My Paper Beads – Hilde Debruyn

I have created a new category: My Paper Beads to feature paper beads that are made by paper bead enthusiasts from other parts of the world.  Hilde Debruyn who is from Belgium, combines her paper beads with unusual beads and finds to achieve that organic look.  She carefully describes each one of her creation, the kind of paper and beads she used:

This necklace I made with scrap booking paper pasted on small pieces of cardboard. In stead of scrap booking paper I made some similar necklaces with starched papers too.

Black and White

I started this necklace with a big silver bead (I kept this bead from a broken necklace). I completed it with little silver cube beads and paperbeads. I found the paper for this beads in my letterbox. They are made with promotional leaflets with a white background. On the other side I put a double string with ancient African tradebeads. They are made of glass. I bougth them in an African shop in Brussels.

Silver and African Beads

Here I made a very long necklace (4 times the usual length). It’s very colorful. I made it from magazine papers and I joined a lot of little yellow squares from an old necklace from my mother. I took the picture on a stone in the shape of a heart. The stone is carved. As you can see there are small roses on it.

A Heart Of Stone

This necklace is also made with magazine papers. I chose papers with an orange colour in it, so it could be combined with the silk textile bead. A friend of mine made it for me. I also used a big coral and some small orange-red beads.

With Orange Fabric Bead

This necklace is photographed on a small raffia tablecloth from Congo (a present from my aunt). It’s made of gift wrapping paper (craft paper with stripes) I used a red spherical and some olive wooden beads from Santorini (Greece).

Red and Green

The tubes are made of gift wrapping paper with little colorful figures on it (for a gift for children). I used small wooden beads, and also a very big wooden bead and a red bead (dry vegetable material).

TUBES

We still have room for the Paper Bead Trade, you can sign up by e mailing me your address (Email Me button is on the right hand side).

Thank you Hilde, for sharing your beautiful work.  We will be posting ideas and inspiration for the Paper Bead Trade in the next week or so.