…..and everything nice. It is fun finding interesting patterns in a scrapbook paper and you wonder how would this look like rolled into paper beads? Smaller prints would show up best in the finished bead like this scrap booking paper with a lattice design. For those of you who already mastered cutting the paper in [...]
Poster boards usually come in 22 x 28 size and they are great for making paper beads. The fiber of the paper is strong and they make thick beads. That being said, my Paper To Paper Bead Idea # 4 is white poster board. I marked and cut the paper on it’s short end, with [...]
I see how you like the Beads In Orbit bracelet, and some of you have decided to make this type of design for the bead trade. Here’s is another example using three beading wire instead of two and I am calling it Saturn’s Moons in paper beads and a video tutorial of Kayla showing you [...]
A few bead traders have already signed up for our Color Of Fall Paper Bead Trade, and I will leave this post open until Friday to give a chance to those new visitors to our blog. I will continue to update this post each day with new fall jewelry ideas and paper beads with [...]
These little charm balls are so simple, to dangle as charms or as a connector. The materials that you need: head pins or eye pins, 6/0 seed beads, 4mm crystals and 5mm round paper beads. Tools: flush cutter and round nose pliers.
Here’s Kayla, showing us how:
This will look pretty to dangle on a chain or [...]
I had a most relaxing, fun-filled Sunday playing with paper. I am sharing this with you so you can try it, and see for yourself how much fun it is! I had so much left over craft paint from previous projects and just have to use them before they harden up and then I would [...]
I like anything free-form, don’t you? There is free form embroidery, free form crochet……..it implies freedom to do where your imagination takes you. I like the word free flowing even better, it suggests spontaneity. These last few days, I wire wrapped a lot of shells, taking some time off by the beach I [...]
This is a follow-up on yesterday’s post on zentangles. It is another way to make paper beads, this time not the usual magazine pages but from a doodled page. First, I doodled on a long bond paper, this would come out different if you will use a heavier paper like construction paper. Then, I cut [...]
Here’s the tutorial on how to make cone shaped paper beads as promised One might think that you cut the paper differently………it is cut exactly the same way as you would your regular triangle strip of paper. The trick is pushing the bottom part of the paper bead towards the center, as shown [...]
This cha-cha bracelet finding has been sitting on my desk for quite sometime now, when Kayla C. finally decided to do something with it to match our Sea Anemone Ring. You just need to be patient making all those dangles and connecting them to the loops on the bracelet, the finished bracelet, is all worth [...]
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