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Find summer style in cane glass colors
By Bethany Waldrop Keiper
"A Picture of many colors proclaims images of many Thoughts." --
Donna A. Favors
After looking at the colors for spring 2007 from Pantone last
month, I realized that
many of those colors were in my new batch of David Christensen
cane glass that I had
received a few weeks ago. It wasn't anything planned, it was
just a moment when I was
running my fingers through the shimmering cane glass -- if
you've ever gotten any of
this glass, you know that it's impossible to keep from doing
that -- and amidst the
sparkles I saw the shades similar to the ones from the Pantone
palette pop out at me.
David Christensen cane glass is just gorgeous. It is made from
the best quality
glass, each color is rich and bright, and each piece is
smooth and unique. Among
the shades I noticed were the blues of Pantone's Grapemist and
Sky Blue, the bright
gleam of Strawberry Ice, and the bold violet of Hollyhock.
Pantone has been reporting
the new, popular colors and trends for each season for more than
a decade. Pantone is
known as the place to go for color information.
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Pretty hollyhock purple is featured in this pretty piece of cane
glass. The purple is
swirled with deep forest green, and in the light, they produce a
bit of a blue glow
inside their clear glass case. For something different, suspend
a piece of cane glass
from bits of chain. Since both the colors in the glass and their
names bring to mind
thoughts of flowers, an added dangle of a flower seems
appropriate. The glitter of
gold from the chain, the bead caps, the flower, and even the
earwire itself lends a
festive glow to this earring, making a perfectly eye-catching
setting for such a
pretty cane glass bead. |
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Sky blue color is captured inside crystal clear glass, and
swirled around with violet
stripes lined inside with lavender. Shimmering aventurine, or
goldstone, adds an
additional spirit of light to the beads. Such delicate cane
glass deserves delicate
surroundings, so simple silver accents and luster clear glass
4mm rounds are perfect
for making the daintiest necklace or bracelet. Even though it
may interrupt the
picture of the design a bit, I can't resist enlarging a piece of
this beautiful cane
glass for you to see.
Some of the cane glass was accented with yellow, which is great
for this season.
Yellow is popular this year as an accent for clothing and as a
color for accessories.
An explosion of bold color gets you in swirls of lemon sherbet
and strawberry ice.
It's heating up outside, and bold colors are glowing in the sun.
Bring on your own
glow while still keeping your cool with these ice-creamy colors.
In this design,
larger pieces of cane glass with strawberry pink centers are
encased in yellow-tinted
glass with swirls of brighter yellow and lavender. Frosted clear
rounds with bright
yellow centers are a perfect complement. In keeping with a berry
theme, tiny
berry-shaped copper spacers are just darling, and large copper
vine-swirled focal
beads (that's how they appear to me) are perfect between the
sets of yellow and pink.
Cane glass comes in different shapes, as well as sizes. This
crystal clear glass
piece in its triangular shape holds the refreshingly pretty
grapemist color in its
center.
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In this design, cool blues are stacked with shining AB
facetted crystal
rounds in 6mm and 8mm. A small glass round in a similar blue
goes on top of the
stack, and a matching frosted blue fish is at the beachy bottom.
Affix a large bail
or clasp to the top, and you have the perfect zipper pull for a
swimsuit cover-up,
summer hoodie, or beach-themed bag.
Triangular pieces may seem like a challenge at first, but they
are nice to work with
because of their ability to rest perfectly flat against the
skin. |
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Resources:
David Christensen Cane Glass Beads, Pastel Mix; 8mm frosted
inside color yellow
rounds; Medium 12 mm Copper Bead with Center Lines and Circles;
and small Double
Dotted Circle Copper Bead (the little berries) all courtesy of
and available from The
Bead Peddler. Frosted blue fish courtesy of the Bead Peddler.
http://www.beadpeddler.com
Pantone, world renowned authority on color and provider of color
systems:
http://www.pantone.com
Pantone's Spring 2007 Color Report:
http://www.pantone.com/downloads/articles/pdfs/PANTONEspring07.pdf
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