How To Use Your Paper Bead Maker

Materials Needed
• Get your paper strips ready

Follow the instructions on how to cut your bead sheets into strips.
• Regular Household white glue

Any plain white glue will work. This is for gluing the end of the strip down after rolling and before taking the bead off the roller.
• Scissors

These will be used to trim the ends of your strips if there they have white space at the end where the picture is.
• Bead Drying Rack & Toothpicks

This is what I use to hold the beads before and after I glaze them.

• A Needle Tool

A fine tapestry needle or paper quilling is to be used for finishing up the hole in the bead after it is removed from the Paper Bead Maker.

Method of Rolling Strips Into Beads
1. Insert end pin into right side of bracket in the hole which will fit it best. but don't put it through the other hole on the other side yet.
2. Get a strip of paper and insert the wide end or the end opposite the image, with the image facing away from you into the slot of the cotter pin from the top side. Then insert other end of pin into other hole on left side.
3. While holding down the end of the strip on the pin, start winding the pin carefully so it will not pop out. Then wind away from you until the bead is all wound up tight. Put a dab of glue on the narrow end or the end closest to you to secure the end of the strip in place.
4. Carefully remove the left end of the pin from the bracket and then carefully remove the bead from the pin. This may be hard at first, with the first bead but as you make beads, you will get the feel for it.
5. Insert needle tool into the bead once you have removed it from the pin and wind the bead around it by holding the tool in one hand and rolling it on the palm of your other hand very quickly to finish the hole and make it really round.
6. Remove bead from needle tool, place on top of a toothpick and set bead on toothpick into the foam block to wait for glazing.

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