Hi
How do you make flower shaped beads? What do you use to make the petal shapes, any fancy tools needed?
Tweezers ;)
BeadySam's pushy-proddy-pokey things. Awesome! Useful for loads of things and I've seen them used for petals - just wish I could manage flower beads, for some reason I can't do them to save my life!
http://www.beadysamglass.com/page36.htm (http://www.beadysamglass.com/page36.htm)
Make a lollipop at the end of a rod, flatten and pull to required shape with tweezers. Store in the kiln till you are ready to assemble into a flower head. Make more petals than you actually want in case of breaking or dropping when adding to a new rod which forms the stem.
Check these out for beauty ;D
http://www.everafterartistry.com/chpt1gallerythegarden.htm
Modified to say, the pics don't show up on my P.C at work....but they do at home ;D
Thanks for that link Jolene, I just love flowers in glass.
Wow :o
Twisted my own arm! I have been drooling at for so many months, I decided I deserve a post birthday treat.
Prettiest Pansies (http://www.etsy.com/view_transaction.php?transaction_id=9147801)
Tea Rose Bliss (http://cgi.ebay.com/Ever-After-Tea-Rose-Bliss-Lampwork-beads-SRA_W0QQitemZ160252932667QQihZ006QQcategoryZ34070QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)
Oh what a beautiful morning, oh what a beautiful day, oh what a beau-ti-full moooorn-ing.............
Good for you. It's great to give into temptation once in a while. Just don't make a habit of it. I've tried to make a pansy flower but the petals always come out different sizes. Ugh.
oooh well treated, can't wait to see what you do with them ;) :D
They're gorgeous.
There is a nice little tutorial on her website too which I followed today and it was dead easy!!!
http://www.everafterartistry.com/thegauntlettutorials.htm
Kaz
How did I miss that ;D
Have popped a link to it in the tuts section, ta Kaz