Category: Arts and Crafts
Beaded Drop Strings for Jeans
Beaded Drop Strings for Jeans Choose pewter or glass charms to personalize strings of beads and wear them on your favorite jeans! Liven up a denim skirt with these strings to create a cheerful look. What You Need: * 1–30-inch piece of .019-inch-diameter micro stainless-steel nylon-coated beading wire * Wire cutters * 1- or 1 [...]
Quick Craft: Beaded Vase Decoration
Quick Craft: Beaded Vase Decoration With a pink beaded necklace, this vintage milk bottle becomes a charming vase. To embellish the bottle, select a variety of beads from a craft store. Mix colors, or use different shades of one color. String beads onto bead wire, occasionally wrapping the wire around a bead and through the [...]
Elegant Beaded Tassel
Elegant Beaded Tassel Lovely and elegant, beaded tassels beautify doorknobs, drawer pulls, keys in locks, and anything else from which they dangle. What You Need: • Spool of .010-inch-diameter micro stainless-steel nylon-coated wire • Glass seed beads • 8 medium-size ceramic beads • 6 flat glass beads • 12-inch length of 28-gauge wire • 1–flat [...]
Beading: How to Crimp
Beading: How to Crimp When connecting your beaded strings to clasps, crimp beads make the process easy and the connection secure. What You Need: • Wire cutters • Beading wire • Crimp beads • Crimping tool • Desired clasp Instructions: 1. Gather the supplies listed, above. 2. Cut the beading wire to the length instructed [...]
Beaded Pillows
Beaded Pillows Bring a ray of warmth to any room of the house with this cheerful toss pillow. What You Need: • 60 inches of cream silk beading cord; needle • 48–dark red bicone glass beads • 20–6 mm orange miracle beads • 48–dark golden bicone glass beads • 30-40 seed beads • 3–4 mm [...]
Beaded Name Bracelet
Beaded Name Bracelet Show pride in your children or any loved ones by wearing their names on your wrist. What You Need: • Assorted sterling silver beads and spacers • 28 black hematite beads; wire cutters • 4 mm square sterling silver letter beads • 2–2-hole spacers (small metal rods with 2 holes) • 24 [...]
Beaded Bookmark
Beaded Bookmark Hold your place in your next book with a fun and funky beaded wire bookmark that works up quicker than you can say “Once upon a time.” What You Need: • Wire cutters • 18-gauge wire in desired color • Needle-nose pliers • Glass beads • Small dowel • 36-gauge metallic wire, optional [...]
Beading Tools
Beading Tools Round up beads and some basic supplies to prepare for just about any beading project. Beading tray The plastic tray has channels in it to assist with bead arrangement. Flush wire cutters Cut wires of various thicknesses by clamping down on wire to create a smooth end. Round-nose pliers These pliers grab wire, [...]
