01.
Fun with Decals
I don’t have a photo of the decal sheet that I bought so I’m substituting the image from Milestone Decals. I’ve always liked antique maps and compass roses. The decals came on a single sheet and I cut them out with scissors and applied them to small glass circles that I had cut.
02.
Tiny Circles
A 1″ diameter circle might be about the smallest that I can cut. Here’s an example of one of the decals on a white circle of glass and capped with a clear piece of glass, both 3mm thick.
03.
Ready to Fuse
Here’s the set, ready to fuse, looking down into the bottom of the small kiln, a Paragon Caldera.
Results
Final Result
On one of these projects I’ll have to show how the jewelry findings are attached. But here are the two finished bracelets, a small and a large. The decals retained their vibrant colors and details. I’ve used silver bails and loops to link the glass circles, and the clasp is magnetic. I thought that might be handy, so to speak.
Close-up One
Here’s that same map circle from Step 2 above.
FULL FUSING SCHEDULE (RUN TIME 13:10)*
| SEGMENT | RATE (deg F / hour) | TEMPERATURE (F) | HOLD (hours:minutes) |
| 1 | 400 | 1200 | :30 |
| 2 | FULL | 1490 | :10 |
| 3 | FULL | 900 | 1:00 |
| 4 | 200 | 700 | OFF |
* The firing schedules may be designed for other projects that were fired with this one. Everything was fired in a Paragon Caldera.
I love these!
Thanks very much!