Learn to make unique jewelry components using fused glass methods.
Even if you don't have a huge glass set up, you can make one of these Geometric Glass Pendants.
Frit is made up of small pieces of glass and is used to create decorative elements on fused glass pieces such as pendants.
What can you do with fused glass pendants? This stringing design will show you one great method for using fused glass as the focal piece for a gorgeous necklace.
While this necklace has all kinds of other materials included such as seed beads, crystals, gemstone beads, and metal, the fused glass pendant is the star.
If youve fallen in love with making glass beads or fused glass or if youve always wanted to try glass, then eventually youll need to create a place for yourself and your glass. Here are a few tips to help you create your own safe place to work with glass.
These fused glass pendants are blank on the front so you end up with a blank canvas of sorts to add designs and embellishments to later. They are a great way to use up glass scraps too.
This mixed-media jewelry technique allows you to decorate fused glass pendants with images from rubber stamps.
Small pieces of fused glass work perfectly with post earring findings, and the use of Dichroic glass gives you a rainbow of possibilities.
Use your fused glass scraps up with this easy technique for making faux beach glass.
Learn about this important jewelry making technique that is essential for ensuring the inegrity of your lampwork beads, fused glass, wire, or metal jewelry.
Scraps of wire and old bezels, along with a fused glass pendant, can be used to create your own unqiue key fob.
I get a lot of email concerning kilns. This is a big decision to make for most jewelry makers. Before you buy a kiln, consider some important questions you need to ask yourself.
This provides an over view of fused glass and explains ways to incorporate glass into jewelry making.
Read about my first day in my fused glass class and how I learned the correct way to cut glass.
Learn some more of what I learned in my second fused glass class.
The 3rd in a series on what I learn in my fused glassclass. This lesson is on volume control.
Tim McCreight explains why he likes Rio Grande's PMC kiln. Not only is it reasonably priced, but it can be used for all kind of jewlery making, not just PMC.
You can make those much needed holes in your glass jewelry by using a drill press and diamond bits.
You can make all kinds of wonderful shapes and designs with glass that you can then turn into pendants and earrings for your jewelry making needs.
Show off your wire designs by fusing them in glass to make a unique pendant.
Beautiful Dichrohic glass is combined with clear glass to make cabochons that almost look like opals.
Bead around fused glass cabs and then attach your beaded master piece to a barrette back.
Almost as simple as making a sandwich, these fused glass pendants use dichroic glass to give them a real punch.