Project Sheet: Advanced Priming with ZYP

ZYP (Formerly MR-97) is a boron nitride (“BN”) spray that is an alternative to traditional primers. It results in superior castings, virtually no spurs or sharp edges, and a beautiful, shiny surface. This video has additional information.

Video: Priming with ZYP BN Lubricoat

This is a very interesting Video on how to use ZYP BN Lubricoat, formerly MR-97. For more information, make sure that you checkout the ZYP project sheet.

Video: Wafer-Thin Firing

Use this technique to create increadable realist and delicate castings for display.

Project Sheet: Wafer-Thin Firing

Create extremely thin and delicate art pieces by casting powdered glass at extremely low temperatures.

Project Sheet: Tricks of the Trade

10 Tips and ideas for using Colour de Verre molds.

Project Sheet: The Feather

Create feathers that are as fanciful or realistic as you like with Colour de Verre’s Feather design. Once feathers are cast, they can be slumped into amazing decorative or functional pieces.

Project Sheet: Vintage Ornaments

Create your own keepsakes with our Vintage Ornaments design. They also make perfect holiday gifts.

Video: Making Monstera Leaves

This video shows how to prime, fill, and fire our Monstera Leaf design. Then the cast leaves are slumped into bowls and platters.

Project Sheet: Slab Server

The Slab Server design is a perfect format in which to experiment with billets, reactive glass, kiln carving, and powder printing. The integrated feet makes for elegant results.

Project Sheet: The Cloud Forest Magnolia

Create striking functional pieces with this design or cast them wafer-thin to create spectacular art pieces.

Project Sheet: Wings and Cherub

Create classic, Italianate-inspired compositions with our Wings design and our Cherub design.

Project Sheet: Fluted Heart

Create a sweet ornament for a loved one or friend, or a keepsake frame for a special image

Project Sheet: Open Hands

Create these classic pieces, perfect for holding keepsakes, with only two firings. A great project for beginners or for craft fairs.

Project Sheet: Fill Weights at a Glance

Print out this handy reference and keep it in your studio. It lists every Colour de Verre mold with its fill weight.

Video: Priming with Hotline Primo Primer

Learn how to prime Colour de Verre's reusable glass casting molds with Hotline Primo Primer.

Project Sheet: Buddha Faces

Our Buddha Faces are serene and contemplated images that seem to radiate calm. They are easy to make and our mold makes them two at a time.

Project Sheet: Bamboo

With only two firings you can create striking platters and plates with our Bamboo design.

Project Sheet: Skulls!

Use them to embellish edgy platters, plates, and candle holders. Or, let them stand alone as jewelry, objets d’art, or “worry stones”. 

Project Sheet: Flaming Hearts

Our Flaming Hearts stand alone as objet d'art or can be used to embellish all sorts of larger projects

Project Sheet: Snowflakes

Our Snowflakes ’12, ’13, ’14, ’15, ’16 and ’17 molds produce light and delicate snowflakes that celebrate the austere beauty of winter. They can be hung most anywhere and make the perfect “little gift” for friends and coworkers. If you want, you can tack fuse them to holiday plates and platters.

Project Sheet: Large Round Box

The Large Round Box design has quite a bit more room inside for treasures and trickets. Special instructions on how to use sheet glass included.

Project Sheet: Sea Horse & Shell Dish

Brilliant results in just one firing. Perfect on the vanity for soap, or on the dresser for change, rings, or jewelry.

Video: Large Round Box w/ Art Glass

Learn how to prime, fill, and fire Colour de Verre Large Round Box mold.

Project Sheet: Monstera Leaf

Visit any tropical local and you will see monstera plants climbing up the trees. Our molds makes a huge leaf that can be slumped into bowls or platters, or mounted for wall art.

Project Sheet: Napkin Rings

Fill our napkin rings with any color frit to match your, your friends', or your customers' decor. Embellish with decals, enamels, frit balls, or cast elements.

Project Sheet: Holiday Stars

Perfect way to brighten winter days. They also make perfect gifts.

Project Sheet: Big Skull

Produce either edgy or classic pieces with our Big Skull design. It is a great way to learn about using glass billets.

Project Sheet: Holiday Silhouettes

Create festive decorations for windows, Christmas trees, or your office cubicle with our Holiday Silhouette designs. Easy project that requires only one firing.

Project Sheet: Leaf Ikebana Vases

Simple, but quintessential, ikebana vases can be created with Colour de Verre’s Kiwi Leaf, Northwoods Maple Leaf, Rain Forest Leaf, Tropical Leaves, and Lilly Pad designs.

Video: Making Colour de Verre Snowflakes

Learn how to make Colour de Verre Snowflakes. Snowflakes are an easy project and only require one firing.

Project Sheet: Icicles

Easy-to-make and fun to give, these icicles are great holiday decorations on trees and in windows.

Video: Filling and Firing Pattern Fusers

This video shows how to prime, fill, and fire Colour de Verre's Pattern Fusers.

Project Sheet: Cabbage Leaf

Craft whimsical plates reminiscent of antique majolica ware with this wonderful design or, if you are ambitious, create impressive platters, bowls, or wall art.

Project Sheet: Northwoods Maple Leaf

Create an autumn leaf by filling the mold with mixtures of red, oranges, and yellows or a spring version with greens. Flip the mold to discover a custom slumping surface that changes the cast leaf into a perfect plate.

Project Sheet: Making Nano Drops

Nano Drop are an exciting companion to our Nano Bead design. The Nano Drop design lends itself to many possibilities

Project Sheet: Round Votive

These molds fit into small, tabletop kilns.  The wonderful results and easy-to-follow instructions make this mold perfect for both beginners and experience artists.

Video: Creating Round Votives

Watch this video in which two different Round Votives are created. Make sure to download the Round Votive project sheet, too.

Project Sheet: Oval Votive

Oval Votives are easy to make and perfect for gifts. The Oval Votive’s larger surface provides the artist with ample room to compose their own design.

Project Sheet: Tips for Thin Casting with Schedules

As people become more experienced with our molds, they often start wanting thinner and more delicate castings. Hints, advice, and firing schedules to achieve that goal.

Project Sheet: Gem Top Tea Lights

Medium mesh frit is "sugar fired" to the tops of our 3" Square Candle Holders. It is a simple technique with impressive results.

Video: Buddha Faces With Dichroic

Learn how to cast our Buddha Faces and then back the casting with dichroic sheet glass to product faces that almost glow.

Project Sheet: Simple Round/Small Ring Beads

Make an enormous variety of round beads with our Simple Round Beads and Small Ring Beads molds and create jewelry that ranges from simple and understated to elegant.

Project Sheet: Box Basics

This project sheet provides the reader with all the basics – fill weights, schedules, and techniques – for using Colour de Verre’s box base and lid casting molds.

Video: Making Beads with Colour de Verre Molds

Make simple to elegant contemporary jewelry with Colour de Verre's Simple Round Beads mold. This video shows how the prepare, fill, and fire this mold and includes images of finished pieces.

Project Sheet: Candle Holder Basics

Colour de Verre’s cast candle holders are easy to make and – plain or fancy – are always a welcome gift.

Project Sheet: Rain Forest Leaves

Cast beautiful leaves on one side of these molds and then create perfect dessert and hors d’oeuvres plates with the integrated slumping surface on the molds’ reverse side. Tack fuse multiple leaves together for dramatic platters and wall sculptures.

Project Sheet: Aralia Leaf, Basic Firing Instructions

The large leaf cast in Colour de Verre’s Aralia Leaf mold can be can be left flat; slumped individually into a small plate or bowl; or grouped with multiple Aralia Leaf castings to form large, dramatic decorative platters and bowls.

Project Sheet: Tribal/Geometric Beads

Our Tribal Beads are a stylized version of an ancient design. Our Geometric Beads are a very contemporary design. Both are easy-to-make and make great gifts.

Project Sheet: Beads as Embellishments

Our bead designs not only make exquisite jewelry, they can be used to create contemporary embellishments for plates, platters, bowls, and larger work.

Video: Making a Cabbage Leaf

See how to make a realistic Cabbage Leaf - step by step.

Project Sheet: Kiwi Leaf Molds

Colour de Verre’s Kiwi Leaf has a bonus: On the mold’s reverse side there is a slumping surface on which cast leaves can be turned into perfect salad plates.

Project Sheet: Fill and Fire a Dragonfly

Basic instructions for priming, filling, and firing a Colour de Verre mold.

Project Sheet: Autumn Leaf Platter

A simple form is embellished with maple and alder leaves in autumn shades of red, orange, and yellow. Makes use of the Colour de Verre Maple Leaf and Leaves (3) molds. No slumping mold is necessary.

Project Sheet: Oak Leaves and Acorn Plate

Oak leaves and acorns – the symbols of harvest bounty and the approach of winter – are perfect decorations for the harvest table.

Video: Filling and Firing Big Leaf Designs

This video illustrates how a Colour de Verre Aralia Leaf mold is prepared, filled, and fired. The cast leaf is then slumped into a bowl.

Project Sheet: Making Pillow Pendants

Colour de Verre's Pillow Pendants leave plenty of room for creativity and customization. Resutls can be simple and understated or elegant.

Project Sheet: Serpentine Basics

Add “wavy” rods, stringers, noodles, and ribbons to your design “vocabulary” with Colour de Verre’s Serpentine Formers.

Project Sheet: Poppy Plate

Rich, red poppies embellish this elegant service plate. The plate itself is made from an understated collage glass that adds complexity and interest to the overall piece.

Project Sheet: Sea Form Bowl/Amber Platter

This project sheet details how to make two very different finished pieces embellished with glass rods shaped using Colour de Verre’s Serpentine Formers.

Project Sheet: Ginkgo Leaf Platter

This low, shallow bowl features our Ginkgo Leaf design. It is a great accent for a dining room table. Learn how to make this in the “Variations” section of this project sheet.

Project Sheet: Hors d’oeuvre Plates

Make these plates for yourself or use as a gift. Take advantage of the amazing array of fusible art glass available.

Project Sheet: Winter Box

Like most studios, our studio has a box of interesting glass remnants too beautiful to just to toss away. The Winter Box project was inspired by a small rectangle of Uroboros Winter Collage glass left over from a bigger project.

Project Sheet: Making Small Dragonflies

The Small Dragonflies with Wing Slumper mold has been one of most popular design. Why not devote a project sheet just to making, shaping, and tacking these designs.

Project Sheet: Branches, Pine Cones, Small Leaves

Instructions and tips for creating thin and delicate castings with these three molds.

Project Sheet: Scarab and Ankh Jewelry

Even if you don’t want to make jewelry, the techniques in this project sheet can be used to make beautiful scarabs and ankhs for other purposes, for example, embellishing platters and plates.

Project Sheet: Creating Frit Paint Chips

Just like wall paints, glass frit can be mixed to create subtle shades. Use our method to create glass versions of “paint chips.” From these chips you can choose the perfect frit blend for a particular project.

Project Sheet: Firing Records

These simple forms help record all the significant factors of a kiln firing. Print as many copies as you need.

Project Sheet: Sea Life Forms using Billets

This project sheet is really two project sheets in one. It tells how to make beautiful sea forms plus how to cast pieces using billets and “casting rocks”.

Project Sheet: Autumn Leaves Wreath

Cast leaves are fused together to form this beautiful table decoration. The wreath can also be hung in window to celebrate the season.

Project Sheet: How to Make Nano Beads

Colour de Verre’s Nano Beads are the smallest members of the Company’s Jewelry product line. They look great paired with other elements of the Jewelry line or mixed with manufactured beads.

Project Sheet: Bee Pins

The honey bee, its honey, and its hive are emblems of sweetness, wealth, and eloquence. Use the Colour de Verre Honey Bee mold to create three beautiful pins. Give them to your three favorite people – or maybe two friends and keep one for yourself.

Project Sheet: Tropical Fish, Sea Horses, Shells

Complete instructions for casting beautiful elements using our Tropical Fish mold and Sea Horse and Starfish mold. A cooler than usual firing schedule results in delicate, finely-detailed imagery.

Project Sheet: Sea life Inspired Platter

Use our beach shells, sea horse, and starfish molds to create this great sea life inspired bowl. Even if you don't live at the beach, this bowl looks great in any living or dining room. Match your color choices to your tastes and decor.

Project Sheet: Autumn Candle Holder

Two of these acorn and oak leave embellished candle holders on the mantle or three running down a dining table is a great way to welcome autumn.

Project Sheet: Elliptical Acorn Box

This oval box is cast in the palest amber and trimmed with smaller castings in the same shade. It is reminiscent of rustic Orna Wood boxes sold at national park gift stores in the 50’s.

Project Sheet: Peach Blossom Box

Peach blossoms, branches, and leaf castings are tack fused to the lid of an elliptical box creating a look reminiscent 1920’s European glass. Very pale, translucent colors were chosen as not to distract from the classic design.

Project Sheet: Pine Cone Candle Chimney

This makes a superb centerpiece for a holiday table or festive, winter mantle accent.

Project Sheet: Cast Shell Box using ZYP

This project sheet illustrates how to use ZYP Boron Nitride primer (Formerly MR-97) in conjunction with Color de Verre’s box molds. The ZYP speeds mold priming and clean-up, but a few guidelines should be observed to get optimal results.

Project Sheet: Four Sweet Heart Boxes

Flowers fade and chocolate is too tempting. However, these heart boxes will be a lasting token of love or friendship.

Project Sheet: Millefiori Boxes

Millefiori give these sweet, little, glass boxes an old-world charm. The white bases have an interesting color “texture” that doesn’t compete with the millefiori’s subtle colors.

Project Sheet: Offset Pendants

These pendants can be suspended from leather, rubber, silk, or metal cords to create jewelry ranging from simple and casual to dramatic and elegant. They are very easy to make and, because of the molds' engineering, there is almost never any coldwork envolved when MR-97 is used.

Project Sheet: Summer Sunflower Projects

Create a beautiful Summer Platter or fun garden art with this technique.

Project Sheet: Round Dichroic Box

This project uses our Round Box and Lid mold to create a elegant cache perfect for rings and other special mementos.

Project Sheet: Gift Boxes with CBS Dichroic

CBS's Crinklized and Borderline Pattern Dichroic are combined with Colour de Verre's Box Molds to create these very impressive and quite showy boxes. They are perfect gifts.

Project Sheet: Glasslink Basics

These are the basics techniques used with our Glasslinks molds to creating glass elements. These elements can then be combined to create dramatic jewelry.

Project Sheet: Lily Pad Coasters

Perfect for giving, these coasters are an easy project for people new to glass casting. The result is a perfect gift for friends.

Project Sheet: Salamander Platter

This platter’s amazing surface is created by “flattening” a piece of iridized, herringbone ripple sheet glass. During this process, the beautiful irid colors are preserved but the surface becomes matte.

Project Sheet: Oval and Teardrop Pendants

Produce small, delicate, but attention grabbing pendants by combining these two designs with dichroic glass flakes. This technique can be used with any of Colour de Verre’s pendant designs.

Project Sheet: Millefiori and Murrini Pendants

Create beautiful, old-world or hip, modern designs by combining millefiori, murrini, and Colour de Verre pendant molds. 

Project Sheet: Pattern Fuser Basics

Create functional pieces like platters or plates or decorative  wall art using Colour de Verre’s Pattern Fusers. Combinations of frit and sheet glass create almost endless possibilities.

Project Sheet: Pattern Fuser as Window Art

Learn how to create a leaded glass effect using Colour de Verre's Pattern Fusers. Make both wonderful window art and vessels from the resulting panels.

Project Sheet: Pillow Pendants with Dichroic Glass

Create beautiful dichroic pendants and stunning beads by combining CBS Coating by Sandberg patterned sheets with Colour de Verre’s Pillow Pendant molds.

Video: Cutting Billets

Billets are large blocks of glass that produce bubble-free castings. Learn how to cut billets in this video.

Project Sheet: Aralia Leaf Lamp

The warm light this lamp emits is a welcome addition to almost any living space.

Project Sheet: Round Frit Panel

This project sheet is from Uroboros Glass Studios. They filled our 10” Round Disk Fuser with beautiful frit mixtures separated by glass “dams” created with our Large Serpentine Formers. The final piece can be displayed in a stand or slumped into a bowl or platter.

Project Sheet: Soap Dishes, Using up Leftovers

Cast and kiln-formed elements are combined with double-thick sheet glass to produce soap dishes. This project can be completed in a small, tabletop kiln.

Project Sheet: Maple Leaf Bowls

Next time you are invited to a dinner, make a couple of these maple leaf bowls for your host or hostess. They work great for measure out spices or serving olives or chocolate.

Project Sheet: Embellished Photo Frames

Create the perfect frame for that perfect photo. A relatively easy project with very nice results.

Project Sheet: Lotus and Lily Pad Platter

This project combines multiple techniques: Casting, tacking, and slumping.

Project Sheet: Holiday Poinsettia Plate

This is a whole lot more classy than those awful, plastic cookie plates that pop up in the stores around Christmas time. Beautiful poinsettia blossoms are cast using the Colour de Verre Trillium mold and then are tacked fused to a simple plate.

Project Sheet: Hot Glass Mosaics

The latest trend is incorporating fused and cast pieces into mosaic projects. Create this beautiful tea tray using cast elements created with Colour de Verre molds.

Project Sheet: Shoji Screen Lamp

Streamer glass is accented and framed with black glass “noodles” to create a look that is reminiscent of Japanese rice paper screens. Beautiful results. Just requires two firings.

Project Sheet: Round Spring Leaf Lamp

Create a beautiful accent lamp based on Colour de Verre’s 5” Diameter Round Hardware and Panel Former. The instructions can be easily modified to create a lamp to perfectly suit almost anybody’s taste.

Project Sheet: Dogwood and Leaf Bowl

Quite a bit different from the usual glass project. Fuse and slump individual elements - in one firing - to create a beautiful bowl.

Project Sheet: Floral Drawer Pulls

The drawer pulls are an easy-to-make combination of your glass and inexpensive hardware. The can be made to match any decor.

Project Sheet: Wine Stoppers

This project can be completed in about an hour - not including the overnight firing. Add a bottle of wine and you have a perfect gift.

Project Sheet: Successful Lighting Projects

Colour de Verre’s lighting formers and hardware are a great way to show off your artwork. This document lists some tips for getting the best results.

Project Sheet: Oval Dragonfly Lamp

Create a beautiful accent lamp using Colour de Verre’s new lighting components. The lamp makes a perfect addition to your - or a friend’s - bedroom, living room, or mantel.

Project Sheet: Dichroic Frit and Shard Pendants

Whether you use dichroic trimmings and shards, or manufactured dichroic frit, the results of this technique are gorgeous.