what are "your" best vine colors?

[angie]

There are so many different colors that everyone uses for vines, ive yet to find a favorite...whats your favorite colors to use for vines?

[beadstillmyheart]

for woody vine I like to use brown (any brown will do) with stripes of black encased in amber (any amber)

avocado opaque with blak stripes encased in sage transparent

[DesertDreamer]

I use a rod of acid yellow, striped with pea green then cased with medium grass green.

[angie]

I use a rod of acid yellow, striped with pea green then cased with medium grass green.

I havnt tried acid yellow yet....need to add some to my list ;)

[DesertDreamer]

I havnt tried acid yellow yet....need to add some to my list ;)

By itself, I think it's a horrid color. But cased in any of the transparent grass greens, it's seriously improved. Leah Fairbanks taught me to at least tolerate this color. :)

[Debbie]

By itself, I think it's a horrid color. But cased in any of the transparent grass greens, it's seriously improved. Leah Fairbanks taught me to at least tolerate this color. :)

Did she teach you encasing this yellow in blue? I love that look too. I usually put a stripe of vetrofond petroleum green in there too.

[GinaJ]

90% of mine are Pea Green with Black stripes, encased in Sage Green.

[angie]

90% of mine are Pea Green with Black stripes, encased in Sage Green.


mmm isnt sage green opaque?

[Carlabeads]

mmm isnt sage green opaque?


There's a transparent sage.

I use different combos all the time. I just kind of pick up whatever is lying around. One combo that I seem to do a lot of is med grass green striped with lt brown, petroleum, and pea green encased in sage. I also do avocado, petroleum, lt brown encased in olive green trans... Sometimes I do black instead of the lt brown.

[Reenie]

Love the suggestions.....please keep going lol!~~
All I ever really use is either grass green or pea green and black encased with light grass green.
So all this is new and very cool!
Irene

[Renee]

I use pea green with stripes of red/brown.

*note to self - try the yellow encased in blue!*

[angie]

There's a transparent sage.

I use different combos all the time. I just kind of pick up whatever is lying around. One combo that I seem to do a lot of is med grass green striped with lt brown, petroleum, and pea green encased in sage. I also do avocado, petroleum, lt brown encased in olive green trans... Sometimes I do black instead of the lt brown.

Do you know the number ?
Is it moretti?

[Chuckie]

Transparent sage Effetre is 019. I just double checked my answer, too.

[GinaJ]

Transparent Sage is one of my favorites colors...but it's a bit expensive.

[angie]

Transparent sage Effetre is 019. I just double checked my answer, too.

Thank you!:-D

[carolanne]

My florals are really UNspectacular, but my vine cane is pretty according to my coworkers. I use it for the leaves on my little "rosemarie beads".

I use that really super light handpulled Moretti opaque green - the almost luminuous luna moth coloured one, sorry no idea what the number is and way too tired to go down to the glass storage/laundry room, Lauscha bright green, narrow stripes of Vetro intense black stringer, and then on either side of the layered lollipop paddle, a layer of aquamarine - For vines, you could just encase with the aquamarine. It is really pretty, and makes really pretty leaves for my beads, but it would maybe make a really pretty vine cane for very fresh looking florals.

Smiles,
Carol Anne

[chrissij]

My florals are really UNspectacular, but my vine cane is pretty according to my coworkers. I use it for the leaves on my little "rosemarie beads".

I use that really super light handpulled Moretti opaque green - the almost luminuous luna moth coloured one, sorry no idea what the number is and way too tired to go down to the glass storage/laundry room, Lauscha bright green, narrow stripes of Vetro intense black stringer, and then on either side of the layered lollipop paddle, a layer of aquamarine - For vines, you could just encase with the aquamarine. It is really pretty, and makes really pretty leaves for my beads, but it would maybe make a really pretty vine cane for very fresh looking florals.

Smiles,
Carol Anne

Uranium yellow is the luna moth color (which is what I call it as well)...

Got any pics of those rosemary beads? I wanna' see!!!

[SuzyQ]

Now I want to play with vine colors! Thanks for the inspiration.

[GinnyHampton]

I like to use blue aventurine stringer to make my stripes . .. . then your vines are kinda sparklie :)


Oh . .. and it's OK to encase acid yellow for a stringer? I had a day's worth of pretty beads break because the base was acid yellow, encased. I guess it would be more stable in a small stringer versus a bead :-k

[Moth]

I like encased silvered ivory for woody vines. Sometimes I roll silvered ivory in green enamels and that is interesting too.

For generic, standard striped vine cane, here are my personal favorites and I choose which one to use based on the other colors in the bead.

Copper Green striped thinly with intense black and encased in pale emerald. (this is my "Go-To" vine cane...my personal favorite of them all...goes with almost everything.

Pea green striped alternately with intense black and mosaic green and encased thickly with clear. (If you don't encase the mosaic green pretty heavily it will bleed.)

Lauscha Olive Rolled in fine silver, striped with intense black and encased in transparent uranium yellow.

CIM Celadon striped with terra encased with pale emerald.

Take a gather of pale opal yellow and encase it with streaky amber (thinly). Stripe that with intense black and encase in clear.

Sometimes I will roll a gather of any opaque green in some furnace glass frit, melt that flat, encase it and pull it into vine cane. I like the striated effect of the different streaks the frit makes. Opal yellow with leopard diva frit, encased in clear is really pretty.

That's it.

~~Mary

[PaulaD]

Wow it's amazing how everyone does things so differently!!
I'm no help. I usually use green frit instead of vine cane. LOL.
Paula

[RyanTheNumberImp]

I find that cane with defined stripes looks unrealistic. I mix together a bunch of browns, silvered (or without silver) ivory, a bit of mosaic green and a bit of intense black, mix it up a bit, encase thinly with dark topaz (mainly to prevent bleeding) and pull it out. It really isn't an exact science, just look at a tree and grab as many colors you can see working together (and even some you cant) and mix em up. Sometimes I throw in grays and greens too.

These aren't really vine cane, but on another note, almost every opaque encased thinly in black and pulled down thinly looks stunning. Periwinkle encased (thinly!) in cobalt and then black makes a stunning purple, and coral, yellows, pea green etc all look great.
Note that you need the moretti black (since its purple).

[SuzyQ]

I forgot to share mine. Sometimes I just use copper green or avacado all by themselves but my standard vine is pastel grass green striped with avacado and encased in yellow green.

[anne225]

Lots of great ideas! Thanks everyone for sharing.
Does anybody use BullsEye??
Any suggestions for vines there?

Anne

[AnnDK]

Another Q?! Do you pull the straight? Or do you twist them?
You all have such great ideas. I'm going to try make some vined floras this week. This is so inspirering.
:D Ann

[SuzyQ]

Sometimes I twist loosely but you can get great results just pulling straight.

My BE vines: The first hosta special production color because it pulls into a nice soft looking vine, also Jade striped with pastel spring green and encased in transparant spring green. You can get pretty sparkly vines using the adventurines but make sure you encase heavily, they like to bleed. I often just grab shorts I have of greens and yellows and mix them up. I know I have used aqua to encase before.

[Chuckie]

Cool BE color combos:

Silvered Ivory (or Nougat if you want more reaction) striped with Woodland Brown (or Cinnabar) and encased in Light Bronze (or Khaki). Amber Luster is also a cool encasing color for this combo.

Olive opaque striped with Aventurine Green encased in Spring Green.

[SuzyQ]

I never use browns but those sound great.

[ptbeads]

I make a frit stringer for vine. I use transparent dark aqua, petroleum green, pea green, a few browns, the mustardy yellow, goldstone, and some transparent greens. It's pretty much a mixture of whatever greens and browns I have laying around. I make the frit by shocking a paddle in water, so it's fairly large chunks but I love it.

[SuzyQ]

Oh gosh Ginny I just read you use blue adventurine. I have a whole pound of the factory stuff I bought with my first order of glass, now I might be able to use it! Thanks :D

[Anne Ricketts]

90% of mine are Pea Green with Black stripes, encased in Sage Green.

These are the colors I use for the vine cane in my class. I like using a varity though, just depends on the flowers I'm putting them with!

[GinnyHampton]

Oh gosh Ginny I just read you use blue adventurine. I have a whole pound of the factory stuff I bought with my first order of glass, now I might be able to use it! Thanks :D

Yeah, seriously try it!! The pre-pulled stringers are usually too thick for me, but I love the blue aventurine for my vine lines. I'll usually make a barrel of pea or nile green, thick stripes of blue aventurine, sometimes thin stripes of black in between, encase with transparent grass. It's a really "happy" bright vine cane :)

[SuzyQ]

I will! I have the big regular rods. I thought I would make blue sparkly beads, lol. I had no idea. The goldstone rods were not as expected either :D

[anne225]

Cool BE color combos:

Silvered Ivory (or Nougat if you want more reaction) striped with Woodland Brown (or Cinnabar) and encased in Light Bronze (or Khaki). Amber Luster is also a cool encasing color for this combo.

Olive opaque striped with Aventurine Green encased in Spring Green.

Sounds great and I have some of those browns! can't wait to try this!
Thanks

[Mary K]

Just a question on "how" you make the stripes of black (I use intense black) on your vine canes. Do you stripe the opaque glass then encase, or stripe on top of the encasement with the black? ( thats what I do)
I use any greens I have for vines, not too picky, but going to try the woodsy canes.
Great thread!

[glassactcc]

I start with a white base, heat it into a large blob and use an optic mold to shape, I then add my intense black into the grooves. Over that goes trans orange, red, brown amber and rubino sometimes not all together, but some combo of these colors. I also put a line of goldstone and often use a rod of racu here and there too. I pull straight out, but when applied to a bead, I twist and turn like branches would do.

[Chuckie]

Do you stripe the opaque glass then encase, or stripe on top of the encasement with the black? ( thats what I do)
I do both. Each one gives you a slightly different look.

[scoutycat]

I do a few different vine/stem stingers, depending on how solid I want it to look. One is any opaque green striped with all filigrana stripes of petroleum, green, yellow ivory or white & blue or black. Another one is any transparent green with stripes of pea, green goldstone, nile & dk brown. A fussier one that I sometimes make is petroleum thinly cased in yellow green and striped with 6 or so stripes of ivory (some times I case it again if I don't want the ivory to react).

[Dragons Trove]

I start with a white base, heat it into a large blob and use an optic mold to shape, I then add my intense black into the grooves. Over that goes trans orange, red, brown amber and rubino sometimes not all together, but some combo of these colors. I also put a line of goldstone and often use a rod of racu here and there too. I pull straight out, but when applied to a bead, I twist and turn like branches would do.

Cynthia - as one who has a small collection of your gorgeous beads I have to try your method. I am absolutely intrigued with your woodsy florals with all the spiraling vines. I actually just sit and stare at them in awe.....

[WildIndianCowgirl]

I start out with lemon yellow as the base, then I apply a stripe of dark turquoise, and then lay down a stripe close to the turquoise but leaving a small gap of regular black. I do that between 4 -5 time. then I encase it in Transparent Dark Green.

The other one I do is started with a white base and then I apply a stripes of Petroleum Geen and encase it with Transparent light teal.

Wild Indian Cowgirl

[RyanTheNumberImp]

For vines I like to slap an assortment of greens, browns and goldstone together (Perhaps even some white/black). I then smoosh it around a little, encase in clear or transparent green and pull. Not very scientific but it always turns out nicely.

[Donna T.]

bump

I know this is an old thread but I'm making pumpkins and wanted some vine cane. I'm trying out several of these suggestions. Thought someone else might find this interesting and might have missed it like me.

[Ali Oops]

Thanks Donna....I've been meaning to do a search for this very thing. Some of the old threads are the best aren't they?

[2tumblingdragonz]

I love seeing the old threads pulled forward. At times I go thru and resurrect one or two, there are so many of us who are new coming in regularly that it's great info we would otherwise miss.
Thanks, this is some way cool info.

namaste
Rowyn

[cinder]

What a great thread. I got tons of new ideas reading through this.