Sheetworks Studio! V2.3.1
The First-of-Its-Kind Paper Bead Making Software
Built for makers who value simplicity, creativity, and speed.
Really folks—this doesn’t exist anywhere else. If you’ve ever wished for a faster, easier way to design and print your bead sheets and paper bead templates, Sheetworks Studio is it.
Sheetworks Studio is a downloadable Windows app designed for paper bead makers who want precision, flexibility, and ease. Download the App and the First Expansion pack completely for free! No registration just install and go!
10 Years in the Making! Over 7 months of actual coding! I thought of this app over 10 years ago and finally, after breaking my ankle, I had the time to make it happen!
If You Have an Earlier Version
Sheetworks Studio Version 2.0 and up is a brand‑new app with a completely new save system. Files saved in earlier versions will not open in Version 2.0 and newer. If you used a previous version, please uninstall it and delete any old files from your Documents folder. The new version saves your layouts in a protected internal location so they stay organized and can only be opened through the app.
The Base App
This is what the app looks like upon loading after the splash screen goes away. View Larger
Template/Image Picker Extended
This is what the app looks like with the template/image Picker extended. View Larger
1/2" to 1/8" x 11" Strip sheet
This is what a typical strip sheet, aka paper bead template looks like before decorating. View Larger
Decorating Strip sheet
This is what a typical strip sheet, aka paper bead template can look like while decorating. View Larger
The app has box templates and this is one before decorating. Paper Box Template
This box template is the same one as above but while it is being decorated. View Larger
This is a sheet of 1/2in square stickers or waterslide appliques. -
What It Does:
- - 🧰 Load and preview over 300 templates for you to edit and make your own.
- - ✂️ Edit paper bead related templates and zoom in for detail
- - 🌀 Generate tapered, cone, teardrop and egg strips any size you want, (up to 3.0 for roller compatibility)
- - 📂 Allows you to be creative without the hassel of worrying about the math of designing bead strips.
- Why Paper Bead Makers Struggle:
- - Most graphics, publishing, and design software can create strip sheets, but the process is difficult, slow, tedious, and not designed for paper bead making
- - Hand cutting without printed guide lines almost always leads to inconsistent strip widths
- - Many online templates aren’t aligned, accurate, or sized correctly for standard US Letter paper
- - Pretty bead sheets often roll into unpredictable shapes because the strip geometry isn’t designed for bead making
- - There’s no simple way to add clean, accurate cutting lines to printed designs when working with regular graphics software
- - A lot of templates waste paper by leaving unused gaps or inefficient layouts
- - Scrapbook paper patterns rarely line up in a way that produces consistent color or pattern placement across strips
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Why It’s Different:
- - Built by a craftsperson with over 50 years of crafting experience
- - Built by a single person, not a team of developers
- - Julie, the developer, has been making paper beads since 1996.
- - Designed to be simple, intuitive and lets you be creative.
- - Sheetworks Studio is under 200 MB—fully self-contained, no internet required, and packed with templates and images.
- - You are free to make money with this app by selling what you create! Even while using the included images! Just don't sell the images, expansion packs or the app itself.
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Pricing:
- - Free and 1 free expansion pack comes with it.
- - Optional expansion packs will be available separately for just $11.95 each.
Sheetworks Studio V2.0 is here — rebuilt, expanded, and more inspiring than ever. Taking extra time before releasing version 2, gave me the space to rethink what this app could be. Instead of focusing only on paper beads, Version 2 now includes a wider range of creative templates inspired by the projects I share on my site (crochet not included). That extra time let me refine the tools, polish the experience, and make sure every template feels purposeful and fun to use.
The result is a cleaner, more versatile studio designed to spark ideas, support your craft journey, and bring fresh creativity to your fingertips.
- Lots of Templates: Contains over 300 Pre-designed bead sheet templates, strip sheets, office related files and craft related sheets for you to customize anyway you like.
- Bead Strip Generator: Contains a paper bead strip template generator that allows you to make your own paper bead templates of any size you want, even using metric sizes if you like.
- Different Bead Shapes: The paper bead template generator will let you make cutting lines for different shapes of beads, that will help in making cone, teardrop and egg shapes just by where the narrow end of the strip lies the end of the strip. This cutting line generator works with the Design Sheets in the app and expansion pack sheets that have Design in their title.
- Included Images: Includes all of the images that are in the online version of the Digital Paper designer on this site and more. No copyright problems there! Use them as you will, just don't sell the images as they are.
- Save to PDF: Even though you cannot print your masterpieces directly to a printer, you can save them to PDF, so you can print them whenever you need to!
- Saving Your Files: You can save your files to your computer. That way, you can work on a file later and it will show up in the Template Picker.
Features
Price: Free for the app and 1 Expansion Pack.
Sheetworks Studio App
Hearts Galore Expansion Pack
This expansion pack—and all future expansion packs—will be delivered as ZIP files. Download them like any other ZIP file, but do not unzip them or rename them. The ZIP filename becomes the category name inside the Template Picker. Install the app first, then open it and go to File → Import Expansion Pack. The app will unzip and install the pack for you (and honestly, it’s kind of amazing how smooth this is 🙂).
Future new Expansion packs will be priced at just $11.95 each and will contain 24 templates each. As we release each one, you will be notified by the app when they are ready and available for purchase. The purchase link on this site will take you to Etsy for an easy way to pay and download it right at Etsy. You can learn all about each expansion pack on this site before deciding whether you want to buy it or not.