How to Make Paper Beads
If you have an interest in affordable and fun projects, this one is right up your alley. Paper beads are very inexpensive and make a unique end product. Paper beads can become beautiful jewelry with a little originality and imagination. Get creative with the endless options in paper bead making.
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Things You'll Need
- Light weight paper
- Clear nail polish or permanent enamel
- Thin dowel or toothpick
- Tupperware container
- Newspaper
- Paint or stamping ink--optional
Instructions
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Rolling Beads
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Line your craft table with newspapers.
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Fill tupperware with glue.
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Cut your paper into stripes. These can be rectangular or triangular strips and can be a variety of widths.
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Dip paper strips in tupperware with glue.
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Tightly wrap paper strip around a thin dowel or toothpick.
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Coat bead with clear nail polish or permanent enamel once the bead is fully wrapped.
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Set aside to dry.
Paper
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Use different papers to give you a whole new look and feel. Each bead can be unique and original with each kind of paper.
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Try magazine pages. Use text pages or colorful picture pages.
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Create your own color or pattern. Use markers or ink to create a masterpiece of patterns, colors and textures.
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Spice it up with origami paper or tissue paper. More unique paper will give your beads a new texture and innovation.
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Experiment with other unique creative paper ideas. The paper options are endless. Try finding your own original ideas to make paper bead making imaginative.
Decoration
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Decorating your beads for that finishing touch. You can leave your bead as is, or you can jazz it up with artistic style.
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Paint with a small paintbrush. Try metallic paint to give your beads that extra shimmer.
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Antique your beads with UTEE, which is thick embossing powder and then heat for an aged finish.
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Experiment with different finishes to create beads that look like metal, gems or pearls.
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Tips & Warnings
For less mess, experiment with a glue stick or hot glue.
Allow beads to dry approximately 24 hours.
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this sound cool I'll try it!
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How do you get the paper off the dowel after it is dry.
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I roll my beads on a cotter pin. These are inexpensive and sold at Lowes or any place like that. They have a slit in the center that you can insert the wide end of your paper in and start rolling. It never slides and this works great for me.
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loving it so far!
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a1periwinkle
Sep 13, 2009
ok, paperbead girl, I took a look at your invention. It looks to be an idea for consistant centers. One can easily achieve this by using a short piece of dowel rod, the end of a small paint brush, etc. The thing that gripes me the most is the small end that keeps escaping. Since you glue it in place I can't think of anything that will aid this problem. Just keep gluing after it escapes, it will eventually stay in place.
