How to Make Stained Glass Cards + How to Use Less Ink!

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Learn how to make beautiful layered stained glass cards!
Stained glass is so gorgeous, don’t you think? It’s one of my favorite art forms, and I can’t get enough of their translucent tones and lovely mosaic designs. My recent stained glass-inspired cutting board tutorial was a major hit, but these might be even more beautiful! Both projects were made with the help of amazing AI art technology (and a little fine tuning in Photoshop). When our crafting community started posting photos of these jaw-dropping cards, I knew I wanted to make my own, too. And now I’ll share how I did it with you!
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A big shoutout to designer and educator Amy Pelzner at Leap of Faith Crafting, who shared this technique on her KZbin channel - check out her "How to Make Stained Glass Cards with Cricut" video at • How to Make Stained Gl... !
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Topics covered in this video about Stained Glass Cards:
00:00 - How to Make Stained Glass Cards
01:18 - Supplies and Tools
02:33 - Get Your Stained Glass Card Designs
04:52 - Prepare a Full-Color Square Stained Glass Card: Sunflower Design
09:09 - Save Ink on a Rectangular Stained Glass Card: Tropical Flower Design
12:00 - How Does it Save Ink?
12:33 - Upload the Card Base File
13:27 - Print then Cut the Stained Glass Card Design
18:01 - Assemble the Square Stained Glass Card: Sunflower Design
19:22 - Assemble the Rectangular Stained Glass Card: Tropical Flower Design
20:25 - Show it Off!
20:35 - Make an Envelope for Your Card
21:02 - Closing Notes and Links to More Information
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Credits:
Introduction: PixelBytes (my daughter Alexa)
Music: Cute by Bensound (licensed, royalty and copyright free)
Videography: Jennifer and Greg on Panasonic Lumix FZ-1000 DSLR 4K cameras
Audio and Video Editing: Team JenniferMaker
Design: A Jennifer Maker original

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Thank you, Jennifer! Gorgeous stained glass cards! Thanks for sharing! ❤️😊👍🏽

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I'm so happy to hear that!

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Love it!!! Can’t wait to try myself!!

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Absolutely gorgeous !!

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I love stained glass! These are beautiful!

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Love the vibrant colors on these cards!

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These cards are so beautiful and vibrant ❤

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Thank you!

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These are so colorful and pretty.

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Gorgeous cards! Thank you!

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I am in love with these!!

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Yet another gorgeous project. Thank you for sharing.

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These are beautiful. I am definitely going to make several of them, Thank you so much!

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These cards are beautiful!!

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This is beautiful and really easier than i thought it would be ❤

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Beautiful

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Thank you for a great project that I can do without Sublimation - I haven't committed to buying the printer and supplies for sublimation and so I miss out on some of the great projects. But I love this stained glass print!

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I've been wanting to make these

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