How to make EASY Faux Stained Glass | Step by Step Tutorial

Here's a step by step tutorial on how to turn Dollar Tree picture frames into faux stained glass 😍
This is a great project for spring/Easter that kids and adults will both love! 🎨
#easycrafts #eastercrafts #tutorial
What you will need:
~Picture Frame- I used two different sizes from Dollar Tree
~Permanent marker: amzn.to/49TU82S
~Rubbing alcohol: amzn.to/3Igdqn1
~Simple pattern (can be hand drawn or printed- see below)
Traceable patterns available here: emilyseilhamer.com/easy-faux-...
~Clear Elmer's glue: amzn.to/3TiFVad
~Craft paints (I used glass paint but you can use any water based paint you have!)
~An old paint brush (Don't use your nice brushes when painting with glue!)
~White Elmer's glue: amzn.to/3wGdBp4
~Tin foil- amzn.to/42ZIEbS
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Project Steps:
1. Clean off glass with rubbing alcohol to make sure glue and marker will stick.
2. Put your pattern inside the frame. Taping it in place so it doesn’t move around can be helpful.
Use permanent marker to trace your pattern onto the FRONT of the glass (the side facing out of the frame).
3. Take pattern out of the frame and remove glass
4. Turn glass around so that the BACK side of the glass is facing up. The lines you traced should be on the side facing down.
5. Take a small amount of clear school glue and mix a drop (very small) of water based paint (or food coloring) into the glue.
6. Take your old flat brush and brush on a thin layer of the glue/paint mixture onto the glass where you want your pattern to be colored. You should be painting it on to the opposite side that your pattern is traced on.
7. Continue to fill in your pattern until all the color is where you want it to be.
8. Let glue/paint dry
9. Flip glass around so that the lines of your pattern are facing UP.
10 Decide which method you want to use for your lines. 1. Permanent marker or 2. Glue
11. The quickest method is to take your permanent marker and just retrace your lines to make them thicker and clean it up. *tip you can use a cotton swab with rubbing alcohol to erase lines or “oops” as needed”
12. The glue method is taking some white school glue (I would use a bottle only half full) and mixing black acrylic paint into the bottle.
13. Then take the bottle and carefully squeeze out the glue along your lines. This needs to dry over night but will turn into a thinker raised pattern…some people have used puffy paint if they want the lines to really stick out!
14. Once the lines are dry put the glass back into the frame with the lines facing out.
15. As a final step I took some crinkled tin foil and covered the back of the frame to give the final effect of stained glass. I suggest watching the video to the end to see how cool this really looks because it changes the entire look!
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[@richardreynolds2322]

The crumpled foil backing is a fabulous trick I didn't think of (DUH!). Going to use it on my next project.

[@emilyseilhamerart]

The foil is our favorite part!! 😄

[@mommylikesme6363]

Great communication skills. Learned a lot. Thanks.

[@emilyseilhamerart]

Thanks you! Glad it was helpful! 😊

[@debrabaretta7737]

❤ loved this project

[@Diana_Mehta]

Wow! Worth a try ♥️

[@edithhirth7776]

They’re both fantastic. Great ideas

[@emilyseilhamerart]

Thank you! :)

[@artequeles]

Wow es hermoso muchas gracias por compartir 😍

[@carolinewalsh7742]

I LOVE THIS!!!!

[@elainehales6532]

Instagram also brought me here, what a brilliant idea the stained glass effect is!

[@hannahobrochta]

Love how this looks I’m thinking about making one for my Mary Kay lady because she been giving people a lot of different things for her customers. I get to see her Monday night:)

[@emilyseilhamerart]

I’m sure she would love it! 😄

[@hannahobrochta]

I made it and I had fun! Instead of black glue I actually used the striping nail polish I had because I didn’t like the other ways you did:) thanks for the inspiration 😊

[@lynnemccarthy135]

I did my first one. Made some mistakes but ill be better on the next one. Such an easy craft! I love it!

[@emilyseilhamerart]

Yay!! I’m so glad you tried it out! It does get easier the more you practice too 😄👏

[@free2bmestewart381]

Instagram brought me here! Thank you for sharing your creativity, and for taking the time to make this tutorial. I'm definitely going to try this project with the grandkids!

[@emilyseilhamerart]

I’m so glad you like the video! Your grandkids will love this project I’m sure 😊🎨 Have fun!!

[@christines.4444]

I love this

[@joyce9523]

Wow do to learn this 😊thanks for sharing

[@emilyseilhamerart]

You’re very welcome! 😊

[@estellekostanza7874]

OMG!!! this is so cool

[@heavnlyhighlight4209]

Wow!

[@mariehampton740]

❤❤ This is the best video I've seen on this yet.!

[@emilyseilhamerart]

Thank you!! Hope it was helpful :)

[@HeatherPecinovsky]

We used sharpie makers instead of paint and they turned out wonderful!!

[@emilyseilhamerart]

Awesome!! 👏 😄 Yes I tend to prefer the sharpie method myself!

[@seemaparekh8967]

Super Easy because you explained it and showed it so well. One point ,though , I want my stained glass to filter in light. How do I go about that ?

[@emilyseilhamerart]

You can glue the glass into the frame with e6000 or get a floating frame to hang in a window instead of putting the tin foil behind it

[@didinouliberte532]

Génial 🍃🍂🍁

[@kevinbirnbaum6460]

Wow, that's amazing! The foil makes it sing. I've watched four videos on faux stained glass; yours is more concise and clear. I have a 3'x4' window with blinds that I don't use much. I have a nautical theme in my office, including a Blu-ray disc that shows aquarium scenes hooked up to a spare monitor for an instant aquarium and a glow-in-the-dark undersea poster. I want some dolphin art in the window, and this concept is really different. What about mixing paints to create shadows and that sort of thing? Thank you.

[@emilyseilhamerart]

I’m so glad the video is helpful! You could definitely mix colors for shading etc depending on how detailed you would want it, but keep in mind the thicker the layer of paint the less transparent it will be. They also make stained glass paint you could use straight up if you are worried about the glue/paint ratio.

[@kevinbirnbaum6460]

@@emilyseilhamerart Have you ever used glow-in-the-dark paints?

[@emilyseilhamerart]

@@kevinbirnbaum6460 I haven’t, but I had someone share a picture one they did with glow in the dark…turned out really cool! 😎

[@Maimai-ef6fe]

this is genius thank you :)

[@emilyseilhamerart]

You’re welcome! 😄

[@dumpling321]

heck of a lot better results than the faux stained glass kits with the tiny plastic beads that you melt

[@emilyseilhamerart]

There are so many methods! I’ve never tried the beads though 😱

[@bashneeramnath]

if you do this on vases, glassware or glass jugs, how do you get the paint to stay on the glass and not wash off?

[@emilyseilhamerart]

That would definitely take some research, but they do make glass paint like I used in the video! You just wouldn’t want to mix the clear glue into it for it to stay on the glass. They may make more of a clear enamel paint made for glass, I would look for something like that

[@teresa6775]

Wonder if alcohol ink work in glue instead of the paint ?!

[@emilyseilhamerart]

It would! I’ve also seen people use drops of food coloring

[@teresa6775]

@@emilyseilhamerart Nice. Thank you !

[@analiuchi1]

On which side do you do the black lines?

[@emilyseilhamerart]

The outside of the glass (opposite side of where you paint the color)

[@JoyfulPaintings]

For the sharpie option, the tip is getting all the paint with it, does it need to be dry before outlining whith sharpie?

[@emilyseilhamerart]

No, because I use the sharpie on the opposite side of the glass as the paint :) so the sharpie is actually on the outside of the glass and the paint is on the inside

[@emilyseilhamerart]

But it is helpful for the paint to dry on the one side so you can flip it over and fix up the lines on the opposite side

[@Sharperthanu1]

I've tried this with clear glue and a little acrylic colored paint and the glue and acrylic paint just beads up on plastic or glass

[@emilyseilhamerart]

Hmm curious, it doesn’t go on completely evenly but I’ve never seen it “bead up” before. curious if you had any chemicals on the glass before hand. The tin foil at the end it was helps to blend the whole effect together.

[@Sharperthanu1]

@@emilyseilhamerart I didn't paint on glass.I painted on clear plastic with clear glue mixed with a little acrylic paint

[@emilyseilhamerart]

@@Sharperthanu1 oh! Your comment says “or glass” so I thought you tried both. Glass it works for sure, I’ve heard some people have tried plastic with good results but I haven’t tried it myself!

[@sapnachouhan619]

It’s beautiful I came here from Instagram. Can we use 3D paint for outline

[@emilyseilhamerart]

Yes! In fact I've had some people say they've used puffy paint with success as well :) I just suggest still keeping the outline on the opposite side that you paint the color

[@sapnachouhan619]

@@emilyseilhamerart thank you

[@Oonagh72]

Awww…

[@JorjeAxline]

Do you add the glue on the sharpie side or the painted side?

[@emilyseilhamerart]

The glue and the sharpie should both be on the opposite side of the painted side.

[@JorjeAxline]

@@emilyseilhamerart and the paint goes on the *inside* toward the foil, right? I'm hosting a crafting on Sunday and we're going to do this!

[@emilyseilhamerart]

@@JorjeAxline you got it!! Yes the glue and paint are inside facing the foil and the lines are on the outside of the glass :) I did a short a few days ago explaining it as well if that helps

[@emilyseilhamerart]

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[@JorjeAxline]

@@emilyseilhamerart Oh... before you said "The glue and the sharpie should both be on the opposite side of the painted side" but now you say "the glue and paint are inside facing the foil." Oh! The glue / paint *mixture* are inside facing the foil. But the glue lines? That's the part I meant to ask about. I did watch the short linked below, but I'm specifically asking about this version with the glue lines. Do the glue lines go on the outside or inside. But now I'm thinking about it, I figure they need to go on the outside, like the sharpie version.

[@helleswahn]

Is it removable? I really want "stained glass" windows, but I rent so I can't make permanent changes

[@emilyseilhamerart]

The glue and paint part is, but the lines are much harder to get off. You could use window paint pens for the lines instead!

[@emcarver8983]

But the point of stained glass, is that the light shines through.

[@emilyseilhamerart]

True! Like I mentioned in the video you don’t have to put the back on and can hang it in a window 😄

[@pupsandcrochet57]

Luv this just beautiful found u on instagram

[@emilyseilhamerart]

Thank you! So glad you found us! :D