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Originally Posted by LoriB
Ooh, I've been drooling to learn this technique for a long time, Amber! Thanks SO much for your generosity in sharing it with all of us! *Ü*
Quick question: when you make your SIS, do you mean you roll the actual stringer in the silver and so it gets applied to the bead where the silver is still all exposed on it? Or do you first melt in the ivory down into a ball and roll it in the silver, then melt in and pull back into a stringer?
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Lori, you take a 2mm Dark Ivory stringer that you order directly from any glass vendor you like.
Roll it over 1/3 sheet of silver leaf (not foil) so the silver is coating the outside of the glass only. Roll it longways so it covers about 1/3 of the stringer.
Marver it into the stringer then flash through the flame to make it stick to the outside of the stringer but don't melt it into a ball. Some of it will burn off but most of the silver will go onto the stripe.
Then use it on the bead to make a stripe down the center.
Here's a photo...
