Painted Saucer Bead- day 44
To paint of not to paint……….Here is another version of the saucer shaped bead painted with Philippine Scene; sunsets and coconut trees! What more could you ask for?
A coiled 20 gauge wire is not only functional but a pretty addition to the pendant.
White olive shaped paper beads is the perfect back drop.
The Color Of Tidal Wave -day37
The ocean deep blue color of the nail polish used to paint these beads is called tidal wave, looks like the color of “angry” waves. I used nail polish a lot in painting my beads because of the richness in colors aside from the fact that I love the names. Red, is not just red, it can be mustang red or strawberry red 🙂
I think it is a good idea to paint our beads in just one color for the bead swap this way, you can make something that is similar to this.
We thought it is the perfect accompaniment to the spotted glass beads we found at the Pasadena Show. I just love this bead, it has flecks of gold, blue and pink just unusual.
And now, the winner for the blue drops giveaway! I used number picker and it picked out number 3 among 9 participants and that happens to be Manou! All the way from France 🙂
Please contact me for your address thank you for playing.
Read MoreMixed Media Bracelet – day 33
Mixed media beads in natural fibers and wood are great accompaniment with paper beads. The bicone shaped paper beads are hand painted in swirls of orange, green, red and yellow. You can use toothpick or really fine tipped brush is used to paint the stripes on the beads. It came out tropical don’t you think?
I wrapped the wood bead with crocheted chains of DMC cotton thread, and also crocheted together little rounds to go in between as spacers. If you don’t crochet don’t despair, just wrapped cord around a wood bead and use other disc or spacers instead.
The big beads are made by stacking up several pages of triangle strips, I will do a tutorial about this as soon as I get my stuff organized after the show.
Snow Painted Beads-day 12
If you’re like me you get your inspiration from your surroundings, what you see in magazines or even television and the internet of course has tons of ideas. Today’s project was inspired by snow capped mountains that greet me each morning as I make my coffee. I love snow as long as you only see it from a distance like this photo. I edited it to pick out what color should the back ground be and here is what it look like:
I painted an already made round paper beads with cobalt blue and as best as I could drew like a scalloped or wave design in white paint to make it look like snow. I know, I did poorly on this one, I wanted to show you anyway so you get the idea of WHAT NOT TO DO! 🙂
I then strung it on elastic with small round chevron beads or glass beads and made matching earrings.
I love the serene view of snow capped mountains and appreciates the fact that I don’t have to experience blizzards and freezing temperatures.
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