Scrapbooking: Intro to Making Scrapbooking Cards With Beads

Series Summary

Handmade cards and photo albums are extremely popular, as well as a widening market for shop owners and small businesses across the United States. Cardmaking is considered a craft, and involves the assembly of paper, fabric, stickers, stamps and more to create individual and unique mementos and decorations. Artists can use their creations as gifts and holiday treats for friends and loved ones, or take part in the growing industry of homemade and handmade gifts and cards, selling their scrapbooks, photo frames, greeting cards and more online, on Ebay, or in shops in their area.

In this free instructional video series, our expert arts and crafts maven will teach you how to make your very own homemade greeting cards using a variety of supplies and decorations, concentrating on the use of beads and stickers. Learn how to string beads through wire to create dangling tassels on your cards, as well as window shakers and many other exciting types of cards – all using inexpensive and easy to find beads!

Video Transcript

" Hi! My name is Elizabeth, and on behalf of Expert Village, we’re going to go through a series of clips on tips and techniques on how to use beads in your card making. To introduce you to beads, there are many different kinds that you can use in your card making. Pretty much any kind of bead you can find you can use in making cards. I have some examples here. These are glass beads that you can find in your craft store or a bead store for beaded jewelry. That’s a great resource for finding fun and fabulous beads to use in your cards. That’s where I found this package here. In a lot of bead stores you can also find where they’re let you have scoop of beads in a certain color for a certain price. Now, that’s where I got some of these fun beads here. As well as a lot scrap booking supply stores and companies offer beads now. These were purchased from a scrapbook supplier made specifically for using your scrapbooks, as well as what are called seed beads or tiny beads. This right here is a making memories stack. They just unscrew and you can put several different kinds of seed beads on here. When using beads in your card making and scrap booking, there are several different ways, and as we move forward in the clips we will highlight 3 different ways to use beads in your card making. "