Today, is Pictures Speaks A Thousand Words Tuesday! I made a set of bracelets out of the painted Pink Polka Dots paper beads.
I reversed the colors to coordinate with each other.
I used the Big Round Paper Beads, they are about 15mm rounds and painted them with a base of neutral color and then the main [...]
Recently I got a request for painted paper beads, it is not exactly new to me because I have been painting them with nail polish. How about painting them with acrylic paint? You know they come in all colors imaginable, and you know what this means? You can use any paper, any color and just [...]
I wanted to have fancy names for these Angel Earrings, I look at them and I think of ballerinas or Victorian ladies dancing the waltz, they are just whimsical figures that help us celebrate the Holiday Seasons.
I love the new shapes of paper pea pods, I still marvel at the idea that they are shaped to look like a cocoon and can actually hold little treasures or mementos. It can be many things; a prayer box or pod, a good luck horn, a wishing pod, how about a worry pod – [...]
We are gearing up for the upcoming Craft and Hobby Association Winter Trade Show to be held in Los Angeles this January 29th. We are trying to come up with new designs, new shapes to be introduced at the show. One of the new things is what I call Paper Peapods or Memory keepers. I [...]
I am launching Kolek’ems today! What are they? They are paper gems bracelets. I likened them to a gem because just like a gem these paper bead bracelets are precious and something to treasure and keep. Each one of them are hand cut, hand rolled and hand varnished to a glossy finished that makes them [...]
Citrine is one of my favorite gem stone, I love the yellow-brown color of the stone so rich almost like gold. It also happens to be the birthstone for the month of November and the accepted gem for 13th and 17th wedding anniversary. It is just the perfect back drop of the paisley paper bead [...]
If you want to make your paper beads to be uniform in colors the best paper to use is scrap booking paper. If you have seen the scrap booking isle in your local craft store you will know that there are hundreds of different lovely patterns to choose from. Part of the fun is not [...]
Dyed mother of pearl rings is the perfect back drop for the pumpkin and spice paper beads. These dyed mop rings come in a variety of colors but it can be a bit of a challenge to design something with it. It has this hole in the middle and you need the perfect size bead [...]
…..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 [...]
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