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Use rubber stamps as a glass painting template

Use rubber stamps as a glass painting template

Kate Pullen
Instead of stamping directly onto glass, use your favorite rubber stamps as templates for tracing images onto glass for glass painting. 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 creative opportunities open up. This is a good way to decorate candle holders, light catchers, jars and any other number of glass objects.

Note about choosing the stamps: The most effective stamped images 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 ornate or complex images will not only be fiddly to work with, but also may not give a clear image on the glass.

Materials Required
  • Rubber stamps
  • Glass objects to paint
  • Scrap paper
  • Ink (any type of ink will work well)
  • Glass relief paint
  • Colored glass paint
  • Paint brushes and any cleaning materials as required

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