CiM Crocus paired with Effetre Pale Purple - Pendragonfyre Frit Beads

Today's quick post is a simple set of frit beads using my Pendragonfyre hand blended frit over Effetre Pale Purple. 

Each frit bead has a core of Effetre white to lighten up the bead a bit.

The spacers that coordinate in this set are CiM Crocus. 
Crocus is a milky opal lavender that stays translucent after annealing- same hue as Wisteria.

CiM Crocus is showing as IN STOCK in the online shopping cart at Nortel at the time of this blog post. Reach out to Jean or Jennifer at Nortel for your glassy needs!

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Frit Painting with Val Cox Rio Nights Frit

In this blog post, I will show you some of the beads I made with a frit painting technique. 

I used Effetre pale purple transparent glass as the base and covered it with a thin layer of clear glass. 

I dipped a clear glass rod into Val Cox Rio Nights frit and applied it to the bead, creating striations of color around the bead. 

I sprinkled a bit more frit on each bead to finish the design. 

The result is a set of round beads with a colorful and abstract pattern.

Within this frit, "copper goldstone adds sparkle to this multi-hued blend including Multicolor Dark which color shifts in lively and unpredictible ways with each use.

The spacers are Effetre pale purple.

I am always attempting to also practice my work with hollow beads, so this color combination was an opportunity to make a hollow.

This hollow was simply a base of Effetre pale purple with a sprinkling of Val Cox Rio Nights. I like the result!

I have checked availability of Effetre pale purple (#046) as In Stock on Nortel Glass' online shopping cart.
I believe that Val Cox has stopped production of the frit, so I will have to cherish what little I have left on my shelf!
Reach out to Jean or Jennifer at Nortel for your glassy needs!

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Simple Rounds with Silvered Ivory Stringers!

On the post today, the focus is to show how silvered ivory stringer can be used in a variety of ways with both transparent and opaque glasses.

As I am learning more each studio session how my new kiln works, I have been using the sessions to make as many beads as possible to understand the value of having the larger kiln.
This past session, I created 88 beads in one sitting... which I think it the most for a day yet.
I will share the beads over the next couple of blog posts and hope you enjoy seeing them.

Today, the simple silvered ivory stinger stripe on transparent glasses.

On CiM - Creation Is Messy Larkspur, a transparent color that shifts between blue and lavender depending on your lighting. I definitely suggest you check out the photos on the CiM website to better understand how this glass changes color under sunlight, fluorescent and incandescent. It is quite cool.

 

 

The next two transparent are Effetre glasses that Nortel gifted me when I visited last month.

Effetre Light Aquamarine 034 - such a lovely sea inspired color!

 

The next Effetre color was coded on the Italian sticker as Amethyst but in checking online it appears to be named Pale Purple 046. It is a very pretty purple  transparent that I previously used for encasing over white in my Love Sonnet beads.

 

 All of these glasses are economical in price and powerful in their color saturation.

Stay tuned for more beads coming in my next post!
As always, I suggest you reach out to Nortel to place your glass orders. They carry an extensive selection of CiM glass as well as Double Helix, Riley Dichro and glass frit.


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