Paper Beads By Sanja
Sanja, is an avid crafter and has perfected the skill of making paper beads. She is sharing with us one the many ways paper beads can be made from, in this case she took an old calendar with the beautiful colors of purple and lavender and it came out beautifully! The image she sent me will take you from the page of the calendar she took, drawing the triangle lines on the wrong side of it, cutting it into strips and turning it into beautiful paper beads!
The paper beads with the leaves on the ground is so evocative of Fall, I just loved it! Don’t you?
Trouble-free Tubes
These paper bead tubes are super easy, layered up is the best way to wear them. You can string several on elastic or beading wire. When you string them on elastic you can just slip them over your head or wind several times on your wrist as a bracelet.
Easy, breezy !
You can mix them with glass beads and firepolished crystals.
Somedays…wear them all as a bracelet, I’m sure they work well as head bands too.
If you do not want them on elastics, you can string them on a beading wire with magnetic closure. Wear several for a dramatic effect, kind of like Zulu Princess style 🙂
Simple is beautiful after all!
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Paper Play Sunday
I had a most relaxing, fun-filled Sunday playing with paper. I am sharing this with you so you can try it, and see for yourself how much fun it is! I had so much left over craft paint from previous projects and just have to use them before they harden up and then I would not be able to use them anymore. What I had in mind is just to put layers of paint on a piece of paper, magazine cover, brown paper bag whatever kind of paper that you want to re cycle and make them into paper beads.
First, I picked out a paper bag from an ice cream place, a friend visiting brought ice cream cake in this bag:
And no, I did not eat all the ice cream by myself although I am totally capable of doing that, in case you’re wondering it was butter pecan 🙂
Second, prepare your work space by covering it with old newspaper and tape it down so it does not move around as you work.
Reminder: Do not discard the paper, save it for next time. The more paint gets to it, the nicer it will look and can be used for other projects someday.
Third, gather your paint, glitters if you have some, stencils or stamps, tissue paper or paper towel (which is what I used), brushes and sponges.
Then let the fun begin……
Procedure (in a nutshell): cut the paper bag open and lay it on your table, paint it white or gesso if you have, brush watered down glue on the area you want the separated paper towel (or tissue) to go in, paint it with layers of different colors (on top would be your dominant color), stencil or stamp with design if you like, paint glitter paint if that is the effect you like on your paper.
Voila! This will make nice scrap book pages or journal pages
I used these paint on it and stencil on the bottom part, I was too lazy to do it all over but I guess it came out better this way.
The ice cream bag was big enough, the small part of it that the paper towel did not cover, I painted it a different color, beige/pinkish tone.
This is about 36 inches (length of the ice cream bag cut open), and cut out three strip of triangles and made it into paper beads!
I imagine a brown paper bag would turn out just as nice. So go ahead, play……….paint………have fun……
A Little bit of this…..
….and a little bit of that, is how the Paper Bead Soup was made. I really didn’t have the time to make anything, and now that things are not as hectic, I made a few paper beads made out of black scrap booking paper. I tend to gravitate towards the colorful prints, so I am trying to make something out of plain black paper.
They look like little almost look like chocolates with swirls and dots f pinks. I painted it with nail art lacquer, the ones they used to put design on your nails. They are easy to apply and for some of you who are “artsy” you can probably design little flowers on the paper bead with the thin brush meant to draw little designs on the nails.
I randomly selected a few paper beads from the Paper Bead Soup, and Kayla will design something for us. When it’s done, we will have a raffle drawing for all those that participated.
More posts on paper beads using different kinds of paper.
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