Spectrum Glass presents: The System 96® Glass Craft Program

Project Guide
Sunny Sail • votive holder
Glass Cutting: simple straight lines
Firings: contour fuse, slump
Accessories: tea light

Step-by-Step Materials We Used

1. Cut two 3” squares from the blue Sheet and two from the Blank: 6” clear square
yellow, and affix at opposite corners of your Blank with
pinpoints of glue. Glass colors: 533-1SF Sky Blue,
161SF Yellow
2. Cut two 1/2” diameter circles from the fiber paper with
Strips: 110.8 Medium Amber and
scissors. For now, place the circles (without gluing) at the
two opalescent “sailboaty” colors
outside corners of the yellow squares, as shown below.
Noodle: red, about 1/2 inch
3. Use the Nippers to make 15-20 sunny rays (little triangles)
from the amber Strip. Affix around the circles with pin- Fiber Paper: 1/8” thick, about a
points of glue. square inch

4. Cut 4 sails and 2 boat hulls from opaque Strips. Affix to the
outside corners of blue squares.
Keys to Success
5. Nip two 1/4” pieces of red Noodle for the flag, and affix.
Study a finished votive and notice
6. Place the fiber paper suns UNDER the Blank when firing, that the corners are most promi-
to create an indented impression in the glass. nent after slumping. This is where
you want to place your primary
7. Contour fuse.
design element.
8. Slump over a kilnwashed stainless steel tumbler.
9. Add light!
Variation
Instead of a fiber-paper impression
for your sun, nip a circle from Sun-
flower yellow glass.