CIM Testing Tardis

Tardis is a beautiful navy blue opal,  it is a new color to the 104 palette, to me it is darker and more blue than Electric  avenue.   It melts beautifully,  I have a tendency to stick a cold rod right in the flame which causes it to shock, like all opals this glass prefers to be warmed up a bit more slowly.  I noticed no bubbling or scumming.  I did have a problem with cracking when I layered Tardis over an Effertre opaque,  I have had problems with layering opals over opaques before, I was using a new press so its possible that I didn't reheat it enough. 

It doesn't really etch well, it is patchy so be aware.  

I really really love this color,  it is defiantly on my list to buy. 

CIM color Testing: Monarch and Harvest

I am so excited to be testing the new CIM colors.  I will be reviewing Harvest and Monarch together.  Both are a beautiful shades of orange,  neither bubbled or scummed.

Monarch is a orange that is more on the yellow side,  slightly more orange than Pumpkin.   Harvest is a bit brighter than Alley Cat  but not as bright as Creamsicle.

Monarch is actually really really close to the color of a real Monarch

CIM color testing: Spooky

The first glass I am going to review is Spook,  it is a beautiful opal white.  It is more opaque than Cirrus and a little more transparent than Marshmallow.  It did not shock or bubble and melted like butter.  This glass was intended to be an opal amber but came out white.  It did not have much of a reaction to Effertre Turquoise or CIM Cranberry.  I paired it with a reduction silver glass blend and it did fume to a lovely amber shade. 

As you can see from this comparison picture Spooky is very simmilar to Marshmallow but slightly more translucent.  Marble became opaque with striations of translucency, its very pretty.

This is the Spooky with Khaos reduced and encased, Spooky fumed to a beautiful gold, as you can see Frozen did not fume at all.

The rubino frit did react it formed black lines
You can faintly see that the Effetre Light Turquoise di faintly react with the Spooky,  this is a better picture of how the Spooky fumed when paired with silver glass.  It also looks amazing when used to encase a transparent.  Spooky also etches well.