I really think these look nice as a "matte" finish.  Of course it is different on your end, because you can see them in person, but from the pics, they look great the way they are. 

Oh, and I meant to tell you I have a bead from my EARLY pc days which (from my recollection) has the same color combo as your purple/perwinkle blue bead.  Some colors just work together, yah?  I'll have to go find it downstairs.

Jainnie :)

YEP, seen it several times<<gg>> only I made my butterflies without the reg clay background!  in fact...I think it was, shesh, uhm 2 + years ago that I did mine...and my grandmother STILL HAS HERS that I gave her for her b-day...up on her window!!!!  it's a south facing window too, it still has awesome colors with the SUMMER SUN and WINTER COLD on it constantly!  sadly I took a couple of the other ones that I made OFF of my window to take them someplace to show them (or eeek! to clean the window-kinda had to do that when I had FUEL OIL HEAT...gag! nasty stuff!) and well, I never got around to putting them back up....and well, not long ago I tried to restick them...no luck...maybe using rubbing alcohol on the backs and giving them a quick blast of the heat gun while on a flat piece of glass that I originally baked them on might help...hmmmmmm...

yeah, that's one heck of an AWESOME VIDEO...and Jodi is AWESOME TOO!   that's why I tinted my TLS...lol  I used scrapings from my stick pastels that I'd been given eons ago...worked great too!  but they've been pretty much unused and lonely sitting in their film canisters (the whole ones work awesome!)  I labeled them and everything! LOL  even wrote down the color combo's that I made up myself! LOL  they really DO need using...esp as I'm trying to do more with beads...and I went and bought one of those  multi-pack containers of beads from Michaels a month ago...it had lampwork beads in there...heck...ifn I could make them meself (in clay) I could save what little $$ I have for other more important things....LOL LIKE MORE CLAY! <<gg>>! LOL

yeah, do give that a try, it's really cool to do...I got some neato designs...they USED to be posted on Photopoint...but....well, although I have the CD with their pics on it...and a gazillion OTHER pics too...I have yet to get them all back ONLINE....esp as I think this is my LAST MONTH with AOHELL...I'd hate to build anymore webpages and just lose them when I 'move' ISP's.....

Hey BB!

The post you replied to is about 8 years old - it was great to read and see all the old names!

You can see a lot of Libby's beads on her website now: www.libzoid.com

She's super talented.

Elaine

Hi Libby,

What month issue of Bead & Button is that article in?

Thanks Jay

OOPs, I guess I wasn't looking at the date of those posts either. I was wondering why those web sites didn't work when I clicked them.  Whyyyyyy was it posted now? Still would like to know what issue of B&B that article was in, if anyone knows.