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Color of Fall-Paper Bead Trade
A few bead traders have already signed up for our Color Of Fall Paper Bead Trade, and I will leave this post open until Friday to give a chance to those new visitors to our blog. I will continue to update this post each day with new fall jewelry ideas and paper beads with fall colors. How does it work? To make instructions easier to digest, here’s a little poem for you 🙂
Make Paper Beads of different size and shapes
with the color of fall
Twenty to Thirty should be plenty
You will then send it to me
To be stirred into a most colorful brew
A dash of orange, brown and yellow
It will look like a rainbow
It will then be sent back to you
In a pretty little bow
When you get your beads you can make it into a necklace or a bracelet, let your imagination take a flight! Here is an example of bracelets, wire wrapped with gold swarovski crystals. These Golden Paper Bead Bracelets is just right in time for the holidays.
The finished paper bead jewelry would be multi colored and different shapes as it will show case the different beads from all the participants. I always say this; paper beads jewelry can be elegant and I just treat paper beads as if it were real gems. Here is an example of paper beads mixed with montana blue swarovski crystals.
Silver bead caps were put in between to hold the paper beads on its side.
Paper beads can be fun, elegant, chic and definitely wearable!
You still have until September 26th to join in the Paper Bead Trade – Fall Theme. Just left me a comment here or email me.
Upcoming Post: Video how to on Saucer Shapes
Like Blue Caterpillar
The round blue paper beads that almost look like blue marbles are strung with opalescent 11/0 seed beads attached to a three loop finding. When I open it and lay it flat it reminds me of a blue caterpillar which I think can only be found on children books.
These chunky round beads are about 14 mm in size.
It is a very simple ladder stitch, as you can see the strand of white seed beads are woven through the blue beads.
For a simpler design, you could just string it on elastic with silver spacers in between.
My Paper Beads – by Cathy
We are always looking for tips, ideas on how to make cutting the triangle strips easier and most importantly uniform in shape. Cathy, would like to share with us how she cut her triangle paper with a rotary cutter – primary use is to cut fabric for quilting. Here is a step by step in Cathy’s own words:
Turn first paper over and mark the top and bottom with a little dot as to where to cut. Don’t need to draw the line.
If you were to mark them, it should look like this:
Start at the bottom with the rotary cutter with the ruler on dots. Keep all fingers and finger tips ON the ruler to they don’t get cut off! Stand while cutting so weight is on top of ruler and it doesn’t slide. Keep left pinky finger on side of ruler to keep it in place. apply some pressure to cut through several layers. With a new blade you could probably cut through more than 4 layers at a time but I just did 4 layers.
Keep a steady pressure to cut straight up. You may need to move your left hand up while cutting to the top so it doesn’t slide.
Take rotary cutter all the way through the paper at the top.
Just shows I cut 4 layers at a time. After wards I sort the paper into the 4 different colors.
Cathy finds it easier to cut with the rotary cutter compared to an exacto knife. After you’ve made the beads, make something pretty with it 🙂
Paper Bead Trade w/ Fall Theme is open to anyone who loves to make paper beads whether you are a newbie or an expert we would love to have you! You can sign up by leaving a comment here or email me.
Bicone Paper Beads
When two cones are joined together it forms a bicone shape bead. This is a very common shape in crystals specially swarovskis. These bicone shaped paper beads are two inches long, looking exactly like two cones joined together. This will be a part of our jewel tone collection, just in time for the Holidays!
Amethyst and Gold
Jade and Gold
Tanzanite and silver
Peridots
White topaz and silver
A peek at other upcoming jewel tones!
We are having another Paper Bead Trade – The Color Of Fall you can sign up by emailing me your address on the Contact Us link. I think there is about 10 people already signed up, I have not set a limit yet, maybe 25 ? I’m not sure how you would like to do it this time, do you propose to send your beads to me like before? Are we making bracelets or necklaces? I think it would be nice to make one thing, something we can wear for Thanks Giving.
Paper Bead Swap Theme – Color Of Fall
What do you think of Another Paper Bead Trade? I have been getting emails requesting for another paper bead swap. Meagan suggested a “Winter” theme read more of her comment here, I like that idea. Our First Paper Bead Swap was quite successful thanks to all of you who participated, I couldn’t have asked for a better group 🙂 While we’re at it, why not plan for two paper bead trade? One with a fall theme and one with a winter theme? Well, I will let you decide. So now, table is open for suggestions! And to get us all inspired here’s a few Fall images:
Fall colors is of course open to interpretation, for us here living in California, these are some of fall images that I see around me:
When I hear the word Fall, oranges and browns come to mind.
Yellow, greens and reds as well…
Kayla and I just like with the changing of the season, looks forward to creating jewelry that are rich in colors and what girl wouldn’t love to bring a little bling to chase the gloomy days away? Thus, came the Ideal Autumn Ring.
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