I really like this book. It has a wide variety of techniques. Easy to follow instructions. A must buy for novice and even some advanced polymer clay users!
Making Polymer Clay Beads Book by Carol Blackburn is a necessity for polymer clay artist. Here I thought I knew just about everything there was to know about making beads, then I bought this book. Now I feel I know everything about making beads. The detail explanation and graphic pictures are wonderful. The selection of styles, methods and even the process of making all of these beads is wonderful. I feel this book rates better than any other books out there on making polymer clay beads, the variety is the largest I've ever seen. This is a must have.
I purchased this book after getting bitten by the clay bug. I love making anything with this new polymer clay product that has hit the market over the last several years. This book has a lot of really great patterns in it for bead making. It has designs of all kinds, colors, and shapes. The instructions are very easy to understand and the lay out of each pattern makes it easy to read and actually makes it easy to create the bead in the pattern. I have made several of the beads in this book and being just a beginner, had no trouble in creating any of them. I would recommend this book to anybody who has an interest in bead making. This book helps you to make your own beads and then if you want to go a step furthur, make your own jewerly from the beads that tyou just created.