Copper And Turquoise – day 25
Turquoise color cross can be found at Michael’s Jewelry Aile, it will look nice with any of your turquoise color paper beads. You always hear me talking about my finds at Michael’s, I just find the inexpensive beads and findings they carry to be a great accessory with paper beads.
All you need is to learn basic stringing technique and you can make any necklace or bracelet with a beading wire, crimp beads and a clasp.
Read MoreXOXO Paper Beads Bracelet
Here is a very simple bracelet made out of olive shaped paper beads that will introduce you to basic beading technique such as: using a beading wire and crimp and attaching clasp. Kayla C. aptly named it XOXO bracelet, would be a great gift to a friend. Now, that I’m thinking about it, the fuscia colored olive shaped paper beads will be ideal for this project, breast cancer awareness month I think is in October and this is a neat gift idea.
Here is the video tutorial! Materials are: 14 strand stringing wire or medium, crimp bead, olive shaped paper beads, round beads and magnetic clasp.
We also did it in what Kayla called newspaper color, so organic looking as well.
If you make them in coordinating colors you can wear two or three at the same time.
What have you done with your paper beads today?
Read MoreBig and Beautiful Paper Beads
One of the new shapes that my sister Joann came up with is big round paper beads 14-16mm in size. One bead is a total of 9 magazine pages spread open and tightly rolled by hand. Even though it’s made out of paper the beads feels substantial and weighty. I wish I could show you all the different colors, they truly look like marbles with swirls of different colors.
Beautiful hues of orange….
Blues and white opals
Fiesta colors!
Here’s a basic beading how-to:
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