Creating Flowers on a Glass Bead

Video Transcript

"Now what we're going to do is take this base bead that we've made already and we're going to stringer in order to make flowers. We're going to make two different kinds of flowers. The first kind of flower we're going to make is going to have four petals and it's going to use larger dots. What we're doing is using a stringer, which is a very thin diameter of glass, in order to make your dots. You're going to heat up the very end of the stringer. Remember you want to keep your base bead warm, not tacky, just warm, and apply just a dot of white glass, and in order to make these bigger flowers we're going to apply four dots. So there you have four dots applied to the surface of the bead. What you're going to next, I'm going to let that cool off so you can see the color a little bit, there's your four separate dots. The next step we're going to do is heat those dots down and melt them into the base bead."