Creative Beading

Simple henna/mehndi designs?

I’ve been googling designs for the past few days and can’t find on that’s simple or nice to use for an art project I’m doing, where I draw out the design and hot glue beads onto it. I’ve tried designing my own, but it doesn’t come out very swell, so it’d be helpful if anyone could link me to some easy or simple designs I could manipulate into my own thanks

http://www.hennacaravan.com/
try looking through their site for simple grad night designs

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