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
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.
My Paper Beads – by Hilde and Deb
I am going to share with you what Hilde and Deb did with their trade beads. It is always fun how each one of us came up with ideas on how to use the paper beads.
bracelet by Deb
This guy is so cute!
bracelet by Deb
Hilde describes her work best:
“You can also see that I made a bracelet with silver ornaments. I used a square with holes and put some very smal beads on it with littlle silver disks above.”
Few days ago, I featured Ralistsa and was so impressed with her video tutorial how that was put together with music background. She referred to a site she used and I decided to put together something fun for us to remember what we did on the paper bead trade.
Are you ready to dance to the tune of One Fine Day?
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