“Minted” Paper Beads-day 20
I painted the big round paper beads with a soft green, love the refreshing color of mint. The lightness of paper beads goes so well with vintage beads and when put together just spells playful and fun. I must have desert on my mind when I made these, the paper beads reminds me cream di menthe.
The bead board is a necessary tool for me, it makes putting colors together and deciding on how long your necklace is going to be so much easier.
I wish you could try this on, they are so light and feels smooth on the skin. I just love the chocolate brown speckled oval beads.
Definitely casual chic!
I am thinking of having another swap with painted paper beads, what do you think?
Read MoreVintage Red-day 19
One of the fun things Kayla and I like to do on a week end is check out garage sales in our area for some beads that we can “rehab” and incorporate with paper beads. This is one of our finds, vintage red beads with embossed flower and leaves design. The designs on the beads is we think Asian inspired and black and gold would look nice with it. Take a look:
We were debating on something with red paper beads or black paper beads.
Black, red and gold somehow spells Asian! Don’t you think ?
Gold daisy spacers just give it the right accent.
The vintage beads cost us a whole $0.25 for six beads, love garage sales and thrift stores!
Petite Pink Flowers- day 18
I thought if I wear this, I could somehow coax the little flowers to come early. Enough of cold and snow! I am so ready for spring don’t you? Well, here is thinking ahead; I mixed tiny vintage flowers with just the perfect pink paper beads with a touch of lavender and made bracelets and earrings. Take a look:
I seldom make something for young girls or teenagers but this one would be perfect within that each group, although I wouldn’t hesitate wearing it myself.
The two bracelets and the pair of earrings used up one strand of small round paper beads with 3 beads left over. You can of course substitute, the flowers with something else.
Clustered Paper Beads Bracelet
Day 16th of 365 Paper Bead Creations! I love the look of these clustered paper beads using 14mm blank findings, they look like little fruit desserts. I used diamond glaze to hold them all together and 5mm round paper beads, the more colors the better.
Let me show you how……
This is a good way to display your small paper beads.
I think this will even look better if you add little seed beads to the mix.
All my tutorials use paper beads because this is a blog about paper beads after all, but you can substitute paper beads with other beads that you have.
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