Posted by mololi on 2005-11-12 13:25:15
Post Subject: Beading on Paper Crafts?
My roommate's birthday is coming up, and she's just started learning some beading techniques. I know that she wants to use the beads as embellishments on the cards and other paper crafts that she makes. Does anyone know a book I can get her for her birthday that might talk about techniques for doing this?
Posted by redheadedali on 2005-02-25 18:33:34
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I like to make bracelets using off-loom seed beading techniques, usually netting. I've been making a bunch lately with butterflies, cherries, and flowers on them. They're fun, there's a lot of room to be creative, and since they're small, they don't take fifty years to make (I'm kind of an impatient crater ;)).
Posted by lizzymahoney on 2006-04-30 09:43:49
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oh, man, i am 525 bucks out because of damn jo-ann. It does not help that I know the store and know how things are marked down and can tell my fabric from looking at the reverse bolt end.
okay, fabrics I just had to have from clearance: two fleeces, one black with a gold dust overlay (pillows, maybe a dressy jacket) and a reversible blue green fleece that I'll make reversible pillow covers for my brother.
Yards and yards of peachskin, an extremely durable and uncrushable synthetic that travels well, works well, washes well. I have skirts and tops and scrubs and separates in mind for probably about 40 yards of various prints and one embroidered solid. One's a jacquard solid, too.
nascar fabric for scrub tops I can sell. People like the local events. Now if I could just find Harley prints... And I bought some things I plan to make into do-rags and hobo bags and the like for Bike Week.
leopard print sheer in olive and hunter. My room is very dark because I need it that way. I am going to use a lot of ethnic, tribal, organic looking fabrics for cushioning the headboard, making bed skirts, drapes and throw pillows. One of the 'ethnic' prints is evocative of mudcloth only it's a heavier canvas with a bold print that is very feminine in a vulva sort of way. Also has cowries sewn into it. Screams sexuality to me, maybe it will rub off.
oh, I bought about fifteen yards of this violet floral chiffon with glitter just because I knew it was so hideous it would make a marvelous something or other. Someday.
Several home dec things including apron fabric and a beautiful botanical orchid print. that's probably going for my mother's kitchen chairs pads. my sister loves aprons. i only buy or collect the exceptional needlework kind, like Seminole patchwork or Swedish embroidery. but I'll design and sew them for people who whine enough.
Then there's this clear red and black print slubbed synthetic, very asian cherry blossom motif. I bought about ten yards of the red, and found the remaining four yards of the reverse print yesterday. That's great because i was thinking it had to be bias cut for maximum effect and a contrast for blouse or belt line would be divine.
a number of basics in yardage, like summer light cotton in palest lavender, and black twill, red flannel. if i had any excuse to buy quilting cottons, the financial boon for jo-ann would have been more impressive. but one, I already have tons of cottons, and two, I haven't quilted in ages.
in clearance other things, I cleaned out some of the shelving and hardware, also tissue boxes and trays, odd Swarovski bits that didn't seem right on sale, spools of narrow gold tulle and odd ribbons, some funky yarns that I am not up to knitting with but will use for garnishing things, paint pens, dye pens, pearl cotton for embroidery and the nicer Linea kits. Good idea, bad assembly. If you say a kit will have everything for someone it really should. But the needles in their slim packs slipped out, as did bead embellishments. Plus I would embroider a bit differently and the few stitch suggestions were laughable. Probably right at beginner level though. bought lots of packets of their pearl cotton for those kits, though, so between my beads and tassels and frogs and choices of embroidery thread and stitch, I'm sure these will be great. also bought some closeout cross stitch kits, definitely not my thing, but I can see ways to make them more interesting for me.
i don't normally buy scrapbooking things unless they are clearance or at a yard sale. I like making do with the odd bits I can come up with. But I did get a few embellishments and stickers, some plain gift bags, lots of ribbons, some appliques and a variety of paints and stamp pads.
i used the 50% coupons to buy mostly books, but also a versatool, or an old fashioned wood burning pen that does so much more. the books were on advanced beading techniques and two each on altered books or higher end scrap booking techniques. i curled up in bed and fell asleep last night with them all around me. my poor bedsleeping cat had to use the pillow above my head.
this is just so exhausting. I think I'll clear the kitty off and go back to bed.
