March 2012
FEATURED PROJECTS
Beautiful bronze
Learn how to make your own slinky chain using gorgeous bronze wire
In a flap
Use black feathers to create a 1920s style necklace oozing with glamour!
Fluttering feather lariat
Use polymer clay and sparkling mica powder to make your own feather shapes to hang from the ends of an elegant lariat
Hidden treasuers
Gorgeous stones are hidden between two silver shell shapes in this pretty pendant
Cornucopia of colour
Get your paint, stamps and embossing powders for this mixed media necklace project
Waterlily ring
Combine a focal gemstone with gold wire for a gorgeous ring
Peacocks eye
A gorgeous collection of Czech glass beads and a simple stringing and knotting technique have been used together to create a head turning collection
Firien necklace
Create spiky beads then combine with a selection of stunning glass beads in fiery golden shades for a necklace and earring set
Optical illusion
Resin and pretty charms have been used to create a lovely mixed media pendant
Earthy delights
Design and make your own stamp, then press into polymer clay to create this organic pendant
Pearly swirl bracelet
A lovely wirework bracelet featuring beautiful pearls, perfect for the bride to be
Light as a feather
We show you how to create a feather pattern in your lampwork beads
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REGULARS
Retail therapy
This month’s round up of the hottest new products and the latest trends
Shopping for…
Crystal shapes and colour effects
Inbox
We answer your emails and take a look at our favourite uploads to the readers gallery this month
Spotlight
This month’s Spotlight is on a resin clay book, a beautiful beadweaving kit and a book that shows you how to use almost every material available to make fabulous earrings
Back to Basics
A helpful guide to basic jewellery making techniques
Meet and greet
This month we interviewed Joanne Poore, a jewellery maker and artist from Cornwall
Subscription offer
Check out this month’s fantastic subscription offer!
Sneak preview
Take a look at what’s coming next month
Personal space
We take a peek around the workshop of lampwork bead maker Lesley Silver
FEATURES
Recipes for... a disc cutter
One tool, so many designs! We show you eight different ways to use a disc cutter
Top 10
This month we feature top 10 pairs of pretty, pastel coloured dangly earrings
50 Designers Challenge!
The 50 reader challenge results are revealed!
Beaded findings: Part 4
This month learn how to finish a piece of jewellery using alternative fastenings
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