Messy Color
10 New Messy Colors (3-8-13)
New Messy Colors (1-9-13)
New Messy Colors (1-9-13)
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 Laguna Ltd Run (511514)
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CiM / Messy Color Has Four New Colors! (3-29-11)
Oh Boy, its spring and Messy Color has come out with some wonderful new colors to add to their palette. There are two transparent and two opal colors and they are call Rainforest, Azure, Atlantis and Appletini.
- Rainforest – 511499
- Appletini – 511497
- Atlantis – 511598
- Azure – 511500
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| Rainforest #511499 | Appletini #511497 |
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| Atlantis #511598 | Azure #511500 |
These new colors are yummy, yummy, yummy and I had a blast melting them to find out how they work when I made them into beads.
I made beads with silver foil cores that were encased with the two transparent colors Azure and Appletini and they came out great. I discovered that if you apply the encasement gather when it is too hot, it will yellow your foil. All I had to do to correct this problem was to apply the encasement gather just a little cooler than white hot and it didn’t yellow the silver foil.
Tabular bead with core of Azure wraped in silver foil and encased with Azure.
Tabular bead with core of Appletini covered with silver foil and encased with Appletini.
Rainforest and Atlantis are both opal colors and I have to say that Messy Color has the nicest and easiest opal colors I have ever used to lampwork beads. These two new opals are succulent and I couldn’t help myself and I mixed dichroic into three of the beads I made with these new opal colors with good results.
Check out the beads I made out of these new Messy Colors and decide for yourselves, but I give them a huge thumbs up!
Core of bead is made with Rainforest that is covered in dichroic pieces and encased with Appletini.
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| Bicone of Rainforest with a diagonal band of blue on clear dichroic that is edged with a goldstone ribbon cane. | Bicone of Atlantis with a band of dichroic dots on clear with goldstone ribbon cane. |
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| Round bead made with Appletini decorated with swirls of Mermaid. | Core of bead is made from a twisty made of Azure, Rainforest, white filigrana and a light sky blue filigrana. |
Glass Colors I Like and Why (10-15-10)
The new shipment of “Odd” neutral colors from Vetrofond are a fabulous base color for working with many of those expensive silvered glass colors made by Double Helix, Trautman Art Glass and Precision 104. Read more
News about the Boatload of Colors in the New Messy Shipment
A new shipment of CiM/Messy Color glass has just arrived at Frantz Art Glass and there are loads of new unique colors and nine new special assortments. Read more
Tips & Techniques: Making Bright Transparent Beads with Shards
I have been experimenting for a while with using some of the denser Messy Color/CiM transparents as shards over clear beads to create brighter, lighter versions of these beautiful colors. Read more
Did you know that CiM/Messy Color has Fabulous Stringers? (6-10-10)
In spring 2010, CiM began producing stringers of some of their more popular colors that would translate well to smaller diameters. Read more
A Bonanza of New Glass Colors by the Big Three for Lampworkers (6-10-10)
Spring has brought an amazing number of new glass colors from the three big glass factories that supply Frantz Art Glass & Supply. Read more
Need More Information and Inspiration?
When you click on the Web Gallery, a web page appears that shows links for the three different sections of the web gallery that are Focal Beads, Spacer Beads and Strands. Click on one of the choices and you will be taken to a page of thumb (small images) to pick from. When you click on a thumb image, a large image will appear with a list of the different glass colors that were used in that bead and the glass colors are linked to the Frantz Art Glass web page for easy purchase, plus pertinent information on how the bead was made. Read more