In this tutorial I bring you an idea so you can reuse the glass bottles and make them pretty translucent candle holders that will decorate any space both day and night.
Materials
To do the translucent candle holders you will need the following materials:
- Glass bottles
- 3D painting or relief painting
- Stained glass lacquer or glass paint
- Fine brushes
- Tea candles
Step by step
In the next video-tutorial you can see the steps to follow to make your translucent candle holders and thus decorate the glass jar. You will see that they are very beautiful when you lower the lights and light the candles.
Let's go over the followed that you have to follow to create the translucent candle holders recycling glass bottles, so you don't forget anything about anything.
First you must clean up well the glass jars. If they have any sticker or label you can remove it by applying heat with a hair dryer or hot water, and if there are traces of glue, rub with a cotton ball with alcohol or wet in oil, you will see that it comes out perfectly.
Now that you have the clean glass jars, we can start decorating them. With the raised contour o 3d painting create the lines of the drawing. Let your imagination work or look for drawings on the internet and copy them into your glass jar. You should allow the 3D painting to dry completely, approximately a few 24 hours.
Now that you have the jars drawn, you must paint those spaces that you have created with the 3D paint. For this use stained glass lacquers o glass paint. It is important that you use this type of paint so that it does not fade with the slightest touch and so that you have the finish TranslucentThis will allow the candle light to pass through the glass and paint. Let the stained glass paint dry between 12 and 24 hours, and you will have finished your translucent candle holders.
You have thousands of different glass jars and infinite designs to create translucent candle holders, so let your imagination run wild.