Paper Bead Trade Idea #2
In case you’re wondering, Idea # 1 was yesterday’s post, Come Into My Garden Bracelet where we used buttons to add to our paper beads. The paper bead tube is the most common paper bead shape and versatile in the sense that it can be used for home decorating; curtains, vases, purses, etc., but can also be easily transformed into pretty jewelry. I love mixing paper beads with crystals and even gem stones and why not? Here’s our Idea #2 using 3/4 inch tube paper beads and cloisonne beads.
What you need for this project is: .8mm elastic, 3/4 inch paper bead tubes, 6/0 seed beads and cloisonne bead or any type of focal bead.
I cut about 10 inches of elastic and make sure to put a bead stopper at the end or string from a spool and make sure that the paper bead with the largest hole will be closest to the knot you will tie at the end, so that it’s easy for that bead to accommodate the knot.
You will then tie a square knot, right over left and left over right.
It looks beautiful even among real jewelry……It kind of remind me of Victorian ladies rolling paper beads.
Paper Bead Trade Idea # 3 will be the ring and earring set made out from zentangle paper beads.
Upcoming posts: Paper Strings and Philippine Outreach Program for Kids
My Paper Beads – Hilde Debruyn
I have created a new category: My Paper Beads to feature paper beads that are made by paper bead enthusiasts from other parts of the world. Hilde Debruyn who is from Belgium, combines her paper beads with unusual beads and finds to achieve that organic look. She carefully describes each one of her creation, the kind of paper and beads she used:
This necklace I made with scrap booking paper pasted on small pieces of cardboard. In stead of scrap booking paper I made some similar necklaces with starched papers too.
Black and White
I started this necklace with a big silver bead (I kept this bead from a broken necklace). I completed it with little silver cube beads and paperbeads. I found the paper for this beads in my letterbox. They are made with promotional leaflets with a white background. On the other side I put a double string with ancient African tradebeads. They are made of glass. I bougth them in an African shop in Brussels.
Silver and African Beads
Here I made a very long necklace (4 times the usual length). It’s very colorful. I made it from magazine papers and I joined a lot of little yellow squares from an old necklace from my mother. I took the picture on a stone in the shape of a heart. The stone is carved. As you can see there are small roses on it.
A Heart Of Stone
This necklace is also made with magazine papers. I chose papers with an orange colour in it, so it could be combined with the silk textile bead. A friend of mine made it for me. I also used a big coral and some small orange-red beads.
With Orange Fabric Bead
This necklace is photographed on a small raffia tablecloth from Congo (a present from my aunt). It’s made of gift wrapping paper (craft paper with stripes) I used a red spherical and some olive wooden beads from Santorini (Greece).
Red and Green
The tubes are made of gift wrapping paper with little colorful figures on it (for a gift for children). I used small wooden beads, and also a very big wooden bead and a red bead (dry vegetable material).
TUBES
We still have room for the Paper Bead Trade, you can sign up by e mailing me your address (Email Me button is on the right hand side).
Thank you Hilde, for sharing your beautiful work. We will be posting ideas and inspiration for the Paper Bead Trade in the next week or so.
Read MoreGolden Shellback’s Cuff
This cuff which I call the Golden Shellback’s Cuff is encrusted with shells and paper beads. I learned about Golden Shellback when my son joined the U.S. Navy. One of the most precious thing he brought home was the Golden Shellback Certificate which I framed and now have a special place in my home. Wikepedia defines Golden Shellback as:
The ceremony of Crossing the Line is an initiation rite in the Royal Navy, U.S. Navy, U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Marine Corps, and other navies that commemorates a sailor’s first crossing of the Equator. Originally, the tradition was created as a test for seasoned sailors to ensure their new shipmates were capable of handling long rough times at sea. Sailors who have already crossed the Equator are nicknamed (Trusty) Shellbacks, often referred to as Sons of Neptune; those who have not are nicknamed (Slimy) Pollywogs.
The Certificate itself is like a work of art, with drawings of Mermaids, King Neptune, crabs and porpoises and other denizens of the sea as what they’re called.
My collection of shells.
And paper beads.
The foundation of this cuff is 140 lb paper that I folded into a round and covered with fleece.
I used hot glue gun to adhere the shells and paper beads into the cuff.
The olive shaped paper beads and the smaller round beads were used to fill in the gaps.
This is such a conversation piece and so easy to do. You can purchase shells and some of them are colored at your local craft store.
A New Twist on the Spiral Stitch
If you are new at beading or jewelry making and is looking for a project that is EASY, enjoyable and the result REWARDING! Then, you should try this very simple stitch-the Spiral Stitch. I made one before, using seed beads and crystals and remember the many compliments I got. This time, I made this Spiral Necklace with extra small paper beads. I love the fact that I am wearing something recycled from magazines and each individually hand rolled by Philippine women. Not that it matters who are making it, just the fact that someone took the time to do it.
Even though this is a fairly simple project, the little details like; what to do when you run out of thread and how to attached the clasp and finish the necklace, takes time, and can only be explained best in a full length video. Here’s the preview anyway…
The kit will include all the materials needed: needle, fireline thread, clasp and many, many, many extra small paper beads 🙂
It is similar to the bead rope crochet, although, it is more flexible but has the bead encrusted effect.
Here it is on my neck!
It looks good on every one, don’t you think?
Another day of taking the ordinary to extraordinary!
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