Friendship Beads Necklace
Seeing all the beautiful beads in beautiful fall colors; pumpkin, spice, oranges and browns from places as far as Croatia and France each painstakingly rolled into a bead makes me think of them as Friendship Beads. I counted seventeen participants including Ashley and Jennifer whose beads are being mailed as we speak. I have shown you the Beads In Orbit and Memory Wire Bracelets as examples of what we can possibly make out of the trade beads. Kayla and I look at the beads and thought that they would be displayed better in a longer necklace because of the different shapes and size of the beads. Take a look and tell me what you think.
The necklace is about 48 inches long
You can wear it also doubled up like this
Since it is strung on jewelry elastic, you can also wind it several times on your wrist
The necklace is highlighted with seed beads, crystals, buttons and wood beads
I think your necklace would look nice with all the fall colors. Your kit would include: jewelry grade elastic, seed beads, wood beads, buttons and of course the paper beads from all the participants. Play with it, have fun with it add more beads from your own collection.
I want to be a gracious host, therefore, I am giving you a choice in your kit: Memory Wire, Beads In Orbit or the Friendship Beads Necklace. You can do so by leaving me a comment here.
Read MorePaper Beads By Sanja
Sanja, is an avid crafter and has perfected the skill of making paper beads. She is sharing with us one the many ways paper beads can be made from, in this case she took an old calendar with the beautiful colors of purple and lavender and it came out beautifully! The image she sent me will take you from the page of the calendar she took, drawing the triangle lines on the wrong side of it, cutting it into strips and turning it into beautiful paper beads!
The paper beads with the leaves on the ground is so evocative of Fall, I just loved it! Don’t you?
My Paper Beads – by Cathy
We are always looking for tips, ideas on how to make cutting the triangle strips easier and most importantly uniform in shape. Cathy, would like to share with us how she cut her triangle paper with a rotary cutter – primary use is to cut fabric for quilting. Here is a step by step in Cathy’s own words:
Turn first paper over and mark the top and bottom with a little dot as to where to cut. Don’t need to draw the line.
If you were to mark them, it should look like this:
Start at the bottom with the rotary cutter with the ruler on dots. Keep all fingers and finger tips ON the ruler to they don’t get cut off! Stand while cutting so weight is on top of ruler and it doesn’t slide. Keep left pinky finger on side of ruler to keep it in place. apply some pressure to cut through several layers. With a new blade you could probably cut through more than 4 layers at a time but I just did 4 layers.
Keep a steady pressure to cut straight up. You may need to move your left hand up while cutting to the top so it doesn’t slide.
Take rotary cutter all the way through the paper at the top.
Just shows I cut 4 layers at a time. After wards I sort the paper into the 4 different colors.
Cathy finds it easier to cut with the rotary cutter compared to an exacto knife. After you’ve made the beads, make something pretty with it 🙂
Paper Bead Trade w/ Fall Theme is open to anyone who loves to make paper beads whether you are a newbie or an expert we would love to have you! You can sign up by leaving a comment here or email me.
My Paper Beads – by Hilde and Deb
I am going to share with you what Hilde and Deb did with their trade beads. It is always fun how each one of us came up with ideas on how to use the paper beads.
bracelet by Deb
This guy is so cute!
bracelet by Deb
Hilde describes her work best:
“You can also see that I made a bracelet with silver ornaments. I used a square with holes and put some very smal beads on it with littlle silver disks above.”
Few days ago, I featured Ralistsa and was so impressed with her video tutorial how that was put together with music background. She referred to a site she used and I decided to put together something fun for us to remember what we did on the paper bead trade.
Are you ready to dance to the tune of One Fine Day?
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