Who says you have to BUY your beads?
Sometimes I find it almost impossible to find a bead in the material or color I want to use. But what’s a gal to do?
Make your own!
I’ve had a couple of ideas in mind for making some of my own beads lately and it got me to wondering if I could find some other bead making tutorials out there on the web.
I’ve rounded up some of them to share with you.
Enjoy!
Making Wet-Felted Beads from Mill Girl
Funky Fiber Beads from Feathered Nest Studio
Roll Your Own from You Can Call Me Gwen
Memento Beads with Dried Flowers and Polymer Clay From The Creative Goddess
Metal Tube Beads (Video) from Vintaj
Salt Dough Beads from Carolyns Home Work
Drilled Natural Stone Jewelry from Paper & Stitch
Hollow Metal Beads from PipnMolly
Pencil Beads from Home Made Simple
Embroidery Floss Beads from Lines Across
I hope that next time you are stuck with leftover materials or in need of beads with a certain texture or color that you will consider making your own.
i make paper beads of all sizes and i tried making cold porcelain clay..i put some paint in the clay while mxing the end results looked like bubble gum!!! I will have to try some of these other ideas.. i have sandstone paint for pottery..i bet the texture would be great on the floss beads..thanks for sharing these ideas
Very cool post…I need to try drilling stones!
Yeah, I loved that one too! 🙂