Rediscovering Effetre Colors - Strawberry Shake

Hi everyone! Welcome back to my blog where I share my passion for glass beads and jewelry making. 

Today I want to show you a beautiful glass color from Effetre Strawberry Shake 681 available at Nortel in Toronto. 
This is a light and creamy glass with a hint of pink that looks delicious. 

I couldn't find much information about this glass online, so I decided to experiment with it and see what I could create.

I paired it with some of my silver glass from Double Helix: Eros and Aurae Light. I made some thin stringers of these two colors and applied them on the Strawberry Shake base in different designs. 

Then I encased them with clear glass and added some dots of Aurae Light to complete each bead. I reduced the dots to bring out the metallic shine of the silver glass.

The result was amazing! The Strawberry Shake glass blended well with the silver glass and created a lovely contrast of colors and textures. The beads look like yummy desserts with caramel and strawberry swirls. 

I love how they turned out! The spacers are pure Strawberry Shake so you can see the faint lines of pale strawberry "juice".

This is a great example of how you can use an inexpensive and simple glass color like Effetre Strawberry Shake 681 and make it look stunning with some silver glass accents.
This is another overlooked Effetre glass that is economical in price.

If you want to try this glass or any other glass that I use in my blog, I recommend you to order from Nortel. They have a huge selection of CiM, Double Helix, Riley Dichro and glass frit that you can choose from. They are very friendly and helpful too!

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Silver Glass Reactions - Magic Of The Goddess Bead - Part 4

You may have noticed by now that I enjoy making those "bumpy beads" that I have named as a Goddess series.

I still have more sets of Goddess beads to share with you today.

This set started on a base of CiM's 2023 Aubergine Milky, a purple milky opal.

 

 

Layers of Effetre Light Ivory, CiM Black Currant, Double Helix BE-462 Purple Luster were placed and captured under clear portals of Double Helix Zephyr.

 

 
To complete each bead, dots of silver infused purple luster was added and reduced to a metallic shine. 

The Aubergine base glass did fume a golden sheen from the reduction of the silver glass.

 

 

 

This set started on a base of another color for 2023 - CiM - Creation Is Messy’s Niagara Misty, a transparent blue aqua.

 

 

 

Layers of Effetre Light Ivory, Double Helix Oracle Black, 2016 Garage Sale glass coded as Sk.j.

 

 

The silver glass was stormed and reduced and captured under clear portals of Double Helix Zephyr.

 

To complete each bead, dots of silver infused Aurae Light was added and reduced to a metallic shine.

The base glass did fume with the silver glass reduction making the Niagara Misty a bit darker in tone from the original rod.

 

This set started on a base of popular CiM Heather, a cloudy transparent pinkish purple.

 

Layers of Effetre Light Ivory, CiM Hades black, 2016 Garage Sale glass coded as CL/OD.e.

 

The silver glass was stormed and reduced and captured under clear portals of Double Helix Zephyr.

 

To complete each bead, dots of silver infused CL/OD.e was added and reduced to a metallic shine.

 

The spacers are pure Heather. 

 

 

You will notice that each goddess bead base glass has a golden tone in comparison to the spacers. 

This is due to the fuming of the silver glass reduction.

 

 
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Silver Glass Reactions - Magic Of The Goddess Bead - Part 3

As part three of my posts on Goddess beads, I still have more sets of Goddess beads to share with you today.
This set started on a base of CiM - Creation Is Messy’s Boysenberry, a dense and saturated purple moonstone.

 

 

Layers of CiM Cafe Au Lait, Double Helix Melia 2, Psyche Light were placed and captured under clear portals of Double Helix Zephyr. 

 

To complete each bead, dots of silver infused Aurae Light was added and reduced to a metallic shine. 

 

The spacers are pure Boysenberry.

 

 

This set started on a base of sold out CiM - Creation Is Messy’s Cerulean, a transparent blue aqua.

 

 
Layers of Effetre Light Ivory, Double Helix 2016 Garage Sale glass coded as TC 663 and test glass Sk.j.

 

The silver glass was stormed and reduced and captured under clear portals of Double Helix Zephyr.

 

 
To complete each bead, dots of silver infused Aurae Light was added and reduced to a metallic shine.

 

The spacers are pure Cerulean.

I purchase my CiM glass from Nortel in Toronto.
Boysenberry shows as in stock currently.
Reach out to them for your glassy needs.


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Silver Glass Reactions - Magic Of The Goddess Bead - Part 1

I have been enjoying the warmer weather in April and taking advantage of a few vacation days away from my office to hide away in my glass studio.

I think I can proudly say I am known for creating my Goddess bead sets over the past decade. Each bead with its "bumpy" glass portals is a result of unique glass combinations of silver glass.

Within this post, I have lots of small Goddess bead sets to share with you today.

Let's get right to it!

Photographs never properly show the mother of pearl and mirror shine that each "bump" has captured.

This set started on a base of CiM - Creation Is Messy’s Amethyst, a pale transparent pinky-purple.

 

Layers of CiM's Ra, a silver laden yellow opaque, Double Helix blue catalyst ES 405 and SK 652 silver glasses.

 

The silver glass was stormed and reduced and captured under clear portals of Double Helix Zephyr. 

 

To complete each bead, dots of silver infused Aurae Light was added and reduced to a metallic shine. The spacers of pure Amethyst complete the set. 

 

 
The set below started on a base of CiM Bubblebath, a pale opal purple.

 

With the same combination of layers of CiM's Ra, Double Helix blue catalyst ES 405 and SK 652 silver glasses.

 

The silver glass was stormed and reduced and captured under clear portals of Double Helix Zephyr.

To complete each bead, dots of silver infused Aurae Light was added and reduced to a metallic shine.

 

 

The spacers of pure CiM Bubblebath complete the set.  

As always, I purchase my CiM glass from Nortel in Toronto. 

It appears that Amethyst is showing as currently available at the time of this post.

Bubblebath is a rare sold out glass unfortunately, but definitely check out the CiM website for other purple opals available. 

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Bits and Bobs for the Beginning of March

When I first think of March, the color green comes to mind. It brings thoughts of spring and of course St Paddy's Day.

 

It has been a while since chose to use green for a blog post so I picked of two of CiM's colors for this time around.

 

First up, CiM - Creation Is Messy's Wheatgrass was rolled in silver foil and sprinkled with Val Cox Geneva leaded frit. The glass was encased in Double Helix Zephyr and shaped into a heart as the focal bead. The spacers are simply CiM Wheatgrass.

 

CiM Wheatgrass was the base of this hex shaped focal bead on which Riley Cyan Copper Dichro glass was added and encased with Effetre Clear. Sprinkle dots of Double Helix OX 459 were added by hand to create the sparkling encrusting at each bead shoulder. The spacers are pure Wheatgrass.

This set of zulu glass frit beads started on a base of CiM Mint Chip on which Glass Diversions 7th Heaven frit was sprinkled. The frit was melted to the surface and the patterning of the colors is quite nice with no adverse reaction to the base glass.

 

This set of goddess series beads were created on a base of Effetre Dark Matter Rose #441R with layered dots of Effetre Avorio Pervinca #296, a creamy ivory. Combinations of Double Helix Garage Box 2015 mystery purple speckled glass labelled OP.e and Zephyr glasses create each clear glass portal.

 

 

The interaction of the silver glass has created storm like patterns under each clear glass bubble. 

 

Dots of Double Helix Aurae Light complete each bead. 

 

 

Depending on the angle of view, the colors range from blues with mother of pearl sheen to rich ambers, pink and purple storms.

 

I also tested Effetre Dark Matter in the two focal beads featured here. 

 

 

 

Each large straight sided pillow started on a base of Dark Matter with the left over bits of silver glass from making the goddess beads. 

 

 

Under the encasement of Effetre clear glass, each silver glass has a cast of mother of pearl sheen in creams, golds and pinks. These each measure 25MM by 25mm.

 

 

In natural light, the silver speckled glass sparkles with the movement of light.

 

 

 

I have checked availability of these glasses as In Stock on Nortel Glass' online shopping cart.

Reach out to Jean or Jennifer at Nortel to add some of these glasses to your new CiM - Creation Is Messy colors for 2023.

 

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February Flashback - Favorite CiM - Creation Is Messy colors paired with Double Helix!

I have checked availability of these glasses as In Stock on Nortel Glass' online shopping cart.

Reach out to Jean or Jennifer at Nortel to add some of these glasses to your new CiM - Creation Is Messy colors for 2023.

First up is CiM Vampire Ltd Run is an opaque red that I knew would work amazingly with Double Helix striking silver glass. This set started with a base of Vampire. 

Streams of Double Helix Terra 2 was struck and reduced, copper foil oak and dragonfly inclusions were added and each bead was encased in clear Double Helix Zephyr glass. 

This set has a variety of round, barrel and flat tab bead shapes to complete a set of beads just waiting for the perfect jewelry design.

Next up:

Starting with an inner core of CiM Hades, a darkest black opaque glass, these beads were generously sprinkled with a custom blend of Double Helix silver infused frit.

After reducing the beads to bring out the beautiful colors of blue and green, each bead was encased in Effetre clear to capture the opal-like shine of the silver glass and was shaped into the flat tab shape.

To bring out the true bling of these beads, hand-drawn dots were scattered on these beads and reduced to bring the golden shine to the surface.

CiM Limelight is described as "a clean, cool green with no hints of yellow with a tendency to develop micro bubbles". I did see this in the plain spacers, but when I used it to encase, the bubbling was not as noticeable.

First up, the "recipe" was Limelight base, layer of silver glass, encase with more Limelight and scrolls/dots of Aurae Light. 

This green is pure and clean, I really like the result!

It is a beautiful pale tint to encase silver glass reactions. 

Next up, a simpler look of the encased silver glass reaction. The Double Helix Psyche glass was reduced and then encased with Limelight to capture the blues/ pinks and amber hues.

 

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