Yes you have read it right, you can use rubber stamps for glass painting as well, instead of stamping directly onto glass. Use your favorite rubber stamps as templates for tracing images onto glass for glass painting. Moreover, this is a great way to get yet another use from your rubber stamps! By taking a stamped image and using it as a template for glass painting, a whole new range of creativity opens up. This is a good way to decorate light catchers, jars, candle holders and any other sort of glass objects.
This technique can be wisely used to follow themes for parties and weddings. The stamped images that have been used on cards and table decorations can easily be copied onto candle holders.
Here is How:
First you need to choose and decide the stamp. The best stamps to use are ones with strong and bold outlines which will be traced with glass relief paints. For attractive 'stained glass' effects pick stamps with lots of space for coloring with glass paints. Very complex images will not only be fiddly to work with, but also may not give a clear image on the glass.
Stamp the image onto a piece of clean white paper. The type of paper and ink is unimportant and this can be a good way to use up scraps of paper or recycle paper by stamping onto the back of a piece of printed paper. Cut the paper to the right size if necessary.
Using repositionable or masking tape, temporarily fasten the stamped image to the inside or back of the glass item, so that the image can be seen from the outside.
Ensure that the surface of the glass is clean and free from fingerprints. Clean the surface with rubbing alcohol if necessary. Take the relief glass paint and trace the outline of the stamp. Leave to one side to dry according to the manufacturers instructions.
Paint the image with glass paints as required and leave to dry.
When the glass paint is dry it is possible to add other embellishments to the image such as stick-on glass beads.
