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| Christmas Diorama |
Dear friends, my 7 year old daughter is rather taken with beads these days and is forever making necklaces and bracelets [see her
Beaded Necklace]..I caught the beading fever from her and tried to make a
beaded tree using some seed beads I have had like since forever!
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| Beaded Tree Tutorial |
My beaded tree is rather amateurish so professional beading experts do forgive me but I was so thrilled my experiment turned out ok that I am sharing the tutorial so that a novice with no beading experience whatsoever can make a beaded tree
How to make a beaded treeThis beaded tree is quite simple and quick to put together ! Some of the leafy branches were made by my 7 year old and it took just approximately 1 hour to make the unadorned beaded tree!
Materials required for your do it yourself web diybeaded tree
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| Beaded Tree Tutorial |
- Seed Beads –whatever colour you want your tree to be
- Wire -24 G or even thicker ones [of less gauge]– I worked with 24 G and it was quite easy to twist and bend.
- Wire cutter or scissors.
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| Beaded Tree Tutorial |
Cut a piece of wire 16- 20 inches long[I didn't measure … I just cut wire of length from my fingers to my shoulder!] and bend it in half
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| Beaded Tree Tutorial |
Thread 10 to 12 seed beads on the wire.. you don't have to count but eyeball the length of the beaded area.The commonly available seed beads [unless you buy high quality expensive ones] generally vary in length in one packet and if you thread the same number of beads the length will vary .
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| Beaded Tree Tutorial |
Push the beads to the bent center of the wire
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| Beaded Tree Tutorial |
Cross the wires and twist to form a loop of the seed beads.Keep twisting to give the beaded “leaf” a stem. Make your stem as long as you want.
Tip: To quickly and easily twist -hold the beads and twist rather than holding the wire and twisting
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| Beaded Tree Tutorial |
Thread beads in the same way on one arm of the wire
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| Beaded Leaf Tutorial |
Bend the wire at the length you want the leaf to branch out and holding the beads in your hand twist to form a looped leaf like before.Keep twisting till the wire reaches the earlier leaf’s stem.
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| Beaded Leaf Tutorial |
Thread beads on the other half of the wire in the same way and twist to make one more beaded leaf
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| Beaded Leaf Tutorial |
Twist the 2 arms of the wire to a length you want . If you want add more leaves on each arm of the wire as before.
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| Beaded Leaf Tutorial |
You can make a conical “Christmas tree” type of tree by adding leafy branches of different stem lengths and having different number of leaves.You can make three or four “2 leaf” branches and add them to your 3 leaved top branch.
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| Beaded tree Tutorial |
Decide how much down the top branch you want the next layer of branches and twist on the leafy branches one by one .
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| Beaded Tree Tutorial |
So your tree is already shaping up! Add branches with more leaves or longer stems as you go down the tree trunk.There is no hard and fast rule on lengths and number of leaves on how to make your tree..I experimented quite a bit and my tree turned out different every time and it was fun!
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| Beaded Christmas Tree |
You can make a loopy base for your tree with wire [rather tricky !] or insert your tree trunk in play dough/clay like I have done here.
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| Beaded Christmas Tree |
The base of my beaded tree is a plastic play dough container which I dressed up with washi tape, lace and rhinestones.To cover up the play dough I poured a generous amount of white glue over it and covered it with pearls.Can you see the "snow" on the rim of my tree base? |
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| Beaded Christmas tree |
Threaded a flower head and a red bead on a pin head and looped them on my beaded tree.I don't know if they look like cherries or Christmas tree ornaments!
Die cut 2 stars from silver glittery foam and stuck a loop of wire between them.Twisted the star atop the beaded Christmas tree.
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| do it yourself web diyBeaded Tree |
Click here for the full view and details of the snowy
Christmas Diorama I used the beaded trees on .
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| Beaded tree tutorial |
These easy to make Trees would look fabulous as home renovation decor and if you sell your crafts I bet these would be a big hit [but caution you need to pack them well and maybe use thicker wire otherwise the branches can get squished!]
Do tell me how this simple tutorial was.
Supplies :
Beads, Wire , wire cutter,head pins, flower caps,pearls,Rhinestones-Itsy Bitsy.Edited : This beaded tree tutorial was featured at
Totally Tutorials!
This beaded tree also got Top honor at
Decorate to Celebrate Christmas tree theme
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