…compilation of tutorials
I have presented already a lot to the topic of paper beads, but not yet the cute paper beads dragonfly pendant :)
Links:
Paper Beads Dragonfly Pendant (Artist dragonfly necklace • Unusual jewelry • Woodland necklace • Creative necklace • One year anniversary gift for wife • Fantasy jewelry)
=> not an instruction, but a nice inspiration :)
Here at unikatissima:
Entries containing the word ‘paper bead’
This paper beads necklace is not an instruction, but a (beautiful) inspiration :)
And I have already written about paper beads before ;-)
Links:
Paper Beads Necklace (Paper beads necklace)
Here at unikatissima:
Entries containing the word ‘paper bead’
I have presented the paper beads roller before, but I find the paper beads machine even better :)
Links:
Paper Beads Machine (Make your own Machine to create Rolled Paper Beads Tutorial) (video)
via: Make your own machine to create rolled recycled paper beads. #recycle #DIY #beads
Here at unikatissima:
Paper Beads Roller
I wrote several entries about paper beads already, I find the African style paper beads also most beautiful!
Links:
African Style Paper Beads (Recycling paper: African beads made of paper …!)
=> unfortunately I haven’t found the original instruction
via: Make paper beads with African inspired designs.
Here at unikatissima:
Entries with the tags ‘paper’ and ‘beads’
I’ve presented already many (beautiful!) paper beads and lentil swirled beads but not yet the lentil shaped paper beads ;-)
There is a link to a video which shows very good how to make them.
Links:
Lentil Shaped Paper Beads (A Tutorial on Saucer Shapes)
=> there link to video: How To Make Saucer Shape Beads
Here at unikatissima:
Entries with the tags ‘paper’ and ‘beads’
Lentil Swirled Beads
We had some entries before about and with paper beads, I find it also a beautiful idea to wrap a vase in paper beads :)
Links:
Vase with Paper Beads (Magazine Page Bead Covered Vase)
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Entries containing the words ‘paper’ and ‘bead’
As you can see you can make more with paper beads than bracelets ;-))
Links:
Paper Bead Christmas Star Ornament
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Entries with the tags ‘paper’ and ‘beads’
Entries with the tag ‘jewelry’
After I’ve made my paper beads roller that I presented yesterday I played around with paper beads a little more.
I prefer the tube beads anyway (marginally ;-)) and after having seen the paper bead designer I thought: ‘Yes, a little bit of colour is enough, you can’t see the rest anyway.’
So I quickly made me some doodle paper beads ;-)
And that’s what you do:
First I took two sheets of plain printer paper and simply doodled at one side with a blue ballpoint pen.
Then I cut the sheets in strips of the same width…
… and rolled my paper strips with my nifty paper bead roller in a wonderful short time.
Of course the hole of the bead is split into two holes, too, because my bead roller consists of two halves.
I ‘stirred’ the hole again with a toothpick so that only one big hole remained.
Somehow I didn’t want to use the glue excess as varnish for the beads, so I used a simple glue stick and covered the beads afterwards with medium gel. Here you can see them drying.
My potted palm got special leave on my balcony for it ;-)
Although I find my doodled paper beads beautiful I thought that I would look boring if I string only them, therefore I made some additional easy Peyote beads.
Looks good, doesn’t it? ;-)
I wasn’t sure yet what I would do with my beads on this photo.
It became a bracelet in the end. I simply strung the beads on an elastic and hid the knot in a bead.
And here an ‘action shot’ ;-)
It’s not so easy to take a good photo of your own arm ;-))
After I had finished with my doodled paper beads I thought, that this was a great way to make a lot of matching paper beads from advertising flyers.
So I picked an ad with a photo of bed sheets where I liked the clour scheme.
Then I measured the circumference of my doodled paper beads with a string and cut strips from the ad a little broader than necessary.
I glued the strips from the ad at one side of a plain printer paper sheet and cut the resulting papers in (in this case) 1 cm broad strips, because I wanted to have little beads.
I glued some patches from the rest of my ad on details that I didn’t like, they won’t to be seen on the bead.
Here my beads are drying on a wire because I cut about 80 paper strips and I don’t have enough toothpicks or plants for the drying process ;-)
This time I used a water-based craft glue that glues fast but dries slowly.
This is great because I could varnish my beads easily with the excess of the glue which made them shine and when my fingers eventually got sticky I could wash the glue easily away with water.
I have not yet finished, but I find my paper beads beautiful, a little bit like made from Jade.
We will see what they will become :)
Links:
Paper Bead Designer
Here at unikatissima:
Paper Beads Roller
Entries containing the words ‘paper’ and ‘bead’
In a sense I always found paper beads great, but in another sense it always makes (made! ;-)) such a mess, so that I didn’t often made some.
Then I found the paper bead purses (ooooh…). (The link doesn’t work no more, look instead for the Google image search result for ‘paper bead purse’.)
And on the website of the paper bead purse designer I found a video showing how to use a paper beads roller that you can buy at her website (this link doesn’t work neither, but there’s still the video).
Great idea!
She also describes very good how to apply the glue and how to use the glue excess as varnish for the bead.
A little more research found me an instruction on how to build a self-made paper beads roller.
Another great idea! ;-))
I wasn’t sure whether I want to make sooo many paper beads and additionally I thought that I don’t need no crank, so I simply put everything together and the result is my spontaneously made paper beads roller ;-)
And that’s what you do:
Cut your paper strips for the beads (I used a page from a travel brochure) and take two big needles, two toothpicks (they have to be smooth!) or – as I did – two little metal skewers.
Join both needles (toothpicks, skewers…).
It would be enough to wrap some tape around, but I didn’t want to become my skewers sticky after taking away the tape, therefore I wrapped a broad strip of paper around and taped that.
Slip the end of a paper strip between both skewers (if you use triangular ones, slip in the broad end) and begin to wrap on the bead.
On the photo you can see the paper strip that holds together my skewers.
That’s how it looks shortly before you’re finished with wrapping.
You can’t see no glue on this photo because I can’t wrap with one hand and take photos with the other – at least not without dripping glue everywhere ;-)
When your bead is done you can easily remove it.
I was amazed at how fast and easy everything worked and I had much less mess than before ;-)
The hole of the bead is split into two holes because my bead roller consists of two halves.
I then simply ‘stirred’ the hole with a toothpick so that only one big hole remained ;-)
(By the way, the instruction for this bead is scheduled for tomorrow ;-))
Have fun wrapping paper beads! :))
and if you want to try some other bead shapes check out the Paper University.
Links:
Paper Bead Purses
The link doesn’t work no more, look instead for the Google image search result for ‘paper bead purse’.
Paper Beads Roller Video
Paper Beads Roller Video
Self-made Bead Roller (How to use a bead roller) => scroll down to ‘Hand Made Bead Roller’
Different Paper Bead Shapes (Recycled Paper Beads)
Google search result for ‘paper bead howto’
Google image search result for ‘paper bead howto’
Google search result for ‘Papierperle Anleitung’
Google image search result for ‘Papierperle Anleitung’
Here at unikatissima: Entries containing the words ‘paper’ and ‘bead’
Once I saw the beautiful paper bead jewelry at newspaperjewelry.com and was stunned. Then I found a tutorial on how to make a paper bead bracelet at craftster.org with some really good ideas, e.g. to fix the paper beads with hair pins or to coat everything with modpodge.
Just another item on one of my to-do-lists ;-)
Links:
craftster.org: My preferred craft forum
Paper Bead Bracelet
newspaperjewelry.com: Beautiful paper beads jewelry