"A blog dedicated to the art of making paper beads & paper bead jewelry...by Janice Mae"
Home-Dec With Paper Beads
We have this boring looking lamp that I got from Ross that is very inexpensive. We thought to add interest a little drama to a section in your home is decorate it with paper beads. It is more of a night lamp, not meant for reading, so use a very low watt bulb. We just used the olive shaped paper beads for this project.
From ordinary to extraordinary!
Trouble-free Tubes
These paper bead tubes are super easy, layered up is the best way to wear them. You can string several on elastic or beading wire. When you string them on elastic you can just slip them over your head or wind several times on your wrist as a bracelet.
Easy, breezy !
You can mix them with glass beads and firepolished crystals.
Somedays…wear them all as a bracelet, I’m sure they work well as head bands too.
If you do not want them on elastics, you can string them on a beading wire with magnetic closure. Wear several for a dramatic effect, kind of like Zulu Princess style 🙂
Simple is beautiful after all!
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Beaded Flowers by Linda
I am sharing with you today the work of Linda Barnett. Aside from her new hobby of making paper beads, she makes these beautiful beaded flowers, a craft that she learned from her grandmother. Linda lives in the U.K. but was kind enough to send me her beautiful flowers, it is not too late for us to be wearing these. The flowers had stems, but Kayla and I thought that it is better displayed on strands of olive shaped paper beads.
The olive shaped paper beads were just strung on a beading wire and the flowers were just wire wrapped into the strands.
How about a head band made out of paper beads and these flowers on top?
I love this soft pink paper beads, it went so well with Linda’s flowers
Another day of turning ordinary into extraordinary!
Jingle, Jangle
If you have the patience to make really small paper beads, then this project is for you 🙂 Each of the tiny paper beads, about 4-5mm in size is put through a jump ring then connected to the chain to make these beautiful set that jingles and jangles when you wear them.
I tried it on, and the bead feels so nice to the touch you cannot help but play with them.
Did you know that these beads are also water resistant?
Another day from ordinary to extraordinary!
My Paper Beads – by Hilde and Deb
I am going to share with you what Hilde and Deb did with their trade beads. It is always fun how each one of us came up with ideas on how to use the paper beads.
bracelet by Deb
This guy is so cute!
bracelet by Deb
Hilde describes her work best:
“You can also see that I made a bracelet with silver ornaments. I used a square with holes and put some very smal beads on it with littlle silver disks above.”
Few days ago, I featured Ralistsa and was so impressed with her video tutorial how that was put together with music background. She referred to a site she used and I decided to put together something fun for us to remember what we did on the paper bead trade.
Are you ready to dance to the tune of One Fine Day?
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