A heart does not have to be red all the time, right? I love the predominantly purple(ish) color of this glass heart pendant. To make it even more special, I added painted bicone shaped paper beads to match to complement the colors.
What do you do when you have a focal bead and you don’t have [...]
Frozen Charlotte’s are German vintage dolls that were dug up from a burned down German doll factory in late 1800’s. You see them being sold at etsy, just type frozen charlottes and there’s quite a few of them that sells these. If you noticed, the dolls have missing arms and legs and truly depicts the [...]
Wikipedia, the web based encyclopedia defines wearable art as; individually designed pieces usually hand made clothing or jewelry created as fine or expressive art. The term wearable art implies that the work is intended to be accepted as a serious unique artistic creation or statement. Wearing paper bead jewelry is certainly making a statement: Beautiful [...]
I buy and collect things simply because they appeal to me and I am pretty much sure that someday I will make something pretty with it. I am definitely showing the signs of a pack rat, but if it means holding onto pretty things which I don’t have the heart to part with, then I [...]
The ring blank that I used for this ring is different than the single loop or the three loop findings I used for the Sea Anemone Ring. This ring finding has 7 loops and what I did is put two paper bead dangles on each loop. I used the small round paper beads and the [...]
What happens when you take the paper bead clusters and connect it to a ring finding? A fun, beautiful, conversation piece cocktail ring! Kayla made about 7 of the paper bead balls using the really small paper beads and some seed beads and wire wrapped them into the ring finding.
These are about 7 individual paper [...]
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 [...]
I love leafing through catalogs that I get from the mail, getting ideas (why go to Milan?), and turning them into paper beads after. I love the Jjill clothing line, they are comfy and perfect for just lounging at home. This necklace and earrings set, caught my eye, and here’s our version of it in [...]
These funky looking, saucer shaped, button like paper beads came from my sister Joann and will be including some in your kits. Yay! will be mailing the Paper Bead Trade kits on the 15th. She tightly rolled strips of magazine paper in different size and thickness.
There’s some really big ones.
Kayla, incorporated it [...]
Don’t you just love paper chains? You remember making them as a kid and the satisfaction you get when you see them getting longer and longer? We have been making a lot of elastic bracelets and we just have a pile of them. I was playing with them one day, and discovered that they make [...]
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