February 2025 Creativity Challenge
Pantone Color of the Year!
This month we are inviting everyone to join us sharing your creativity using the Pantone Color of the year, Mocha Mousse. A beautiful earth tone that is sure to expand your creativity. With so many amazing color palettes to play with, your personality in glass can shine and inspire others with this challenge.
Check out the official Pantone color palette website to jump start your creativity HERE.
Thank you to our sponsor, Frantz Art Glass & Supply! 
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I am a full time software engineer, night time ceramics and lampwork artist. This necklace is made of Canyon de Chelly base glass with reduction glass from Double Helix and raku frit. I used Corina's press to flatten the beads and decorated sparingly with reduction glass. It does remind me of delicious cappuccino and foam art for coffee. I hope you like it as much as I enjoyed opening the kiln.
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This one is a hat tip to chocolate bunnies. I opted to use some old Effetre Red Roof Tile which seemed the closest. It seems like a potential copyright infringement if I went with the traditional pose that is so this one is mid-leap. And for me doing sculptural beads, extending the legs and ears is a fun personal challenge to keep the glass at the right temperature without breakage or movement.
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For the Pantone mocha theme's monthly ISGB challenge, I took out a bunch of my glass (all 104 coe) with a coordinating palette and proceeded to make a bunch of beads! They have been strung into a necklace (worn double) with a coordinating bracelet and earrings! These are destined for a fundraiser for a local environmental non profit organization.
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I used Bullseye glass to make this bead. I thought a pink background would go well with the mocha mousse color. I like the unevenness of the pink background.
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This medallion is part of my Agate Series and is inspired by worn and broken agates found along the shores of Lake Superior in Ontario, Canada. Made using Effetre, Reichenbach and Double Helix glass, the pattern was created by layering and folding opaque, translucent and transparent 104 CoE colours.
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I tried to use the color chart for inspiration, but kept coming back to chocolate ice cream, in particular soft serve chocolate with sprinkles! My photo doesn't do the warm cold melted chocolate justice - it's really more of a medium brown.
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I did not love this challenge. I didn't have any glass that color so I tried to make it. I wasted a lot of time and glass ending up with odd green colors. Here is a mocha rabbit.
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Lately, I've been inspired by beautiful art vases I've found in the wild. This gorgeous vase inspired me to make flowers using light and dark topaz and a mystery silver glass.
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Hi, these are hollow glass beads I worked with CIM Glass (Ginger and Toto), SIS, and Reichenbach shards.
I hope you like it.
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I tried a few colors to find a decent Mocha Mousse. Sage Green (hand pulled) was a bit too yellow... the one I ended up using was CiM Moccasin. The design is lines of R. Deep Black, pulled and pushed, with accents of Petroleum Green, Orange, and R. Rose Purple. It was fun and challenging to find a specific color of brown in my glass collection. It’s not a color I use or think about much!
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Making focal beads is an infrequent guilty pleasure for me as I mostly make matched pairs for earrings these days. This bicone was made from Effetre Hawaiian Clay (591685). I made a clear center (helps those more expensive colors last longer), encased it with Hawaiian Clay, and then added loads of clear dots on top. They were just partially melted in. Melting them in all the way produces a really lovely "honeycomb" effect.
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When I saw the mousse challenge my brain converted it to moose. Here's what I have so far. The toothy moose makes me giggle . I have no idea what the glass was. It’s some kind of old rose. The other was made with safari brown. I enjoyed the sculptural challenge of those horns . I want to get them bigger and get the nose longer. I like what I learned from my attempts.
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Mocha Mousse is a color in my wheelhouse, ha! If it's organic and earthy, I'll probably reach for it and experiment. The three middle beads are all blown off mandrel and then tumble etched to give a satiny smooth finish. All the colors used are 104 and from Frantz. One of the spacer beads even draws back to one of the extra pantone colors- cobblestone. Thanks for this opportunity to win a gift card.
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I did not think I had any glass in this color. I did find one rod of Effetre Cinnamon Chocolatta, so I decided to recreate a design I made 13 years ago. Probably one of three brown beads I've made. The shape is one of my favorites that I first made 20 years ago. I find I actually like the color once I add a design with other colors. It makes a great background.
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A chance viewing of a CBS Sunday morning show featuring Beads of Courage sent me down the lampwork path in 2010. I still love glass and also Beads of Courage. Most of my beads are created thinking of what a young person might enjoy, but I do also create things for myself and others. For this challenge I melted a color I had in my collection but had never tried until now!
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I must say this color did not inspire me at first but I thought I would play along/be challenged. I rediscovered CIM seashell and making seashells and that was fun. Then I went on to find closer color matches.
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Inspired by this delicious colour, I popped into my shed and out came these 3.
- A blown hollow with ivory dots covered in a DH with little silver brown bobbles, reduced
- A fox head bead
- And a little fox charm
Thank you, I enjoyed that.
Bright blessings.
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This glass disc bead pair features a base of transparent mocha with Double Helix Helios golden accents!
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The bead on the left was made when I took a Heather Sellers class. I love the color and think it is close to the Pantone color. The dot bead is made with CiM Café Au Lait. The glass can go much lighter if worked too long but this one turned out great for this entry. Still love glass beads after 17 years of playing with fire.
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Here are a couple of earrings based on a Pantone “delicious” palette.
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I send you pictures of both sides of the bead I try to develop for the Pantone challenge.
I came to this challenge quite late because I never did that!
I have to say I had a huge pleasure to work with these colors and it was really a great opportunity to go out of my comfort zone. Just for this, I’m glad to have participated. Thank you for giving me the chance. I’m Sophie Mottier, I decided to make glass beads after traveling to Mali where I became aware of the historical charge of glass beads in the “commerce triangulaire.” After falling in love with glass beads I fall in love with glass and all the opportunities it gives me to meet people, places, learn techniques etc. This bead is a blown bead made with soft glass, mostly Moretti or Vetrofond. It’s about 3 cm diameter.
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A little coffee-house menagerie: mocha, latte, caramel, and cream! Colors include CIM Canyon de Chelly, Canoe, and Sarfari, Effetre colors Woodie, Sandstone, and White, and Reichenbach Iris Orange. Photo by E. Erin Morris.
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My creative journey meanders through many areas. For this challenge I've gone for the bear necessities.
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My name is Kathy Johnson. I have been making beads since 1989. I have been a member of the ISGB for a very long time. I could NOT find the exact brown to use so this is my entry.
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