CiM Testing: Weeping Willow & Baked Alaska
Weeping Willow is a beautiful, soft shade of green with a touch of grey to it. It’s a little streaky, but that’s opaque greens for you. It’s a trouble-free glass to use and I really like the colour.
Baked Alaska is a pastel yellow. I’m tempted to say it’s similar to Effetre opaque Opal Yellow 266 but that varies from batch to batch; I’ve had barely yellow through to pinkish-apricot yellow with that over the years. So I’ll say that Baked Alaska is similar to CiM Banana Cream in the way it behaves working-wise, but Baked Alaska is definitely more yellow.
I did a quick bead (not pictured because it rolled down the back of my workbench into Land of the Cobwebs and I cannot and will not enter that realm so the bead is lost forever) made with Baked Alaska with CiM Cranberry Pink dots on it and it does do the spreading and colour reaction thing. I’ll expand on this at a later date, so right now please think of this as placeholder information regarding Baked Alaska’s reactive properties. But yes, as a colour it is a very pleasing yellow. It melted wonderfully and I didn’t do any striking faffery; I just used the glass and it did the colour stuff for me. It looks white when it’s warm but as it cools its lovely yellowness blooms.
These beads are Weeping Willow with a heavy encasing layer of Effetre Super (Crystal) Clear 006 and polka dots and spacers in Baked Alaska.
The photographs were taken indoors in natural daylight.