Wearable Art
Wikipedia, the web based encyclopedia defines wearable art as; individually designed pieces usually hand made clothing or jewelry created as fine or expressive art. The term wearable art implies that the work is intended to be accepted as a serious unique artistic creation or statement. Wearing paper bead jewelry is certainly making a statement: Beautiful and unique conversation pieces jewelry made out of recycled magazines! Four ladies responded to the challenge, to send me a photo of themselves wearing the paper bead jewelry they have made.
Kathy wearing her big and bold paper bead jewelry
In Kathy’s own words: “The beads in the necklace and earrings are made from black and white security envelopes (the inner lining) – probably something that came with a bill inside! The bracelet, and this is my favorite piece, is made from pages from Vogue magazine. I used a page that was a fold out in the magazine (so it was double in width) and cut the base of the beads two inches wide. The bracelet is strung in a ladder pattern using black elastic cord. I wear a lot of black and white and designed this bracelet so that I could wear it with many different outfits.”
Claire, wore this piece with the big saucer bead to his brother’s wedding with black and white theme. Claire is very crafty and I love checking out her blog as well. You can see more of her creations on her blog papelhilo.
Claire with paper beads on a neck wire
Here is Eveline of Timeless , she has a lot of cool paper bead jewelry ideas on her blog and here’s a video of her wearing her jewelry! Did I tell you I love your accent Eveline? 🙂
Ashley, looks really cute with her paper bead necklace. Good job Ashley, l love how that turned out, perfectly matched your shirt.
Ashley with her paper bead necklace
Last but not least is Sanja, wearing her long paper bead necklace. I love long necklaces, they are so versatile you can double it up and wear it any way you want.
Sanja wearing her long paper bead necklace
Congratulations ladies you get one of the giveaways I mentioned earlier in my post and I want to thank you for sending in those photos.
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I have always wondered, do you wear your paper bead jewelry? Let me rephrase the question, are you proud enough to wear your paper bead jewelry to a party, church, family gathering, wedding? I think paper beads has come a long way, from a favorite Sunday craft for kids to fine pieces of jewelry created as wearable art. Are you up for a challenge? Here’s how it works: The first 10 readers of this blog who can send me a photo of herself all spruced up wearing paper bead jewelry will receive a choice of paper bead roller kit, crystals and findings kit or 2 strands of paper beads ! Here’s is another version of Spiralling With Paper Beads which has been quite popular at etsy after it was featured in Etsy Findings blog. I call this 1066 Paper Beads Necklace because it has one thousand six hundred sixty six tiny paper beads! And yes, I actually counted them 🙂
I must say, you need a little bit of courage to wear something paper amidst the glitter of diamonds and gold. I paired this piece with little heart diamond earrings, it was a wedding after all.
Got tons of compliments, it was something different and extraordinary!
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