"A blog dedicated to the art of making paper beads & paper bead jewelry...by Janice Mae"
A Paisley Kind Of Paper Beads
If you want to make your paper beads to be uniform in colors the best paper to use is scrap booking paper. If you have seen the scrap booking isle in your local craft store you will know that there are hundreds of different lovely patterns to choose from. Part of the fun is not knowing how it would turn out when rolled into paper beads. Kayla, picked out this paper with paisely design on it.
You cut them into 1/2 inch by 12 inches triangle strips.
Looking at those beautiful combination black, red and gold we thought that citrine chips, garnet stones and copper findings would look pretty with it.
We’ll see…….
Read MoreIn The Midst Of Mother Of Pearls
Dyed mother of pearl rings is the perfect back drop for the pumpkin and spice paper beads. These dyed mop rings come in a variety of colors but it can be a bit of a challenge to design something with it. It has this hole in the middle and you need the perfect size bead to go with it. The nice thing about paper beads is that you choose the color and cut it down to a size that would fit into the middle of this ring.
Kayla made bracelet with copper beads in between to match.
Of course you can choose to put a glass bead or even a crystal with the mother of pearl ring, but then, anybody can do that. The paper beads transforms it from ordinary to extraordinary, don’t you think?
Sanja’s Friendship Nekclace
I’m happy to share with you Sanja’s Friendship Necklace. It is nice to see the different beads from the Fall Colors Bead Trade showcased in a long necklace. Some of you may recognize the beads that Sanja used, we tried to evenly distribute the participants beads to everyone.
Long necklaces are fun specially to go over sweaters and turtle necks, also pretty doubled up into a two strand or a bracelet!
I hope everyone had fun playing with their beads because we sure did!
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Pumpkin and Spice
…..and everything nice. It is fun finding interesting patterns in a scrapbook paper and you wonder how would this look like rolled into paper beads? Smaller prints would show up best in the finished bead like this scrap booking paper with a lattice design. For those of you who already mastered cutting the paper in triangles, you can skip the 2nd image.
The paper itself is 12 x12, the triangles are 1/2 inch at the base and 12 inches long. You can make the base 3/4 of an inch or one inch, depending on the size of the bead you want.
Kayla used the metal roller in rolling the beads and it came out really nice.
And the fun part? Putting them together. I think it will look really nice with these dyed mother of pearl rings. They are very inexpensive even if they are from mother of pearl and they are available in your local craft stores or bead stores.
We’ll see how they will turn out as necklace.
The Color of Copper
I hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving! I was spared from cooking, we went to my in-laws who just came from a trip to Egypt! I am jealous, I wanted to go just to see and feel the papyrus paper. I would have loved just the plain paper with no prints on them and make paper beads with them. Anyway, this would be a whole new phase of my life, traveling. I am hoping to do that next year, God willing. Thank you so much for all the nice comments, all eight of them! Today, I am going to draw two names to win the two bracelets giveaway. But before that, here is the Enameled Copper Leaves bracelet I made;
The beads are connected using the rosary loops, this style has lots of possibilities, you can add more charm to it, make it a double strand adding copper chain to it…….
And now for the drawing, using Math Goodies Random Number Generator:
Coral Color Beads goes to # 3! Congratulations to January, I don’t think I have your info yet so please email me your address so we can send it to you.
Jade Color Beads goes to #4! Congratulations to Belinda, please email me your address also.
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