A Passion for Buttons!: More than 20 Inspiring Projects for Chic and Unique Earrings, Necklaces and Rings [Paperback]

Stephanie Bourgeois (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 29, 2007

This book features a range of styles and designs including multicoloured and monochrome necklaces, elegant and exuberant bracelets and contemporary and traditional rings. It presents 21 projects and their variations, each with their material and equipment lists. Step-by-step instructions and clear diagrams mean it is easy to create unique items that are not only pieces of jewellery but also works of art. Buttons come in all shapes and sizes and in all manner of materials from mother-of-pearl to leather. Whatever type of buttons you have a passion for, you are sure to find inspiration here.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Stephanie Bourgeois is a talented young jewelry designer who has her own jewelry shop in Tours, France and is renowned for using a diverse range of colors and materials in her designs, particulalry buttons, feathers and felt. Her books allow fellow crafters to re-create her beautiful work. She is the author of the bestselling Beautiful Beaded Jewelry.

Product Details

• Paperback: 64 pages
• Publisher: David & Charles (March 29, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 071532652X
• ISBN-13: 978-0715326527
• Product Dimensions: 10.4 x 8.2 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #933,968 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Lots of inspiration at a great price!, July 21, 2009

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S. L. Smith "SansSerif" (Back Home Again, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Passion for Buttons!: More than 20 Inspiring Projects for Chic and Unique Earrings, Necklaces and Rings (Paperback)

Yes, I DO have a passion for buttons! For the price, this is a great book to feed your own passion for using buttons for all purposes beyond just keeping your shirts closed.

Author Bourgeois offers 50 interesting ways to show off both your best and your most mundane notions. Included are the usuals such as bracelets and necklaces, but Bourgeois steps up the creativity factor by showing how to weave buttons and beads together with wire for a checkerboard effect.

Twisted wire adds even more interest, and safety pins are shown to be an unusually crafty medium for threading beads and buttons. Even a winter scarf gets a dressing up, and other projects include hair clips, hair pins, hair sticks.

What I like MOST about this book is how the projects are displayed on the page. The staging in the photos has given me several ideas beyond the featured project. For example, the "Easy As ABC" project is a bracelet shown on handmade books. To me, the bracelets look like book marks!! "Miscellany" is a bracelet/necklace project shown on a lovely piece of fringed textile; hmmm ... put the project and the photo together and I come up with using beads to make my own fringe!!

What I do not like so much are the instructions and lack of detailed photos for the more complicated steps. Granted, the author has packed 50 projects into only 62 pages, making this a great bargain for the imagination. But just a wee bit more direction would be helpful, especially to finish the pieces. Tools and equipment are given a proper intro up front, but the techniques are a bit lacking, unless, of course, you are experienced at putting verbs into these projects.

Still and all, this is a highly recommendable resource, with a lot of depth and sparkle, all at a can't beat price.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I am in love with this book, November 3, 2007

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Happy Sewer (wellington, NZ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Passion for Buttons!: More than 20 Inspiring Projects for Chic and Unique Earrings, Necklaces and Rings (Paperback)

I found this book wonderful, the design are so stunning. It has great pictures plus diagrams to show correct threading procedures. Also a list of materials needed and difficulty rating. The only reason it doesn't get 5 stars is because I did find the step by step instructions a little confusing. However, this is the first time I have ever made jewellery so perhaps that's to be expected.