Pretty Little Things: Collage Jewelry, Trinkets, Keepsakes

Whimsical and Elegant Projects from Well-Known Collage Artist Sally Jean Alexander

*Shares 27 projects with 30 variations for additional inspiration
*Uses vintage ephemera to create charms, vials, miniature shrines, and reliquary boxes
*Features author Sally Jean Alexander?s signature style

With Pretty Little Things, readers will find collage projects that exhibit a playful air and a sense of magic. The twenty-seven projects and thirty variations feature vintage ephemera soldered within glass, for finished works that tell a romantic or whimsical story. All exhibit Sally Jean Alexander?s signature style--a style that brings new life to antique papers, vintage photographs, found projects, scavenged text, and more. more

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Nov-12-2008; Make sure you have soldered before; This is the most incredible inspiration! Even if you don't ever make a thing out of this book you will go crazy in your studio after leafing through it. I have made some of these projects - I recommend you have soldered before trying...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Oct-14-2008; Kudos for a luscious book!; Sally Jean Alexander has written one of the best first lines in all of literature, "there's a playground inside each of us." The first line draws you into a book full of collage jewelry, trinkets and keepsakes. Kudos to Sally and the...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Apr-20-2008; Pretty Little Things; I love this book! The photos, illustrations & layout are so pleasing that you forget that it is an instructural book. I love the pages of artwork at the end of the book that I can use in my own creations. I'll have to make color...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Mar-26-2008; Lovely encouraging book full of whimsical delights!; I am SO surprised by the negative reviews surrounding this book. Are there typographical errors? Sure. Do they detract from the book? Not at all. The projects are lovely, whimsical, and much copied in the altered art/charm makers world...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Nov-12-2008; Make sure you have soldered before; This is the most incredible inspiration! Even if you don't ever make a thing out of this book you will go crazy in your studio after leafing through it. I have made some of these projects - I recommend you have soldered before trying...; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Nov-01-2007; Know how to solder!; To use this book, you need to know how to solder. Apart from one small project, everything is soldered. And Alexander assumes you are already handy with it.Apart from that, the book did give me some good ideas I could use without...; read full review | report as inappropriate

1/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Feb-19-2008; Pretty Little Not Much; I checked this out from the library before buying it - and was very happy I had. There are some very good books on creating charms and other trinkets using soldering irons, glass and ephemera - buy one of those. I thought this book was...; read full review | report as inappropriate