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After I’ve made my paper beads roller that I presented yesterday<\/a> I played around with paper beads<\/a> a little more.<\/p>\n I prefer the tube beads anyway (marginally ;-)) and after having seen the paper bead designer<\/a> I thought: ‘Yes, a little bit of colour is enough, you can’t see the rest anyway.’<\/p>\n So I quickly made me some doodle paper beads ;-)<\/p>\n And that’s what you do:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n <\/a> Peyote Bead (Beaded Bead)<\/a><\/p>\n Here at unikatissima: Links of entry 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.’ … Continue reading “Making Paper Beads”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,27,38,52,67,82],"tags":[106,448,387,388,463,467,258,473,268,482,487],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2548"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2548"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2551,"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2548\/revisions\/2551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} <\/div>\n
\nFirst I took two sheets of plain printer paper and simply doodled at one side with a blue ballpoint pen.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n
\nThen I cut the sheets in strips of the same width…<\/p>\n <\/div>\n
\n… and rolled my paper strips with my nifty paper bead roller<\/a> in a wonderful short time.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n
\nOf course the hole of the bead is split into two holes, too, because my bead roller consists of two halves.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n
\nI ‘stirred’ the hole again with a toothpick so that only one big hole remained.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n
\nSomehow 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.
\nMy potted palm got special leave on my balcony for it ;-)<\/p>\n <\/div>\n
\nAlthough 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<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n
\nLooks good, doesn’t it? ;-)
\nI wasn’t sure yet what I would do with my beads on this photo.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n
\nIt became a bracelet in the end. I simply strung the beads on an elastic and hid the knot in a bead.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n
\nAnd here an ‘action shot’ ;-)
\nIt’s not so easy to take a good photo of your own arm ;-))<\/p>\n <\/div>\n
\nSo I picked an ad with a photo of bed sheets where I liked the clour scheme.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n
\nThen I measured the circumference of my doodled paper beads with a string and cut strips from the ad a little broader than necessary.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n
\nI 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.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n
\nI 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.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n
\nHere 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 ;-)
\nThis time I used a water-based craft glue that glues fast but dries slowly.
\nThis 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.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n
\nI have not yet finished, but I find my paper beads beautiful, a little bit like made from Jade.
\nWe will see what they will become :)<\/p>\n <\/div>\n
\nLinks:<\/strong><\/em>
\nPaper Bead Designer<\/a><\/p>\n
\nPaper Beads Roller<\/a>
\nEntries containing the words ‘paper’ and ‘bead’<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"