Pasta Word Salad Necklace
Can’t sleep? Think of other ways to make paper into beads. I remember as a child stringing macaroni into necklaces and painting them. As I was cleaning up my kitchen pantry, I was about to throw a bag of rigatoni which is about 3 years old when I thought of trying this idea. So, here’s the materials for this project:
- 5 or 7 pcs. of rigatoni (choose one that are evenly cut and shaped like tubes)
- Diamond Glaze (www.aubreysbeads.com)
- restaurant menu or old magazines
- old beads
- barbecue stick (to dry the beads)
- paper plate and old make up brush
- softflex and findings to finish jewelry
- spacers big enough to cover the top and bottom of the finished bead
Here’s a sample of the kind of paper I used: old restaurant menu and Catalog ( I love the Isabella Catatog because it has inspirational pieces), like this one.
Step 1 – Cut strips of paper (make sure you position where you want the words to be) as wide as your pasta and about 6 inches long:
Step 2 – Squeeze Diamond Glaze into the paper plate.
Step 3 – Brush the pasta and the paper with the glue and start rolling the paper, continously adjusting it with you thumb and fingers to keep it straight.
Step 4 – Squeeze a generous amount of glue into the paper plate and roll the whole bead in it to keep it evenly coated.
Step 5 – You will then put the finished bead in the barbecue stick and let it dry. Apply glue until you get desired effect. The Diamond Glaze dries pretty quickly.
Step 6 –
I am trying right now doing the same thing but with origami paper. We’ll see how this one would turn out. ‘Til next time………
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