Drop Dead Gorgeous – day 77
These drop shape earrings can make you feel gorgeous in an instant! It is in a tear drop shape that frames the face and you can’t helped but noticed the colorful paper beads hanging from it. It will take you 15 minutes or less to make a pair, Kayla is going to show how, using the magical crimper.
You can watch Kayla demonstrate on how to use this very cool tool here.
What a nice way to display those paper beads!
We also made them using petite daisy spacers.
Once you make one, you cannot seem to stop! Ideas just fly out of your head with different ways you can make these earrings.
So go ahead, make one or two or three! Sell them, give them away as gifts or one everyday to wear 🙂
Paper Bead Balls
These little charm balls are so simple, to dangle as charms or as a connector. The materials that you need: head pins or eye pins, 6/0 seed beads, 4mm crystals and 5mm round paper beads. Tools: flush cutter and round nose pliers.
Here’s Kayla, showing us how:
This will look pretty to dangle on a chain or interconnecting each other as a necklace or bracelet.
I would certainly like to try using the olive shaped paper beads mix with round beads, I think that would look pretty also.
Upcoming Posts: Necklace and Earrings using the Paper Bead Balls.
Stacking Paper Cones Necklace
I got a shipment of paper beads from my sister Joann and it is always exciting and I always await with great anticipation, because I know that the paper beads will look different from the last time. Each bead is hand rolled by Philippine women, so no two are alike. I love the cone shaped paper beads, because they are rolled in such a way that words and phrases are visible on the base of the cones. This is how the Stacking Paper Cones Necklace, came about..
They look so pretty stacked up like this:
I had fun reading words and phrases
I made a necklace using orange lucite flower as pendant and here’s a video how-to:
Part Two- I would love to hear from you if you have any questions, just hit that email me button on your right…
Summery, flowery, airy, light, conversation piece………..certainly describes this necklace.
From ordinary, to extraordinary!
XOXO 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?
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