Help !!!!!

[fionaess]

Ok, I finally admit it, I am totally lentil decorating challanged.  I can make lentils just fine, great shape, inny holes, swirled BUT I cannot decorate them... yes, I've tried and I obviously have a mental block.. so would some kind, dear, sweet person please do me a favour.. post a pic of a decorated lentil and please lead me by the hand through the various stages... even down to "heat and then press, add dots, etc"  I know that if I saw someone decorating their lentil I would understand, but I just dont get it. There aren't any tutorials that I can find on the net on decorating your lentils... so obviously its a really, really simple thing.  I feel such a dunderhead, thicko, dumbo.. so HELP 

[♥♥Tan♥♥]

Do you want your decoration raised or melted in?

[fionaess]

Both 

[Lush!]

Both 

Greedy 

[♥♥Tan♥♥]

Well, if you want it melted in, you have to decorate before you press, so allow for that extra decorative glass in the overall press. If you want it raised, press your bead, melt off the worst of the chill marks, then apply your raised decoration, keep it even because its easy to end up with a wonky bead if you have too much decoration in one area. The residual chill marks will go as you heat the decoration to attach it.

When you are decorating raised, dont get the base bead hot, just warm enough to hold the glass and stop it shocking, if it starts to lose shape, come out of the flame and blow on it, to stop it drooping

[♥♥Tan♥♥]

Is that the right sort of info for you missus?

[fionaess]

Thanks Tan
I shall go an experiment.... and post my results 
So, if I want to be greedy    I should first do my melted in design and then add my raised design when I have pressed my bead, remembering that squashing makes things bigger and flatter. LOL

[fionaess]

Oh, and Julie.. get back to sorting stuff for tomorrow  HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[Vicki]

If your wanting a melted in design I find if you make it so it doesn't fill the press up with your base colour on your first press, because your design once finished will fill it up more, I'm afraid it just trial & error though on how much to start with, I guess it depends how much you need to add for your design

[fionaess]

Thanks for the tip Vicki

[fionaess]

Thanks you both Tan and Vicki, I understand decorating lentils now... and can do it    God only knows why I didn't understand in the first place... its so simple once you explained and I did it !!

[Vicki]

I'm glad it helped