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Hi! My name is Elizabeth, and on behalf of Expert Village, we’re continuing with our
series of using beads in card making. We’ve talked some about seed beads, and we’ve
shown other ways to use other beads as far as stringing or using them in that manner.
Now, we’re going to make a frame on this card using beads. To do this, you want to
make sure that you’re using a tape runner or a double-sided tape. I’m using a Tombow
permanent mono adhesive, and I’m just going to trace around the edge of this stamped embellishment,
making a full square around this piece. You can see that I’ve got my adhesive on there
really good. What I’m going to so is I’m going to take some of these green beads. To
start with, I’m just going to sprinkle them on here. I’m just going to sprinkle them
on there so that there’ some there. Then I’m just going to tap it into this lid.
If you have a craft tray, a craft tray will work well. If not, the lid to one of your
bowls works just as fine. I’m just going to add a few more of these green ones on here
and retap it, and the beads go flying. There are some green ones. What you can do is just
kind of push to firmly implant them into your adhesive. The next thing I’m going to do
is try and put these green ones back in here. We don’t want to mix our beads up too much.
Then again, holding the card over the lid or your craft tray, I’m going to take a
scoop of these teenie tiny seed beads and just add them filling in the gaps where the
green beads are. Just going around there a few times, and then shaking making a mess.
You just want to shake those into your lid or your craft tray. The bigger your tray or
lid is the less of a mess you’ll make. You can just see. Then when you see these holes
here, you can just go back in and fill in pouring them or just taking them by your finger
and filling in that space. That way you just add a fancy little frame around here. You
can see there are holes here, here, and here. Again, all you need to do is just add more
beads, push down with your finger to secure them on the adhesive, and fill in your holes
that way. Then you have a completely beaded frame for your greeting card.