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I am a SU Demo of one year and I have a girl in my club that wants to see some beads on our cards. HELP! :confused: I have never worked with the beads and don't know where to start. I have searched SCS and can't find any samples using beads. Can someone help me out? I don't care if it is a card or a 3-d item.
Thank You for your help in advance,
Beth
Hello back from Wisconsin! I've done just a little bit of work with beads so I'll give this a try for you. There are cards in the SU gallery that have beads on them - if you go to Gallery and then to SU Gallery and then do a word search for beads, you will get some items that will pull up (cards and 3-D should come up). With cards, you mostly adhere the beads with Crystal Effects or the red-line tape. The 2-Way glue may work too (or another strong glue that dries clear) but I haven't used those for making beads stick. So put the Crystal Effects where you want it on the card (or the red-line tape), pour the beads on that area, press just a bit to give it a good seal and let it dry to the tape/glue. Some add some glitter as well, after the beads, to get those tiny spaces that don't get covered by the beads. YOu can also make beaded pens (which are very fun to make!) - and you use the sheets of red-lined tape for those and there is a tutorial on making those in the resource section - but mainly its the same thing - cut the red line adhesive to fit around the barrel of the pen, take off the protected red covering of the tape, roll the pen in the beads (pour those beads onto a place or something that they won't roll off of!) and sort of roll the pen between your hands to adhere the beads to the tape better. Again you can add glitter for those in between spaces. BEFORE you do the beads, you can also add paper to the inside of the barrel of the pen (RSVP pens work well for this) buy cutting a piece of paper small enough to get it in there, take out the ink part of the pen, roll the paper tight, stuff it in the barrel and it will unfurl when it gets in there and then put the ink back in and then do the beading. I hope that gets you started, PM me if you have other questions and I'll do my best to help you out!
Are you looking for ideas to do with seed beads (with a small hole) or microbeads (no Hole)? There are different techniques depending on the type of beads you are planning to work with.
Sue4stampin,
At this point I am looking for anything with either bead (with or without the hole) I just needed a place to start.
Thank You again for all you help everyone, you have all been very helpful.
Beth
I have seen beads strung on thin wire and wrapped around a layer of cardstock, mainly back when SU sold wire. You can make a purse handle from wire and string beads on it. Just could use thread or floss, too. How about punching holes with the SU paper piercing guide and sewing the beads on in a pattern, keeping it very simple and in a small area if this is for a class or workshop? Hope it goes well for you!
sorry I don't have pic but we stamped a cute purse and the did the handle in seed beads..........we used crystal effects on the curved lines and the red tape where we wanted it on a straight line
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Don't forget you can use beads on stick pins also. I enjoy using them this way because they are fast but elegent. The Pretties Kit from SU has a stock of them but I normally use jewelry findings and hide the end in my card!
I have a card on my blog...don't know why it isn't in my gallery on scs but I didn't download it for some reason. My blog is here: laura's greetings It is about halfway down the first page. :p Purple card.
I made a shaker box card... Using beads and chipboard and rub-ons.
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I've been adding them to hand stitching lately--really exciting (for me anyway lol), but the easiest way to use them I find is to make flower centers with them, gluing them on with crystal effects. It gives you bling with hardly any work. :0)
I love beads, but don't use them nearly as much as I'd like to. I like to buy the assortment packages at Michaels or BigLots. I usually end up adding them to ribbon somehow. Here are the few I've done.
I use beads alot, another way to use them.On a spiral clip just add a few beads to the wire before you attach it. You can use really small seed beads on a staple. Staple where you want ,carefully remove by opening up the back, slide on the beads, insert back into the original holes and press the backs back to the original position. Really easy and a cute look.
Lynn
The comments about the Spirelli Circles and the paper clip reminded me of this tutorial I saw on scrapbook lounge - it shows a few great ways to use beads.
Scrapbook Lounge Tutorial
Ladies,
You have all gone above and beyond with your Bead help. I can't Thank You enough. I have a lot of ideas now and am going to make some beatiful beaded cards, that will hopefully wow my club ladies.
Thank You one and all,
Beth
Does Hobby Lobby or Michael's sell the seed beads?
Michael's does for sure, I was there today and they are in little tubes.
We don't have a Hobby Lobby here, so I can't tell you for sure, but they should have them in the jewelry section. WalMart has them as well;)
HTH
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