These are silver blue chunk frit pulled into stringers, copper green, ivory and silver.

"Sunrise" White base, Aurora Peach, Fuchsia Pink, Gold Amethyst, Violet Frit with silver foil and encased with Lauscha Transparent Peach.

The ice in this Fire and Ice bead is made with clear frit and baking soda.

These are vessels, some hollow and some not hollow.  Iris gold reduction frit used for the silver metal part of the Christmas light bulb.  Some of the frogs are also made with stringer from iris gold frit on emerald green glass.  The hollow bead has dots made from emerald green rolled in iris gold and pulled to stringer.

Light turquoise base with silver green, iris dk. blue, copper ruby, gold brown,  and opal lilac frit.

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I called the beads "Same frit ..... different day" because I used the same frit and just changed the color of the base bead.  The frit was the result of every single piece of glass I have that is no longer useful in it's own right, thrown into a frit masher and smashed to smithereens - so it's a combination of just about every color glass I have.  Each bead, once "fritted" was encased in clear.

Top -Effetre Glass Rods - Cobalt Core (encased), random stringers of EDP Purple, Carrot Red and Yellow (encased again), Silver Foil burnished in and then I rolled it in Silver Clear Reduction Frit (not reduced). This seems to produce a "window effect" over the Foil as long as you don't try to reduce it. If you reduce you end up with kind of a scummy yellowy color. This was a happy accident bead.

Middle Row - Effetre Glass Rods - Aqua Cores with various designs in Medium Amethyst and Aqua (dots, triangles etc.) then encased. Silver Foil burnished in and them rolled in Silver Clear Reduction Frit (not reduced) for "window effect".

Bottom Row - Czech Glass Rods - Sapphire Core rolled in Goldstone Frit that I made out of leftover bits of Goldstone rod then encased.

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wound on the mandrel in ivory or black and embellished with dark gold frit and hand pulled iris gold stringer

This boro bead is one in Josh's "Gaia" series of beads.  It has a base of Northstar borosilicate amber-purple, with Glass Alchemy black-blue stringer, and frits in amber-purple and black.  After annealing it was sandblasted for a matte finish.  It is a large flat tab bead measuring 19x36x22mm.

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I used gold brown reduction frit on light ivory moretti then encased the beads with the lightest amber.

I used evil purple, two shade of turquoise and ivory frit over silver on both of these beads.  Amazing how different beads can look using the exact same glass, just melted in at different stages.

The base is made of ivory, reduction frits used are Iris Gold and Silver Blue.

This is Dark Ivory, covered with silver leaf, and dotted with a rubino oro rod dipped in green frit, dark blue silver frit and copper ruby frit, then reduced in a flame. it has the marvelous effect of making the metallic sheen look gold instead of silver!

Moretti light Ivory base, wrapped in silver foil, rubino and silver blue reduction frit stringer, reducing flame.

These beads have a white core, cased with ink blue, rolled in silver
green and silver blue reduction frit, silver leaf, orange decoration.

The frit beads pictured were made with Bullseye glass and were too simple for words- "beginner frit" beads!  Aurora Peach frit from Val on a french vanilla base, and either Cranberry or Fuchsia (don't remember which, but also came from Val) on a transparent lavender base.  The two on the end are basic bullseye spacers made with pink.

First bead is a black base with a variety of crushed glass frit on hand, including ivory, silvered ivory, lapis blue, then bead is etched for matte, stony look.

Second bead is opal yellow base, rolled in silver and then reduction frit stringer (silver luster blue), silvered ivory and silvered orange stringers.

Final bead is bullseye glass, salmon pink base, several different layers including some dots of silver luster blue stringer, 24k gold foil and copper ruby frit.

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Glass Art Hair Ornament created with handmade Dark Purple Red and  Petroleum Green Moretti frit over a White base then encased with Vetrofond Clear.

White base with a frit mix I made consisting of EDP, periwinkle, and transparent light lavender, encased with dark lavender. All Moretti glass.

Both beads are made with Moretti homemade frit.  Leftover nubblies of various blues delicately heated and merrily thrown into cold water, then fed through a coffee grinder in case they hadn't suffered enough.  And for their pain, we get a denim sheep (Leigh Vy, of course) and a delicate frit spacer.

A mix of boro bases of Northstar Onyx with Blue Exotic frit part way melted in let cool then flash in the flame a couple of times then encase with clear. Glass Alchemy Purple Luster with clear frit melted part way in let cool then hit with flame (striking) to bring out some of the purple then encase with clear. The caramel with dots are Nothstar caramel base with dots of Double Amber part way melted in pick up Blue Exotic frit only on the double amber bumps, you will  need to take off the excess frit with a pick from the caramel. Melt in the frit part way let cool, strike then add clear to bumps and melt all the way in.

This is a base of copper green decorated with stringers made from redux frit in silver blue and silver green.

The two beads on the left are an amber base with enamel, then copper foil, lemon yellow frit. Then decorated with violet, black and copper green.
The three beads on the right have a lavender base with rubino and iris yellow frit. They are decorated with periwinkle and copper green with amber yellow frit.

Bullseye glass with Reichenbach 'Fuchsia' and Gaffer 'Amethyst Gold' #0 frit with silver foil. Twisties were made with Bullseye and Reichenbach 'Blue Violet' chunk frit. The gold tone in the focal is a reaction to the silver foil, from Bullseye 'Striking Pink', and Gaffer 'Amethyst Gold' encased in Bullseye 'Neo-lavender'.

In my beads I used Bullseye glass. I used Spring Green
for the base and then applied fine silver foil. Next
I rolled each bead in a light violet and blue handmade
frit.

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(I used Bullseye glass for these beads.)
Make a core bead of either black or ivory white (2 of the beads have black cores the others are white, can you tell which ones have which?) Apply a layer of fine silver foil, roll in handmade adventurine frit, reduce and encase.

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und an Corina für den Anstoß mit Frit zu arbeiten. Es hat viel Spaß gemacht, sich einfach mal von den Ergebnissen überraschen zu lassen.

I rolled a simple white bead in handmade frit. The frit is in my favourite colours: blue, green and amethyst and has different sizes.

The spacers are dusted with enamel and etched.

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Scummy moretti clear base, completely covered in silver green reduction frit, stringers in cobalt, dk teal, & black and reduced <--- this is my favorite way to use up that batch of clear!

I can't remember what the base color is, Iris gold coarse grind reduction frit, SIS, encased in clear

 

 

Bullseye clear, Val's fuchsia pink frit, black stringer

Ivory base rolled in silver blue reduction frit and encased with Lauscha clear.

I used Moretti Black rolled in silver leaf, burnished, heated and rolled in a few of Val's frits from her sampler pack - copper blue, violet hyacinth, peach aurora, and red, and melted smooth. I encased in Lauscha clear, smooshed into a lentil shape, and "wrote" with Moretti white stringer.

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The beads were made on Ivory base rolled in silver foil & decorated with Copper Blue & Hyacinth Frits.

 

 

 

 

 

This one is done on a black base, layered with ivory topped with silver and copper ruby frits. One of the beads was just done on ivory base bead.

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SIS and Amber & "Ocelot Spots" frit over ivory and white

Top Right - Transparent base with Blue Reduction Frit and Copper Green Dots
- Reduced
Center - Dark Ivory with Blue Reduction Frit - Semi Reduced Bottom Left - Frits from Broken Beads over Transparent Dark Purple with
Clear Raised Dots
Bottom Right - Clear Base Bead with Blue Reduction Frit/Copper Green Dots/
Ink Blue Raised Dots

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Ocelot Spots with white floral encased, tabs and globes.

Gold Pink and Silver Blue over white cores, swirled and dragged, encased, smooshed, some trapped blossoms.

Left focal - Gold Pink with Silver Blue pick-up, pulled to stringer, wound over white core, staggered gold pink and silver blue florals, encased, smooshed.

Center focal - Black core, Gold PInk stringer graffiti, Silver Blue stringer over that, encased, capped in black, more Gold Pink/Silver Blue floral dots on the caps.

Right focal - Encased Black core, gold pink and silver blue dots, smeared and wrung on the marver, encased and smooshed.

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Mainly silver green reduction frit....although I did toss in some ruby copper reduction frit.

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Mine is made with silver leaf & silver green frit and my email is gardenpath@sierratel.com

I used ink blue, sage green and regular old yellow on a base of white to make these.  A couple of the beads have butterfly and dragonfly murrini on them that I covered with fingernail polish prior to etching to give more of a gardeny feel and of course there is the keeper of the garden Mr. Frog.

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I used Lauscha transparent aqua as the base, silver and then silver green reduction frit.

The top set of beads was done with homemade frit containing mosaic green, opal yellow and ink blue.  I then applied it to a pale pink base. The bottom set of beads was done with fuchsia frit applied to an opal yellow base.

These beads were made with an EDP base, fuchsia frit, and then encased with clear.

The bead starts with base of clear art glass. It is rolled in fine
silver leaf. and reduction frit It is encased with clear art glass. It
was then decorated with stringer made from green reduction frit and
encased with clear art glass. It was shaped into a lentil shape. After
coming out of the kiln, it was etched for a matte finished. A lens was
grinded and polished to expose the many layers of glass within.

These are Bullseye red with
some of Val's"ocelot" frit and encased.

A mixture of Iris Yellow, Midnight Blue & Copper Ruby Frits with Silver Foil

The beads have a base of Uranium Yellow opaque covered with silver leaf. Then rolled in a frit mixture of Midnight Blue, Teal, Opal Lilac, and Silvered Blue. Then rolled in that special Fuchsia from Val. Encased in crystal clear was the final step.

This is my attempt to simulate turquoise in a black matrix. I used handmade copper green frit on a black base bead. The beads have been etched to make them more stone-like in appearance.

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Most of my frit beads are made to match genuine stone beads, so I tend to use the organic, earthy colors offered by reduction frits.  Shown in this image are most of the reduction frit colors available - some encased, some not, some with a matte finish and some not.  I especially like iris yellow, silver green, light tobacco and lemon yellow.  I almost always mix my frits because the result more closely matches the colors and patterns found in natural stones.

This frit combination is made from a little bit of all the intense frits I have, all mixed together--potpourri! Larger beads in back: left bead- black base with some white stringer, rolled in frit and encased, right bead-white base, encased, rolled in frit, encased again, rolled again. Beads to left: white bases, rolled in frit, encased, then dots of frit pulled into stringers. Beads to right: Two are black bases with white band rolled in frit. Three are white bases, frit and transparent color encasing.

Frittered hair, made with transparent ambers, clears, gold adventurine, and a pinch of iris reduction frit.  Made the stringers by shaping the traditional lollipop, heated, and picked one type of frit layer by layer - then pulled thin and applied.  I learned that goldstone and reduction frits do not appear as sparkly metals when cooked for over an hour on one bead, but the nasty effect I like on this little jaundiced head....

The technique I used was periwinkle base with silver blue reduction frit--not reduced. The beads were then mashed into lentil shapes.

I started with an inner core of colour with a covering of alabastro pink. That wasn't working so I covered the two ends with iris blue reduction frit. I think I actually cooked all the metallic effect that produces the reduction effect out of part of the frit which is why there is the coloured band in the middle surrounding the scorched alabastro center. The addition of newer reduction frit stringer around the ends allowed for the reduction effect to work but how it overlapped and seeped into the reduced ends is a mystery to me.

Sugar beads - Made with clear Schot glass  and and clear Bullseye frit size 01 - they look great in transparent colors with the clear on top too !

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The dark ones have a clear base, silverfoil, some light yellow enamels and small copper ruby reductionfrit, the lightsome silverfoil and electric yellow frit.