glass painting on wine glasses

sunrise27_2

on my travels around facebook I found a lady that wrote ho ho ho on wine glasses and thought they would make perfect gifts, then I got to thinking that I could do them myself. I didn't trust my writing so thought I would get a snowflake stencil and put white snowflakes on them for Christmas presents, but they look awful - the paint is bleeding underneath the stencil and it just looks 'blobby ' it can't be that hard can it ??? what am I doing wrong ??

Eliza_2

Did you research properly how to do it and what kind of paint did you use?

I did glass painting sessions with children last year, it's quite a skill - different paints need different techniques , sometimes they need to be baked on, and others will look great but wash off easily, so it depends on what you used and how and so on. There are lots of books on the subject, you need to read up a bit as it isn't that straightforward.

I wonder whether etching spray might be better for snowflakes, but you would need to look into it properly too.

SugarSpun

What sort of a stencil are you using? With glass being curved it might be simpler to cut your design out of masking tape and make sure the tape is very well stuck down. I would use etching cream or spray though, I think

Lizzieb151

I usually use an outliner pen then paint inside which gives a 3d effect. Takes a bit of practise but when it's done looks really good. The outliner are available in a variety of colours.

Butterfly-sparkle

i've done glass painting previously. and i've used two methods. one was where i used a special pen which gave an outer line ( i used gold) and then when i painted inside the glass paint didn't run.

and the other was i painted onto a plastic( i think) sheet the deisgn i wanted. then once dried you could peel it off and it would stick to the glass. this was a kit i bought from qvc about 15 years ago , but i'm sure there would be similar kits in craft shops.

karren

ive used post it notes and then simply traced over the design with outliner and then painted inside, the post it notes are ideal as you just stick them inside the glass. enjoy x