Gisela is one paper bead fan who perfected the art of making paper beads. I just love and admire her work, she knows which paper to use and how to get the desired color from the magazine pages or whatever kind of paper she is using to the finished bead. You will be inspired by [...]
I would like to share with you, Manou’s paper bead Matryoshkas. I first saw these when we had the painted paper bead swap. Manou painstakingly painted each one of them and they are just super cute, don’t you think?
I think she first made cone beads with a wide base and painted each one to look [...]
There is beauty in simplicity, and this is what I absolutely love about this earrings! What a way to display the swirls of magazine color. The double bicone bead is made from stacking several strips of paper, depending on how big you want your bead to be.
Announcing the winner for the Twister Earrings Giveaway………….comment # [...]
It is very encouraging to see other paper bead buffs come up with really creative ideas in making jewelry with paper beads. Jane’s been busy making paper beads jewelry and each one is beautiful and inspiring. Her “Melody” set is for her sister Melody, made with music sheet. Do you collect vintage music sheet? I [...]
Elim, just like the rest of us got hooked on making paper beads, and she makes some real nice ones. She also blogs about her other interests like polymer clay and fun jewelry, you can see some of her stuff including a watch with a band made out of paper beads, here.
She certainly has an [...]
I pick today Tuesday, to get out of the norm and do a post that is unrelated to paper beads. It could be other crafts; sewing, origami, mixed media, crochet, etc…..and if anyone would like to share their work what ever it maybe, just let me know. It’s that time of year again for flip [...]
One of the things I love to do is sharing the work of other paper bead fanatic. Today, we have Jane McBride, she loves experimenting with them and here is the outcome:
The look like pineapples don’t you think? I also love the way Jane made earrings out of the saucer shape beads, very designer like [...]
I want to share with you what Manou and Claire made with the painted beads swap, I think they are really creative and it an inspiration to me I hope you will be inspired as well
A hair accessory! I love it!
Manou found a way with mixing all the beads beautifully in this bracelet. [...]
Here it is! Paper beads all painted in beautiful colors from near and far away places. Ladies and gentlemen (drum roll), I would like to present to you painted paper beads cut from all types of paper, boxes, envelopes, postcards……and painted in vibrant colors! There are twelve participants for this swap, some of you made [...]
I spent Christmas day away from my home. You know what that means? Away from my beads, paper beads, paper, glitter and paint, I started to experience shortness of breath, I asked my husband to drive me to Barnes and Noble quickly! I ended up spending 4 hours browsing through books, leafing through magazines, sipping [...]
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