Link to a Hollow Heart tutorial posted last year by K. Affleck

[Moth]

link (http://www.wetcanvas.com/forums/showpost.php?p=874090&postcount=42)

Just thought with the cupid exchange and the bead donations going to the kids that Jodi is posting about in the lobby, that this might be helpful.

~~Mary

[PattyK]

Mary you are such a wonderful source of great information!!

Big thanks to you for posting this link and to Kimberly of course for the tutorial! :)

[latitude40]

Hope this is OK to add a different way to do hollow hearts here. These are pics of my first two hearts. The hollows are about 1/2" wide. After the hollow is created and fully expanded to a nice smooth ball, I gently squeezed it with my Oneida tongs to flatten it a little. BTW, They tend to puff while working on them so it's possible you might have to gently press against the marver to re-flatten.
I heat whatever side of the hollow that looks like it has the most glass, then I touch the rod to the warm spot & pull a point. You can do this more than once if your point melts down or you don't get it perfect.
Then I take my razor tool and start to make a dividing cut opposite from the point. I do this in a series of gentle cuts, not trying to make it in one shot, arcing the tool from the front to the back. When the cut is deep enough I rock the razor from side to side to widen the gap.
Use the razor to deepen the crease down the front of the heart, if needed. Fire polish & tweak the shape, rounding the lobes. I also like to flatten the back side of the heart a little so it lays nicely against the neck.

Karen

[Moth]

Hope this is OK to add a different way to do hollow hearts here. These are pics of my first two hearts. The hollows are about 1/2" wide. After the hollow is created and fully expanded to a nice smooth ball, I gently squeezed it with my Oneida tongs to flatten it a little. BTW, They tend to puff while working on them so it's possible you might have to gently press against the marver to re-flatten.
I heat whatever side of the hollow that looks like it has the most glass, then I touch the rod to the warm spot & pull a point. You can do this more than once if your point melts down or you don't get it perfect.
Then I take my razor tool and start to make a dividing cut opposite from the point. I do this in a series of gentle cuts, not trying to make it in one shot, arcing the tool from the front to the back. When the cut is deep enough I rock the razor from side to side to widen the gap.
Use the razor to deepen the crease down the front of the heart, if needed. Fire polish & tweak the shape, rounding the lobes. I also like to flatten the back side of the heart a little so it lays nicely against the neck.

Karen

Awesome. I can't wait to try this! Two hollow heart tutorials in one thread?? I rated this one. Yeah!

~~Mary

[jessicah]

Mary and Karen-
Thanks so much for this thread. I was trying to figure out how to do a hollow heart :D :D ...off to rate this thread.

[candygrrl]

Hope this is OK to add a different way to do hollow hearts here. These are pics of my first two hearts. The hollows are about 1/2" wide. After the hollow is created and fully expanded to a nice smooth ball, I gently squeezed it with my Oneida tongs to flatten it a little. BTW, They tend to puff while working on them so it's possible you might have to gently press against the marver to re-flatten.
I heat whatever side of the hollow that looks like it has the most glass, then I touch the rod to the warm spot & pull a point. You can do this more than once if your point melts down or you don't get it perfect.
Then I take my razor tool and start to make a dividing cut opposite from the point. I do this in a series of gentle cuts, not trying to make it in one shot, arcing the tool from the front to the back. When the cut is deep enough I rock the razor from side to side to widen the gap.
Use the razor to deepen the crease down the front of the heart, if needed. Fire polish & tweak the shape, rounding the lobes. I also like to flatten the back side of the heart a little so it lays nicely against the neck.

Karen

Ooh Karen, I like the puffy hearts! That is the type I wanted to get.. Guess I will give your method a shot :)