Chris1

Irid to irid glass irid cut away on both sides so the irid will fuse together. simple to do if you have a sand blaster....I don't so I had to hand etch with my dremel each piece then put them together.

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DesertRoseArtGlass

Cherries on a Stem Magnots:
I began this project by brainstorming ideas of what to make. Using a piece of graph paper, I drew 1 1/2" squares and sketched my design ideas in each square. I decided to make Cherries on a Stem magnots. I did a test piece and I'm so glad I did. From the test piece I found out that each component should be made separately and then fused into the final piece. The bases are two pieces of cream colored glass fused together to make a substantial base. The cherry pebbles and leaves are made using two layers of glass fused together. All the glass in this project is COE 96. The main stems are chestnut brown noodles that I had in a tube of Madri Gras colors that have been slumped to give them some movement. The smaller stems are stringers. It took three separate firings to make the magnots. I think they turned out sweet and I hope everyone enjoys them!

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DichroicDazzle

I needed to do something fairly simple that would only use supplies I already had because the day after I accepted the challenge I went down with a very nasty chest infection that took over a month to shift, in fact I am still not 100% even now.

I decided to do something with copper inclusions and some of the 3mm bullseye clear tetra I had in plentiful supply for some clocks I will be making soon. That way most of the work could be done in the warmth of my kitchen as and when I was able. I had some stamps that were a daisy shape and I found when you layered them one on the other the petal filled out to look like a Gerberas, these are one of my favourite flowers (next to poppies).

I cut out the copper shapes then layered them and used a couple of my children’s clay shaping tools to impress the bumpy textured centre of the flowers then detail and smooth the petals. I then flipped the top cut out so that the flowers would look the same each side.

I sandwiched the copper flowers between squares of the tetra. I was careful to cut the top layers of glass slightly smaller than the bottom layers. This was to help the edges fuse more evenly and rounded so that I could avoid grinding and fire polishing. I fused them in my kiln to 815 degrees centigrade, held for 6 minutes and slowly cooled with the kiln closed to anneal overnight. I didn’t sign them because they are double sided so this would detract from the design.

I was pleased with the rich deep pink colour, and the little bubbles are like morning dew. I will definitely be using these floral inclusions in some of the clocks I will be making over the summer.

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Eccentricity

I fused the eyes and the hats separately. I cut out the faces and used odds & ends pieces of glass for the features and then glued the eyes and hats on and fired them in the kiln on a tack fuse.
My "frazzles" turned out looking more like "English Bobbies" - must be the hats (lol)! Wonder what my sub-conscious was up to on that??????

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GetGlassy

This was a second attempt at a magnot. The first didnt' quiet work out.
I cut all the pieces of glass. Then painted on some accents. Sprinkled frit, used millefiori, and cut bits of glass to create magnots with a botanical influence. Tack fused and shipped. Each magnot was different.

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GigiDesigns

These magnets were made from a series of accidents and mishaps. I love making pot melts and in my effort to try something new, I used some sort of metal rods to prop up my pots filled with glass. When I opened my kiln, I was horrified to see the metal had not held up and was sagging into the glass with a portion of the bottom of my pot as well. I reached in a grabbed my glass, metal and terra cotta heap and set it aside. (I'd cry later.) Over the next few days, I would look at the heap and wonder what to do with it. Then the magnet challenge presented itself. So, I did what any Glassie would do - I started breaking.. I ended up with a lot of small shapes of glass swirling with colors. After a considerable about of time in front of the grinder and several firings later - I had my magnets to share with CGGE and some pretty pendants too! I only have one picture of the magnets.

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Glasspizazz

This is just a simple mosaic inspired by my husband who is a sailor.
Foundation glass is 2" square mirror
Glass - about 6 different colors of blue, hull is red, sails are white, sun is yellow
All pieces except the sails were cut using a mosaic cutter, more abstract for interest
Used Weldbond as the adhesive.
Grout was white and sealed them with Amourcrete

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IslandGirl

The heads.. are fused frozen frit.. It's a technique that I tripped over a couple of weeks ago..... on JSglassart.com I don't follow the firing instructions completely but I have quite a lot of powdered frit and I think it's a neat technique!

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Northern California Beach

1) Carved starfish out of clay and made a silicone mold

2) Freeze and fused the starfish

3) Cut and slumped the tops

4) Cut the base

5) Assembled them all together, adding beach sand from San Francisco, and fused.

The fun thing about using sand in the kiln is it will change color depending on where it came from and the mineral content. This sand was boring beach brown and turned a nice copper color.

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Papernclay

Bubbles!!! I created bubbles by springkling bubble pwder between two sheets of clear glass. I fused larger sheets then cut them to the size I wanted, grinded them and fire polished them. I then adhered a sheet of scrapbook paper to the backside wirh diamond glaze and signed them.

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Smokeylady54

Prism frit on irridescent white glass, fused it, cut it- grinded it, wire wrapped it then added the dangle. I am a woman of few words.

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Squidglass

My magnot exchange pieces are simple and silly, but then so am I.
I picked a nice streaky orange-and-white Bullseye glass, cut 15 squares and layered them with clear. I like the way this glass takes decals and fires up - there's usually some dark rings around the edges, and cloudy/bright orange areas. I then drew a silly squid holding a piece of pah. (That's pie, for those who don't hang out with me and Smokeylady54. We like pah.) I draw badly, but think you can tell what it's supposed to be. Then scanned in the drawing, printed a bunch out on waterslide decal paper, stuck 'em on the glass, fired once. Simple. Silly. Yep.
I'm pleased to think several of you have silly pah squids on your fridges.

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