I know, I know I missed last week's Heart. It was a perfect storm of end-of-the summer business coupled with half of us getting some sort of 2-day bug. I was very excited last week to get an order of frit from one of my favorite glass suppliers Val Cox Frit (http://valcoxfrit.com/).
I was eager to do some enameling. I chose a geometric design and drew out two circles and a triangle on my ever-handy sticker paper.
I used ivory transparent enamel on the front..I love the warm tones it picks up when used on copper. I also sprinkled some of the warm-colored frit on just prior to putting the pieces in the kiln.
When they had cooled, I assembled the piece by pressing the shapes into red polymer clay and adding a polymer clay swirl to the front. I used liquid polymer clay to bind the pieces together.
After coming out of the kiln, I added a pin-clasp to the back. Viola!
