Pandora Glass

SilverGems89 · January 29, 2010, 02:57:45 PM

That second set have some beautiful colours in them, Congrats!
I wish i had a kiln so i could play with pretty silver glass

Trudi · January 29, 2010, 03:13:55 PM

wow - you've got some great colours!

Yellow friend · January 29, 2010, 05:23:44 PM

Kathryn

I simply encased the topaz with Pandora pressing so that it went on fairly thinly, I think some of the variation comes from putting it on in slightly different thicknesses. I just melted it in, with no raking involved. I think I will try super heating & then encasing to see if I can get colour first time. I did do a tornado bead which is still a yukky beige apart from the ends which have gone red. The encasing was a bit thicker so I'm going to put it in again, I have nothing to lose cos it's pretty grim as it is

Shelia

Redhotsal · January 31, 2010, 01:24:31 PM

They look great! Well done - I've never got red from Pandora!

Pat from Canvey · January 31, 2010, 05:55:56 PM

There you go. If at first you don't succeed, try try try again. Beautiful resuts.

Veebee · January 31, 2010, 05:59:10 PM

Oh those are lovely!

Yellow friend · February 01, 2010, 01:55:32 PM

Thank you ladies, just hope it wasn't beginners luck now that I've decided to make a necklace out of them. Fingers crossed for the next batch.

Shelia

Sarah · February 01, 2010, 05:35:54 PM

Lovely beads Sheila - well done

I'd be interested to see how you get on with super heating pandora - my experience is that it doesn't like much done to it before it goes in the kiln.

Sarah
xxx

Yellow friend · February 01, 2010, 11:58:12 PM

All the second batch were heated until they were white hot but not for too long, just up to the point where you can see some of the lines turn into dots. I've done a couple more this evening so will see how they turn out tomorrow. They all looked slightly reddish before I put them in the kiln. I don't know if its because they were on topaz. Maybe I should just try the next batch on clear?