Wind Chimes On My Ears -day36
I wore these oval hoops at the show and received lots of compliments! It is one of those costume jewelry that you find in my stash marked “to be rehabilitated”. I thought the olive shaped paper beads made more fun and definitely added a splash of color into the other wise boring metal hoop.
The paper beads barely added weight to the earrings, don’t you just hate wearing heavy earrings? This is such a fun piece, you cannot help but feel beautiful when you have this on 🙂
As you can see, the paper beads are all different in pattern and color, no two are alike!
Ice Resin On Paper Beads-day 35
One of the interesting product I saw at the CHA is Ice Resin. I love the fact that you can use it on paper and it sort of laminates the paper. You can see projects on their website, which is wholesale only but I’m sure Michael’s or other craft stores carry them. It takes three days to cure, so for the impatient crafters out there, it’s something for you to think about. They were giving out samples at their booth and after the show I got to play with it. Take a look:
You were suppose to use it to encase objects in a bezel cup, and you can see a doming effect. I used it instead to hold the paper bead tubes onto a brooch finding and at the same time the crystals in the center.
I tried it on paper and it is drying as we speak. I think it will make an interesting paper bead, don’t you think? We’ll see….
Any Which Way Necklace – day 34
This is another example of what you can do with painted round beads. I took our d.i.y bead and painted them with nail polish in bronze color. You know what they say about laziness being the mother of invention? That is what happened here, I got tired painting the beads and decided to mix them with other beads.
I used black seed beads and very inexpensive acrylic beads, all light and the colors complementing each other.
Wear it any which way, paper beads on the side or down like that or even coil it around your wrist as a bracelet.
Mixed Media Bracelet – day 33
Mixed media beads in natural fibers and wood are great accompaniment with paper beads. The bicone shaped paper beads are hand painted in swirls of orange, green, red and yellow. You can use toothpick or really fine tipped brush is used to paint the stripes on the beads. It came out tropical don’t you think?
I wrapped the wood bead with crocheted chains of DMC cotton thread, and also crocheted together little rounds to go in between as spacers. If you don’t crochet don’t despair, just wrapped cord around a wood bead and use other disc or spacers instead.
The big beads are made by stacking up several pages of triangle strips, I will do a tutorial about this as soon as I get my stuff organized after the show.
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