Color de Verre Projekter. Project Sheet: Skulls! Use them to embellish edgy platters, plates, and candle holders. Or, let them stand alone as jewelry, objets d’art, or “worry stones”. Project Sheet: Candle Holder Basics. Colour de Verre’s cast candle holders are easy to make and – plain or fancy – are always a welcome gift. Project Sheet: Beads as Embellishments. Our bead designs not only make exquisite jewelry, they can be used to create contemporary embellishments for plates, platters, bowls, and larger work. Project Sheet: Autumn Leaf Platter. A simple form is embellished with maple and alder leaves in shades of red, orange, and yellow. Uses the Colour de Verre Maple Leaf and Leaves (3) molds. No slumping mold is necessary. Project Sheet: Fill and Fire a Dragonfly. Basic instructions for priming, filling, and firing a Colour de Verre mold. Project Sheet: Making Pillow Pendants. Colour de Verre's Pillow Pendants leave plenty of room for creativity and customization. Results can be simple, understated and elegant. Project Sheet: Poppy Plate. Rich, red poppies embellish this elegant service plate. The plate itself is made from an understated collage glass that adds complexity and interest to the overall piece. Project Sheet: Making Small Dragonflies. The Small Dragonflies with Wing Slumper mold has been one of most popular design. Why not devote a project sheet just to making, shaping, and tacking these designs. Project Sheet: Branches, Pine Cones, Small Leaves. Instructions and tips for creating thin and delicate castings with these three molds. Project Sheet: How to Make Nano Beads. They look great paired with other elements of the Jewelry line or mixed with manufactured beads. Project Sheet: Leaf Ikebana Vases. Simple, but quintessential, ikebana vases can be created with Colour de Verre’s Kiwi Leaf, Northwoods Maple Leaf, Rain Forest Leaf, Tropical Leaves, and Lily Pad designs. Project Sheet: Tropical Fish, Sea Horses, Shells Complete instructions for casting beautiful elements using our Tropical Fish and Sea Horse and Starfish molds. A cooler than usual firing schedule results in delicate, detailed imagery. Project Sheet: Sea life Inspired Platter. Use beach shells, sea horse, and starfish molds to create this sea life inspired bowl. Match your color choices to your tastes and decor. Project Sheet: Offset Pendants. Suspend these pendants from leather, rubber, silk, or metal cords to create jewelry. They are easy to make and there is almost never any coldwork involved when MR-97 is used. Project Sheet: Glasslink Basics. These are the basics techniques used with our Glasslinks molds to creating glass elements. These elements can then be combined to create dramatic jewelry. Project Sheet: Oval and Teardrop Pendants.Produce small, delicate, but attention grabbing pendants by combining these two designs with dichroic glass flakes. This technique can be used with any of Colour de Verre’s pendant designs. Project Sheet: Millefiori and Murrini Pendants. Create beautiful, old-world or hip, modern designs by combining millefiori, murrini, and Colour de Verre pendant molds. Project Sheet: Pattern Fuser Basics. Create functional pieces like platters or plates or decorative wall art using Colour de Verre’s Pattern Fusers. Combinations of frit and sheet glass create almost endless possibilities. Project Sheet: Pattern Fuser as Window Art. Learn how to create a leaded glass effect using Colour de Verre's Pattern Fusers. Make both wonderful window art and vessels from the resulting panels. Project Sheet: Aralia Leaf Lamp. The warm light this lamp emits is a welcome addition to almost any living space. Project Sheet: Hot Glass Mosaics. The latest trend is incorporating fused and cast pieces into mosaic projects. Create this beautiful tea tray using cast elements created with Colour de Verre molds. Project Sheet: Successful Lighting Projects. Colour de Verre’s lighting formers and hardware are a great way to show off your artwork. This document lists some tips for getting the best results. Project Sheet: Icicles. Easy-to-make and fun to give, these icicles are great holiday decorations on trees and in windows. Project Sheet: Dichroic Frit and Shard Pendants. Whether you use dichroic trimmings and shards, or manufactured dichroic frit, the results of this technique are gorgeous. Project Sheet: Snowflakes '12, '13, '14, and '15. Our Snowflakes ’12, ’13, ’14 and '15 molds produce light and delicate snowflakes. You can tack fuse them to plates and platters. Project Sheet: Northwoods Maple Leaf. Create an autumn leaf by filling the mold with mixtures of red, oranges, and yellows or a spring version with greens. Flip the mold to discover a custom slumping surface that changes the cast leaf into a perfect plate. Project Sheet: Tips for Thin Casting with Schedules. As people become more experienced with our molds, they often start wanting thinner and more delicate castings. Hints, advice, and firing schedules to achieve that goal. Project Sheet: Aralia Leaf, Basic Firing Instructions.The large leaf cast in Colour de Verre’s Aralia Leaf mold can be can be left flat; slumped individually into a small plate or bowl; or grouped with multiple Aralia Leaf castings to form large, dramatic decorative platters and bowls. Project Sheet: Gem Top Tea Lights. Medium mesh frit is "sugar fired" to the tops of our 3" Square Candle Holders. It is a simple technique with impressive results. |