In this video I am making pillow paper beads from my alcohol ink paintings. A viewer called Deanna told me about a video she had seen where someone used alcohol ink on Yupo to make pillow beads.
Deanna couldn't remember the channel she saw it on so if anyone knows who it was, please leave a comment so I can credit her with the idea. As some of you will know, I haven't been keen on using my alcohol ink paintings to make beads because so much of the design is hidden inside the rolled bead.
But then Deanna told me about this idea for using alcohol ink paintings to make pillow beads, which does show off more of the alcohol ink design that traditionally rolled beads.
I still wasn't that keen until I thought about using some of my least favourite alcohol ink creations. So that's what I have done here.
Also, I have never really taken to making pillow beads because the threading hole you get left with is so tiny, and I like to use 1mm elastic to thread my paper beads. So I thought about it for awhile and managed to find a way to make the threading hole in pillow beads much bigger and easier to thread thicker threading materials through.
So that's what this video is about - how tomake alcohol ink paper beads in the pillow bead style and how to make sure your threading hole is a good size.