Monday, April 13, 2020

JetAge Studios Glow Powder - Green

Glow-in-the-dark powders, can be a bit of a one trick pony. Either you want something to glow, or you don't. 

This powder has a pretty significant amount of glow to it. As with other glow powders, the more you use, the better the glow. 

It doesn't really melt into the glass though, so you can roll it in the powder and get a coating and get it to melt onto the surface to stick, and give a frosted effect, which is not unattractive by itself. 

But the best way to make it really punchy is to create a hollow space inside the bead or whatever you're making, spoon some of the powder into it so that you get a goodly amount, and then cover it back up again.

It's cool to watch it glow briefly when you push the glass into the powder.

Compatible with both soft glass and boro.

Sunday, April 12, 2020

CiM 489 Witches' Brew

CiM 489 Witches' Brew another pretty, pretty colour. Which is Brew is a beautiful spring green, a real Peridot green. Absolutely lovely 😍😍😍👍🧙‍♀️🧙‍♀️🧙‍♀️💚💚💚



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CiM 919 Peony

CiM 919 Peony. Pretty pretty pretty pink. Its raining, so you'll have to live with the indoor photos, but this is beautiful, just beautiful. 💖💖👍👍👍😍😍😍


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Saturday, April 11, 2020

CiM 325 Pachamama

CiM 325 pachamama. Mind blown. 🤯😉 which, it wouldn't have been, if I had actually looked at the end of the rod before I started. Notice all those tiny dots? This is a rod with streaks of dark blue all the way through. On the way to a bit of glass. It doesn't show as well in the wavy bit, but in the leaves where I just bundled the glass up and then squashed it, it's amazing 🤩🤩🤩





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CiM 324 Ra

CiM 324 Ra. Ooooo. I must have more of this. @nortel_glassgirl - can you please put aside a couple of pounds of this for me whenever you get back in the office? Ra is a light to dark Ivory, let's call it self-antiquing and a little bit of a pinkish blush in some places where it strikes. Just beautiful. Notice my on camera self restraint at not swearing when I dropped one. By the way oh, it's survived, no damage. 



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Saturday, March 28, 2020

Comparison

CiM pink lemonade, fruit punch, watermelon. Side by side. Are we ready for summer yet? Lol

CiM 730 Fruit Punch

CiM 730 Fruit Punch more pink! Crazy wonderful selection of pinks from #creationismessy. This is a salmony pink. 👍👍👍



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CiM 219 Watermelon

CiM 219 Watermelon. Watermelon is my winner for the latest round of testing. it's a brighter, more saturated colour than fruit punch. It's a hard to describe colour , more of a light red than a pink. I like it.👍👍👍😍


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Cim 916 Pink Lemonade

CiM 916 Pink Lemonade. Pretty color, but the rod I used was super shocky. Pre-heating it in the kiln helped a lot.
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Monday, March 23, 2020

CiM 220 Circus Tent

CiM 220 Circus Tent. Circus tent is kind of like a filigrana, in that it has streaks of colour through a mostly clear rod. It gives you the impression of banners flying in the Wind oh, so I made these organic flying in the wind kind of shapes.😘🎪🎪🎪





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CiM 923 Morgan

CiM 923 Morgan. Morgan is a soft dusty rose pink. I suspect it might be named for Morganite, which is the pink form of aquamarine, I believe, Beryl, which is Emerald when it's green. And yes that is Birdsong in the background, and yes that is snow on the ground. Because of worldwide pandemic wasn't enough we now have a 1-day summer. 😋

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Sunday, March 22, 2020

CiM 922 Luzern

CiM 922 Luzern oh, you're going to be so jealous of this one. This one is in really small quantities and will be hard to find. This is Lucerne which is a slightly darker version of Heather. I really like it





Heather on the left and Luzern on the right

 

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CiM 218 Goldfish

This is CIM 218 goldfish. I had a lot of trouble getting this to strike, and as you can see, it didn't kiln strike. I will have to try it again and try a more deliberate strike, because well, it is is a pretty champagne colour, but it's not what you'd call a bright orange🤔🐡🐡🐡



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Update. I had better success striking it the second time around. 


Friday, March 20, 2020

CiM 920 Pink Dogwood

CiM 920 Pink Dogwood. A lovely ethereal flower pink in a kind of Cloudy transparent, if you know what I mean. You can see that it's like a veiled cane at the end with layers of colour. Very very pretty😍😍😍🌸 #dragonjools #softglass #creationismessy #cimglass #colortesting

CiM 124 Fire Dragon

CiM 124 Fire Dragon. A nice transparent red that strikes slowly and not in the kiln, giving you some options to play with varied color. 😁🐉🐉🐉🔥🔥🔥



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CiM 922 Heather

CiM 922 Heather. A lovely, lovely color. Rods that have been in the flame tend to shock the end off. Can be a bit  boily. But what a color! 😍😍😍



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Friday, February 14, 2020

Effetre 039 Dark Violet

Effetre 039 Dark Violet. This is a really dark colour that's holds up well to thin applications, and really needs a lot of light to shine. It's a beautiful sunny day outside, but it's - 21, so I'm not going out there. So you'll just have to look at it with artificial light.lol 😉😉🙂🙂🙂❄❄


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