Making Wow Jewelry: Techniques and Projects for Making a Statement

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Show off your skills and your fashion boldness at the same time! This book will teach you how to make spell-binding statement jewelry with a unique look and individual style. Wow Jewelry is packed with pretty, attention-grabbing jewelry projects that you can make yourself in one sitting. Award-winning jewelry designer Sugar Gay Isber shows how to create head-turning DIY fashion jewelry to wear to work, special events, and dress-up evenings. Using easy beading and jewelry-making techniques, each project includes step-by-step photos, expert tips and tricks, and gorgeous color photography. These are conversation-starting pieces that let you CONNECT with someone. Whether you're in an elevator, on the street, or at the office, it will inspire the opening question, "Wow, where did you get that?" Go ahead, say you made it yourself!

Gay Isber (aka "Sugar") is is the creative force behind Gay Isber Designs, a jewelry and product design company based in Austin, Texas. Her pieces have been featured in national and international media, and have been worn by some of the world's top celebrities. She has created more than 60,000 pieces of jewelry over the last 18 years, working with companies including Tiffany & Co., Proctor & Gamble, Harley Davidson, Martha Stewart, Pottery Barn, ET2C, Ivana Trump, Diane Gilman, Hot Topic, Samaco Trading, Liquidation Channel, Alexander Calder, and JM Jewels. She is a Platinum Plus Partner with Fire Mountain Gems and a vetted partner with Swarovski. More than 3,000 stores currently carry jewelry that she has designed. Sugar won Designer of the Year at both Houston and Dallas Fashion Weeks in 2016. Her show on the Liquidation Channel airs to four million people every two months. Candice Ghai is an Austin, Texas-based freelance photographer specializing in portrait, fashion, editorial, conceptual and fine art photography. She is the owner of Twin Sisters and Candice Ghai Photography and has been shooting for about 10 years. Her work has appeared in numerous fashion magazines including Vogue Italia, Dark Beauty Magazine, Jute Magazine, NIF Magazine, LADEDA Magazine, Elegant Ink and more.

"'Sugar' Gay Isber is the 'Willy Wonka' of jewelry designs! Her happiness and extreme creativity make her a jewel of Texas but with a global reach. She is not on trend, she makes the trend. I love her work!" --Linda Asaf Design