Paper Beads

Big Round Paper Beads that reminds me of colorful marbles with swirls and beautiful patterns that is achieved by rolling several strips of magazines.

I had fun discovering how to encased small round paper beads in a mesh using craft wire.  I made them into smaller balls for earrings and larger balls for pendant.

Small round paper beads are also embedded in the balls holding its shape.

I love the different colors that artistic wire came up with, my favorite is [...]

I love long necklaces because you can wear them in many ways; double it up, as a bracelet or layer them with other necklace.   The Chained  Reaction Necklace is done by first stringing tiny paper beads into a hoop earring finding and then connected to each other.

The result is casual chic

I have been doing a lot of wire crochet lately, they are very simple to do and yet the effect…. well, you be the judge.  I did this in magenta colored wire with small and medium size paper beads.

The nice thing about crocheted wire, they can expand and you can crunched them up to make [...]

I can see a riot of beautiful flowers across the field of vibrant green grass……Heartfelt Necklace brings out the poet in me I just love the colors of the paper beads which are carefully hand selected to match the enameled heart pendant.

The heart pendant is one of our finds, it was hanging on [...]

I made a black lace cuff which I just sold on etsy, The Gold Lace Cuff is just another version of it, made from bright gold wire.  Small round paper beads are crocheted with 28 gauge craft wire.

Artistic Wire came up with different gorgeous colors like magenta, silver blue, brown, purple….

Lacy and very feminine!

We are experimenting of making large hole chunky beads, our version of the pandora style beads.  I was inspired by one of my readers, Julie if I am not mistaken:)  These are sample beads from Philippines, let me know what you think!

I love anything fuchsia don’t you ?

I used elastic and ribbon to string them [...]

The smaller version of the Saucer Shaped Beads are what I call button beads.  They are easily transformed into button with simple wire coils that is not only functional but decorative as well!

Here’s simple how-to:

The 22 gauge artistic wire comes in a rainbow of colors, I just love the magenta!

Wire crochet is not as intimidating as it sounds.  You can wire crochet beads by learning just one stitch – chain stitch and make beautiful jewelry with it.  Here’s one I did using extra small (5mm) round paper beads in beautiful red and white.  We also have them available as a kit and I have [...]

This is one of our “Bead Rehab” project where Kayla replaced the silk flower with our Saucer Shaped Bead. I like the “designer” look on this piece and the clean and sleek finish.

We just got the New Saucer Shapes and we are absolutely loving them!

Much as I love the painted beads, the true magazine colors [...]