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Painted cheap glass candle holders make a great gift giving idea and also can be a wonderful favor for your wedding guests. I am going to show you...
You can either wash the glass votive candle holder in warm soapy water or wipe off the outside of the glass with rubbing alcohol.
I use an angle brush to paint my vines. I double load with the brown on the tip and off white on the other side of the bristles.
Double load a flat paint brush with your green and yellow paint. Create the grape leaves, adding them to the vines.
Double load your flat brush with green and yellow paint. Add One Stroke leaves to fill in the open glass areas.
Use this little stick to make small grapes. Load with purple and white paint. Just place the grape bundles randomly around the candle holder.
I typically double load the stick with purple and white paint, then begin at the bottom of the grape bundle with one or two grapes and gradually add m...
To complete the design I stick the tip of a liner brush in to brown and then in to white, making random curlicues around the candleholder.
Allow your painted glass candle holder to air dry for one hour, prior to baking. You may also allow it to air dry for 21 days to fully cure without b...
Place you glass item in to a cool oven, then preheat. The baking temperature is 350 degrees for 30 minutes. I add the preheat time to the 30 minutes...
Turn off your oven once it has completed the baking time. Keep the oven door closed. Allow your item to cool completely before removing from the ...
Painted cheap glass candle holders make a great gift giving idea and also can be a wonderful favor for your wedding guests. I am going to show you how easy it is to do.
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Um,, I'm not the author, but I've been painting on glass for years - I hope its not bad manners to answer horselove36's question, if so, I apologize and Aressa, feel free to have my comments removed.
Anyway, any craft store such as Michaels, JoAnn's and even Walmart carry 'glass' paints. You will want to use glass paints as once they are air-dried or baked (I prefer baking) you can handwash them. If you use plain acrylics, they will wash off very easily and also acrylic paint will rub off of glass pretty easily.
The products I use are, Folkart Enamels or OUTDOOR= GLOSS=INDOOR (yes, that's the name, I've checked twice). Both are a combination of acrylic and enamel paint.
CAUTION, whereas I have painted lots and lots of pitcher and glass sets, wine carafes and wine glass sets and more BE SURE TO BE AWARE OF THE FOLLOWING: **These paints are NOT FOOD SAFE so when painting on 'glasses' make sure you leave enough space down from the rim (I do at least a half-inch) - far enough so lips won't make contact on them. **
IN ADDITION **If you are going to paint glass plates or platters, paint the under-bottom of so that food will not come in contact with the paint.** I would keep these designs simple as if you plan on using more than one color/layering or if you want to shade or blend your colors, this is very tricky - its call reverse painting and if you plan to do this, use a pattern.
Speaking of patterns, if you don't feel comfortable free-handing your designs, print off a pattern, tape it on the inside of your glass, and just fill in the lines! Once you have the base colors down, you can refer to your (color) pattern for shading/blending or detail ideas.
The paints are much cheaper than when they first came out so now I save my empty glass jars for my grandkids and their friends to paint on. We've turned jars and bottles into adorable pumpkin lanterns (battery-operated votives), banks (I punch a slot in the lid) pen/pencil holders for mom and dads, vases, change holders - the list is only as short as their imagination! And, if you want to paint the lids to the jars, I still use the glass paints. Most lids have some sort of plastic or rubber on them so I don't bake them. I encourage the kids to let them air-dry for the 21 days, but if they don't, its still a strong acrylic paint so it sticks pretty well.
....sorry I went on so much. And thanks again Aressa