Publisher Lindley Boegehold uses a simple technique to jazz up wine and water glasses: Clean the glasses, add contour paste, and apply jewels, pearls, etc., as embellishments. The contour paste, in addition to being used to make the jewels stick, can also be applied to the glasses in swirling designs.
Materials:
wine glasses - any shape or size
rubbing alcohol
gold contour paint -Gallery Glass Liquid Lead - #16077
glass stones
assorted beads
tweezers
optional: string of fake pearls
optional: gold ribbon
Steps:
- Wash and dry the glasses. Remove all traces of grease, using rubbing alcohol if necessary.
- Starting at the bottom of the glass, apply gold contour paint swirls to a small area only so you don't smudge the work by covering too much of the glass at one time.
- Gently place the largest stones at random on the wet contour paint. Work in sections, adding to the piece as each section dries.
- Fill in the design by adding smaller beads. To avoid touching the contour paint, pick up and place the beads with tweezers. Gently press the beads into place. Let each section dry before building up the complete design.
- Optional: Wrap a string of fake pearls or gold ribbon around the stem of the wine glass, from top to bottom.
Resources Decorative Glasswork
by Michael Ball (ISBN: 1859673759)
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Anness Publishing
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www.annesspublishing.combeads - Shipwreck
Shipwreck Beads
Olympia, WA
US
Toll Free Phone: 800-950-4232
URL:
www.shipwreck-beads.com
glass stones
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Alliance Games Distributors
Toll Free Phone: 800-669-4263
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www.alliance-games.com
Gallery Glass Liquid Lead
Plaid Enterprises Inc.
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www.plaidonline.com
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