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Summary: Adding leaves to beaded flowers creates a realistic appearance. Add leaf shaped beads to flower stems with tips from an artisan in this free beading video.
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"Now I'm going to show you how to combine the leafs with the flower. For that, I'll need the thin string and some leaf beads. I'm going to cut a small piece of metal string. We don't need a very long one. And just put it through the hole in the leaf. And now I'm going to turn it around a few times just to make the leaf stay in the metal. Then I'm going to take the flower and just turn the metal string, the thin metal string around the thick metal string. Because it's a very thin string, you hardly see it. If you want to make the leaf a little bit stronger, what you do is you turn the leaf a little bit more to the direction that we were doing it before and that makes it more stable. That's one leaf. You can put as many leafs as you want. I'm just going to put another one on this one. Now you can see that I take the metal string, put the leaf through, turn it a few times around and find another spot for the second leaf, turn the metal, the thin metal string again around the thick one. And I'm turning the leaf a few more times and finding it a nice spot and here is our flower finished with the leafs. As you can see, it's a very easy project to do and it's very pretty."
eHow Article: Adding Leaves to Beaded Flowers