Test Results :: Peachy Keen

1 - Over Silver Foil, 2 - w/ Silver Leaf, 3 - w/ Silver Leaf (reduced & encased), 4 - w/ Silver Glass Frit (reduced), 5 - w/ TerraNova2 Frit, 6 - In Silver Glass Frit Stringer (encased), 7 - Plain, 8 - Plain (reduced), 9 - Over Clear, 10 & 11 - w/ Tuxedo, Copper Green, Opal Yellow, Ivory and Peace

CiM Peachy Keen is a juicy, beautiful light peach transparent. Peachy Keen is far brighter and is quite a lot more saturated than Lauscha Peach, but like Lauscha Peach, the consistency of Peachy Keen is very nice. I didn't experience any boiling, shocking, splintering or any other annoying behaviour while I was using it.

On top of Peachy Keen, silver leaf sort of disperses and forms itself into little balls on the surface. The silver definitely discolours the Peachy Keen, turning it a brownish colour. When the silver is reduced and encased, magic happens. You can see in the bead on the right that the silver has turned all different shades of blue and purple under the encasement layer of Effetre Clear.

Peachy Keen turns silver golden when it is used to encase.

I got much more interesting results from this frit stringer test than I anticipated. I used my reducing silver glass frit blend (which contains a bunch of random Double Helix reduction frits, currently, as well as the last of my Black Nebula frit). I've made frit stringer, here, from Peachy Keen by dipping it in the reducing silver glass frit three times, coating it more or less completely.  I then made a core of Peachy Keen, encased it with the frit stringer and encased it without reducing.

The effect, with Peachy Keen, is really too dark. It's hard to see what's going on in there. But it worked!

There isn't really a lot going on in these test beads with silver glass. I got ok colour from the reducing silver glass frit, but my TerraNova2 frit just sat on top of the bead like a dead thing.

However, I feel the same way about this colour as I do about Cardamom... it does not matter that silver glass is not its forte.

Peachy Keen is not very reactive with these colours I test with, but there are a couple of things to say about these test beads.

Peachy Keen and Copper Green develop a mutual dark line reaction. The line seems to be an extremely dark green rather than black, so it's an entirely different reaction than the one that happens with Ivory, but it's definitely present in both of these test beads.

Peachy Keen does not react with Opal Yellow, but it does look very pretty on top of it.

Test Results :: Poseidon

1 - Plain, 2 - Plain (reduced), 3 - w/ Silver Leaf, 4 - w/ Silver Leaf (reduced & encased), 5 - w/ Silver Glass Frit (reduced), 6 - w/ TerraNova2 Frit, 7 & 8 - w/ Tuxedo, Copper Green, Opal Yellow, Ivory, Peace

CiM Poseidon is a vibrant, semi-opaque sky blue. It is sensitive to heat, and restriking it increases its translucency. You can see in my plain spacers that the first one is a bright, almost opaque colour. The spacer that I reduced has gone somewhat semi-opaque, and the colour is less intense.

Poseidon is bluer than than Kryptonite and Mint Lozenge. It is a little greener and quite a lot brighter than Effetre Sky Blue Opalino.

Here, you can see that Poseidon is very sensitive to silver. In the bead on the left, the silver has gone sort of a weird, lacy blue colour on top of Poseidon and that the glass underneath it has a sort of smokey, yellow fumed effect to it. Reducing and encasing the silver gets rid of the yellowishness, and leaves a shiny, patchy coating of silver under the clear that has little pinpricks of blueness to it  - although this blueness is the blue of the Poseidon peeking through, not a reaction with the silver the way it is with some colours.

Reducing silver glass on top of Poseidon fumes it a greenish colour, and reducing silver glass develops colour quite nicely on top of Poseidon, however the effect to me is too much blue in one place. I got very little action from my TerraNova2 frit on top of this colour.

Poseidon is similar to the other blue and green CiM semi-opaques in that it is quite reactive.

Not much reaction is evident when Tuxedo is used on top of Poseidon, however when Poseidon is used on top of Tuxedo, there is a slight bit of separation and you can see a darker thready line in the middle of Poseidon stringer lines.

Poseidon makes Copper Green separate a little, resulting in light lines around the Poseidon stringer work on top of Copper Green and a darker, mottled outline around Copper Green stringer work on top of Poseidon.

Opal Yellow and Peace both separate when used on top of Poseidon, and Poseidon makes Peace and Opal Yellow rise up around it in little halos.

Poseidon and Ivory have a mutual dark line reaction that is more pronounced when Ivory is used on top of Poseidon. When Poseidon is used on top of Ivory, you can see that the brown effect is all-over, making the dots and stringer lines look sort of like tea stains. This was sort of surprising because neither Mint Lozenge nor Kryptonite react this way with Ivory, and even though I realize that Poseidon is an entirely new colour, for some reason I expected it to be similar in this respect.

Here, I've used Poseidon as one of the encasement layers in the base bead.

Test Results :: Linen

1 - Plain, 2 - Plain (reduced), 3 - w/ Silver Leaf, 4 - w/ Silver Leaf (reduced & encased), 5 - w/ Silver Glass Frit (reduced), 6 - w/ TerraNova2 Frit, 7 & 8 - w/ Tuxedo, Copper Green, Opal Yellow, Ivory and Peace

CiM Linen is a pale neutral colour, and is the closest thing to a Light Ivory that is available from Creation is Messy. In terms of its consistency, it is closer to Vetrofond Light Ivory than to Effetre, however it is not really like either colour because the reactions are quite different, except for it being a pale, neutral, opaque colour. In terms of hue, prior to any reducing or fuming, the colour of Linen is slightly more on the yellow side than either Effetre or Vetrofond Light Ivory.

CiM Linen is not a very streaky colour, and has a nice, even consistency. When I reduced it, the colour got warmer. I'm not sure if that's because Linen strikes a little, or if the reduction is what changed the colour, so that will require additional investigation.

The addition of silver fumes the surface of Linen to a warm brown colour. On the surface, the silver is mottled golds, greys and blues and is quite shiny.

When the silver is reduced and encased, the edges of it develop a rich blue colour and the silver itself becomes very shiny. I used Effetre 006 clear in this test, and just like what happened with Cardamom and Coconut Milk, I got some weird cracks in the bead. I didn't try encasing Linen with any other colour, and I haven't managed to solve this mystery. Either there's something wrong with my Effetre clear, or Linen does not like being encased with it.

When silver glass frit is reduced on Linen, it develops broad, brown halos around it. The colour develops well on the frit, and just like the beads with silver, the surface of the Linen fumes to a warmer, browner hue. I got decent colour out of my TerraNova2 frit on top of Linen as well.

Linen separates on top of Tuxedo, and the colour concentrates in the middle of dots and stringer lines. When Tuxedo is used on top of Linen, the Linen rises up around it in halos.

When Linen is used on top of Copper Green, it seems to take on the colour of the Copper Green. Rather than developing a dark line, the edges of the Linen look greenish, and the Linen separates a little. Oddly enough, this reaction is completely different when Copper Green is used on top of Linen. On top of Linen, Copper Green develops a dark, webby outline.

Linen separates and looks pink on top of Opal Yellow, and when Opal Yellow is used on top of Linen, it develops a pinkish border and looks like it is floating just above the bead's surface.

Linen makes Ivory separate. You can see this most clearly in the bead on the right.

There doesn't seem to be any reaction between Linen and Peace, although it is much easier to see Peace when it is used on top of Linen than the other way around.

I silvered Linen and used it here to make the mushroom cap and stem.