The Allure of Peach Pink Glass Beads: A Touch of Romance

In the world of glass bead-making, the fusion of color and transparency creates more than just jewelry components; it crafts a narrative. 

This Peach Pink romance-inspired set of glass beads is a testament to this artistry. 

Imagine the delicate dance of Val Cox Pink Lipstick glass frit over a base of Italian Effetre peach rose transparent glass. 

Each bead is a canvas where bursts of pinks unfold in patterns, evoking a muted romantic aura that's both timeless and contemporary.

The process of creating these beads is as fascinating as the beads themselves. 

The Val Cox Pink Lipstick glass frit blend is known for its warm pink hues that only reveal their true peach-pink splendor after heating. 

This transformative quality ensures that each bead is unique, carrying within it the secrets of its creation.

Reach out to Jean or Jennifer at Nortel to add some of these glasses 

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CiM - Creation Is Messy 2021 Colors - Cupcake Ltd Run

CiM Cupcake Ltd Run is an opaque yellow cream. 

It melted smoothly with no problems with shocking or cracking.

It is nice to work with a non streaky yellow cream when I am creating beads with glass frit.

This set sprinkled Val Cox Pink Lipstick frit, a mixture of pink transparent and opaque glasses.

Two spacers of Cupcake show the base glass for comparison.

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Pinks and Purples - Switching with Frit Focals

Hues of pink and purple are always popular in jewelry designs. 

In this post, I have created focal beads from bases of Effetre white opaque glass sprinkled with glass frit from the Valerie Cox collection.

By switching up the coordinating beads the look can be easily switched to create a different look.

First up, the focal bead has a mix of pink and purple hues over the white base. This mix is called Pink Lipstick. The white coordinating beads create a classic clean set.

By switching out the white spacers, the same focal bead is now paired with purple spacer beads created from CiM's Evil Queen, an opaque purple. 

In the final photo, by switching up the focal bead, we have another option for the necklace.

The focal bead here uses Val Cox's Fleeting Beauty frit over the base of white.

The CiM Evil Queen spacers coordinate to pull forward the purple hues in the focal bead.

Quick Post For Today!

Pink Lipstick Frit Rounds
Materials: Effetre Glass and Val Cox Glass Frit

On a base of Effetre Rose Quartz transparent glass, Val Cox Pink Lipstick frit glass blend was sprinkled and melted to a smooth finish.

Green Frit Barrels
Materials: CiM - Creation is Messy Glass, Silver Foil and Pendragonfyre Glass Frit.

Starting on a base of CiM's Fiddlehead Ltd Run, an opaque green glass, silver foil was melted in and hand-mixed Pendragonfyre frit was sprinkled to create these 7 hand shaped round barrel beads. These have been etched to provide a smooth tactile feel to each bead.