Fused Glass: A Different Take on Jewelry!

Diana came to CustomMade looking for a maker to craft a gift for her boss: a simple pendant to celebrate the one year anniversary of For My Sister Friends, a company dedicated to empowering women. She knew that she wanted something non-traditional that was able to incorporate a variety of color into her design.

Stacey of Stacey Alysa, a self proclaimed “lover of color,” looked over Diana’s initial ideas and familiarized herself with the organization. With only a few messages explained, Stacey knew exactly what this pendant needed make is really stand out: a bit of sparkle! Loving the idea, Diana and Stacey began to discuss the process of putting a logo into a pendant. Stacey, being very familiar with this procedure, uses decals of a company’s logo and fuzes them onto cut glass. She added a few embellishments, swirls of color, and proposed the new project to Diana.

Doing everything by hand, Stacey presented Diana with two radically different pendants to choose from: even though the For My Sister Friends logo is the centerpiece in both, each pendant had a different shape, background and colorful swirls for Diana to consider. Unable to let one go, Diana ultimately had them both sent to her!

Navigate right to see the inspiration, process and both end results of this Creation Story.

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The logo from Diana's company, Sister Friends. After seeing the logo and hearing Diana's ideas, Stacy knew exactly what this pendant needed: sparkle.
Logo 1
Stacy assembled options with the decal fired on cut glass. This allowed her to experiment with the "dragonfly" shape of the pendant and also the background color. As she is showing, when held at an angle one of the pieces actually looks like it has a purple background. When firing a small glass piece like this it always helps to have backups!
Options 2
Before the final firing, Stacy added silver accept swirls on each. However, before firing at 1275 degrees, the silver paint actually looks brown.
Brown Paint 4
After Stacy fired the four options at 1300 degrees, she narrowed it down to the two that turned out the best and decided to move forward with those options.
Best Two 3
After firing the silver paint really stands out!
Silver Paint 5
The final two! Diana was lucky enough to get both. Because of Stacey's unique way of fusing glass over a decal, she was able to boldly display the company's logo while being able to add a few enhancements of her own.
Final