Paper beads

For Christmas I was given this absolutely stunning necklace made with paper beads,

 naturally I was intrigued and eager to try it out myself so I found this website which has a paper bead making tutorial and I set to work. I am a complete hoarder of scraps of paper so I raided my stash and found plenty of bits of old magazine, craft paper and even wallpaper to use.

 Here are my first attempts, obviously not as neat as the ones on my necklace but I think not bad for a first try, I need to get some clear varnish to protect them and to make them shiny and then they will be completely finished. It is actually so easy (well easy to do, harder to do perfectly but what's the fun in something that's not a bit of a challenge?) and they look absolutely beautiful, and if you use patterned paper you get snippets of the pattern showing through, I love them! I urge everyone to have a try! :)

On another note, I found the perfect place for my heart collage canvas, It's now propped on my chest of drawers opposite my bed where brightening the room with it's cheeriness :)