Paper Beads

I found that the best way to make a torsade necklace is with 28 gauge craft wire.  The hard part would be deciding on the color and pattern but this could be fun as well.  This is the second torsade necklace I made with the olive shaped paper beads so far, I would love to [...]

This is our own version of A Circle Pendant, which uses fire polished crystals and glass beads.  Instead, of making it into a pendant, we added a band and made it into a ring.  The pattern is for a pendant and it would look pretty also with paper beads.  The materials [...]

There’s so much inspiration around us that can be interpreted in a jewelry design.  Something, someone can spark your interest and gets you motivated.  My home is full of stuff collected over the years; books, magazines, fabric, yarn, boxes…..anything that I think I can use someday.  Once in a while I try to organize and [...]

I was cleaning out my desk and found an old Starbuck’s gift card with the word Winter on it.  What came to my mind was the Olympics!  It inspired me to make something out of it.  I cut it up, it was not that hard since the images were already framed, and wire wrapped blue [...]

I was invited to a friend’s birthday and we had so much fun making the paper bead jewelry to match our outfit.  Using paper beads in jewelry makes the finished piece more interesting, unique and different.  I’m on sort of a mission to prove a point-paper beads jewelry can be elegant and fashionable.  I made [...]

We are always looking for ways on how to interpret different beading techniques using paper beads.  Kayla C, came up with this beautiful bracelet, inspired by a pendant using crystals, and you can find the pattern here. 
She added a crystal rivoli in the center part of the pendant and finished it with glass pearls [...]

I finally figured out how to wire wrapped a pearl pendant in the shape of a cross.  It was quite a bit of a challenge because the holes ran diagonally instead of top to bottom.  I took apart a necklace I purchased earlier at a thrift shop that had these bead caps made our of [...]

We had fun today, taking photos of our paper beads for our upcoming catalog and I would like to share this with you.  We have been wanting to come up with paper bead dress and Kayla came up with the idea, it will look like this.

 
You would need lots of paper beads
 

 
With a necklace
 

It will [...]

I got hooked on making hemp jewelry with paper beads.  I love how the look of it makes you think of nature and it is such an effortless way of looking “cool”, something that is unique to you.  Hemp is such an inexpensive material and can be bought in spools in an array of different [...]

Paper beads can be made not just from news paper, magazines and catalogs but also wrappings and bags from things we use at home like cat litter bags.  There might me some hesitation for some of you to try to cut your own paper beads thinking that you would have to measure everything  to be [...]