Bling It Up!

This title features 16 projects for enhancing your accessories with the Japanese art of decoden. It is an emerging trend, sweeping the internet. It includes insightful tips on techniques and materials, such as mod melts and polymer clay. Make your accessories super kawaii with the Japanese art of decoden! Inside Bling It Up! You'll find 16 outrageously whimsical projects for embellishing your phone case, acrylic nails, sunglasses, toiletries kit, and even your trainers with impractical indulgence! Decoden is a highly stylized, colourful, and over-the-top Japanese decorative craft that literally means phone decoration, but which has grown to encompass all sorts of fun applications. It involves decorating objects with tons of charms and bling. This book shows you how to make your own fabulous decoden compositions with cabochons, charms, trinkets, baubles, and findings. Author Choly Knight provides step-by-step instructions for making a host of blingly fashion accessories. She offers insightful tips on materials and techniques, and explains how to make your own charms with mod melts and polymer clay.