"A blog dedicated to the art of making paper beads & paper bead jewelry...by Janice Mae"
Red, White And Blue day 276
Show your Patriotic Side with this convertible bracelet/necklace.
Three bracelets with magnetic clasps that can be worn as bangles or as long necklace.
I don’t mind wearing these all year long!
Fern And Greens Bangle – day 275
Creativity sparks when you see something that inspires you and motivates you to make something, create something, feed that passion and for some of us who feels this way, you know what I mean and we are lucky. Dee Ann of A Passion For Paper has found her niche in paper bead making and is making beautiful paper beads. I have a few of her pieces and I am hard at work making them into eco chic pieces. Here’s my proof:)
These beads are prettier in person, made with a lot of TLC.
Definitely a conversation piece something that is unique.
I love the feel of this bracelet, it feels ethereal on my wrist, like the dragonfly is ready for flight. Watch for more designer pieces at our new website: JaniceMae.
Mounted Paper Beads
We have another tutorial today by Dee of A Passion For Paper on how to mount thin paper into card stock. The result, is thicker and chunkier paper beads. This is great too for tissue paper and napkin paper mounted on colored or just plain white card stock. For Dee’s tutorial
I have a collection of Dee’s beads and I will post finished jewelry pieces after I put them together. Below, is an example of the two identical calendar page mounted on different backing. The result is quite different and both came out pretty. I couldn’t make up my mind myself, so I got both 🙂
A Passion For Paper
We have a guest today, Ms. Dee Ann, like me she has been bitten by the “paper bead bug” and couldn’t stop making paper beads. Not just any paper beads, she makes really beautiful, glass like, vibrant, meaningful paper beads. Dee gets her inspiration from flowers, nature and story books. I have some of her beads just couldn’t resist them, not that I need anymore but her beads has something to it, you can tell it is made with love and care, see for yourself. Her shop is filled with colorful and beautiful paper beads – http://www.etsy.com/shop/deeann7
Dee has fool proof way of glazing her beads using the Vibrance, and she is sharing it with you here:
Dee takes photos of plants and nature and turning them into beautiful paper beads. She has a library of prints with varying subjects mostly nature and flowers. This is one example of Dee’s creation, The Scrabble Charm Bracelet, hop on to her etsy site and see how she made this one.
More tutorial from Dee coming up.
Titanic Bead Necklace – day 274
The beads in this necklace are made from a pull out sheet of National Geographic commemorating the sinking of the Titanic. As you can see the colors are that of the deep blue ocean, beautiful and scary at the same time. I mixed amazonite and turquoise beads to accent the deep blue of the paper beads. But first, here’s a basic beading how-to:
A simple reminder………
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