The Right Way to Create a How To Make Jewelry Video - Professional Quality, Lots of Close-Ups, No Filler
The video on this DVD is shot in professional quality resolution, with close-up shots so you can see exactly what to do in very fine detail. There is no filler at all. You get 100% meat.

This video series on DVD contains four lessons geared toward the beginning student who wants to master the basics of bead stringing. Each lesson is about 15~20 minutes, the equivalent to 1~1 1/2 hours in class.

Here's a description of the lessons:

Lesson 1 - Tools & Material Overview
In this lesson, the basic tools you need to create your jewelry are presented and explained in detail. In addition, I show you some very useful tips to make your jewelry making experience easier and more enjoyable.

Lesson 2 - Stringing a Bead Necklace
In this lesson, you will make a necklace form start to finish and learn the finishing techniques that will enable you to create beautiful beaded necklaces.

Lesson 3 - Stringing a Bead Bracelet
In this lesson, you will make a bead bracelet that will enable you to create beautiful beaded bracelets.

Lesson 4 - Pinwork - Birthstone Earrings
In this lesson, you will learn the foundational skills in basic pinwork techniques by creating a pair of birthstone earrings. Your newly developed pinwork skills will enable you to make many beautiful earring jewelry pieces.

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Follow along as Linda Jones, the author of 5 wonderful books on wire and bead jewelry (also available from Amazon.com) takes you on a journey of how to use basic tools and wire to create clasps, jump rings, spirals, squiggles, heiroglyphics and much more! Linda has taken a workshop normally offered over 2 days and condensed it down to 2.5 hours of easy to follow lessons for the home viewer. All tools required are clearly explained in this delightful journey towards making your own unique necklaces, bracelets, earrings, and much more!

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Fused Glass Jewelry is a colorul, fun and easy to follow one-hour video featuring the talents of Vicki Payne and Jayne Persico. Working with Evenheat's popular jewelry kiln and compatible fusing glasses including Coatings by Sandberg's beautiful new dichroic glass, Vicki an Jayne take the confusion out of successfully fusing beautiful glass jewelry. In addition to covering all the basics the video is loaded with advanced jewelry techniques such as wire wrapping, etching, engraving and drilling holes in glass. Vicki and Jayne's friendly, playful style makes you feel like you're spending the afternoon with two friends that love working with glass and sharing their creativity. DVD 60 minutes

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Jewelry Making with Nena Featuring Nena Galloway Potts, nationally renowned Metal Smith and Jewelry Designer as your host and instructor, On this DVD, Nena demonstrates the basic skills necessary for making fine jewelry pieces. This is a basic course in working with precious metals to make real jewelry. There is no beadwork stringing here! Nena takes you through the steps of basic design, cutting, filing, shaping, polishing, coloring soldering, assembly and finishing techniques using metals, stones, fossils and other media to construct beautiful artwork in the form of jewelry. This very comprehensive video will cover three different project utilizing these basic jewelry and metal smith techniques and will give you the skills and confidence needed to produce: A set of hammer formed silver earrings A sculpted silver bracelet with fossil setting A bezel setting to fit a cabochon quartz stone If you have ever wanted to take a jewelry making class that taught you the secrets of professional jewelers, this is the recommended choice. The DVD runtime is just over 2 hours (122 minutes) with each topic broken down into chapters for easy to access, step by step, follow along instruction on Nena's unique jewelry making style and techniques. There is additional Bonus Material on the DVD that can only be accessed from your computer DVD drive.

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Learn how to create beautiful real silver jewelry without investing in expensive jewelry making tools and years of training. Jackie Truty shares her expertise as she teaches the basics of working with Art Clay Silver. There are 2 projects featured on this DVD  60 min.

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Create a medley of jewelry pieces using many innovative techniques, including those adapted from cake decorating, sculpting, mosaics and marquetry. Learn how to make earrings, pendant necklaces and brooches from polymer clay, the clays that "cure" right in your home oven. Let Sue Heaser, distinguished author and a founder of the British Polymer Clay Guild, show you how to turn ordinary leaves from your yard into beautiful metallic pins. Learn how to sculpt a pair of delicate fairy earrings using sugar craft techniques, apply cuts of polymer clay to create Japanese-like pictures, then paint pictures with polymer clay simulating ancient Italian Pietra Dura mosaic scenes. A unique set of polymer clay techniques!

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This DVD features Jayne Persico's latest innovation, The Glass Embossing System. You will learn how to emboss beautiful patterns directly into your fused glass work. This exciting trademarked system uses a series of components to press flowers, leaves, scrolls, and other designs into glass. This embossing tool will create a world of possiblities for adding patters to your fused glass work. You will also learn the keys to timing and temperature for handling the glass. 30 mins. DVD

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Stari Girl Beading Supplies just released "Beginner Jewelry Making" DVD !!! Includes 20+ Beginner Jewelry Making Instructions & Techniques!! You'll Learn "How To"  Make a necklace or bracelet  Use a crimp bead properly  Make earrings using head pins  Make a pendant or charm from any bead  Make a wire bracelet with eye pins  Make loops with round nose pliers  Use stretch cord for jewelry designs  Learn wire gauge sizes  Make a necklace extender  Use jump rings  Make a hook & eye clasp by hand  Attach charms  Make a slide knot with leather cord  Learn bead identification  Learn terminology & components used in jewelry making  Identify findings  Choose stringing wire  Identify other stringing materials used in jewelry making  Make a magnet clasp converter  Make your own wire spiral head pin  Use the proper tools & pictures of design ideas to try with your new skills! This just released DVD is a beginners dream. Close up video to replay each step over as many times as you need. The basic techniques we teach you in this video were based on the questions beginners repeatedly ask us in our local store. We found that even with a class lesson, these beginners were still uncertain how to perform techniques they were taught, and felt they needed to "see it again, up close," to really understand it. This video answers the "how to" questions to get you started, such as making a necklace earrings and bracelets. You are then guided through instructions for some fun techniques, not generally taught in a beginner class, including some basic wire jewelry designs. You'll learn what you need to start making your own professional looking jewelry. 35 Minute Run Time $24.95 Copyright 2007 Please feel free to contact me with any questions.

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Collect all 3 of Jayne Persico's jewelry crafting DVD series. Titles include GLASS EMBOSSING, FUSED GLASS JEWELRY, and GLASS CANE BRACELETS.

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