Today’s feature is a mixture of paper beads, fresh water pearls and fire polished crystals. This style is so versatile and easy to make. It can be worn as is, long and just let it drape on your body or doubled up. It is fun to decide which way you want to wear it; you [...]
Paper beads that are cut from the same page will have a similar pattern and colors and makes designing a piece easier. Blue acrylic beads perfectly matched the ocean blue color of paper bead tubes. I’ve had these blue drops for awhile now and don’t know quite what to do with them. And then…..ocean blue [...]
I fell in love with these beads. I love the muted colors and the perfect bicone shape. These are not small, they are about 20 x 22mm made with several strips of paper to achieve the diamond or bicone shape of the bead. The colors were actually printed on the paper and I just love [...]
One of my my finds at a thrift store is a strand of seed beads. They are so smooth and in different odd shapes that resembles like real pearls. I am always admiring chocolate pearls in magazines and I thought if painted in something bronzy would mimic the look of chocolate pearls.
Mixed with painted saucer [...]
Fabric paper are paper fused to fabric and comes out with the same texture as paper. You can write on them, cut them out into shapes, sew them or make them into paper beads! Can you imagine the different designs and colors? Practically endless.
I chose springy colors to accent the leaf pendant.
In between are these [...]
I visited an antique shop just around our corner last year and picked up just this one thing: brass chain, old and badly needed some luster but it holds really pretty glass beads that reminded me of speckled eggs. I would love to revisit this post come Easter because this would just be so appropriate. [...]
Part of treasured Christmas presents that I have received this year was from Gisela, so soft pashmina shawl and on it were three big hole paper beads on a safety pin. One of our new beads in the upcoming CHA show are big hole paper beads kind of like pandora beads only PAPER! Kayla insisted [...]
Today, is A Picture Speaks A Thousand Words day. These are images of painted paper beads drying in my sisters back yard, to me, it’s such a beautiful sight!
I love the sunny yellows
The color of purple yams, a beloved Filipino dessert.
Ocean blue
Lipstick Pink
I’m sorry if I have not posted tutorials lately, Kayla and I are [...]
You know how it is hard to make jewelry for men? Not only is it hard to come up with the “look”, it is not fun working with dark colors. Well, I saw these black round paper beads with muted magazine colors and it inspired me to make a gentleman’s bracelet. This was not an [...]
The poinsettia prints in this scrap book paper inspired Kayla to create a necklace with poinsettia flower as the pendant. She and I have recently immersed ourselves in polymer clay to complement our paper beads. Did you know that the bright red petals are actually the leaves? The flowers are the yellow clusters in the [...]
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