New effetre colours

[Lynnybobs]

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 ?

[Amber]

Mine is at the sorting office, waiting for me to collect it 

[Shirley]

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

[Jennie Lamb]

I am expecting them too.......will post photos once it has arrived!!

[Lynniebeads]

That's lovely & typically one I didn't order x
Lynne x

[Emma @ Tuffnell Glass]

Ooooo thats lovely Kay!!!

[Madam Steph]

Looks lovely, Kay.
I didn't order this as I have some chocolatta that I STILL haven't gotten around to trying

Linda x

[Lynnybobs]

Oooh now that is nice keep 'em coming if you have any more piccies I have birthday money burning a hole in my pocket !

[helbels]

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):


IMG_0009 by Alchemy Lampwork, on Flickr


IMG_0013 by Alchemy Lampwork, 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:


IMG_0014 by Alchemy Lampwork, 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

[Shirley]

I've had a play today and have got beads in the kiln at the moment. A couple of them look really interesting.

[jazzylily]

What are the new colours - looked at Tuffnells web site adn can't see anything at indicates the colours are new - Help

Pauline

[babyshoes]

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.

[jazzylily]

Thanks - never thought of that
Pauline

[Nicknack]

If you put your name down for the mailing list they tell you when there's something new like that.

Nick