Beads, Baubles & Jewels: The Building Blocks of Jewelry Making 5 Class Set

Learn to express yourself through the art of jewelry making in this Beads, Baubles & Jewels five-class set with professional jewelry designer Katie Hacker. Whatever your style may be, discover the fundamentals of jewelry making techniques like beading, wire wrapping, and metalwork as Katie shares her tips on finding inspiration and designing truly original jewelry. Learn how to achieve stylish, one-of-a-kind pieces that double as wearable art with this 65-episode, five-season set today!

For a more detailed summary of each class included in this set, see the “Classes Included” tab below.

NOTE: After purchase, all individual classes within this set will be made available in your Craftsy account. You will be able to enjoy your purchased classes within your library anytime without losing access.

Beads, Baubles & Jewels: The Art of Jewelry (5h 29m)
The making of jewelry is its own form of art with beads and metal (and more) replacing paints and brushes. This season we’ll look to artists, eras of art history and art terminology to inspire artful designs.

Beads, Baubles & Jewels: A Sense of Place (5 h 35m)
Whether you‘re an armchair traveler or actually pack your bags, every place has its own colors, style, architecture and materials. This season’s episodes include tips and techniques for everything from working with metal clay, resin, waxed linen and seed beads to knitting with wire and using a beading loom – creating bracelets, earrings, statement pieces and more.

Beads, Baubles & Jewels: Make It, Wear It and Love It! (5h 26m)
Join host Katie Hacker and amazing guest designers as they twist it, knot it, wire it, weave it, tie it, stitch it, and bead it – all techniques for creating fabulous jewelry that you will want to make, wear and love.

Beads, Baubles & Jewels: What’s Your Color Story? (5h 29m)
Katie Hacker hosts today’s leading jewelry designers to explore the concept of color. Learn how the colors we choose, then combine and customize, express a unique artistic statement. The artists share what color means to them and how they use it in the design process.

Beads, Baubles & Jewels: Make It Tonight, Wear It Tomorrow (5h 34m)
Join host Katie Hacker and a variety of inspiring jewelry makers. Each episode features a jewelry artist showing how to make creative jewelry using easy-to-find supplies and innovative techniques. The artists and designers share everything you need to know to create one-of-a-kind designs and build your skills. Katie shares her own favorite tips and techniques with a beading lesson in each episode.

Katie Hacker
Katie Hacker is an artist and writer who started designing her own jewelry as a teenager when she couldn’t find fashionable clip earrings for her un-pierced ears. She turned her pastime into a business and now makes a living doing what she loves best – making jewelry and sharing her ideas.

Each class in this set comes with a helpful downloadable PDF that will add to the fun and success of each class. In total, you will gain access to 5 PDFs containing 332 pages of content, which you can view online anytime or print out to reference.