#paper beads

[friend-crow]

Paper Bead Magic

So a week or so ago I got the idea of making paper beads and hiding sigils inside them. I figured I could combine sigil and knot magic to accomplish various things.

Listen, I'm not a photographer, and I'm using a free phone that came with a prepaid plan, which really doesn't help.

It's easy enough to find tutorials online for paper beads, so I'm not going to make one, though I will put some tips I figured out under the cut at the end. I thought I'd mostly talk a bit about how you might use them.

This craft was largely inspired by the various uses of the many different types of prayer beads (I believe this is the umbrella term, but correct me if I'm wrong), but there are plenty of other things you could do with them.

Make them with sigils that correspond to your purpose and string them together with related knot spells, then:

hang the beads around your door(s), or wear them for protection

incorporate them into a pre-bed meditative ritual, then hang them over your bed before you go to sleep to help with lucid dreaming, remembering dreams, spirit communication, etc.

use them for trance work (repetition can be a great way to achieve a trance state)

make devotional jewelry for whatever deities you work with

use them like worry beads, for relaxation or to ease the urge to do addictive behaviors

Things I learned through trial and error:

To get nice round beads I found that I needed pretty thick paper (I ended up painting bristol board with watercolors and metallic paint)

If you do use something as thick as bristol board, you will end up with white edges showing (assuming the paper is white), so consider painting them if that bothers you

Tutorials I read suggested sealing them with mod podge or similar glue. I ended up using glazing medium for extra shine, and because I already had some

This took much, MUCH longer than estimated in the tutorials -- be patient!

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[goodthingstoknoww]

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[bubblyblulexie]

Made my mom a complete set of paper bead jewelry. I'm pretty sure she's gonna like it.

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[theheathergreen]

Free printable paper beads template (via Free Download: Paper Beads Printable – HG Designs)

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[peacelovedragonflies]

Etsy / eBay

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[chanslave]

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[ceni-buttercup]

First post ever

Things I made today

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[itsrickscraft]

Beads made from Starlight Coke box.

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[neutralsss]

I just realized I need to seal all my paper beads if I don’t want them to get worn by water and stuff 👺👺👺

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[sparklepink12k]

Recently I tried out beading. It was fun. And it led to another foray into my past. 8 years ago, for an art assignment I came up with a project that I never managed to fully realize. I didn’t know how, though if I was smart enough to look I could have found a guide. Instead I let intuition guide me. I had a finished product I submitted but it wasn’t what I had drawn up. Truly, I must have been something else for recognizing and recreating the technique I attempted then with no help or instructions even with its shoddy, messy output.

Maybe I could have even been proud for teaching myself and creating the method along the way. But those around me were always so much more talented and brilliant that what I did looked like nothing in comparison. I now realize they looked to the internet as a teacher while I only wondered how and dove in to fail. Still, recently I taught myself what I lacked. I found a lesson online and followed through, implementing and adjusting the techniques. (The research part has always been my inability. I never could just see and copy. I’d fail. I never learned how they all could and they were so far ahead to begin with. So I never did.)And I brought something to fruit which looked like what I’d imagined all those years ago in that art class. A near decade later I accomplished what I couldn’t then.

#sparklepink12k #i made these beads years ago for an art project and they’ve been sitting around for 8 years in a box or a bag or something and I finally #made something with them #i had attempted to make a bracelet like this back then but it was ugly and messy amd wrong #nearly a decade later I have achieved what middle school me envisioned #that’s kinda sad though #that I couldn’t do something so simple #oh well #beading #art #bracelet #paper beads #i made something #i made this

[an-exquisite-surrender]

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[theheathergreen]

Free printable download (via Free Download: Paper Beads Printable – HG Designs)

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[peacelovedragonflies]

Etsy / eBay

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[linfcor]

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[thepulpmill]

Paper and wood beaded necklace with flashey rondelle accents. 🌻🪵✨

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