Diamond Shaped Paper Beads painted a rich chocolate brown is beautifully displayed as earrings with a little wood bead as accent. I love the versatility of paper beads; magazine colors or paint it with whatever color your heart desires
Gold and chocolate makes you ready to welcome fall!
I had fun making this pendant, because it is one of those times where you don’t know where your creativity will take you. The small chains “dresses” up the purple bicone bead with “fruit like” accents on top.
I just love the caged look in this pendant
The Lemon Meringue Bracelet reminds of yummy lemon meringue pie! Big, bold, bicone paper beads are painted yellow and white and mixed with glass pearls and other paper beads.
A breath of fresh air
When Kayla showed me this bracelet, a few things came to my mind: beach, read white and blue, cool as ice, frosted, blue jeans……..definitely an All Season Bracelet.
The bead cage findings are the perfect accent to these beads, don’t you think?
Paper beads and India glass go so well together! The deep colors of the India glass echoes the vibrant colors of the paper beads. We keep going back to the versatility of the long necklace like the Candy Mix Necklace.
You can make it long enough so that it can be wind around your wrist many [...]
One of the fun things Kayla and I like to do on a week end is check out garage sales in our area for some beads that we can “rehab” and incorporate with paper beads. This is one of our finds, vintage red beads with embossed flower and leaves design. The designs on the beads [...]
Fabric covered wood and plastic rings are the inspiration for this Boho Chic Necklace. You put this on and no matter what you wear, it instantly gives the impression that you don’t care, you have your own style. I put this necklace together with stuff that I already have on hand; small round paper beads [...]
One of my finds at the Pasadena Bead and Design Show were these vintage perfume bottles. I just get drawn to anything old and antique, I always imagine what kind of person owned this piece and wearing them somehow transports you to that time and place. I must have been one of those ladies in [...]
The Pasadena Bead and Design Show is held twice area in the beautiful city of Pasadena, California. I am fortunate to live just 30 minutes away, Kayla and I spent a day just looking, getting ideas and talking with talented jewelry makers and artists. One of the exhibits there is by fiber artist Barbara de [...]
We have concluded the Paper Bead Trade and I’d say that it was successful because of all the nice people who participated, who stayed committed to the project with enthusiasm and genuine interest in each others work. We have somehow came to know each other here. Here’s some of beautiful creations from Elim, Liz, Deina [...]
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