My Paper Beads – by Elim
Elim, just like the rest of us got hooked on making paper beads, and she makes some real nice ones. She also blogs about her other interests like polymer clay and fun jewelry, you can see some of her stuff including a watch with a band made out of paper beads, here.
She certainly has an eye for color! I recognize some beads from the bead swap 🙂
Love the burst of color on this necklace.
These earrings are so Betsy Johnson (ish)! Don’t you think?
And the more earthy colors that just goes with anything.
I hope we have inspired you to make jewelry with your paper beads. Elim, thanks for sharing.
Friendship Coiled Bracelet – day 82
Beads big and small from places near and far have all been sorted out packed and shipped today! It was a little bit of a challenge, we had to equally divide up the beads and made sure that everyone gets a little bit of everything. Kayla, I think did a good job 🙂
In your kit, you will get paper beads from all the participants, some painted beads from Kayla and me, some random filler beads, elastic and some memory wire. Here’s an example of what Kayla made with just two-loop memory wire.
So now, you have the task of putting it together and making it your own. I hope you will like it and have fun with it as much as we did!
A Gallery Of Painted Beads
Here it is! Paper beads all painted in beautiful colors from near and far away places. Ladies and gentlemen (drum roll), I would like to present to you painted paper beads cut from all types of paper, boxes, envelopes, postcards……and painted in vibrant colors! There are twelve participants for this swap, some of you made several using different mediums.
Manou’s beads are painted to look like “Matriochkas” or Russian Dolls. These pictures doesn’t really do justice they are more exquisite in person. The details on the tiny faces are just amazing!
Manou's Painted Beads
She also made little mushrooms to go with the whimsical theme.
Manou's beads
More Matriochkas
Manou's Beads
Little cat faces.
Manou's beads
Blue and white polka dots.
Manou's beads
Manou's beads
Manou's beads
I think Manou has mastered the bicone shaped beads. Love the lime green.
Manou's Beads
In this group, she has a couple of small saucer shaped beads that can be used as button closure.
Claire’s beads are vibrant red, she said she made them from paper with different prints on them that are still visible after painting them making each one different. You can see more of her paper beads at her blog, Papel Hilo.
Claire's Beads
From Lizbeth, olive shapes in what look like painted with water colors.
Lizbeth's Beads
Elim’s beads are perfect bicone shapes, you can see a watch she made with pink paper beads and crystals at her website ngirlscrafts.
Elim's Beads
Jane made tube beads in different sizes which shimmers in what looks like frosted nail polish paint.
Jane's Beads
Linda’s beads are painted a nice lavender color. Linda has an etsy shop More To Adore and she has some beautiful paper beads jewelry, please check her out.
Linda's Beads
Denise of JewelryByDenise, has a nice collection in her etsy shop including paper beads jewelry. She also perfected the olive shaped paper beads, she painted them in pretty coral red.
Denise's Beads
Deb, painted her beads in pretty pastels.
Deb's Beads
Gisela, experimented on different kinds of medium. It is such a treat to see all the different designs she did on these beads.
The barrel shaped bead were painted with random colors, after painting them with a solid blue background, using small brush.
Gisela's Beads
Cone shaped beads that looks like cocoons, were sponged with multiple colors.
Gisela's Beads
I really love how these turned out, she also did this with multiple colors using small sponge.
Gisela's beads
The cobalt blue and green combination is also very pretty, Gisela painted the paper first before rolling them into beads.
Gisela's Beads
These beads are so pretty with gold and brown combined. Gisela painted and then stamped the paper, you can see the leaf designs that she stamped on the paper.
Gisela's Beads
Gisela came up with creative ideas on how to paint the beads, for these olive green(ish) barrel beads, she put the beads in a jar with small amounts of different color paints! How creative is that?
Gisela's Beads
Belinda of cassiscraft came up with long skinny red beads that are perfect tube shapes. They would just be great mixed with crystals or glass beads. Belinda’s website is a hodgepodge of different crafts, so much inspiration….
Belinda's Beads
Donna’s beads reminded her of a “Starry Night” in Southern Georgia. They do twinkle like stars, in what I would call midnight blue and deep purple.
Donna's Beads
Last but not least, are Kathy’s beads. I love the chunky beads that are made out of boxes or heavier paper material and painted in metallic colors.
Kathy's Beads
It is so inspiring to see the different creative work that you all did. I have learned so much from this swap and I hope you did too. Kayla is in charged of putting them together as a kit, we will include some of our paper beads as filler beads. Until the next swap…….thank you!
Capped Beads – day 65
Painted Paper Beads in lime green and turquoise blue look pretty topped with bead caps. Using bead caps is a nice touch to embellish beads.
They are colorful, they are light and above all, they’re green!!!
More on painted beads and Painted Paper Beads Swap! I have all your beads!
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