"A blog dedicated to the art of making paper beads & paper bead jewelry...by Janice Mae"
Paper Bead Cocktail Ring
What happens when you take the paper bead clusters and connect it to a ring finding? A fun, beautiful, conversation piece cocktail ring! Kayla made about 7 of the paper bead balls using the really small paper beads and some seed beads and wire wrapped them into the ring finding.
These are about 7 individual paper bead balls that are wire wrapped to the loop of the ring finding
You don’t have to use the really small paper beads, you can try and use olive shaped paper beads and I’m sure it will look pretty too.
Now, we have a set with the Paper Bead Clusters Necklace and Earrings.
Sending out hand selected paper beads to Ashley, Emily, Christine, Liz, Elim, Deina, Deb and Hilde
Upcoming posts: work of Deb and Hilde
Paper Bead Clusters
I think the word cluster is a more appropriate name for these paper bead balls, because it is a cluster of tiny paper beads and seed beads all bunched up together to form kind of a ball. We are coming up with a ring to go with it, we’ll see how that will turn up, in the meantime here’s the Paper Bead Clusters Necklace and Earrings:
This will look pretty all year round
If you wind it on your wrist three times it will look like this or you can make a bracelet as well
Another day of turning ordinary to extraordinary!
Paper Bead Balls
These little charm balls are so simple, to dangle as charms or as a connector. The materials that you need: head pins or eye pins, 6/0 seed beads, 4mm crystals and 5mm round paper beads. Tools: flush cutter and round nose pliers.
Here’s Kayla, showing us how:
This will look pretty to dangle on a chain or interconnecting each other as a necklace or bracelet.
I would certainly like to try using the olive shaped paper beads mix with round beads, I think that would look pretty also.
Upcoming Posts: Necklace and Earrings using the Paper Bead Balls.
Colored Chains and Paper Beads
….combine the two together and you will have a fun and lightweight piece of jewelry that can go with any outfit. These colored aluminum chains are just perfect for paper beads, and it comes in a variety of colors. I start putting up on my etsy, accessories be it findings or finished jewelry that will go well with paper beads. I am listing them but I want you to take a peek here first.
Torquise Green
It will go well with ocean blue paper beads
I love this shade of yellow
Mustard/Teal
Yellow(ish) paper beads or contrasting color will be a good match.
One of my favorite is the black and white which will also be a good match with zentagle paper beads.
black and white
Olive shape paper beads in white and a smattering of black
We are coming up with designs on how to use these, I hope you will like them.
Red and Black
I love how the colors look like graffitti spray printed on the chains
You will find more colors on my etsy.
Gift Wrap Paper Beads
What do you do with last year’s gift wrapping paper? You can use them again this year and you will have same looking presents from last year, or…..turn them into paper beads! This is what my sister Joann did, I mainly depend on her on making the paper beads and I make them into finished jewelry – division of labor at work 🙂
What else can you do with them? I think they will make nice garlands to trim your Christmas Trees!
The nice thing about the gift wrapping paper, you can cut long triangle strips and when you roll them, they make a more round shape or oblong shaped paper beads.
Christmas tree garland can be expensive and they are heavy, the tree branches cannot hold them up sometimes, I think this would just be perfect for it!
Another day of turning the ordinary to extraordinary!
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