How to Make a Beadboard: Jewelry Making Basics

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Hello, I'm Alan with Expert Village. Let's say that you don't have bead board or you don't have the money to buy one. It's real simple to make one for your own. All you need is a piece of construction paper or just a regular white paper from your computer. And then you take it and what you're going to end up with when you’re finished is something that looks like an accordion. The reason why is because you want the beads to lay inside each of the rows, but you don't want them to fall out on the ends. So I made a little trick to show you to keep them from doing that. Now you can measure these out if you want to. It's not really important that they be exactly the same, but just start folding the paper over, maybe about a half inch to an inch on each end. Fold it back and forth just like you would when you were in elementary school until you have done it maybe ten times and you have several rows you can work with many different colored beads and many different rows at one time. I don't know what kind of project you will be working on, but you might need the additional rows for that. Then you open it up a little bit. Now what you have to do is turn it over and in the bottom part, what would be the bottom part on this side, just cut a little tiny slit in the end. Do it on both ends and then take that little tiny part and bend it upward and fold it back. Same thing here, bend it upward and fold it back. Now what that does is creates these nifty little end pieces that will actually hold the beads in place when you put them in there. Keeps them from rolling out the end.

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