Other Crafts & Crafty People

Finally Scrapbooking with Paper Beads!

Posted on Nov 19, 2009 in Other Crafts & Crafty People | 1 comment

I have a guest blogger today.  Kayla, loves to scrapbook and incorporate a lot of paper beads into her jewelry.

I have found that most people who craft and make jewelry also dabble in scrap booking. Making art out of memories is so much fun.  I love going through all of my pictures, giving me the opportunity to reminisce on past memories I have made over the years. Scrap booking is like creating a your own little book that displays different parts of your life in fun, creative and cute ways.

I got the urge to scrap book and since I am always trying to come up with new ways of using paper beads, I figured why not incorporate them into my next scrap booking project? So I did!

I decided to make a page dedicated to my parents for their 25th Anniversary. I took an old picture of them, back from the 1970’s and used it as my center piece.

I created a theme by finding different patterned paper, that somewhat had a 70’s vintage look and went on from there. I picked out the perfect strand of  Diamond Shaped paper beads, which consisted of brown, burgundy, blue, pink and creamier colored beads, that went absolutely amazing with my scrap booking paper. I then took 4mm white ribbon and stitched the paper beads about 1/2 inch from the edge and around the background paper.

After I added a few cute knick-knack objects to help accent the page to give it a more romantic feel/look.

I then took small Spacer Shape paper beads and glued them on at random using a hot glue gun.

In the end, I found that the paper beads really helped add to the 1970’s look I was going for. I am genuinely pleased with how this design came out. It helps demonstrate how paper beads can be used in many different varieties of creative activities.

Crocheted Filigree Hoops

Posted on Nov 11, 2009 in Other Crafts & Crafty People | 5 comments

The other thing I am most passionate about aside from paper bead making is crochet.  I learned to crochet just from watching my aunts do it every single day when I was six years old.  I collect old crochet books and old patterns.  Recently, I discovered wire crochet and has been doing a lot of jewelry with wire.  This is a big hoop, but then I love my jewelry to be big and bold. 

Here’s Kayla trying it on.  I think it looks good specially if you have long hair.