Silly giraffes on a spotted background

A silly glass bead making class (now with TURTLE tutorial bonus!) accessible for most skill sets advanced beginner or beyond.

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Silly eyed silhouettes, spotted backgrounds and bubble popping - now with TURTLE bonus!

This class will explore making a silly giraffe bead from base bead to end cap with special focus videos on background spots, encasing, end caps, silhouette assembly, and silly eyes. And, as a special bonus, let's spend some time together talking bubbles: we'll pop them and poke them while we explore the heat dynamics that help them move. BONUS! Let's discover how giraffe parts can be slightly modified and used to make turtles!!!

Plus social opportunities for early participants!

All participants enrolled within 6 weeks of course launch are invited to participate in the class Facebook group, Office Hours video chats (recordings available), Show and tell, and other social opportunities with fellow class participants.

Class information

Find information about this class, how to learn from this class, and the supplies you might need to make our giraffe bead project.

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Foundations

Useful foundation information for use in this class and in all your beadmaking adventures, specifically information on popping bubble and finding "the zone" of heat around your flame that will help you with fine stringer and nuanced heat application.

Get to know your "zone"

Printable: Finding the zone

How JC pops bubbles

Printable: How to pop bubbles

All the little details

Take a deep dive into some of the beadmaking techniques we'll use to make our project including encasing, end caps, background spots, and silly giraffe silhouettes.

How JC makes background spots

Printable: How to make a spotted background

How JC encases

How JC makes end caps

Printable: How to make end caps with stringer

How JC makes a giraffe silhouette

Printable: How to make giraffe silhouettes

A full bead demo

View the process of making a giraffe bead from start to finish. The video is narrated by JC to focus on the bead making process while the print out looks to accompany you while you make the bead at your torch.

How JC makes a silly giraffe bead.mp4

Printable: How to make a giraffe bead

Bonus: Turtles

Let's disassemble our giraffe, modify a part or two and use them to build something new. It's like Frankenstein, except turtles.

Bonus: How I make a turtle

Printable: How to make a turtle