"A blog dedicated to the art of making paper beads & paper bead jewelry...by Janice Mae"
Leafy Charm Bracelets
Time again to celebrate Thanksgiving, what are you thankful for this year? Everyday we are thankful for family, friends, health…….any particular thing be it big or small that happened this year? Last year I was specially thankful for my grand daughter’s arrival, she was born September and I became grandma for the first time! 2010, I have a few on my list to be thankful for, and one of them is YOU, paper bead enthusiasts who comes visit me here on my blog and encouraging me to be more creative. Kayla and I put together this bracelet which are going on my etsy shop, I am donating 100% of proceeds to buying little Christmas presents for the Filipino kids this year.
I want to thank you for visiting me if not everyday, often enough. We have two bracelets to give away, the colors of coral and jade with wood beads. Leave me a comment about what you are thankful for this year. I am daring you to share it with us 🙂
Jade paper beads with wood beads
I think I’m going to do another leaf bracelet…….maybe in copper this time.
I wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving!
Read MoreFriendship Necklaces
Sher and Deb finished their Friendship Necklace, I love how the necklaces looks similar, they are supposed to! Beautiful fall colors are the one thing in common and it has a little bit of everyone’s beads, how cool is that? It makes my day, when I see other people’s work, to see growing interests in paper beads and somehow to be connected with each other no matter where you are. Sanja, is always coming up with new ideas and I just love how she tries and incorporates different things into her paper bead jewelry.
Sanja's necklace with snowflake pendant
I’m happy to see that she used the elephant charm I sent her, she was one of those who sent a picture of her wearing her paper beads jewelry and this was the giveaway!
Deb, I think you have the perfect Thanks Giving outfit right here, I love all the colors!
Aloha, from Sher, I see the salwag beads that she loves so much, now I know why, it is neutral and yet a beautiful accent to paper beads.
For those of you who would like to share your paper beads jewelry, email me first on the Contact Us link and you will receive instructions from me on how to do it.
Read MoreVictorian Paper Beads-Idea #9
Paper to Paper Bead Idea # 8 is Hand Made Paper. I normally create the projects you see on my post, the night before when I consider my self most productive at 1 a.m in the morning when everything is quiet, even the cats are in their favorite sofa sleeping. Ideally, I should have 3 months worth “drafts” ready to post at any given time, unfortunately I do not have “reserve posts”. I do have 100 ideas running in my head, it is just a matter of executing them. So, here’s what I did last night; I experimented on making hand made paper by just tearing up pages from an old book, and pasting them into a mesh.
It was very messy and I was not sure of the result, so I was not able to take the step by step pictures. When I get more organized doing this I will do a tutorial. I used the bamboo roller for this project because the paper was thicker and the bamboo roller is great for thick paper.
I made some tube ones and wrapped silver thread around it.
I mixed the garnet red glitter with Vibrance and brushed it on the paper before cutting it, of course you have to let it dry first.
Here’s some bicone shaped ones, the way I wrapped the thread on them is up and down through the hole, it makes them look like lanterns, don’t you think? I love they way they look like Victorian beads, I was quite surprised of the outcome. I love the randomness of paper beads, “you never know what you’re going to get” 😉
Green Bicone Beads
This necklace is one of our first paper beads jewelry, when we discovered mixing them with crystals! The Emerald Green Tone of the paper beads called for emerald green crystals. Each beads is strung on head pin, and hangs like charms on a beaded strand.
The crystals made the whole piece more dressy but I wouldn’t hesistate to wear this with jeans and shirt.
This certainly brings on the Holiday Spirit. Today, is our annual Holiday Stroll in downtown Glendora putting everybody in that Holidy mood.
Knotted Golden Paper Beads
The golden yellow color of round paper beads accented with knots using chocolate brown silk cord gives these bracelets that earthy look to it. Knotted Olives bracelet is made up of several strands of silk cord and olive shaped paper beads. It is simple and a great way to show the pretty pattern of the paper beads. The small round paper beads with the Bumble Bee, also has knots in between, so simple and charms can easily be added on to it.
The petite olive shaped paper beads are great for bracelets and earrings.
You will find tutorials on our Tutorials Category on how to hand knot beads.
Paper beads have come a long way 🙂
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