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 | Beadphoria: Spring Cleaning Bulletin Board Reduxby Beadphoria |
Happy (almost) Spring, Beadphoria friends! With this being the first Monday of the month, it is time for the Designer Crafts Blog Hop! The theme this month is March, and what it means to you. For me, March means the arrival of spring. A time for renewal. What was once barren is now brought back to life.
With the feeling of being renewed, we often want to bring beauty into our surroundings. One way we can do this is by doing some spring cleaning. This simple project will bring new life to a boring bulletin board and it will help organize your jewelry!
The bulletin board pictured above had been on the wall of the Beadphoria, Inc. for quite awhile. It became one of those things that you see, but didn't look at every day. As you can see, it was in desperate need of a makeover.
Materials for the spring cleaning makeover
Here are the materials we used:
-Bulletin Board
-Fabric Remnant
-Brown Velvet Ribbon
-Glue Gun & Glue Sticks
-Picture Hangers
The fabric was spread out onto the floor and the bulletin board placed in the middle.
Next, hot glue was put onto the frame on the back of the bulletin board to hold the fabric in place. From there, we flipped the bulletin board over. Using the glue gun, we tacked the brown ribbon in place around the edge of the frame.
How much prettier is that!
Of course the work had to be inspected by our quality control manager and customer service rep, Lola.
We placed the bulletin board back on the wall, and started putting the picture hooks in.
Close up of the picture hooks.
Only thing left was to add the jewelry!
We now have a beautiful showcase for our jewelry with a little bit of spring cleaning effort!
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Recycled Paper Beads
In Victorian times, women in England gathered in dining rooms to make beads by rolling scraps of wallpaper on knitting needles. They would then string the beads on long pieces of yarn to create curtains that separated rooms. You can make these beads from recycled scrap paper, and string them together to make jewelry!
What you'll need:
Before you begin, gather all of your supplies together and put them on your work surface. Read all of the directions from start to finish. Now you are ready to begin.
Adapted from Papercrafts Around the World, by Phyllis and Noel Fiarotta
(Sterlilng Publishing Co., Inc., New York)
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| This spectacular peyote stitch Bloomin' Bead was designed by Carol Dean Sharpe of Sand Fibers. |
Before I get completely off topic, let's talk about covering a bead with beadweaving to make a beaded bead. It's a fabulous way to turn ordinary wood beads into something spectacular, and these little peyote-stitch beading projects usually don't take a lot of time to finish.
To make your own peyote-stitch-covered beaded bead, you'll need the following tools and materials:
Let's get started! Here's how to cover your wood bead with peyote stitch in ten easy steps:
 | 1. Take a small strip of double-sided tape and wrap it around the center of your wood bead. This will hold your first few rows of peyote stitch securely in place and will also provide an anchor for your finished peyote-stitched beaded bead. | |
 | 2. Pick up an even number of cylinder beads. Always make sure you have an even number of beads before stitching so that your rows are even as you go. Tubular even-count peyote stitch requires that little "step up" at the end of each round! 3. Pass through the first bead picked up again and pull snugly so that you form a tight ring around your wood bead on the double-sided tape. | |
 | 4. Start working in tubular even-count peyote stitch until the beadwork starts to pull away a bit from the wood bead. You can flip the bead over and work some peyote stitch on the other side to keep your tension even and tight. | |
 | 5. Stitch a size 15o seed bead in the first stitch and then alternate cylinder beads and size 15o seed beads for one round. 6. Add a size 15o in every stitch for two rounds. 7. Stitch a size 15o in the first stitch and then make a decrease. (Pass through the next 2 beads and pull snugly.) Repeat around. | |
 | 8. Pick up beads for netting: 1 size 15o, 1 cylinder bead, and 1 size 15o. Pass through the next "up" bead in the round. | |
 | 9. Pass through the first two beads added at the beginning of the previous round. Work peyote stitch through the cylinder beads from the previous step until the opening begins to close up a little. Work peyote stitch for a total of three rounds. | |
 | 10. To secure the last row, pass through all the beads in the round just added and pull. Weave your thread into the beadweaving, tie a few knots, weave in a bit more, and trim. Repeat for the other side of the beaded bead. | |
 | You can either leave your beaded bead as it is or add some fancy beaded embellishment. Try covering your beaded bead with beaded netting, stitching a pattern of bugle beads around the center of the bead, or adding fringe beads or daggers to the ends of your beaded bead. The sky is the limit when it comes to embellishing these little beauties! |
A tip for maintaining even tension when working peyote stitch around this kind of beaded bead: when you pass through the first bead in Step 3, leave a thread tail that is approximately one-half the length of your beading thread. This way, you can flip the bead over and work peyote stitch on the other side of the bead without having to add a new thread!
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