Etsy Glass Artist of the Week - KimVGlass

This weeks glass artist is Kim of KimVGlass. She has wonderful borosilicate glass creations and mixed metal jewelry. I personally adore her lampworked hearts - they would make terrific gifts for your Valentine sweetie!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to ALL

The members of the Etsy Glass Artists street team would like to wish everyone a safe and happy holiday. We would also like to thank our loyal customers and blog followers for your support and patronage of our shops this past year, we could not do it without you!
If you are looking for last minute gift ideas please check our gift guide here.

Enamel, Enameling, Enamelist

Basic enameling is shift powder glass to clean metal and fire to fuse. End of story……….
Just kidding! But really, it’s that easy and finished piece would look fabulous!

I began making jewelry over 10years ago. From bead stringing to pearl knotting, wire wrapping… I tried many different techniques. But it was always with beads that I bought from somewhere. I wanted make beads and focal my self. I wanted my jewelry to be truly *ME*

So I took polymer clay class at local art center. While it was fun to make stuff with polymer clay, I felt it really wasn’t for me. It’s just so heard to make them look nice & professional. So I moved onto enameling class and I was hooked! That was about 2 years ago. I’m still taking the same class every week. (it’s just so fun & I love be in there…) And I was using torch to enamel at home for long time but I finally got my own kiln!

Ok, enough about me… what is enameling? Enameling is ancient art of fusing glass to metal. I love how they say in Japanese. In Japanese, 七宝焼 (shippouyaki), 七宝 (shippou) meaning “seven gems” because with enamel, you can achieve beauty of the seven gems.

Enamel usually comes in powder. You can shift or mix it with water and paint onto metal such as copper, silver (fine silver) or gold. Copper is more popular but I love it on silver too. Especially transparent colors are great on silver. After you apply enamel on metal, make sure it’s all dried, and then you fire them so they will melt and fuse to the metal when it’s cooled off. In kiln 2-3 minutes around 1500-degree. With torch you can only fire small pieces but takes about same amount of times.Enamel comes in so many different colors. Just to try some color combination is exciting! If you are familiar with metal work, you can prepare your metal with your own shape and texture but if you are not, don’t worry! There are all kinds of pre-cut metal shape that you can get!! And even with just a circle and basic techniques, you can get the most amazing result!

Here is excellent online totorial by Copperheart http://copperheartdesigns.blogspot.com/2008/05/tutorial-intro-to-enameling.html

If you are more like book preson, I recommend this awesome book
The art of enameling by Linda Darty

And some online resorce for enameling material
Thompson Enamel http://www.thompsonenamel.com/
METALLIFEROUS http://www.metalliferous.com/






Enjoy:)

Spring Challenge ~ Easter Egg Vessel Pendants

Polka Dot Egg Vessel Pendants

Every Spring I get the itch to make cute little pastel beads, bunnies, and flowers. So here was my chance to make a few cute little lampwork glass Easter egg vessel pendants!

Leave a comment here for a chance to win an item from an EGA member!
Thanks for stopping by the EGA blog to take a peek!

GroovyGlassGirl's Deal of the Day

Today only you can get this pendant for $20...this is a $5 savings off of the original price of $25....and a super bonus is if you let me know how you found my shop, I'll refund your shipping charge! For more details or to buy the pendant click here.

One World One Heart Winners

Here are the winners for the OWOH drawings.

Bella Modiste
Morna
Joanie
Mari
Jaimie
Nichola

You will be notified by email to get your info. See the original post for details on what you won.

Thanks to everyone who entered our drawing and who visited our blog. We have great plans for future giveaways and sales so continue to check in often.

Our next drawing for an item from the team starts Tuesday 2-17-09. Come leave a comment on the post for a chance to win.

Also please sign up for our newsletter to be notified when we have our sales. Check out our webpage as well for beautiful glass creations from our members. I guarantee you will find something that you love.
You can find us on Etsy by putting egateam in the search box. All of our wonderful items will come up for you to look through.

Once again ~ Thank you!

The Etsy Glass Artists (EGA) is having a "February Fling" Sale from February 1st through the 7th. See each shop's Announcement and the list below for their particular offerings! Please use the code "FEBFLING" in your notes to buyer upon checking out so you can get the sale price. A great deal and a great time to put a little sparkle into your day.

Etsy Glass Artists "February Fling" Sale

February 1st - February 7th

Participating Members:

http://glasscat.etsy.com/ BOGO on fused and dichroic jewelry
http://groovyglassgirl.etsy.com/ BOGO
http://mycabincreations.etsy.com/ 20% off
http://msotherdenartglass.etsy.com/ 10% off
http://jewelrybynatsuko.etsy.com/ BOGO
http://susanlambert.etsy.com/ BOGO
http://rwillisglassartist.etsy.com/ 20% off Shop
http://westernartglass.etsy.com/ BOGO
http://paulasstressart.etsy.com/ BOGO
http://vickileigh.etsy.com/ 25% off everything
http://creationsbykris.etsy.com/ BOGO
http://leahpellegrini.etsy.com/ BOGO
http://www.studiomarcy.etsy.com/ BOGO
http://prizmatic.etsy.com/ BOGO
http://popko.etsy.com/ Free Shipping
http://colorshoppestudio.etsy.com/ 20% off Stained Glass Jewelry

http://giapet.etsy.com/ BOGO


*BOGO - Buy One Get One 1/2 off

Come check out our new EGA website http://app.icontact.com/icp/relativeurlwarning/www.etsyglass.com.

Stop by our new blog for a chance to win some beautiful glass. http://app.icontact.com/icp/relativeurlwarning/www.etsyglass.blogspot.com. Just leave a comment on the One World ~ One Heart post with your contact information to be entered to win.

Use the word egateam in the search box on the Etsy front page to find a listing of all of our members creations.

Thanks so much for your past business and support of our shops!