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.

Etsy Glass Artist of the Week - Glass Cat

This week we are featuring Carol Rasmussen of Glass Cat as our artist of the week. I own quite a few of her items and have been pleased with every one of them. They also make terrific gifts for family and friends. Check out her shop to find some goodies to give this Christmas!

Etsy Glass Artist of the Week - 41 Design

Mary Tapken of 41 Design is our Etsy Glass Artist this week. She has really colorful fused and stained glass pendants and earrings in her shop that would be great gifts for Christmas. Here are some of my favorites from her shop. Just click on the pictures to go to the listing.

Etsy Glass Artists - Festive Giveaway!

The Etsy Glass Artists have an ongoing monthly draw for a variety of items made by our members. This month's prize is donated by WildSageLampwork

A beautiful pair of festive earrings.


HERE'S HOW TO ENTER:
Leave your name and email address or some way to contact you (should you be the winner) in the comments section of this post. A drawing will be held and the winner will be announced on December 1st.
Don't forget to sign up for our newsletter on the left to be notified of any upcoming sales and events. Also, use the egateam tag in the Etsy search box to locate all of our listings for sale.

Etsy Glass Artist of the Week - Susan Sheehan

Susan Sheehan is our Etsy Glass Artist of the week. Please visit her shop to see all of the wonderful creations that she has. She has some awesome Pandora items. Stock up for Christmas!
Here are some of my favorite items from her shop- just click on the pictures to go to the listing.

Etsy Glass Artists - Fall Sale - Oct. 19th - 26th

EGA Fall Sale features Glass Artists from around the world coming together to showcase their work, from Oct. 19th - 26th

http://www.mycabincreations.etsy.com -- 20% off everything
http://www.Giapet.etsy.com -- buy one get one 1/2 off
http://www.GlassCat.etsy.com -- Fused and Dichroic Jewelry 20% off
http://www.jewelrybynatsuko.etsy.com -- 10 - 30% off
http://www.StudioMarcy.etsy.com -- buy one get one 1/2 off
http://www.41Design.etsy.com -- 25% off everything
http://www.RWillisglassartist.etsy.com -- 20% off all fused glass items
http://www.LeahPellegrini.etsy.com -- 20%off everything
http://www.susansheehan.etsy.com -- 20% off all glass items

Etsy Glass Artists Christmas in July Sale

The Etsy Glass Artists (EGA) is having a "Christmas in July” sale from July 8th through July 15th. See each shop's Announcement and the list below for their particular offerings! Please use the code "CIJ" in your notes to buyer upon checking out so you can get the sale price. This is a great time to start Christmas shopping (you know it’s going to be the season before you know it!) or a little treat for yourself.

Etsy Glass Artists "Christmas in July" Sale
July 8th through July 15th

Participating Members:

MyCabinCreations
http://www.MyCabinCreations.etsy.com - 20% off Everything

Jewelry by Natsuko
http://www.jewelrybynatsuko.etsy.com - 20% off everything

RWillisglassartist
http://www.rwillisglassartist.etsy.com - 20% off glass items only

tekaandzoe
http://www.tekaandzoe.etsy.com - 20% off

Paulasstressart
http://www.Paulasstressart.etsy.com - 20% off everything

Susan Sheehan
http://www.susansheehan.etsy.com - 20% off all glass

Glass Circus
http://www.glasscircus.etsy.com - 20% off everything

Fire n Sand Glass
http://www.giapet.etsy.com 20% off all glass items

Color Shoppe Studio
http://www.colorshoppestudio.etsy.com - 10% off all Stained Glass Jewelry

Glasscat
http://www.glasscat.etsy.com - 20% off fused and dichroic jewelry; 15% off any stained glass items.

41design
http://www.41design.etsy.com - 20% off

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:)

New Etsy Glass Artist Members

Recently we had three new members join our Etsy Glass Artists Street Team and we would like to introduce them to you. They are really talented and have some awesome creations for sale in their shops so be sure and give them a visit and say HI!

Jane of RDG Designs has hand blown glass art and jewelry for you and your home. As she puts it "Why not give her roses that will last forever"

Barbara of Glass Gardens NW has hand blown glass ornaments and sculptures and was featured recently in Better Homes and Gardens Magazine - Congrats Barbara... So go check out her beautiful shop!
Michelle of Teka and Zoe has wonderfully modern and organic enamel mixed metal jewelry. She has something there that will appeal to every one on your gift list.

Etsy Glass Artists Spring Bling Sale

The Etsy Glass Artists (EGA) is having a "Spring Bling" Sale from April 18th through the 24th. See each shop's Announcement and the list below for their particular offerings! Please use the code "BLING" in your notes to buyer upon checking out so you can get the sale price. This is a great time to purchase that perfect gift for Mother's Day or a little treasure for yourself.

Etsy Glass Artists "Spring Bling" Sale

April 18th through April 24th

Participating Members:

http://glasscat.etsy.com/ - Dichroic and Fused Glass BOGO 1/2 off, All stained glass 10% off

http://groovyglassgirl.etsy.com/ - Free Shipping
http://susansheehan.etsy.com/ - Glass 10 to 25% off as marked in sale section of store
http://chickadeebeads.etsy.com/ - BOGO 1/2 Off
http://jewelrybynatsuko.etsy.com/ - BOGO 1/2 off
http://mycabincreations.etsy.com/ - 20% off everything
http://rwillisglassartist.etsy.com/ - 20% off all glass items
http://paulasstressart.etsy.com/ - 20% off entire purchase
http://colorshoppestudio.etsy.com/ - 20% off all stained glass jewelry
http://giapet.etsy.com/ - BOGO 1/2 Off
http://glasscircus.etsy.com/ - 20% off on all my glass

*BOGO = Buy One Get One 1/2 off

Come check out our new EGA website http://www.etsyglass.com/.

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!

New Etsy Glass Artist Member - Glass Circus

The members of the Etsy Glass Artist Street Team would like to introduce our newest member Martina of Glass Circus. She makes colorful, unique kiln formed fused glass items and has a wonderful shop. We hope that you will all stop by and say hello to her with a purchase :).

Here are some of her colorful creations.

Spring and Easter Challenge Prizes

Etsy Glass Artists team members decided to creatively challenge one another to come up with their interpretation of Spring and or Easter. The last month has seen several beautiful and creative entries and now we are down to the last week for comments. Let us know how you feel about our art by leaving a comment. Everyone who leaves a comment will be entered into a random drawing to win some handmade glass goodness from several of our shops. We will have several winners too! (one entry per person per post. In other words you can enter once every time we post a new product!!!) Be sure to check back on the blog on April 10th as we will announce the winner that day. Entries will be accepted until midnight April 9th.
Here is a list of the entries. Be sure and leave your comments for a chance to win some glass goodies.

Spring Challenge Entries - enter to win at each link

• Fused Glass Wall Vase - RWillisGlassArtist
• Easter Egg Vessel Pendants - Chickadeebeads
• Tokyo Spring - JewelryByNatsuko
• Bird Suncatcher - Groovyglassgirl
• Sweet Spring Beary - MyCabinCreations
• Easter Owl - StudioMarcy
• Tiger Lily - TheVenerableBead

Here are the prize donations that you will have a chance to win.

"Sakura Poppy Earrings"
www.jewelrybynatsuko.etsy.com

A Beautiful Pendant
www.chickadeebeads.etsy.com

Lovely Earrings
www.MyCabinCreations.etsy.com

This pod shaped pendant was made in the flame of my torch using borosilicate glass. It was annealed in my kiln for everlasting love and enjoyment. It measures 30mm in length and is a lovely purple pink orange and yellow. It comes strung on an 18 inch gunmetal chain with lobster clasp. It's a color packed wee drop of a pendant. :)
www.Venbead.etsy.com

Fused Glass Barrettes
www.paulasstressart.etsy.com

"Spring trees" - This Month's FREE Giveaway!

EDIT: The winner is MICAELA! Congratulations!! I will be notifying you via email and sending you the spring trees necklace!

The Etsy Glass team has a monthly drawing of our creative glass goodies because its FUN!

It's a great way to share our talents and get everyone in on the action.

This month's prize has been donated by PoPkO!

Spring is on it's way! The prize this month is YOUR CHOICE. Sounds like fun! Everyone has different taste in jewelry, so I thought I would help you out. I've made a fused glass RING and NECKLACE with little trees tack-fused on top to celebrate the new season.

Please choose your favorite, and mark in the comment section which one you would like to be wearing! Winner will be awarded on April 17th.

HOW TO ENTER:
Leave your name and email address or some way to contact you (should you be the winner) in the comments section of this post. Be sure to write your choice - RING or NECKLACE!

Don't forget to sign up for our newsletter on the left to be notified of any upcoming sales and events. Also use the egateam tag in the Etsy search box to locate all of our listings for sale.