Decorate your home with stained glass
The fake stained glass, stained glass or false is a simple imitation of stained glass. With the same technique, we can decorate our windows or we can make lamps Tiffany showy style. Get ready to work with glass, the results are truly amazing.
When we think of stained glass, we automatically think in a unique decor but very expensive. Fortunately, several techniques have been invented for yourself, allowing us to make excellent imitations with few materials and very economically. Then we'll show you an easy way vitreaux simile.
To begin, you will need the following materials:
- Material support: can be glass, acrylic, plastic, or any transparent surface.
- Lead glass window: it gets into any house of handicrafts, there are two classes, the traditional and the sticker. (I recommend the traditional if it is the first time you use it).
- Stained Glass Painting: Glass is special paint that allows the passage of light.
- Masking tape.
- Brushes.
- Polished lacquer (optional).
Procedure:
You should first thoroughly clean the surface of support, if it is glass, use a cotton swab with alcohol. Then to transfer the pattern or design you have chosen, you must set the glass with tape to the table and put the picture below.
Calca fibrón design with carefully and once this is done, you place the lead (but on the opposite side to the drawing modeled). Make a slight pressure and outlines the contours of the entire drawing to make it with relief. Try your fingers smooth the imperfections that remain. Let the paste dry for about five hours.
Once dry, you're ready to apply the paint. With a drip painting is brush (not dragging) the different areas.
Tips:
• Use grinder to make less transparent design areas.
• You can add glitter for effect of ancient glass.
• Use silicone to attach multiple windows together.
• The textured glass hide the imperfections.
• stained glass paint is washable up to seven days after application.