this would give me time to make gifts for next Christmas! Thanks!
Being creative relieves my stress from having 3 kids, aged 17 to 9 months. I would love to have an outlet to relax and do some beading.
These would be for Carole!
I am a volunteer at a small rural art guild and this would be a great group of books for the members to share.
I should be ashamed that I can’t remember when I last opened my crafts closet.
They sound great. Thanks for the giveaway.
Congratulations, Penny! You are the winner