New Releases by Sherri Haab

Bestselling crafts book author Sherri Haab offers a new take on the classic friendship bracelet with 35 fresh, fashionable, and modern designs! A hugely popular rite of passage for girls all over the world, the friendship bracelet has recently become a fashion staple for women of all ages, incorporating various braiding, knotting, weaving, and embellishment materials and techniques. The techniques and materials of the classic friendship bracelet trace their roots to Central and South America, and the fashion world's renewed interest in all things ethnic have transported it to the runway, inspiring celebrities, models, and fashion mavens like Beyonce, Heidi Klum, Lauren Conrad, Bar Rafaeli, and Rita Ora to sport "stacks" of ultra-chic wrist candy and retailers to sell expensive versions. In Charm Love Friendship Bracelets, bestselling crafts book author Sherri Haab offers a new take on the classic friendship bracelet that shows how to make pretty, chic, and wearable polymer clay charms and beads and combine them with traditional knotting/macrame, braiding, wrapping, and other techniques using inexpensive threads, cording, beads, and findings to create 35 fresh, fashionable, and modern designs. The book covers essential supplies, knotting techniques (with step-by-step illustrations), and working with polymer clay. The designs take a timeless classic and give it a new twist with fun, fashion-forward projects that let you customize your creations with easy-to-make polymer clay charms and beads as well as other easy-to-find embellishments.

CAPSTERS turns bottle caps into cool collectables. No longer a throwaway item - Klutz bottle caps are the perfect canvas for a work of art. Kids can use the charms and add ons to embellish bottle caps. Once they've gone crazy with the glitter and googly eyes they'll have

Discover the Creative Possibilities of Resin Clay Imagine being able to imitate the look of rare coral, create oversized but featherweight statement jewelry, or mix clay with other mediums—all without firing. The Art of Resin Clay explores the creative potential of this material, in both air-dry and two-part formulas, and guides you through everything you’ll need to get started: • Information on choosing the right kind of resin clay, essential tools and techniques, and safety guidelines • Tips for mixing colors, finishing, and adding jewelry findings • 20 projects covering a variety of creative techniques • Galleries of work by influential artists and crafts designers who use this versatile material

In Sherri Haab Jewelry Inspirations, jewellery designer, instructor and author Sherri Haab invites jewellery crafters into her home studio to learn all about what inspires her to create her fresh, charming designs, while also providing her signature comprehensive instruction on a variety of popular techniques. The book begins with an introductory section, "In the Studio," which offers guidance on how to cultivate ideas and provides an overview of essential techniques, including wirework, polymer clay, metal clay, resin and image transfer, along with information on resin clay and an eco-friendly technique for etching copper. Sherri then shares her personal archives, collections and reminiscences in five chapters that each offer two sources of inspiration in 25 new projects.

Developed in Japan in the 1990s, metal clay consists of microscopic particles of silver or gold suspended in a pliable organic binder that can be worked with the hands and simple household tools. This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the medium designed specifically for crafters and jewelrymakers.

Offers step-by-step directions for making twenty-one teen-friendly projects, including bangles, earrings, and pocket mirrors.

More exciting ideas from crafting diva Sherri Haab • Twenty gallery-quality jewelry projects—necklaces, earrings, more • Simple introductions to fabric crafting • Top-selling author! Sherri Haab knows jewelry. Sherri Haab knows fiber and fabric. Sherri Haab knows crafting. Is there anything Sherri Haab can’t do? Frankly, no. She’s the Superwoman of crafting books! Now she shows her readers how to make stunning gallery-quality jewelry by combining fabric, ribbon, thread, cord, beads, buttons, and other materials with a variety of needlework techniques, all engagingly explained. Each chapter of Felt, Fabric, and Fiber Jewelry spotlights a different technique: embroidery, felting, crochet, tatting, braiding, and macramé. Then there are stunning necklaces, pendants, bracelets, and rings to make, all in a fresh, appealing style. Twenty projects mean great looks and great gifts for any occasion. We can’t all be Sherri Haab . . . but we can do crafts the way Sherri Haab does them!

Metal clay starts as clay and turns into metal. Does it get any more magical? Now it does—withMetal Clay and Mixed Media Jewelry. Author Sherri Haab takes this compelling material, today's hottest craft item, to the next level, brilliantly combining it with other media ranging from the timeless to the unexpected. Ribbons, gold leaf, pottery shards, transparent resin, polymer clay, leather, and more are used to create stunning jewelry. Beautiful photography showcases these innovative pieces, and full step-by-step instructions make it easy to re-create them. New formulations of metal clay and newly developed firing techniques are presented clearly so that crafters can achieve professional results. Sophisticated enough for artists yet simple enough for beginners,Metal Clay and Mixed Media Jewelryis the only book that blends metal clay with such a variety of mixed media to make magic. • Follow-up to the best-sellingArt of Metal Clay—over 35,000 copies sold! • Author has sold more than two million books! • Metal clay is hot with crafters, artists—anyone who wants to try alchemy

Macramé. Just the word summons up images of hideous 1960s atrocities designed to hang plants. But what was good about macramé in the 1960s is still what’s good about macramé: It’s easy, it’s fun, everybody can do it. And now everybody can get great results, making gorgeous jewelry that’s sure to astonish anyone born before the Reagan era. Best-selling author Sherri Haab takes a completely fresh look at the craft, using fine cords and shimmering beads that are popular with today’s beadwork and jewelry designers. Clear illustrations show how to do 14 simple knotting techniques. Then it’s time to try 22 projects for bracelets, earrings, rings, necklaces, even a belt, a purse, and an iPod pouch--each one stylish, colorful, and easy to create. Beaded Macramé Jewelry is macramé for today!

Introduces the art of creating a variety of unique jewelry designs from plastic resins, explaining how to work with liquid resin, the techniques of design, and complete instructions for necklaces, bangles, bracelets, pins, earrings, rings, and other projects. Original.

Introduces the equipment needed and stitches used for crochet, and presents patterns and ideas for crocheting objects such as best-friend bracelets, belts, headbands, and pillows.

With Holiday Picture Bracelets and its hundreds of holiday-themed possibilities, kids can create the perfect gift to give - or keep! Like its cousin, the best-selling Picture Bracelets, the book comes with two blank bracelets, twelve clear plastic "droplets" and zillions of little, round sticker pictures. Pick six pictures, stick them on a bracelet and pop a droplet on each of them (double-sided sticky dots hold the droplets in place). And voila, you have a personalized piece of holiday bling. But the fun doesn't stop there. The book also shows how to use graphics form almost anywhere - magazines, stamps, newspapers, photos - to make one-of-a-kind trinkets.

Start with one of ten easy-to-sew handbags, and create fashionable designer style yet homemade handbags.

Explains how to make elegant and quality designer-style jewelry with a variety of easy-to-use jewelry-making and crafts supplies--wire, beads, polymer clay, leather, resin, laminate, and shrink plastic--with detailed instructions for a variety of innovative projects for earrings, necklaces, Pendants, pins, rings, and bracelets. Original.

Provides patterns and instructions for making dozens of fashion-forward handbags and purses, using embroidery, old jeans, newspaper, beads, feathers, silk flowers, and other materials.

Directions and patterns for creating plastic figures by baking special plastic cutouts.

More techniques and projects from the authors of The Incredible Clay Book®. Comes with terrifi c ideas for making projects like Itty-Bitty Hardback Books, inedible Sushi and make-your-own Snow Globes and then baking them to permanence in your home oven.