Aladdin Magical Penny Candy Tiles

Today's post highlights a set of glass frit beads with multi-coloured patterns that reminds me of tiles of penny candy.

CiM - Creation Is Messy's Desert Pink Unique #1 was sprinkled with Glass Diversions frit named Aladdin.

This blend is a magical blend of bright, cheery colors!

Glass frit is a wonderful addition to a bead maker's tool and supply box as it allows beads to be created in unique combinations of colors using mixes of crushed glass blended by hand.

Although the CiM website states that this pink pastel glass is sold out, Nortel Glass in Toronto is my glass supplier in Canada with quick shipping and many colors in stock and ready to ship to you.

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February Flashback - Goddess Series Glass Combinations -Walk down Memory Lane!

In this post I am revisiting some of the goddess bead sets that I have created over the years.

The first couple CiM glasses used for the bases of these sets are showing as Sold Out on the CiM Website but I see that all the CiM glasses are showing 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.

This set of 13 goddess series beads were created on a base of CiM's Desert Pink with layered dots of Effetre Dark Ivory glasses. Double Helix silver infused glasses, Aurae and rare KA-357 glow under each clear glass portal.
This set also includes 6 spacer beads of transparent Effetre Rosata Extralux.
Highlights of DH Aurae silver glass create the bling for this beautiful portal beads!

 

On a base of CiM's Raindrop, portals were created using layers of Dark Ivory, drops of Double Helix's luster silver glass, Ossa creates the watery portals. Each portal was encased in clear glass and dots of Double Helix rare test glass, HE379 were added to bring out the shine of each highlight dot.

 

 

This mini set of 8 goddess series beads were created on a base of CiM Mojito with layered dots of Effetre Dark Ivory & CiM Hades glasses.
Double Helix test silver infused glasses, OK-380 created
storms under each clear glass portal.
This set also includes 4 spacer beads of CiM Mojito.
Highlights of DH Aurae silver glass create the bling for this beautiful stormy beads!

This set of 13 goddess series beads was created on a base of CiM's Sangre red glass.
Each goddess bead was then layered with dots of Effetre Dark Ivory and CiM's Hades black. Double Helix silver glass, Psyche Light was added and its storms were captured under each clear glass portal dots.
The Sangre Red base glass has been fumed to a deep dark maroon and the Double Helix Aurae completes the highlight droplets on each bead.

 
This set of 9 goddess series beads were created on a base of CiM Pulsar glass with layered dots of Effetre Dark Ivory & Double Helix ES-404 silver catalyst glass. Trautman Art Glass silver infused Zeus creates the swirls in each storm portal. Highlights of Double Helix OK-381R silver glass create the bling for this beautiful storm portal beads! Four CiM Pulsar spacers complete this set.

This set of 7 goddess series beads was created on a base of CiM Phoenix opaque glass. Each goddess bead was then layered with dots of Effetre Dark Ivory, CiM's Hades black,
DH silver infused glasses RE-391 catalyst and Kronos. The combination of the glasses create the multi-hued portals captured under each clear glass dot. Double Helix Aurae Light completes the metallic highlight droplets on each bead.

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Testing a CiM - Creation is Messy Color Rod Sampler# 1 from Nortel

On my visit to Nortel in January, I was lucky to grab up some CiM- Creation is Messy color sampler packs.

Over the next couple of weeks, I will be creating and sharing some bead creations. 
These sampler packs are great for artists that:
- want to "try" a new color without the commitment of purchasing a minimum 1/4 pound of a specific color
- want to create multi-colour beads from a coordinated set of colors.

First sampler that I tried contained the following colors:
Poolside 511553
Bone 511826
Desert Pink 511957
Rapunzel 511627
Enchanted 511626
Venus 511911

As I love using silver glass in my testing, I created some big hole bead sets using silver glass frit and some handmade shards.

The following sets uses Double Helix Triton fine frit. 
Triton is an extra strength super luster on a cobalt blue base that produces a satin iridescence bling when reduced. Fine graded frit is the size of salt grains and as a result needs to be treated very lightly to keep it from melting completely into the surface of the bead.

With Poolside, the silver glass frit provided a golden sugar effect with no impact on the base glass.

With Rapunzel, the frit held it's blue in the reduction flame and also fumed the base glass to a slight golden tint.

With Enchanted, the golden sugar was more evident but there is a slight blue back tint at the surface of the bead.

With Bone, I created two silver frit beads to demonstrate that when it was quickly reduced, the gold/ blue sugar shine comes forward, but the neutral base was greatly fumed to a golden ivory. Once the frit was melted in to the surface, Triton's true blue returns to the metallic shine's surface.

For Bone, silver glass definitely fumes the surface, so if you are looking for it to stay as a whiter neutral, keep it away from silver glass.

The last 2 CIM Sampler colors were matched with handmade shards created from Double Helix Helios silver glass. This glass is a golden-yellow citrine, jewel tone super luster that gleams of gold shine!

With Desert Pink, there was a definite golden fuming when the Helios silver glass shards were added. The true color of the pink rod is the color in the spacer beads.

With Venus, there was little golden fuming and it retained the peachy pink hues of the base glass.

The photo below shows the beads together to show how the fumed Desert Pink bead looks so lovely coordinates with Venus beads.

I hope you enjoyed looking at these bead sets. I encourage you to contact Jean at Nortel to pick up a sampler pack and try these colors soon!

Til next time,
D.

Dots and Patterns with CiM - Creation is Messy Ltd Run Glasses

These round patterned beads would be wonderful in any artisan jewelry designs!

Summer Mix
CiM - Creation is Messy and Effetre Glasses




This classic set of dotted beads was created with combinations of CiM's Daffodil Ltd Run bright opaque orange, Fiddlehead Ltd Run green and Effetre white glasses.

Grey and Pink Classic Mix
CiM - Creation is Messy and Effetre Glasses






This classic set of dotted beads was created with combinations of CiM's Desert Pink, now sold out Weimaraner Ltd Run grey and Effetre white opaque glasses.

CiM Color Testing 2014 - Weimaraner Ltd Run

There are multiple types of gray opaques out in the glass world ranging in undertones of green, brown and blue. Weimaraner Ltd Run is CiM's offering for an opaque blu-ish gray.

It is a streaky gray and provides some interesting reactions in these dotted beads below.

 Mixed with Effetre White, CiM's Desert Pink and rare CiM Razzleberry, the result is both classic and retro! These beads remind me of 1950's soft pinks and poodle skirts!