Paper Bead Pinwheels
I have came across a pattern for making flowers called the Hana-Ami motif and you can find a simple step by step here. This design is so versatile that you can make it to look like a flower or something else, depending on the beads you are going to use. I made quite a few of these small ones and big ones, the smaller ones using olive shaped paper beads in magazine colors but mostly white makes it look like pinwheels. Now, I put them on anything; flip flops, hats, head bands and I am thinking on putting them on candles.
You can also connect them in whatever arrangement you want for a bib necklace
We used 8/0 seed beads to go in between and illusion cord or fishing line
Here it is as an earring.
Or as a headband, I just use hot glue gun to affix them into a store bought head band
Another day of taking the ordinary to extraordinary!
Big and Beautiful Paper Beads
One of the new shapes that my sister Joann came up with is big round paper beads 14-16mm in size. One bead is a total of 9 magazine pages spread open and tightly rolled by hand. Even though it’s made out of paper the beads feels substantial and weighty. I wish I could show you all the different colors, they truly look like marbles with swirls of different colors.
Beautiful hues of orange….
Blues and white opals
Fiesta colors!
Here’s a basic beading how-to:
Cleo’s Paper Bead Bracelet
To me, this looks like what a modern Cleopatra will have on her wrist, a bracelet made up of recycled magazines. I have a penchant for taking inexpensive jewelry apart and replacing them with paper beads. I love the idea of turning ordinary to extraordinary. I call this Cleo’s Bracelet because the little triangle sections looks like little pyramids. We replace the wood beads in the original bracelet with little round paper beads, Kayla did a good job of matching the colors.
The bracelet with the wood beads in the middle had a metal finding that can hold six strands.
The round paper beads we used has such a nice sky blue color with swirls of tan…..
Here it is on the wrist!
Another day of turning ordinary to extraordinary.
Ultra Long Paper Bead Necklace
Kayla made this necklace to be extra long, about 52 inches so it can be worn doubled up or just as it is. These are made with the longest paper bead tube that we have, 1 1/4 inch long and 1/4 inch wide. They are just perfect for these extra long necklace. I imagine wearing these with just a simple silver hoop earrings to go with the silver links.
Here it is worn long, like this. You can mix this with other silver chains that you may have……
We put a clasp on it so it can also be worn layered
Another day of taking the ordinary to extraordinary!
What have you done with paper beads today?
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