February Flashback - Digging into the CiM - Creation Is Messy Archives - Part 4

More beautiful glass from the CiM Archives to flashback on sets of beads made with colors that are listed as Sold Out on the CiM website, but I have checked availability of these glasses as In Stock on Nortel Glass' online shopping cart.

 

On a base of CiM's Azure, a rich transparent blue, Double Helix Triton silver infused glass frit, decorate each round bead. Triton spacers are included in this set.

The glittering shine from these beads is amazing!

 

This shard bead set is a base of CiM Larkspur with Double Helix Aurae silver infused glass shards. CiM Larkspur is a transparent glass color that shifts between blue and lavender depending on your lighting.Love it for winter as it is rich and luxurious...
The Aurae shards cast golden, silver and copper tones within each reduced shard.

 

This set of goddess series beads were created on a base of CiM Grumpy Bear, an opaque periwinkle blue with layered dots of Effetre Dark Ivory and mixtures of Double Helix silver glasses and Catalyst ES-404. Highlights of Double Helix's silver glass, Ekho, create the bling dots for this set.

 

CiM Tardis is an opal blue that I paired with a basic frit and formed it into cubes.
It is a muted blue base and flowed beautifully as a great background for Valerie Cox’s Sunflower Fields artisan frit.

 

 Reach out to Jean or Jennifer to add some of these "archive" glasses to your new CiM - Creation Is Messy glass order. 

 

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Sailor's Delight - CiM Anchor, Splash and Grumpy Bear

This week I am sharing the results of the testing of the glass colours contained in the Sailor's Delight Sampler pack of CiM - Creation is Messy colours from Nortel. 

This post combines 3 CiM - Creation Is Messy colours within one bead set:

• CiM Splash
• CiM Grumpy Bear
• CiM Anchor

I have previously tested Splash and Grumpy Bear, check out these posts here!

Anchor is a deep dark transparent blue that actually appears to be black in the rod itself. The blue is so saturated that it seems to be used best as a decoration on a light base.

Below are several angles of the same set. 

 A few of the beads in the set used some silver glass that was reduced to create organic looking droplets. Check out the bumpy bead on the left. It is the same silver glass, but it was reduced to bring forth the green cast and notice how it fumed the grumpy glass with a golden hue.
The bead at the centre bottom is a bead that shows the darkness of Anchor as I created this bead from a twisty of Splash and Anchor. Notice the striations on the left of the bead.

Check out the bead to the right of centre bottom, this was created with a based on CiM Splash and decorated with Anchor and silver glass dots.

This set would be very nice in a simple bracelet with silver accents!

Til next time!

D.

Sailor's Delight Sampler - CiM Splash and Grumpy Bear

Happy Sunday everyone!

This post is another instalment of the blues in Nortel's Sailor's Delight colour sampler.

These sampler packs are great for artists that:
- want to "try" a new colour without the commitment of purchasing a minimum 1/4 pound of a specific colour
- want to create multi-colour beads from a coordinated set of colours.

The colours used in these beads are CiM's Splash and Grumpy Bear. 

As shown in the previous post, Splash is a light blue transparent that melts easily and is great for encasing. On the CiM website, it was noted that "Splash is a variation of Halong Bay that did not come out as an opal, but as a transparent instead".

CiM's Grumpy Bear is an opaque periwinkle blue just like the CareBear character. As a periwinkle it does create some reactions based on what you combine with it, so I tested it in this faux "vessel" shaped bead with some handmade frit and a wrapping of fine silver wire. 
This is where you see a slight bit of the reaction where the wire touches the Grumpy Bear.

I encased the bead's Grumpy Bear base with Splash and created the ends of the barrel shaped bead and a final quick wrap of more silver.

Check out the few photos below show it from a couple of perspectives and it is paired with the solid periwinkle opaque spacer beads.

Til next time,
D.