Hi all,
just wondering if anyone has tried any of the new effetre colours on Tuffers website yet and if so have you any favorites, or even better, any piccies to share ?
:)
Mine is at the sorting office, waiting for me to collect it :)
Quote from: Amber on June 11, 2013, 12:52:42 PM
Mine is at the sorting office, waiting for me to collect it :)
Mine's at the post office. The blighters took it there and I have to pick it up. Just as well I'm going this afternoon anyway to post some bits :D
I am expecting them too.......will post photos once it has arrived!!
That's lovely & typically one I didn't order x
Lynne x
Ooooo thats lovely Kay!!!
Looks lovely, Kay.
I didn't order this as I have some chocolatta that I STILL haven't gotten around to trying :(
Linda x
Oooh now that is nice keep 'em coming if you have any more piccies I have birthday money burning a hole in my pocket !
Ok, here you go. These are both made with some of the new Effetre colours (with a bit of CIM Glacier and Effetre Baby Pink thrown in):
(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5459/9043124523_f776900c11_n.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/helbels/9043124523/)
IMG_0009 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/helbels/9043124523/) by Alchemy Lampwork (http://www.flickr.com/people/helbels/), on Flickr
(http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2845/9045346888_6f3910866e_n.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/helbels/9045346888/)
IMG_0013 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/helbels/9045346888/) by Alchemy Lampwork (http://www.flickr.com/people/helbels/), on Flickr
Starting at the bottom left on the discs are CIM Glacier, Marc, Turquoise Grey Pastel (etched), Antique Green Pastel, Effetre Baby Pink, Wood.
A really bad photo of a petal bead made with Marc, Antique Green and Pink:
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7328/9043209263_dde3129d07_q.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/helbels/9043209263/)
IMG_0014 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/helbels/9043209263/) by Alchemy Lampwork (http://www.flickr.com/people/helbels/), on Flickr
Some observations from working with them so far:
1) Antique Green Pastel is fuss free, easy to work. Ditto with Wood. Both are nice bases for other colours.
2) Marc is lovely but it's a striker, and goes completely white when you first work it. I found it easy to strike back to brown in standard size beads but it was a bit tricky to get it to back to brown with smaller beads ie: spacers. I thought it might strike in the kiln but it doesn't - The spacer you can see in the top left of the first set went into the kiln a bit white and stayed that way.
3) Turquoise Grey Pastel is a bit of a bugger. It reduces REALLY heavily in the flame - all the beads you see came out the kiln a dark metallic grey, and had to be etched to show its real colour, and even after etching still retain some greyness (hence the name I guess!)
Hope that helps a bit x
I've had a play today and have got beads in the kiln at the moment. A couple of them look really interesting.
What are the new colours - looked at Tuffnells web site adn can't see anything at indicates the colours are new - Help
Pauline
They tend to have new stuff on the front page - if you click on 'home' there's a handful of new colours plus other special offers.
Thanks - never thought of that
Pauline
If you put your name down for the mailing list they tell you when there's something new like that.
Nick