perfect petals???

[turquoise]

Hi

How do you make flower shaped beads? What do you use to make the petal shapes, any fancy tools needed?

[Lush!]

Tweezers 

[Sulis (Hazel)]

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

[Pat from Canvey]

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.

[Jolene]

Check these out for beauty
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

[Pat from Canvey]

Thanks for that link Jolene, I just love flowers in glass.

[♥♥Tan♥♥]

Wow

[Jolene]

Twisted my own arm! I have been drooling at for so many months, I decided I deserve a post birthday treat.

Prettiest Pansies
Tea Rose Bliss

Oh what a beautiful morning, oh what a beautiful day, oh what a beau-ti-full moooorn-ing.............

[Pat from Canvey]

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.

[Vicki]

oooh well treated, can't wait to see what you do with them

[Kaz]

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

[Jolene]

How did I miss that

Have popped a link to it in the tuts section, ta Kaz