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Pasta Word Salad Necklace

Posted on Oct 7, 2009 in How-To's / Tutorials | 4 comments

Beads made out of pasta and paper

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.

Old restaurant menu

Old Isabella Catalog

A catalog page with cool words on them

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:

Strip of paper to be used to cover the pasta

Step 2 – Squeeze Diamond Glaze into the paper plate.

Pasta, brush and Diamond Glaze

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………