New bead pics

Too tired to write much, but wanted to share pics before I go to bed so I can say I accomplished something tonight ;)

Here is a new CiM color I just bought recently called Plum. Love this purple as it is nothing like any other shade I have worked with...not really lavender or violet or purple....more plum. It is a bit of a milky transparent. Not exactly opaque, but definitely not a transparent, either.


Now start the pics of beads with Taxco Silver Turquoise. In rod form, it is a transparent teal/blue. Put it on an opaque which reacts well to metals (like ivory & a handful of other colors) and it turns into a bit of an opaque itself.


LOVE the silver outline followed by a black outline touching the yellow glass in these beads. It does the same on the ivory, but seems more pronounced to me on the yellow....


And here we have the Taxco Silver Turquoise on opaque turquoise beads (it remains a transparent), on Uranium Yellow (where it turns a transparent green) and in a twisty with ivory around a clear bead (where it looks almost completely black). All of these beads were etched. I think the twisty on clear is my favorite because the clear glass appears more grey/silver once etched.