Featured Designer: Sarah of StepThruCrazy

What can you do with a pile of paper? Here’s a very good tip on what you can do with it, make beads and create accessories like what Sarah of StepThruCrazy did when she created a bugle bead.

Creating the bead is just really simple. All you need is a colorful paper and you can use just those that are lying around from a pile or pages from a magazine. One good tip that you can use are used gift wrappers. You also need glue and lots of it, a straw and a tape. For this piece, Sarah used scrapbook paper and she created bugle shape beads.

Sarah is generous enough to share this idea on her free tutorial on

More Beads, More Tees…and a Necklace.

Simple and Cute!

I think you would all agree that sometimes making jewelries can be a little expensive, especially having to buy an assortment of beads. It is my problem sometimes whenever I want to create a design and I don’t have the kind or shape of beads that I need, but this is a really great idea; very simple, easy and a really cheap way to make an accessory. Now, I can make use of my old magazines that have just been piled up over the years. I can now create lots and lots of beads!

Thanks StepThruCrazy for a great idea!

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