Create customized glassware as gifts or for your personal pleasure.
Painted glass projects have a variety of uses in and around your home. You can decorate your tabletops with painted glassware or bring light to your garden with painted glass blocks. Painted glass designs are also popular choices for customized gift ideas. From painted windows to wind chime elements, painted glass adds a touch of color and whimsy, wherever you find it.
Home D cor
Painted glass accessories for interior home designs include windows, vases, plates and other glassware. Windows painted with stained glass paint and outlined with faux leading strips, gray caulking or liquid leading bring to mind authentic stained glass window designs. Painted plates and glassware are often used to create vignettes and other decorative displays. Painted glass vases accessorize tabletops when used to create floral centerpieces. To create your own painted glass art, trace a design onto a glass panel with a glass paint pen, and then add color between the lines using acrylic paint.
Garden Art
Painted glass is also durable enough to use outdoors as part of your garden d cor. Paint the window panes in an old window and hang it from a tree limb or use it as a border for your herb garden. Paint the glass panes from inexpensive picture frames and use them to create sun catchers in your garden or sunroom. Incorporate strips of painted glass as part of a wind chime project. Other uses for painted glass in the garden include tabletop decorations for your patio, custom plant name tags and painted bottle art for bottle trees and garden walls.
Personalized Gifts
Personalize gifts for holidays and special occasions using painted glass objects. Glass paint pens simplify writing names and messages onto the glass; use stencils to outline the letters if you're not comfortable with creating the lettering or the script by freehand. Painted plates with nursery-theme designs and a newborn baby's name and birthdate are considerate gifts for new parents. A set of painted goblets in a holiday theme and inscribed with the family's surname, is another example of personalized painted glass gifts.
Custom Lighting
Paint glass craft blocks to create custom lighting designs for your home and landscape. Paint the glass blocks in a color collage or trace designs and fill in with paint. Twinkle lights inside the blocks illuminate the painted glass. Make a nightlight for your baby's room with scenes from a fairy tale. Paint floral landscape or cityscape scenes on the blocks to create outdoor lights for your deck or garden. Paint the blocks in a holiday related theme to create festive seasonal decorations.
