Often coming to visit, you see various souvenir glasses, glasses, vases from them. How wonderful they are in harmony with the interior of the room, how they complement the bar counter or coffee table. You can easily purchase such interesting souvenirs in souvenir stores, but you can also make them with your own hands. This will not take much time, but after you finish decorating a glass, your room is filled with multi -colored souvenirs. And now you can already brag about your guests with your work.
How to decorate glasses and make decorative souvenirs out of them
Naturally, you can give painted glasses for a wedding, for the New Year, and birthday, and on March 8, and on Valentine’s Day, in a word, this gift will be in demand for any holidays. You can also paint not only champagne glasses, wine glasses, but also beer glasses or thin cups for non -alcoholic drinks.
For a painting, you will need: glass paints, degreaser, toothpick, cotton sticks, cotton pads, brushes, a special outline (marker or tube), tape, scissors, paper and, of course, the item of painting.
Additionally, perhaps you need a printer, carbon carrier and an acrylic transparent glass varnish.
Types of glass paints
Glasses can be painted with stained -glass (transparent) paints or covering (opaque) paints. Covering paints are usually made on the basis of acrylic, they are durable and waterproof.
Stained glass paints are divided into non -burned and burned. Products covered with fired paints, after it is applied, baked in the oven. Not burned paints should be baked in the oven. Uninhabited paints based on alcohol, they are durable and waterproof. Paints for painting water -based glasses are afraid of water, so you should not paint such colors. When buying paints, beginners are usually advised to start with stained glass paints based on alcohol.
How to decorate glasses and make decorative souvenirs out of them
Before you start painting glasses, you need to degrease the surface, after which the paint will go better. Sewing can be a detergent for glasses, acetone, alcohol. After you degrease, try not to touch the glass with your hands.
Make a sketch of your drawing. You can draw on paper yourself, and if you have artistic abilities far from the ideal, take a carbon copy and redraw the picture you like or print it on the printer. Then cut the sketch, put it inside the glass, then fix it with tape.
Take a marker or a special outline and circle the pattern on the glass. The contours are different silver, gold, transparent, black. The circuit should be applied with a continuous, continuous line.
Take out the sketch from the glass and let the contour dry. This usually takes from thirty minutes to three hours. Then fill out the outline. You can use a brush or squeeze out of a tube. Place the glass horizontally if you have liquid paint, otherwise everything will grow up.
The applied errors can be removed with a cotton swab by moistening it in the solvent, you can remove the air bubbles with a toothpick. Then let the glass dry for six hours.
How to decorate glasses and make decorative souvenirs out of them
Then the paint should then be fixed. Use transparent acrylic varnish for non -burned colors, for burned colors you need to put it in the oven, first make sure that a glass of heat -resistant glass. The oven should be heated to 170 degrees and baked for ten minutes. Don’t get out the glass right away, let it cool.
Complete the painting of glasses with decorative elements: colored sand, rhinestones, small beads, sparkles. All these decorative elements are glued with transparent glue.
