Decorative glass by own hands

Glass is one of the most "noble "materials for decoration, because it is transparent and any decoration will look rich on it. By decorating the glass, you can create real masterpieces that will delight you and your friends for a long time, attract the attention of all visitors to the house. There are several techniques - some of which require the purchase of expensive materials, while others have enough basic items. Let's figure out how to create a decorative glass with your own hands.

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Varieties of glass

There are several types of glass:

• Liquid;
• Porous;
• Artistic;
• Building.

Important! Any glass in the hands of a craftsman turns into a real masterpiece, you can make candlesticks, dishes, flowers and much more. It can be combined with other materials, for example, clay, clay, metal.

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Glass decorating with sea salt

This decorative glass with its own hands is suitable for framing a photo frame:

1. The outer part of the frame needs to be smeared with glue and put in a salt tank.
2. When the product is completely dry, excess salt that has not been glued should be shaken off.
3. Then the frame needs to be covered with a layer of varnish.
4. For decoration, you can paint the frame with paints or sprinkle with sequins.

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Glass plasticine decoration

This method is suitable primarily for working with children. For this you need:

1. Print special stencils and pick out colors.
2. Then each color of plasticine paste on a certain place, and you get a picture.

Important! It can be glued on a glass plate, or inserted into the same frame of glass, salt-sealed. The drawing can be chosen for every taste, depending on the preferences of the young decorator.

You can make a decorative aquarium from an ordinary can:

1. Make fish from clay fish, seaweed and place them in a jar, which can be previously salted with salt.
2. At the bottom of the aquarium, put pebbles, decorative glass, shells.

Make sure that decorating glass with your own hands - it's easy? We pass to other ideas!

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Decoration of broken glass

If you break glass first and then glue together, you can achieve a beautiful effect and create compositions that will decorate your house.

Important! To glue the glass you need a special glue - PVA will not work.

Glass vase

Consider the example of a glass vase, how you can make glass decoration by yourself:

1. We will need: acrylic paint, broken glass and glue
2. Create a composition of glass pieces. Gradually paste pieces of glass on the surface of a vase or an ordinary glass jar.
3. Wait until everything dries
4. Color your craft with acrylic paints.

Picture of broken glass

You can create paintings from broken glass:

1. First you need to choose a base for painting - it can be a sheet of plywood or cardboard.
2. Pick up a picture and make a lot of different colored glass shards.
3. To create a picture you will need glue.
4. Gradually gluing glass fragments on the base, you can get a picture that looks like a mosaic. This will take a lot of patience and time, but the result, for sure, you will be pleased.

Important! Any object from glass can be decorated, you only need to stock up fantasy, patience and additional elements in the form of shells, pebbles, beads, etc.

Another option is to make a decorative glass with your own hands:

1. Stir the glass into powder and decorate your hand-made article by gluing it with glue.
2. After the glue has dried, a coat of varnish must be applied.

So you can beautifully decorate a light bulb, a glass jar, and if you can get a multi-colored powder, you can even create a picture.

Important! It is necessary to work in gloves, so as not to injure your hands.

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Liquid glass decoration - ideas for crafts

Liquid glass is quite popular among designers, because it is easy to work with and allows you to decorate different types of surfaces.

Important! Liquid glass can be purchased at an economic or construction store. It can be replaced with silicate glue, but in its texture it is not as strong and solid as glass.

Materials for

To create a seabed effect, we will need:

• deep tank( you can even use a deep plate);
• liquid glass;
• scenery on the sea theme in the form of seashells, pebbles, fish;
• acrylic paints.

Master class for the manufacture of crafts from liquid glass:

1. The bottom of the glass container( for example, plates) is painted in blue, simulating water.
2. When the paint dries, decorate the surface of our seabed with foil and lay the shells, pebbles, fish, in general, everything that was cooked.
3. Fill the entire container with liquid glass, we wait when it dries.
4. Using a toothpick, you can make waves, and from polymeric clay you can dazzle marine animals.

Important! You can make such decorative glass with your own hands layers:

• first put one layer of decorations and pour glass;
• when dry, make a second coat.

The number of layers depends on the depth of the container and your desire. This will create a 3D effect.

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Creating an unusual glass bottle

Such a bottle will decorate any room and will be an excellent birthday present for a loved one.

Materials for work

To make glass decoration on your own hands on a bottle you will need:

• Glass bottle, can, or any dishes covered with a lid;
• Fine salt;
• Food coloring;
• Funnel;
• Capacity for salt painting.

Master-class on manufacturing:

1. At the first stage we paint the salt:
   1. In the container we put a little salt and fill the dye. It can be a food color, diluted in a small amount of water, or paint.
   2. Mix the salt with the dye so that the mass becomes uniformly colored. You need to pick a few colors in advance, in which you will paint the salt.
   3. Colored salt of different colors is poured into containers in which it is completely dry.

Important! To make the salt dry quickly, you can use a microwave, or burn salt in the oven.

1. At the second stage, we gradually fill the bottle with the funnel by the colors. After filling the salt to the top, we close the bottle with a lid.

Important! You can decorate our crafts - there are a lot of options:

• it can be decorated with shells, stones, decorated in a marine style;
• decorate with artificial flowers, beads;
• painted with acrylic paints;
• make the application of self-adhesive film;
• you can apply the technique of decoupage and apply a pattern using a napkin.

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Engraving of glass with matting paste

One of the techniques for decorating glass with your own hands is engraving matting paste. This - an easy way to create a colorless pattern on the glass by etching it with a matting composition, which gives the glass a matt fog.

Important! You can use the stencil and apply a pattern. This effect will be durable, the glass can even be washed and wiped.

Matting paste or paste for engraving is a strong acid that causes erosion of the smooth surface of glass, ceramics, etc., after which the surface of the starting material becomes rough.

Important! Stencils for creating a drawing or a shape contour are sold in construction stores.

What do I need for engraving?

• Matting paste.
• Brushes, putty knives for paste application.
• Stencil.
• Silicone gloves.

Creating a matt pattern:

1. The surface of the glass must be degreased with alcohol or acetone.
2. A stencil is pasted in place of the pattern or pattern.
3. Use a wooden spatula or spatula to apply a layer of paste without spaces and remove excess. It is necessary to wait 15-20 minutes, during which time the matting compound will react with the glass.
4. Under the warm water stream, it is necessary to wash off the paste, remove the stencil and dry the glass.

Important! If you can not find the stencil, you can make it yourself. To do this, we take a self-adhesive, select the pattern and cut out the contours. Then we paste this stencil on the base, we make the decor, after which we remove the limiter.

Precautions

Do this when decorating glass with your own hands, remember the safety precautions:

• Keep hands away from contact with the compound, if it gets on your skin, rinse with plenty of water, use gloves.
• Ventilate the room well during operation.
• Engrave only the exterior surfaces of objects that do not come into contact with food.
• Wash products from the paste only above the stainless steel sinks.
• Keep out of the reach of children.

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Glass on the door with your own hands

Doors are not always known, especially if they have glass inserts. The glass scrapes with time and loses its attractive appearance. We will talk about how to decorate the glass on the door with your own hands, in order to restore its aesthetics.

Materials for the work

For the decor of the doors you can use:

• liquid wallpaper;
• wallpaper on vinyl, paper;
• to decorate the doors with a cloth.

Even buckwheat can become an excellent assistant in such a case.

Surface preparation

Before proceeding to work, the surface to be decorated:

• must be cleaned, sanded and degreased with alcohol or acetone;
• then apply a primer coat using PVA glue.

Decor with paper wallpaper:

1. You need to choose a suitable wallpaper for the size and color, apply glue and apply it to the doors, smoothing the wallpaper with a soft rag or roller.
2. Do this carefully so that there are no creases and distortions.
3. Remove excess wall paper carefully with a stationery knife.
4. You can paste a foam frame on top of the wallpaper.

Important! While the glue is not dry, it is advisable to close the windows so that there are no drafts.

Decor with a cloth

A door decorated with a cloth looks very unusual.

Important! In addition to preparing the door for decoration, it is necessary to find out the degree of shrinkage of the fabric. To do this, take a small piece of cloth, measure its dimensions, wet it in water and dry it. Then we measure again. If the piece has greatly diminished in size, then the whole canvas is desirable to soak and dry.

You can use not only the entire canvas, but also fragments of different colors and textures. This is the so-called "patchwork" technique.

In Action:

1. Casein glue or composition based on CMC is suitable for gluing the fabric. Apply glue to the fabric and glue to the surface, smoothing with a spatula.
2. If you decorate the door in the technique of "patchwork", watch the geometry of the fragments, otherwise - the overall picture will be unsightly.
3. For decoration you can choose beautiful furniture studs, leather or nylon laces or frames.

Decorating with liquid wallpaper

Liquid wallpaper is universal - they are suitable for both walls and doors. But they can not be glued in a damp room, so they are not suitable for decorating a door to a bathroom or kitchen.

For work we will need:

• Dry wallpaper mixture;
• spatulas;
• Roller;
• Clear varnish;
• Correlation mixture.

Glass decoration instructions:

1. Before decorating, cover the surface with a layer of alkyd primer, and then with a white oil filler.
2. We spread the wallpaper according to the instructions, stirring them with our hands. They are completely safe for the skin.
3. After 15 minutes, stir the solution and add the coloring mixture. The more color you add, the more saturated the color of the wallpaper.

Important! If you want to make a drawing, you need to dunk the wallpaper in different containers, adding a corresponding dye to each of them.

1. The coarse mixture should be infused for 12 hours, then you can start working:
   1. Take a few wallpaper on the spatula and apply them to the surface, stretching in different directions.
   2. Make sure that the layer is even in thickness.
   3. If you want the surface to be embossed, get a texture roller.
2. After a couple of days, everything will dry up and it will be necessary to apply a layer of varnish to fix the composition.

Important! If the result of your efforts was unsatisfactory, do not despair. Wallpaper can be washed off with water, then repaired.

Door mirror with mirror

Using mirrors, you can make a very unusual door finish, which, in addition, will visually expand the space of the room.

Important! As a mirror coating, you can use acrylic panels with amalgam.

Acrylic panels come in a variety of colors. You can choose a panel of the same color, but you can make a panel of multi-colored fragments. Such plastic panels are easily attached to the doors, do not beat, but are not very cheap.

Recommendations:

1. Before gluing the mirror plastic, it is necessary to level the surface well, grind and cover all irregularities with putty.
2. A primer coat is applied to the surface of the door and the back of the acrylic plastic.
3. When it dries, the panels are attached to the doors using double-sided adhesive tape and mounting glue.
4. You can use mounting suction cups.

We decorate doors with buckwheat

Strange as it sounds, but sometimes the doors are decorated with buckwheat husks. The costs are minimal, but the service life, unfortunately, will not be very long.

Important! The door is best removed from the hinges and spread out on a flat surface, you can even on the floor or on the table.

Instruction:

1. Pre-treated surface is greased with a thick paste of PVA, distribute buckwheat husks.
2. You can add gold sequins for beauty.
3. When the glue dries, cover it with a clear or matt varnish.

Important! It is best to apply at least three layers - for reliability.

Door decoration in vintage technique

Vintage involves the artificial aging of things, which eventually gives a special charm, chic and color to the room where such objects are located.

Materials for work:

• White acrylic paint;
• Sandpaper;
• Mounting adhesive;
• Adhesive PVA;
• Old newspapers;
• Baguette in black;
• Clear varnish.

Master class for decorating glass:

1. The door must be removed from the hinges before starting work, sanded and putty putty.
2. We paint the door surface with white acrylic paint using a wide brush. The paint should be applied in a thin layer in one direction.
3. When the paint dries, you need to treat it with an emery, giving it the effect of antiquity.
4. Draw pencil areas, which will decorate, grease them with PVA glue.
5. We tear the old newspapers into pieces and spread them randomly to the areas with glue, smoothing them with our hands.
6. On top apply a transparent adhesive in several layers.
7. We paste with adhesive glue a black baguette around the perimeter of newspaper-covered areas.

Important! The door can be decorated with a beautiful wreath, a lush bow, beads or artificial pearls.

There are a lot of options for decorating glass on the door with your own hands. Connect fantasy, and you will amaze your acquaintances with real masterpieces!