Gift Wrap Paper Beads
What do you do with last year’s gift wrapping paper? You can use them again this year and you will have same looking presents from last year, or…..turn them into paper beads! This is what my sister Joann did, I mainly depend on her on making the paper beads and I make them into finished jewelry – division of labor at work 🙂
What else can you do with them? I think they will make nice garlands to trim your Christmas Trees!
The nice thing about the gift wrapping paper, you can cut long triangle strips and when you roll them, they make a more round shape or oblong shaped paper beads.
Christmas tree garland can be expensive and they are heavy, the tree branches cannot hold them up sometimes, I think this would just be perfect for it!
Another day of turning the ordinary to extraordinary!
Accessories to Paper Beads
I was just thinking about it the other day that I did not miss wearing business clothes, suits and high heels. I am grateful that I don’t have to do that anymore, once a month, maybe. I work from home most of the time, go to the shop, run errands…….and always dress casual but always with jewelry, custom jewelry-paper beads jewelry! I love to mix it with my other fashion accessories. I added a new category to my etsy shop – Accessories, where you will find fun rings, pendants that will go nicely with paper beads.
The acrylic irregular shaped cabochon (meant to be used as mosaics) looks like slices of oranges. They look good worn together.
The orange cabochon are encased in a crocheted craft wire.
The stones are so light weight and comes in greens and blues.
Another day of turning the ordinary to extraordinary!
More Paper Bead Creations
Our feature for today are the handiwork of Ashley and Emily! It is exciting to me seeing the different things that “Paper Beaders”, (I think from now on this is what I would call anybody who is into making paper beads, agreed?) 🙂 , made out of their kit. So, here’s what I got for you today.
Emily's Paper Beads Necklace
Emily combined her new found hobby of making chain mail with the paper beads and it came our really nice, sort of Gothic, I think.
Emily's Paper Bead Earrings
I love how different color of paper beads are woven into this flower pendant
Emily's Paper Bead Flower
Last but not least, is from Ashley. She made a bracelet and earrings set, I think she is a budding photographer, it is so clever how she displayed her work in a glass of water, the blue straw is just the perfect contrast.
Ashely's Paper Bead Bracelet and Earrings
I am working on a video for the raffle drawing, I am trying to get a “special guest” draw the names from the Paper Bead Trade Participants. There will be three prices that is going to be drawn, and it can be you!
My Paper Beads – by Joann
My sister Joann had a break from her hectic “filling up paper bead orders schedule” and decided to have a little fun on the side, still with paper beads. Her other hobby which occupies her time when she can tear herself away from making paper beads is gardening. Somehow, she found a way to combine both, paper bead lady bugs, paper bead bees and flowers definitely go together, what do you think?
She was inspired one day when she found lady bugs crawling on her green tomatoes.
Paper Beads imitating nature?
She made them from left over gift wrap and construction paper. Some them turn out like Easter eggs, don’t you think? Good job sis!
Another day of turning ordinary to extraordinary!
Upcoming posts: More Paper Bead Creations from the Paper Bead Trade! Raffle drawing.
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