The "Give me some ideas what the hell to do with this glass!" thread....

[helbels]

Hello

I mentioned on chat last night that I bet we all have some glass in our stash that just completely uninspires us.  I'm not talking here about glass that's tricky to work - I'm talking about colours that perhaps we ordered in error, or we just don't like, or which just don't light our fire.

I wondered if it would be nice to have a thread where we could all seek tips on what to do with these colours that are gathering dust, unloved, in stashes up and down the land - because I BET YOU that there will be someone else out there who just loves your neglected colour, and can give you some tips what to combine it with to produce nice beads....

So, I will kick this off.

I just got an order from Tuffnells and I seem to have ordered Effetre 591438 Purple Red, thinking that it was going to be Red Purple!   So, any nice tips on colours I can can try combining it with?

Also, I need tips on what to put Uranium Yellow with please!

Feel free to join in folks......

[Lush!]

Ooh, I'm sure Kay loves purple red, there was a red we kept seeing on Murano and she loved it and I think she tracked it down to being this ... so hopefully she'll be along with ideas!!

[Veebee]

i love putting silver foil on purple red, did these ages ago:



The bottom of the focal is Echo encased:



The red looks black in these photos, but it was a really deep blue!

[sarah t]

i am always trying ghee with varrious differnt things to find something that makes me go ooohhhh ...but so far nothing !!

so if anybody has found something to do with it let me know

[hollergrafik]

Purple red is totally delish just with white

[turnedlight]

I have a lot of vetro odds which are various shades of brown.. totally uninspired by brown..

[Trudi]

i am always trying ghee with varrious differnt things to find something that makes me go ooohhhh ...but so far nothing !!

so if anybody has found something to do with it let me know

I'm with you on that one!

[helbels]

Hi Kathryn

Try some of your browns with Aurae on the surface reduced to give a gold sheen.  Mink looks lovely with Aurae.

Also, might be worth trying turquoise with anything brown - it's normally a nice colour combination.

[awrylemming]

i am always trying ghee with varrious differnt things to find something that makes me go ooohhhh ...but so far nothing !!

so if anybody has found something to do with it let me know

I gave mine away - I felt much better about Ghee when I didn't have any  
Purple red - incredible under Clio, and most other silver glasses come to think of it.

[suzanneC]

I have some caramel I don't know what possesed me to order
it, I really don't like the colour.

[Trudi]

Ahh caramel makes great honey hives!

[rocky]

Purple red and silver? Yummy that's worth a try.

What about powder pink? I just don't like it. Eugh!

[ScarletLeonard]

Anyone got anything for Creamsicle?

it's about the best yellow I have found, but still haven't found it any friends.

Neutral odds look nice with nearly anything, I would pull them into stringer and use them to add pretty lines to just about anything (breaks up dark colours and makes the lighter ones a little more obvious.

[MadelineBunyan]

love creamsicle! but only the old batch, the new one is bluergh.

the old one is creamy, like pastel yellow was for a while, and now thats gone paler, in a nice way, but tisnt the same.

I like it with turquoise (reaction lines like ivory)

I also like it with purple and red, use it as accent dots.

[k00m]

What on earth do I do with Dark Rossato? I have tons of it and it just doesn't inspire me. It's just a bit too blah.