Paper Bead Cocktail Ring
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 bead balls that are wire wrapped to the loop of the ring finding
You don’t have to use the really small paper beads, you can try and use olive shaped paper beads and I’m sure it will look pretty too.
Now, we have a set with the Paper Bead Clusters Necklace and Earrings.
Sending out hand selected paper beads to Ashley, Emily, Christine, Liz, Elim, Deina, Deb and Hilde
Upcoming posts: work of Deb and Hilde
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.
Our Green Version of It
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 small round paper beads!
Long Cocoa Bead Necklace by Jjill
Several stands for small round paper beads went into making this necklace
This is the matching Jjill earrings
Chandelier Bead Earrings by Jjill
Wearable? Definitely!
The earrings are very simple and easy to do (it really is!), the paper beads are strung into a 24 gauge wire, make loops at the end and connect them into a chain, the chain into an earring finding, voila!
Another day of turning the ordinary to extraordinary!
Saucer Shaped Paper Beads
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 in a necklace that can be worn off on one side or the middle.
On one side, three strands of olive shaped paper beads are holding the saucer bead and on one side is just one strand.
I have received Hilde and Tina’s paper beads for the trade yesterday and will be posting that, hopefully I will get the rest tomorrow and Tuesday.
Peek on upcoming post: Free form wire wrap with shells:
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