[Blackbear]

ok I have finished the piece itself.. I used brown wrapping paper, three layers glued together and to the back of the piece of beadwork..then on a suggestion from another thread I used a dry iron and set the glue up realllly good. kept the piece flat too. Then I took a plastic lid from a yogurt cup and trimmed it up slightly smaller than the beaded piece itself. Smaller cause I don't want to have to try to put a needle through it. Then I took some thin white deer hide and glued everything to it and trimmed it as close to the beads as possible, without clipping any threads.