Memory Wire Bangle
The memory wire is great for fast and easy bracelet that looks like you have spent hours doing it. The only hard thing about it is that you need a heavy cutter or memory wire cutter to cut the wire DO NOT use your regular wire cutter or it will damage it. Here is a three loop memory wire bracelet using brown olive shaped paper beads. Kayla just strung them at random but it will be nice also if you actually have a pattern.
Here’s Kayla showing you how:
You can see above that we did not put anything on the loops. It is nice to hang on some charms to it or dangle a crystal.
Another idea is to do 7 loops or more!
What do you think? If we decide to make the memory wire bracelet instead of the Paper Beads In Orbit bracelet, I am sending you the pre cut memory wire in your kit.
Tomorrow is my birthday, I am turning ‘ty three 🙂 I will be celebrating it on Saturday with colleagues from work and we will be making tiaras! We’ll see how this will turn out.
Cleo’s Cuff
I can imagine this bracelet on Cleopatra’s wrist sans the snake coiled around her arms. I just love the chocolate brown color of the beads which makes me think of hot chocolate with marshmallows on top, but Kayla wants to call it Tootsie Rolls. The paper bead tube measures 1 1/4 inch long and 1/4 inch wide, this makes this cuff big and bold fit for a queen!
I took a 20 gauge craft wire and coiled the ends to make it look like swirls and scrolls pretty much like the pattern on this scrap book paper.
I took an elastic and put it through the loops at the ends of the paper bead and tied a square knot. In between are catheral 4 mm bicone swarovski crystals for sparkle!
Or, you could just do simple loops to put your elastic through.
Upcoming Post : Ashley, Sanja and Kathy with their paper beads jewelry, Memory Wire Bracelet tutorial
Read MoreShaker Bracelet
The cha-cha bracelet has become popular because it is such a fun piece of jewelry. It is the child in each one of us who get mesmerized by the dancing beads and the tinkling sound. I prefer to call this the Shaker Bracelet because you cannot help but shake your hands just to watch the beads and charms dance on your wrist. The brown color olive paper beads are mixed with copper glass pearls and dangles from copper chain.
Kayla used the same technique as the Bunch Of Olives earrings we did from earlier post; you string a seed bead then paper bead into a head pin and make a loop at the end.
You do the same thing with the crystals and pearls and to make it more fancy you can even add bead caps.
I consider this a happy piece of jewelry because it is an instant mood up lifter the moment you put this on 🙂
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Wearable Paper Beads Jewelry
I have always wondered, do you wear your paper bead jewelry? Let me rephrase the question, are you proud enough to wear your paper bead jewelry to a party, church, family gathering, wedding? I think paper beads has come a long way, from a favorite Sunday craft for kids to fine pieces of jewelry created as wearable art. Are you up for a challenge? Here’s how it works: The first 10 readers of this blog who can send me a photo of herself all spruced up wearing paper bead jewelry will receive a choice of paper bead roller kit, crystals and findings kit or 2 strands of paper beads ! Here’s is another version of Spiralling With Paper Beads which has been quite popular at etsy after it was featured in Etsy Findings blog. I call this 1066 Paper Beads Necklace because it has one thousand six hundred sixty six tiny paper beads! And yes, I actually counted them 🙂
I must say, you need a little bit of courage to wear something paper amidst the glitter of diamonds and gold. I paired this piece with little heart diamond earrings, it was a wedding after all.
Got tons of compliments, it was something different and extraordinary!
Upcoming Posts: More Paper Bead Trade – Fall Color Ideas: Shaker Bracelet!
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