Girl from Ipanema Paper Bead Earrings
Like the song, long and tan………. this dangly paper bead earrings will surely turn heads and you feel instant glam when you put it on. I love how paper beads can take ordinary to extraordinary pieces of jewelry. It is simple, chic and definitely makes a statement. This pair is very simple to make: Just take olive shape paper beads, softflex (any stringing material), seed beads, spacer shape crystal, crimp and earring finding. String the paper beads and seed beads to desired pattern and crimp, you’re done.
I’m sorry if I have not posted the instructions for the New Year’s Eve Earrings it will be on the next post. I will announced the winner for our very first giveaway and a “how-to” so you can make them yourself!
Read MoreChristmas Colored African Trade Beads
I love the vibrant “Christmassy” color of these African Trade Beads and how similar they are to the brightly colored olive shaped paper beads made out from magazines and catalogs. They come in 36 inch strand in large and small sizes. They are made of glass in an assortment of bright colors predominantly yellow, green and red. I took out one strand and mixed it with different shape of paper beads mostly the smaller paper beads and made bracelets and necklaces out of it.
Don’t you just love these colors?
The olive shaped paper goes very well with it.
I made one, with one stone as a focal bead with a magnetic clasp.
Three diamond shaped paper beads in the center, certainly adds interest to this bracelet, strung on elastic.
You can make several elastic bracelet like these:
Look, how pretty they are worn together.
I still have some beads left over for a necklace to match all these pretty bracelets.
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