Hi Everybody! Haven't seen you guys in a while. Thanks for stopping by! :D
I need some suggestions, ok? I got Christi Friesen's new Flourish book and now have leaves on the brain. So, I made these leaves last night and have ZERO idea of what to do with them. They are about 2 1/2 inches at their widest. I guess they should go on a box? Help!
And then I got Sherry Kellberg's toot on how to make faux lamp work glass. Now, this is a really fun toot! :D I made these blue and green mokume gane beads then spent 3 days putting on dots of liquid clay.
As you can see, on the last curing, the liquid clay started to singe. Now...my oven stayed at 275 according to the thermometer. This is the very first time ever that I had something burn. Oddly, all these beads were on the same bead rack. Check out this bead here:
This bead was right next to the barrel above. How did just one bead get so dark? But wanna know the coolest thing? Even this bead is beautiful. Instead of just being burned, the singed part is a root beer color with red highlights. It looks like dark amber and is really pretty.
So, because the singeing made such pretty gold sparkly colors, I made this bracelet.
And, when I'm not torching faux glass beads, I am making color combinations from Carolyn Good's Fabulous Color System. But that's for another blog soon! :D
