how to make paper beads

Paper Beads Design For You

Paper beads design is something I really love, which is why I give my designs away as free printables.

So today, I have another free paper beads design for you which, I have called ‘Jabberwocky’ in my paper beads design library.

The link to it will be further down the page – you just need to find it – it is there, I promise!

Paper jewelry making is a very popular craft and it’s a relatively inexpensive hobby.

In all the years I have been teaching paper jewelry making, I have used many different resources.

I have used everything from magazine pages to scraps of wallpaper to my own printed designs.

You can see some of my previous paper jewelry making posts here:-

How to string paper beads neatly looks at the problem of how to string paper beads with large holes, horizontally.

My recent free nature printable has images on it (see below) and I wanted to show them off, the right way up.

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Wherever I go, I am always thinking of new paper bead ideas.

A few weeks back, I was in The Range in a town far far away from where I live.

I was looking at all the enticing art and craft supplies as usual but not seeing quite what I wanted.

Some of my many paper bead ideas have turned me off expensive supplies.

Pretty as pre-printed paper is, I love the challenge of making paper beads from the unusual and the unwanted.

Imagine my excitement when I found this scrap in a garbage bin with a load of junk that had been swept up off the floor!