"A blog dedicated to the art of making paper beads & paper bead jewelry...by Janice Mae"
Tutti Frutti Necklace
Don’t ask me how I made the pendant, I was just fooling around with paper beads and wire trying to make a bracelet using the small round paper beads with craft wire, experimenting with shapes and instead came up with this – a pendant! Fancy that, from bracelet to a pendant.
If you are missing summer already I think this will keep the blues away:)
I think you can wear this all year round.
Try to see potential in everything even mistakes can turn into something extraordinary!
Paper Bead Bee Earrings
I have thought of so many things to call this pair of buzzers:) The Buzz, Bee Spectacular, Bees On My Ears, I hear a buzzing sound….the minute Kayla and I saw these bee beads we couldn’t wait to fashion wings and antenna for it. The technique? Free form wire wrap! Meaning, no pattern just do spirals and coils and let imagination take over.
The bead itself is made out of scrap book paper, I guess the other thing you can do is just make it from one strip of plain paper and paint it yellow and black.
I used 24 gauge craft wire for the wings and antennae
This is one bee I don’t mind buzzing on my ears 🙂
Important Announcement: Cathy, you won the Graduated Turtle Bracelet giveaway. If you are reading this, please email me your address so I can send it to you. Should we have another paper bead swap? Any ideas?
Blue Tiara
As you well know, one of my favorite things to make are paper bead tiaras. You are a princess or a queen in your own right after all! They can be worn for fun, a birthday party, as a present to someone celebrating a milestone of some sort, so many occasions for you to wear a tiara. I made a blue tiara out of ocean blue paper beads that can be both worn by a lady and a baby 🙂
Lana, will be one year old next week, I’m planning to make her one just for her.
Kayla is totally loving it, with earrings to match!
Another extraordinary day!
Read MoreGot Paper?
I buy and collect things simply because they appeal to me and I am pretty much sure that someday I will make something pretty with it. I am definitely showing the signs of a pack rat, but if it means holding onto pretty things which I don’t have the heart to part with, then I am guilty as charged! This pendant which I got from either Michael’s or Joan’s reminds me of my Indian friend and the sacred room where they kept religious objects. Isn’t that one of the reason why you are attracted to something? It reminds you of another place, another time?
One reason why it just sits in your drawer is that it is hard to find something to go with it. One day, I was at the scrap booking store next door and I found a perfect match for my goddess pendant!
Here’s what I did: cut it up in triangle strips that measured 1 inch at the base. Rolled it up with the paper bead roller, glued it together with white glue and finished it off with Vibrance.
I mixed it with round red paper beads, it’s a very simple design wire wrapped together using brass colored craft wire.
It looks nice worn by itself, simple and chic. Who would think those are paper beads? The eyes will just be drawn to the mysterious allure of the pendant. If I remember correctly I paid $5.95 or something, I know it was not expensive.
Now, if you want to layer it with your other jewelry, it becomes even more fascinating. Don’t you think? This Layered Necklace certainly fits the description Casual Chic 🙂
Effortless elegance!
A Paper Bead Wreath
When I saw the white paper rope, I thought it would be a nice canvass for the colorful paper beads of different shapes and size. I love working with wire, twisting and wrapping, just letting your imagination go wild. I did not have a pattern for this necklace or wreath, I made this with left over paper beads. I treated the paper rope with Vibrance and it made it more durable and stiff.
I used round small paper beads, olive shape and tiny paper beads – I strung them on a 28 gauge craft wire and just twisted them to form leaves, buds and flowers.
They look pretty as a necklace or even as a crown I would imagine.
You can use a heavier gauge wire like 20 gauge instead of the paper rope.
What a nice way to display those vibrant colorful beads!
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