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How to Make Paper Beads. Although the PDF covers using our designer papers, you can use any type of paper that will absorb liquids. This can be adapted for any age, even toddlers using non-toxic white glue.

How to Make Fancy Wire-Wrapped Earrings Combine pieces of colored wire with seed beads, freshwater pearls any small charms with the fun wire twisting, to make a light, airy, swirly and unique pair of earrings that are unforgettable.

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MYRA'S MIXED MEDIA TECHNIQUE MASTERY SERIES

Give Your Leftover Beads a Makeover!

Transform those thrift shop or yard sale beads into original works of art! Use wood, plastic, metal, resin, bone beads, inexpensive colorants, add ribbon, fiber, foil, rhinestones, and more to get beads uniquely yours. Our Altered Bead Guide lists eight different techniques that you can combine to get dozens of effects! (see details below)

Make Pins or Pendants from Broken Jewelry

Time to reuse and recycle! Learn a variety of techniques to "finish off" broken bits, mask stained finishes, disguise missing stones. Covers techniques for joining materials (mechanical joints), chemically stable paints, faux metal treatments, adhesives and finishes. Use techniques to create unique gift items. Each e-book: $7.50

Give Your Leftover Beads a Makeover!

Transform those thrift shop or yard sale beads into original works of art! Use wood, plastic, metal, resin, bone beads, inexpensive colorants, add ribbon, fiber, foil, rhinestones, and more to get beads uniquely yours. Our Altered Bead Guide lists eight different techniques that you can combine to get dozens of effects!

E-Book PLUS Sample Materials Bag

No surface is immune to our creative muse! Cold joints, mechanical wraps, collags with paper, metal, fabric and glass, solving structural problems.... Our goal: publishing our unique processes as guides, e-books, tutorials & specialty goodies. Low cost downloads, with instructions, free projects & more

Make Pins or Pendants from Broken Jewelry

Time to reuse and recycle! Learn a variety of techniques to "finish off" broken bits, mask stained finishes, disguise missing stones. Covers techniques for joining materials (mechanical joints), chemically stable paints, faux metal treatments, adhesives and finishes. Use techniques to create unique gift items.

E-Book PLUS Sample Materials Bag

Make An Altered Bead Necklace - Use every Scrap of Floral "Partz" You can Find!!

A twist on our altered bead e-book, but a lot of fun as a single-focus project! Use wood or plastic beads and drill, glue, paint and just go wild to make the base of this necklace. String them up and add all your floral broken jewelry to the necklace with glue and wire. Use every bit of floral embellishment you have, and if that's not enough...

Twisted Kitz

Fun kits make everything from wire and beaded jewelry, fun holiday ornaments, photo holders, accessories, and more. Perfect for art parties or workshops. All kitz are designed by Myra Nicholas. All of our TWISTED KITZ kitz contain materials needed to create these pieces and are designed to encourage creativity and exploration, that's what gives these kitz the twist!

We've got Quick & Easy

Little Dragon Bracelet and Ring Kit.

Quick, easy and adorable! Make a fun matching stretchy bracelet and ring with eyes. Includes all you need to make the set.

Freshwater Pearl Sunface Kit

Jewelry Kitz Include

Welcome Spring!!! The Hybrid_Hibiscus Necklace, is now offered as a kit, complete with crystals, pressed glass flower and leaf beads, eye pins, connector beads and instructions. You can also purchase it with the beading wire, chain and spacers included.

Twisted Earrings-- Earrings are no longer a bore! With this kit you make three pair of truly unforgettable and fun pair of earrings.

Combining glass seed beads, dyed freshwater pearls and our included colored wire coil, you can make a light, airy, swirly and unique pair of earrings that are unforgettable. Each kit makes 3 pair. Kit details and contents.

Holiday Kitz are great fundraisers:

Wire Holiday Wreath-- These tiny wreaths make the perfect lapel pin and are quick and easy to make. Perfect for holiday gift giving. One kit makes six wreaths.

The Giftopper Instead of putting a throw-away bow on your next gift, make a giftopper. It's a combination of dragonfly and bow, Uses metal-edged ribbon, and pulls off to become a pin, ornament or barette.

Our Party Kitz are great for groups!

Our Wired Woman series is great for gifts, parties and looks different each time you make one. All kitz have alterntive design suggestions, and come packed with all the materials you'll need to make a complete "Wired Woman". Wired Woman kits have workshop pricing, many options. Get more details.

And our Funky and Crafty Kitz for Serious Crafters

Your friendly little guardian pin-- Fun and funky, this jewel toned, bright eyed dweetheart has a decorative ruff of glass beads and stares wide-eyed at the world from your shoulder. You get the adorable head, all the beads and wire in the kit. Review contents and options

Start with a polymer clay torso bead, bits of fiber, beads, wire and bead caps.. add a creative mind and you can make a fully functional marionette!

Make sure you tie the strings tight, practice with the paddles to get your arm gesture and knee lifting right. Dress in costume, add extra features and then put on a show! Perfect family project for kids and parents. Kit details and contents.

ORIGINAL PARTZ PROJECTS....

How to Make a Retro-Style Handbag from 2 CDs

Recycle with style with this evening bag design! Inspired by those fabulous beaded bags of the early part of the century with an updated concept and a very new millenium twist on it. Tube beads act as spacers threaded with with wire and ending in loops. That's where the charms go... those loops allow you to hang colorful enameled charms of everything from butterflies to cocktails, cats to handbags and shoes to create swing and motion. (this is not a beginner project)

Instructions contain a template for drilling your CDs and a template for making the liner and a discount coupon for charms from NotJustPartz.

Make your own Wired Women with Beads, Wire and Imagination

Sporting free-swinging bugle bead bead hair anchored on a glass bead head, arms outstretched to grasp the world, and a skirt reminiscent of Olive Oyl (with bead legs & feet showing), this "wired woman" can be worn as a pin or displayed on a desk with pride.

Step by step instructions show you how to make this delightful "wired" woman, what kinds of beads you'll need, and alternate techniques to use when you want to make a change. Directions make it easy to size create your finished product to suit your needs. Fairly easy for those used to beading and working with wire. Wire cutters and round nosed pliers necessary. A discount coupon for purchasing items from NotJustPartz included.

MORE PARTZ PROJECTS...

3-D Mixed Media Paper Doll

Call this the "daughter of a paper doll" with fiber, paper, wire and bits of bling. Here's our mixed media “paper doll” for the Altered Artist. She’s not flat, like the dolls of yesterday, we’re making her 3-D. Her arms and legs can move as well. Her clothes won’t be glossy paper held on with tabs, instead they’ll be bits of fabric, lace, and trim, held on with Velcro or fiber tape.

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