Author: Alison Foshee
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Quick Tip: Frit Balls
Easy to make and fun to use. Scatter pieces of coarse frit (-0003) on a freshly primed kiln shelf and adjust them with tweezers, leaving space around each piece. Fire…
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Quick Tip: Fritfetti
Say YES to sprinkles! Steps (4 firings) Making Mini frit Balls The secret to the small dots is to make them with Medium (-0002) Frit. Guidelines include firing on a…
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Quick Tip: Glimmering, Shimmering Irids
Gold and Silver Irid + Clear Powder = Shimmering Glass In the tiles above, powdered and exposed iridescent surfaces catch and reflect light differently, producing subtle glimmering effects To make…
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Quick Tip: Holiday Punch
For a festive feel, break out the punch! (The paper punch, that is.) Combine punched silver foil design elements with Tomato Red Opal for something truly festive. The Details Arrange…
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Quick Tip: Inky Blue Brush Strokes
Combine GlasTac and Aventurine Blue Powder to create gestural brush strokes. Think of sumi-e and other East Asian styles of brush painting and calligraphy. Here’s How it Works Using a…
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Quick Tip: Iridescent Squares
Transform a single sheet of Rainbow Iridescent glass into shimmering mosaic design. The Details Start with a 3 mm sheet of a saturated transparent color (or black) with a Rainbow…
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Quick Tip: Kilncarved Billet
Create a textured block of glass using ceramic fiber paper, a billet, and the right amount of heat! Design with Texture In the kiln, the billet conforms to your fiber…
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Quick Tip: Kilncast and Slumped Bowl
Get experience in volume calculation, frit tinting, and more as you create a kilncast disc from a frit and powder mixture, coldwork the edges, and slump it into a graceful…
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Quick Tip: Little Wisp Bowls
Wisps of White and Clear, let the color shine through. Create your own streaky color palette. Layer Clear and White Streaky sheet glass over transparent tint glass styles. Slump in…
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Quick Tip: Making a Chevron Design
Making this chevron plate is a snap with Cascade sheet glass. Steps Tip Materials
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Quick Tip: On the Edge with Transparents
Transparents transform with on-edge strip construction. Cut 3 mm sheet glass into 1 cm wide strips, turn those on edge, and—presto!—color saturation increases. In the pairings below, notice how the…
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Quick Tip: Multitasking Molds
There is more than meets the eye with some slumping molds. They can certainly be used to form pieces that utilize the entire surface, but consider the options when slumping…