Color of Sunset – day 41
I don’t know how else to describe it, gold and orange looks like the sky sometimes when the sun is about to set. I love mixing yarn covered wood beads with paper beads, it solves the dilemma of “I don’t have beads that will go with these.” Barrel shaped wood beads are wrapped with multicolored yarn in hues of orange and yellow to go with gold paper beads from hand made paper.
I especially made this bead to be long and wrapped silver threads around it and finished it with flecks of glitter. I made the bead Kayla designed the necklace. I thought it came out nice with the antiqued copper chains.
Don’t you just feel so proud wearing something that you made? Including the beads, all made by you! How cool is that?
Victorian Paper Beads-Idea #9
Paper to Paper Bead Idea # 8 is Hand Made Paper. I normally create the projects you see on my post, the night before when I consider my self most productive at 1 a.m in the morning when everything is quiet, even the cats are in their favorite sofa sleeping. Ideally, I should have 3 months worth “drafts” ready to post at any given time, unfortunately I do not have “reserve posts”. I do have 100 ideas running in my head, it is just a matter of executing them. So, here’s what I did last night; I experimented on making hand made paper by just tearing up pages from an old book, and pasting them into a mesh.
It was very messy and I was not sure of the result, so I was not able to take the step by step pictures. When I get more organized doing this I will do a tutorial. I used the bamboo roller for this project because the paper was thicker and the bamboo roller is great for thick paper.
I made some tube ones and wrapped silver thread around it.
I mixed the garnet red glitter with Vibrance and brushed it on the paper before cutting it, of course you have to let it dry first.
Here’s some bicone shaped ones, the way I wrapped the thread on them is up and down through the hole, it makes them look like lanterns, don’t you think? I love they way they look like Victorian beads, I was quite surprised of the outcome. I love the randomness of paper beads, “you never know what you’re going to get” 😉
Beads Out Of Hand Made Paper
My sister Joann who lives in the Philippines and does nothing all day but make paper beads (I am not kidding!), found these hand made paper at a local market. They are made out of layers of tissue paper and encased between these layers are leaves, rose petals and apparently you can just incorporate anything that you want to make your paper special. She is on a mission right now making her own paper and I would love to try it too one of these days. I would like to share with you the paper beads she made out of these hand made paper.
As you can see here up close, are leaves that are placed in between the layers
When you cut this out and make them into paper beads, it makes that bead more special.
The Philippines is also famous for abacca paper, which is from a plant, they make fabric and paper out of it, just like these paper it has texture and substance.
These beads are 2 inches wide and it looks really pretty as earrings.
You really don’t need anything else, it is pretty just as it is, don’t you think?
I am amazed at the variety of paper that is out there, just like fabric they all come in different colors and textures….
Another extraordinary day!
I will be drawing out a name for the Graduated Beads with the Turtle Charm on Friday 🙂
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