Monday, August 13, 2012

What can you do with a texture tile?

It's fun to play with clay - it's a nice change from glass - but once you've made that awesome texture tile what do you do with it? There is a detailed blog post here if you want to create your own: Texture Tile Molds for Fused Glass Thanks Jodi McRaney Rusho and Glass With a Past! 

Since I already had some autumn leaf colored glass on hand I thought I'd start with this tile:

 I didn't have a final project in mind, I just started out making some leaves and let the inspiration take over... First was a gold square.


 Next came the bright red square.


After a fail with a green square I tried some clear glass with confetti glass spread on the tile. Then I laid it all out with a nice colorful border and clear nuggets.


Copper was the perfect color to accent my glass choices so I foiled each piece and soldered it all together. Because the texture tile pieces were pretty uneven at the edges I used a decorative soldering technique. 


Cleaned and polished and it's all ready to hang in a window. Finished size: 16.5" x 16.5"
 

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