Roo Blaty
2012-07-17, 9:23am
I made a cute little seahorse ala Kimberly's tut from some time back.
I added 104 dichro to give it a bit of shine, as per the instructions. More and more I see that...the dichro seems to be trying to escape the rest of the bead. 8-[ It started as a little crack at the edge, which I thought may have just been neglected and needed more heat. But today when I picked it up the dichro literally fell off in places!
The bead is ONLY cracking around the dichro.
I assume it's the glass(es)I used?? As far as I remember I used pale aqua, clear, other blues I'd have to go check for sure but they all were various shades of transparent...but I think it's the dichro itself and not the other glasses used. Having said that, I pulled off a lot of the yucky dichro-clear and added regular clear. I think it was CIM clear but could have been Effetre. Does that make a difference? :-s
Thanks for your help.
I added 104 dichro to give it a bit of shine, as per the instructions. More and more I see that...the dichro seems to be trying to escape the rest of the bead. 8-[ It started as a little crack at the edge, which I thought may have just been neglected and needed more heat. But today when I picked it up the dichro literally fell off in places!
The bead is ONLY cracking around the dichro.
I assume it's the glass(es)I used?? As far as I remember I used pale aqua, clear, other blues I'd have to go check for sure but they all were various shades of transparent...but I think it's the dichro itself and not the other glasses used. Having said that, I pulled off a lot of the yucky dichro-clear and added regular clear. I think it was CIM clear but could have been Effetre. Does that make a difference? :-s
Thanks for your help.