Tyvek beads

textile artist photography and mixed media - Carolyn Saxby Textile Art St Ives Cornwall

I wanted to show you all an easy way to make really beautiful beads using Tyvek and Angelina fibres and film Tyvek is a man made material which can be painted on and sewn- as well as a multitude of other uses. One of it's characteristics is that it shrinks when heated with a heat gun. That's a key element in how we make these beads! I started off by painting my Tyvek by sprinkling on Brusho and spraying with water. These are wet, and quite dark. They dry a lot lighter, which is good, because…

I've always LOVED beads. I think they were my first love other than Peanut Butter Crunch...the reason I will never have a six pack. Making my own beads is a thrill every time I come up with a new color, design or material to use. These Tyvek beads are so glittery, I want to use them with everything! I grabbed Cosmic Shimmer Gilding Polish from Joggles.com and was able to apply the most beautiful metallic colors to the Tyvek paper before I melted them and then added even more glitter with my…

You will need: Strips of Tyvek painted both sides with acrylic paint Sweetie wrappers Angelina fibres Metallic threads Wooden barbeque stick Heat gunStrip of Tyvek painted both sides Gather materials together Wrap the Tyvek strip round the wooden stick, then wrap a layer of cellophane sweet wrapper round on top, secure with a pin Next, wrap some angelina fibres around the Tyvek and cellophane Heat the bead with the heat gun, holding the heat gun 6-8 inches away from the bead and twisting the…

I get tons of Tyvek envelopes in the mail and one of my favorite things to do with them is make beads! Just cut them into long triangles a...

Make beautiful turquoise stones with Tyvek & this special technique! #MarkMontano #Turquoise #MakeYourMark #Tyvek @amazinggoop @decoartinc

tyvek painted blues and greens with tulle wrapped aorund.

Make beautiful metallic beads with recycled Tyvec envelopes. Watch the short video tutorial here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g95X0Lk78E0

Alternate Mauve Halloween Green Sunflower Leaves Peeling Boat Paint Pretty in Pink Purple Plum When Heather first approached me a year ago to create color palettes from art beads, I was super excited to have an excuse to window shop. There are so many fabulous bead artists that I'm never at a loss of source material, which makes these monthly posts incredibly fun to do. So imagine my delight when I came across Carolyn Saxby Textiles. Carolyn's a mixed-media textile artist, and tucked away in…

Thank you to the ladies who played along with my guessing game last night, our winner is Sarah from Vintage Figments who tried so hard to get it right, and finally did. They are indeed beads :) I will be sending you a surprise gift Sarah, hope you had fun. So here are my finished beads, something I have wanted to try and never got around to, like so many other things. I kept seeing them in magazines and in books and they were either fabric or tyvek, which is a fiber you can heat. Well I…