Paper Bead Earrings Tutorial
If you've never made paper beads before, beware it is addicting! First, you have to make the beads.
Equipment
- old magazines
- scissors
- bamboo skewers or chop sticks
- Elmer's Naturals Glue
- wire
- fish hook earring hardware
- wire working tools (available at Amazon)
Instructions
- We used pieces of paper that were the length of a magazine, and about 3/4″ wide. You can make them any size, and you can cut them into triangles if you'd like your beads to be different shapes.
- Start by wrapping the piece of paper around the bamboo skewer or chop stick. Do not use glue at this point, or you will not be able to remove the paper bead from the skewer.
- To keep the bead end pressed down, brush with Elmer's Natural Glue (in the bottle). Elmer's Natural seems a bit stickier than the regular stuff – test it out and let me know what you think. Is it stickier, or is it just my imagination?
- Cut a piece of wire (mine was about 10″ long) using your jewelry tools. Follow the image above for step-by-step instructions. Basically you're just threading the wire through the bead, then around it, and back through.