Vintage Look – Paper To Paper Bead Idea#4
I thought the rhodium color bead caps and beads will go together with the poster board paper beads. It gives it a vintage, antiquey look to it. My inspiration for this design is an antique lamp in my living room – it is big and gaudy but I love the opalescent glass and the brass vines and flowers that surrounds it as you can see here. Black lace or beige lace would go with this set.
The earrings are almost 3 inches long and you don’t have even to wear other jewelry when you don this on.
The bracelet is just strung on jewelry grade elastic and the big holes of the paper bead hides the know really well, you can’t even tell.
I love dressing up and feeling glamorous on a shoe string, don’t you?
Any Paper To Paper Bead Idea anyone? I would love to hear from you and share your work with everyone.
Paper Beads To Trade
Today, Kayla and I had so much fun opening envelopes eager to see the different paper beads from places near and far, all works of art, a labor of love 🙂 They are a beautiful mixture of browns, oranges, beige, reds, pumpkin………they will make a nice bead soup with a little sprinkle of spice and everything nice. It just brings out the poet in me 😉
This is from Anne, beautiful browns with swirls of gold, browns and pink.
…from Donna, I love the sparkly coral and copper beads.
Debbie has these really cool candy corn beads.
Linda’s have some pumpkin and cinnamon in them
Sanja’s beads would be great as filler beads, they are so uniform in size and almost look like wood beads
Also from Sanja, flower pendant necklace, it’s pretty the way she mixed the spice and green together like that.
Claire, sent nice spotted egg like beads, barrel shaped and cones with gold foil, nice assortment.
Denise’s are perfectly shaped olive shapes and tube shapes, great also as filler beads
Cathy from the Villages! I would like to call her beads Fiesta Beads, they are a nice mixture of happy colors.
Deb’s is what I also call perfect olive shapes, I think she has perfected the small beads!
Bronwen sent us nice tube shapes in different sizes in beautiful brown tones
Julie and mom June is what I call petite olive shapes, love the orange and the greens all uniform in shape.
Gisela’s beads look like glass beads, she has perfected the art I should say. She included one large bead that I’m tempted to keep for myself, instead I will incorporate it into a piece for the end of swap raffle drawing. The terra cotta colored beads are beautiful as well.
Kathy sent us us beautiful pumpkin colors, the yellow ones are the color of squash, the browns reminds me of chocolate rice krispies and the colorful beads look like African trade beads.
Emily, I love your barrel shaped beads, and the predominant colors are what I call purple yam.
Last but not least are Kayla’s, she made them out of scrap booking paper because she want them in fall colors. They are 1/2 inch at the base and 12 inches long. The two beads below have the same dimensions: 1/2 by 12 inches, but you can see that the brown bead is slightly bigger, that is because it is thicker paper.
Kayla made them in different shapes and size, will look good for our bead soup.
Next Postl: Long convertible necklace that Kayla and I put together. We think it will be appropriate for the swap because it can display all the different beads from every body. ‘Til then……
Read MorePaper to Paper Bead Idea #3
I have a collection of paper of all kinds because I hate throwing anything out thinking I will be able to recycle them and give it new life. With this in mind, my Paper to Paper Bead Idea # 3 is freezer paper. You come home from the deli one day and you find that cheeses and meat is wrapped in freezer paper. It has such a nice texture to it, not too thick and not too thin. I thought they’re great for painted paper beads, you can use whatever left over nail polish you have which is what I did for this project.
freezer paper cut into triangle strips
I cut the triangle strips 1/2 inch wide at the base and 22 inches long, of course you can cut it longer or wider at the base for a different look. I then, applied nail polish in green.
Dip it in glitter
Voila! Pair of blingy earrings 🙂
I think they will look like pearls if you were to make it a little rounder and painted with frosted white nail polish.
Any ideas you want to share?
Boho Chic
Fabric covered wood and plastic rings are the inspiration for this Boho Chic Necklace. You put this on and no matter what you wear, it instantly gives the impression that you don’t care, you have your own style. I put this necklace together with stuff that I already have on hand; small round paper beads fashioned into rings and decorative ribbons.
I don’t know what it is with chains and rings must be the child in us 🙂
You can certainly dress it up or dress it down, mix and match with your other jewelry…..
I attached silk ribbon at the ends so it can be adjusted, you can wear it as a choker if you like.
This necklace can be anything but boring, don’t you think?
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