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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.

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.
 

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.

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.

 

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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