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How To Finish your European Style Beads With Paper Bead Cores

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Finish Your European Style Paper Beads Beautifully With Metal Paper Bead Cores.

In part one of my two part YouTube tutorial on how to use my European Style paper bead templates, I showed you how to make European style paper beads using the two part template available in my Etsy shop.

You can find more information about that tutorial here.

In my latest film, I show you how to finish your beads to give them the European look, similar to the style of some Pandora beads.

Click here to see the film

Paper beads made with my templates.
Paper beads made by my workshop students using the templates.

Paper bead cores are the key to taking your paper beads to the next level.

Paper beads can look exceptionally pretty and leave many people astounded that they are made with paper.

But when you make them with a larger core hole, paint them with metallic paint and add metal paper bead cores to give them a professional look, it lifts them to a whole new level.

People who have seen my YouTube videos often get in touch and ask me where to buy certain supplies they have seen me using.

So I now try to find products similar to those I have used. Sometimes, I am able to recommend products I have actually bought from Amazon but unfortunately, that is not the case with the product suggestions that follow.

Most of the products I used in the video are from stock I have held for some time (such as the paper bead cores and silicone rings).

For those people who need help sourcing  craft supplies the same as, or similar to, those I use in my videos, visit my Amazon craft supplies page.

You can read my Amazon affiliate statement here.

If you scroll through the products I have listed, you will find most things you need to make the items seen in my craft tutorials.

There are some suggestions  on my Amazon craft supplies page that I have not actually used and therefore I cannot recommend them from personal experience, they are just suggestions for you to research.

But in the case of the Imagination Crafts Starlight paints – I can highly recommend them because I use them all the time and love them.

I buy mine from Keep On Crafting in Bury St Edmunds Suffolk. The owner also ships worldwide, so check the website for details.

These are some of my European style paper bead bracelets made using the templates. The ones on the right are featured on the Rainbow Lane channel on YouTube.

Starlight metallic paint from Imagination Crafts, along with metal paper bead cores make your paper beads look stunning!

When you have rolled your beads using my two part template (available in my Etsy shop) they look ok – just ok; they look like beads made with paper.

Paint them with any of the gorgeous Starlight metallic paints and they look beautiful.

Add the paper bead cores and they look amazing.

Put them on a faux leather or metal bracelet and they look absolutely stunning.

Starlight Metallic Paints by Imagination Crafts – perfect for your European Style Beads

If you are a reader from the USA and cannot find Imagination Crafts Starlight Paint where you live, you can get them online from the link below.

Keep On Crafting, here in England where I get mine, does ship outside Europe but of course they have to charge postage and packing.

All the products I have suggested here or on my Amazon crafts supplies page are featured especially for people who ask me where they can buy the supplies needed to make the bracelets and I urge you to shop around before buying.

Remember – you need to research these products yourself. I try to recommend products that I have used and love but sometimes I can’t find links to items I use and have to find similar products.

I cannot personally recommend anything I have not tried.

I have looked for items that are as close to the ones I have used in my video as possible.

Thanks for watching and reading and I hope you take your paper bead making to the next level by using metal paper bead cores.