So you’ve made tons of paper beads because you just can’t stop making them! What do you do with it? My answer to this dilemma is to make curtain or a wall hanging. Here is a beaded curtain idea. I made them all uniform and coordinated but it does not have to be. You can [...]
The Painted Beads are fun to work with! This is one of the reasons I am fascinated with paper beads; you can paint them, glazed them, ink them, stamped……… Here’s on that is a true Mixed Media piece, one that you can surely feel proud to wear!
The wooden focal bead and silver accents can be [...]
This is another version of wired paper bead flower motif in my earlier post. It is more like a 3D flower because the petals can be adjusted to have it flat or standing up. The extra small paper beads are so versatile in projects like this, they are easy to manipulate and they can take [...]
Hoops are timeless, and you gotta have one in all sizes. Well, these are not just any hoop, they are made out of tiny paper beads and to think that each bead tell a story, makes it special. Any bead that you make from your own hands make it special.
I love the small beads for [...]
Aside from being a Fall Color, orange is my favaorite color; sunset, fire, citrus, balloons……The petite olive paper beads in this earrings are just the perfect orange with swirls of of beige and blues. I had an outfit in mind when I made this, I think it’s great that you can accent any outfit you [...]
I put together the Merry Mix Necklace from our Assorted Beads Bag and it came out really pretty mixed with left over beads; pearls, crystals and gem stones.
This is a very simple project using your basic wire wrap or just use rosary loops instead. Go ahead and try it, you will be very happy with [...]
If you have some special beads that you want to admire and see all the time, setting them in resin like what I did with the paper bead mix ring. You take a store bought bottle cap ring finding or any bezel cup finding and set a mixture of beads using resin.
This is something easy [...]
If you are a pink girl, you will love the Shades Of Pink necklace. Light shades of rhodocrosite beads with streak of white is accented with round paper beads and cone beads in deeper shades of pink.
The light shade of pink reminds of the cameo shell. The paper beads makes it more special!
….. and the menu for today: Citrus colors in olive shape paper beads! I love the melange of orange, lime greens and yellows that made up this three strand bracelet.
Just perfect for summer time don’t you think?
One of the things I love to do is sharing the work of other paper bead fanatic. Today, we have Jane McBride, she loves experimenting with them and here is the outcome:
The look like pineapples don’t you think? I also love the way Jane made earrings out of the saucer shape beads, very designer like [...]
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