"A blog dedicated to the art of making paper beads & paper bead jewelry...by Janice Mae"
Paper Bead Mosaic Waste Basket
This is a nice project for those of you who are not into jewelry making and wondering what to do with all the paper bead tubes you have made. I took an empty cat litter plastic container and applied the paper beads of varying sizes using a glue gun – what I call paper bead mosaic! I could have used the plastic container like this but it is not pretty.
I have a lot of paper beads that are “rejects” in the sense that they are not uniform in size.
I did this over two days sitting in front of the tv watching home shopping channel – a good source for inspiration!
I filled the little gaps with little paper beads.
Each side looks different when you apply another color, I have one side redish/pinkish and the other side mostly yellow.
And here is the finished waste basket, the 8 gallon kitchen bags fits perfectly!
It inspired me to tackle my garden, my herbs needs trimming really bad!
And the roses needed some pruning too.
It ‘s a beautiful day, sun is out, birds are singing….
Why settle for ordinary when you can make it into extraordinary. Now, I just have a perfect spot for it in my home.
Golden Paper Bead Earrings and Bracelet
We made these to match the golden necklace in our earlier post. The earrings are so light and feels like you are not wearing anything. I just love, love these! I knew I had to make it a set but did not quite know how to put the earrings together. After trying findings and beads to go with it, we settled on the bead caps, I’d say the earrings came out pretty don’t you think?
Another day of taking the ordinary to extraordinary.
Made With Love From Croatia
Every now and then I get emails from all over the world sharing with me their love for paper beads. This is truly a hobby befitting ages from 9-99 🙂 Today, I would like to introduce to you Sanja Blagus, she is from Croatia and just discovered paper beads!
A little bit about Sanja; she is 21 years old and she lives in East Croatia in a suburb called Sumarina, a very quiet place according to her, with beautiful skies and sunset.
Having lived in California almost all of my life, I am amazed at the contrast of summer and winter in cold places. Sanja, sent me a before and after photos of where she live.
One of her hobbies is photography and taking pictures of nature.
Now that she has been properly introduced………Here’s some of Sanja’s Paper Bead Creations.
She learned to make the paper bead flowers from one of our tutorials!
The black and white paper beads she made them from paper that she painted black and the white bead she doodled on the pages before rolling them into paper beads – what a neat idea! I thought of doing zentangles on paper and then roll them into paper beads, kind of the same concept.
For the shell pendant, she used the hot glue gun to make the shell half open like that and glued the glass pearl in the middle.
She takes pictures like I do, in my backyard around flowers and plants.
If you like to share your paper beads here, whether they are just paper beads or made into jewelry, all you need to do is email them to me. You can do that by just hitting the email me button on the right and send me your images that is at least bigger than 500 px.
Another day of taking the ordinary to extraordinary. Have a nice week end everyone!
Read MoreThe Look Of Leather Paper Beads Necklace
Pleather gives you the look of leather without the stiffness that is sometimes common with leather. Pleather I guess is a word coined from leather and plastic, it feels supple and light, just perfect for paper beads. Kayla put together this necklace by spacing them out with knots and finished it off with the cord end findings. She used the regular paper bead tubes, gold color spacers and India glass beads.
The ends of the cords are encased in a fold-over finding.
This is a very simple, easy design. If pleather is not available, try it with just a cord or ribbon.
Eight Strand-Paper Bead Bracelet
This is another example of turning a piece of jewelry from ordinary to extraordinary with paper beads! Kayla found this wood bracelet at our favorite shopping place – the 99 cents store, you can wear it as it is I guess but then it looks so ordinary, you take out the wood beads and replace it with paper beads and BOOM! you have a nice piece of jewelry. We substituted the wood beads (set aside for another project) with olive shaped paper beads and just used elastic to string them.
Here’s videos on how we did it:
Part 2
Here it is on the wrist
Can also be worn this way.
Another day of taking ordinary to extraordinary! Thank you for visiting.
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