Custom Glass Cremation Art & Keepsakes
How To Customize Your Glass Cremation Art Keepsakes
Honoring the memories of our loved ones is an incredibly important part of life. Customizing glass keepsake memorial art is a beautiful way to pay tribute to those we have lost and keep them close to our hearts.
There are four main types of customization available:
- The glass colors can be changed*
- The shape can be modified
- Specific images can be added
- Stained glass artwork can incorporate blown glass pieces or specific images
*Blown glass colors are available in:
- Rods
- Tiny pieces, called "frit"
- Shiny coating on a pane of glass, called Dichroic glass (or "dichro")
To discuss your project, please call glass artist Tiffany at (970) 576-5546 or email [email protected].
More than 50 colors are available!
View more color and style options, or get inspiration from our previous projects. There are no additional charges to change colors, so feel free to customize!
These mixed-green keepsakes were made to honor a father’s Irish heritage. They were created from the Sun Catcher line. Having no loop, they lie nice and flat on the desk.
Glow in the Dark Glass
When a young woman lost her boyfriend of many years, she asked me to work with her to think outside the box for this custom tribute piece.
Right away, she mentioned that he loved Pink Floyd and all things psychedelic, bringing me to think of glow-in-the-dark glass that I’ve worked with in the past.
The pendant I came up with appears as normal in daylight, but glows in the dark as seen in the picture on the right
Belt Buckle Inlays
This buckle was a father’s favorite for many years. Knowing that a necklace was not his style, he asked that I replace the turquoise center with a glass piece containing his daughter’s ashes.
Memorial Marbles
Don’t feel restricted to traditional pendants. The vortex marble offers an alternative to ash art pendants.
Memorializing Moments
Two sisters had me design these window hangings to portray the lives of their parents. The sun containing the mother’s ashes and the daffodil signify their mother and her cheery nature.
The beads along side the stream come from a collection their mother used while teaching Campfire Girls.
The father loved fishing, hence the stream and the blue ash piece at the bottom containing his ashes.
Dichroic Glass
Dichroic glass is great for creating specific images! The shiny coating is also referred to as “dichro.”
Dichro is available in a variety of colors, and comes to me as a solid pane of glass. I can carve specific images from the shiny coating, then work the dichro piece into clear glass. Backing the artwork with a darker color of glass allows the carved image to appear. During the blowing of the glass, ashes can be incorporated between the layers of dichro and the dark glass or they can be encased on the back.
The photos below show the versatility and beauty of this custom option.
There are many more dichro colors shown in the Glass Gallery.
This Ash Art pendant was created for a man to memorialize his infant daughter. It incorporates her ashes and the symbol for “Daughter”. The father is an artist himself and he was able to come to my studio to talk me through the unique shape he envisioned.
