This technique works well for a disc-shaped bead with holes on each side. I like attaching disc shaped beads to long necklaces made with beads and leather cord.

These striped cylinder beads look really good in necklaces and are easy to make. The basic process requires a stack of different coloured sheets and this post shows how to make them.

The striped bead tutorial shows how to make a cane out of a polymer clay stack and make them into flattened oval shaped beads. It also shows how to put a colour trim around bead.