The Art of Resin Jewelry (Dvd Edition): Layering, Casting, and Mixed Media Techniques for Creating Vintage to Contemporary Designs [Paperback]

Sherri Haab (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 22, 2008

A top-selling favorite returns—now with a DVD featuring Sherri Haab!



• The Art of Resin Jewelry has sold 14,000 copies


• Value-added DVD includes three all-new projects plus a special bonus gallery of jewelry


• How-tos for combining resin with polymer clay for mixed media and moldmaking


• Original edition still available ISBN: 978-0-8230-0344-0



The best-selling book on resin jewelry returns—now with an exciting bonus DVD featuring author Sherri Haab! The Art of Resin Jewelry still features the same great step-by-step directions for creating beautiful necklaces, pins, bangles, bracelets, earrings, and rings with affordable, approachable resin. Instructions show how to add colorants and other materials, how to cast three-dimensional forms, and how to combine resin with polymer clay for entirely new effects. And now this classic title comes packaged with an exclusive DVD, ready to light up screens across the country with three all-new projects plus a special gallery of inspiring jewelry designs. Now it’s even easier for crafters at every level to create stunning resin jewelry—by watching an expert demonstrate her own signature techniques.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

SHERRI HAAB is the bestselling author of The Art of Metal Clay, Designer Style Jewelry, and The Art of Resin Jewelry. Her books for tweens include The Hip Handbag Book, Way to Crochet, and Dangles and Bangles. Her Incredible Clay Book and Nail Art each sold more than 1 million copies. In all, she has more than 2.5 million books in print around the world.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Potter Craft; Pap/DVD edition (July 22, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0823015025
• ISBN-13: 978-0823015023
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 0.4 x 10.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (35 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #67,477 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Sherri Haab is a best selling craft author with over 20 published books to her credit, with several titles selling over a million copies. She is a certified metal clay instructor, leading numerous PMC craft and jewelry making workshops nationwide. She also develops new craft products including her patented "Image Transfer Solution". Sherri has recently released 2 DVD's (Metal Clay and Resin) and has appeared on several television programs (HGTV, DIY and PBS). She lives with her family in Utah.

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47 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Leading in new directions, July 3, 2006

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PTSideshow "GRP" (Macomb County Michigan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Art of Resin Jewelry: Layering, Casting, and Mixed Media Techniques for Creating Vintage to Contemporary Designs (Paperback)

I enjoyed Sherri's art metal clay book so I picked this one up as soon as it came out. She does cover the basic info on resin. Safety and all the important stuff you need to know is laid out a simple straight forward manner. Gives the average hobbyists enough to protect themselves and complete any of the projects or some of their own designs with out hitting a wall because of something they forgot to put in the book. The use of mold making to make the Faux jewelry along with the complete guide to making the molds is worth the price of the book. The ideas about using the resin as a cap to other media made jewelry gives one ideas on what one can do with this material. Other than the use of yogurt containers for the mold frames I don't eat that much yogurt LOL.Making the frames for the molds out of cardboard shouldn't be a problem. The use of flexible candy and candle molds gives a large selection to the artistically impaired person for subject matter.
I like the section on making beads form resin sort of like faux glass for the beginner with out a lot of tools for lampworking.
I own it and will be using it.

37 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A taste of Resin that will leave you wanting more, January 7, 2007

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R. Eberhard "Eclectic Studio" (Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Art of Resin Jewelry: Layering, Casting, and Mixed Media Techniques for Creating Vintage to Contemporary Designs (Paperback)

As a Jewellery teacher who teaches Resin, I have been waiting with baited breath for this book to hit the shelves. Books on Resin are like hens teeth, I have used Kathie Murphys Book as a reference for years, now Sherri's book will happily be added. I especially liked her techniques showing people how to make molds by using margarine/yoghurt containers, polymer clay molds for inserts and her combination of media. Creating Faux work such as Amber is always a winner with students. The projects are accompanied by well written text, easy to follow instructions and excellent photographs, the gallery at the start is wonderful, who would not be inspired by the fabulous work of Lulu Smith and Robert Dancik. To be frank, the projects in the book, with the exception of the glass bracelet and the seed pod bracelet are not to my personal taste, a bit too glitzy and "home made" as opposed to "hand made", but I did not buy to copy her work, I bought it to show techniques and then apply in your own designs, it is perfect for that. I am a Sherri Fan, recommending her Art of Metal Clay to my clay students too, so she now has two books on my recommended list. I hope she does another one, taking this fabulous medium to a higher artistic level.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good book for people new to resin materials, November 22, 2007

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tChurch "tcsd38" (ABQ, NM, USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Art of Resin Jewelry: Layering, Casting, and Mixed Media Techniques for Creating Vintage to Contemporary Designs (Paperback)

Book clearly shows current products and provides warnings about some of the more toxic products one can use. Several articles on making your own molds and has pictures to clarify text. Being new to resin I found it a very useful first book. While I will use it for jewelry I will also use it for
making parts for model railroad parts. Resin is low cost enough to experiment. Will use it for faux amber, love the stuff, but real amber is way too expensive and color variations are hard to find.