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There are several new opal glass shades in the spring 2021 range of ltd edition glass from Creation is Messy, which have just become available to buy in the UK.
These pairs of fish beads were made with Avalon ltd run which is a very pale pastel green opal glass. It is available with two levels of opacity. The set with Fremen (light turquoise) fish is are made with Avalon Misty ltd run. The pair with Oobleck (bright lime green) fish are made with Avalon Milky ltd run.
It's easy to see the differing levels of translucence between the two as spacers but less easy to tell them apart as larger beads.
The set with Fremen (light turquoise) fish is are made with Gossamer ltd run. The pair with Oobleck (bright lime) fish are made with Lumen ltd run.
Gossamer is much more translucent than Lumen and seems to me to have a pretty ice-like quality to it.
Jolene x
Zing! This bright orange is called Oranze-zilla ltd run. It is described as a dense transparent orange on the CiM website.
Both under encasement and as a solid colour bead it looks opaque to me though. Orange-zilla is pure sunshine in glass form. I wouldn't class Orange-zilla as a striking glass as it didn't loose it's colour when first melted and so didn't require and cooling/heating cycles to bring the colour back.
Jolene x
For this post I have picked 3 new CiM colours from the steamer range that have an opaque base rather than a clear or pale transparent and one new shade from the Cloudy transparents range. A little disclaimer, to the best of my knowledge these first 3 colours are going to be available from North America only and the last will be stocked in France.
First up is Howlite ltd run. It's a very pale ivory glass streaked through with pale grey stripes. I clipped chips from the end of the Howlite rod and used them as murrini chips to embellish these small heart beads.
Starry Night will be available exclusively from Ed Hoy's only.
Almondine will be available exclusively from L'age du Verre in France only.
The overall effect of Lingonberry over opal yellow was to became shades of
burnt butter and butterscotch. Not what I had expected, more of a happy
accident, but actually a glass colour combination I would happily use together
again.
Jolene x
Robert E is a very pretty shade of transparent mid blue.
Jolene x
Today I am looking at three new shades of transparent brown glass from CiM. This first picture shows how each of the colours looks as a solid colour bead finished with Alley Cat dots.
From left to right - Horehound ltd run, Burnt Sugar ltd run and Brown Eyed Girl ltd run.
Horehound is a very pretty light honey shade that looks even prettier under encasement. Burnt Sugar is a golden shade of transparent
brown with a slight orange tone to it which makes me think of Topaz. Brown eyed Girl is the darkest of the 3 new colours and more of a true brown rather than tones of amber or topaz.
From left to right - Horehound, Brown Eyed Girl and Burnt Sugar encased with Birds Nest.
From left to right - Horehound, Brown Eyed Girl and finally Burnt Sugar.
Something about the look of the tumbled encased Burnt Sugar hearts in this picture makes me think of the last drop of Cola in your glass after the ice cubes have melted!
All 3 of these transparent colours were wonderfully well behaved in the flame, no boiling or micro bubbles at all.
Jolene x
These pretty pinks are called Dollhouse. The beads on the left are made with Dollhouse Milky Opal ltd run and below is a picture of Dollhouse Misty Opal ltd run beads.
The difference between Milky and Misty glass in these two shades is much easier to see when you have the beads in your hands. I have found it very tricky to capture in a photograph.
In this post I am looking at two more of CiM's "Streamers" that will be available soon.
The first is called Prometheus ltd run. It is clear glass that has fine lines of red, orange and pale blue running the length of it inside. To make this large heart, I have wound Premetheus around a core of clear glass and shaped. I finished the bead with some handmade twistie cane.
Below are some Prometheus spacers and a pair of Effetre dark teal hearts encased with Prometheus. You can create areas that have a latticino type of look to them if you twist a streamer glass rod as you lay it down over the base.
These next heart beads were made with core of Efftere black glass encased with Sea Anemone ltd run. It's not easy to see from this picture, but with Sea Anemone the fine lines (streamers) are encased within very pale purple glass rather than clear glass like Prometheus.
Happy Melting, Jolene x
Jacaranda is a fabulous pale purple glass which is wonderful to work with. I tend to work hot and find many pale colours fussy and easy to boil but Jacaranda takes all the heat I can throw at it without any drama!
Kismet is part of CiM's new range of Streamer glass. Streamers are rods of glass that have very fine lines of colour running the length of them. Below are more pictures of Kismet, by itself as spacers and over Effetre mid purple in the heart pair.
Here is a close look at Jacaranda as spacers. It is such a beautiful bright spring time lavender purple.
It looks great by itself but also makes a wonderful layering colour. The hearts below are made with Efftre dark teal and Effetre mid purple encased with Jacaranda. The lilac purple layer has given the darker core colours a real lift and the resulting hearts have a kind of gem-tone quality to them.
Happy Melting, Jolene x