This is the "I saw it for 3 seconds on FB this morning and then the page refreshed" - it was a votive candle holder and I am 99% sure it was all done with ribbons, and it was really cool looking.
So, I'm doing a small test run - made two of these, one will be full fused, one will be tack fused.
Of course now that i am thinking more about it - there was probably a piece of tekta in the middle - still will be fun to see what comes out of this.
The second green/blue went through another firing just to get the edges smoothed out and it's looking great.
That is getting a slump this week.
The frit stretch came out of the slump and I don't think I realized how shallow the mold was that I chose - if you look closely at the edges, you can see a bit of wave to it. It's subtle, but nice!
I got hold of some translucent white frit and some little round molds - maybe going through a single firing only will keep the sparkle a bit.
Also, for my own notes, these all had 1.5 grams of glass, and the white-dicrho were 2 to 1 white to dichro.
Also did some red & white, and some sea blue, cause I think they could be flower petals or something later.
The puddles with the dichro frit that I smashed up (and forgot to get pics of the "before") - didn't really turn out the way I wanted, but I am pretty sure they have a future as components in something Christmas themed next semester.
But, because I cannot let this go, I had another idea, next post.
The hearts are very cute and I was very relieved that I did in fact use enough Zyp in the mold and they came right out.
I did not intend to make a patriotic heart, I just had the red, white & blue puddle scraps and didn't even clock it, LOL.
The frit displacements came out very cool - on the orange one, I am pretty sure I used more frit, so there is still a bit of an orange underlayer even after the clear frit spread out. You can see it better in the second orange shot that is backlit.
OK, the shot glass collapsed and is now a paperweight, but it looks super cool! It just sort of gently oozed all to one side.
More pics later, cause I am cat trapped, but wanted to share this cool fail.
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