New Bamboo Rollers
We are continuously trying to improve the bamboo rollers, to make them more user friendly. Now, it comes with a full bottle of Diamond Glaze instead of the sampler ones, so you can make a lot of paper beads. It has a new locking mechanism that will keep the paper tightly in place.
Instructions are better explained with a video 🙂
The kit includes; 2 sets of bamboo rollers, strips of pre-cut magazine paper, a full bottle of Diamond Glaze (2 oz), and a brush.
Sample beads are attached to the handles, so you can see how your beads should look like 🙂
Gold Paper Bead Necklace
After weighing all our options, we decided on pairing these beautiful gold paper beads with jet black swarovski crystals. I think this will look good with little back dress or plain white shirt with jeans, we finished it off with black pleather cord. As I mentioned in earlier post the beads were made out of gold label box and were tightly rolled with metal paper bead roller.
The pleather cord give is that casual look and you can easily just wear gold button earrings to go with it.
We could just have made it with the paper beads strung all around in a 16 inch necklace, but I thought this gives it more a not too formal look
Can you tell they’re paper beads?
We have enough beads left over for a pair of earrings and bracelet, or maybe another necklace.
Read MoreHow To Make Round Paper Beads / Metal Roller
I get emails from paper bead enthusiasts on how to achieve a more round paper beads. So, here it is a vlog I think would explain it best plus a few photos. Materials are: metal roller or bamboo roller (either one can be purchased at aubreysbeads), Judikin’s Diamond Glaze but you can also use any decoupage medium or mod podge and glossy magazines or catalogs. Tip: Rounder (fatter) bead uses a longer strip of triangle paper, magazines usually are 15 inches wide when it is opened, you need to use two of these by gluing them together.
Next step is then to mark both ends, how wide is the base of the triangle determines how big or how wide is your bead. For the diamond shaped paper beads it is 1/2 inch wide for the smaller round beads it is 1/4 inch wide. I am showing the illustration on white paper so it shows better.
Here is a close up of one end of the paper.
I used the rollers that we carry in our online shop, but of course you can use whatever you have available, to achieve a smaller hole these tools are great for that. We actually sell them as kits with strips of paper and glue.
Here is the video
Some samples of finished round beads
I hope you have fun, I welcome any comments, questions, feedback…….
Read MoreMore Paper Beads Today
I have received a package from my sister today, and she always suprise me with new stuff! She made my day today…
What’s in it? Let’s see:
The bamboo and metal roller with same bamboo handles.
Some are cone shaped or what I call the little Christmas trees. These are so neat because you can still see some words on them.
She wants me to show you how to make the little round paper beads and she already cut the paper for me. She was not this nice when she was little 🙂
It also came with just the regular paper bead tubes.
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