How to Paint Wine Glasses - Adding Glitter and Gems (Part Three)

Hooray! Your diy hand painted wine glass is almost finished! Now it's time to add some glitter and sparkle to your diy beautiful glass piece.

Supplies you will need: 

• Dried or baked hand painted wine glass. 
• DO NOT bake your glass piece after you have adhered glitter or gems. They will burn and melt.
• Glitter colors of your choice.
• The glitter I prefer is Creatology Glitter Shakers.
• I tried really fine glitter and it doesn't adhere very well.
• Gem shape and size of your choice.

• I purchase most of my gems at Michaels Arts & Crafts right after a holiday.
• Most gems I find on sale are located in the scrapbooking or holiday display craft aisle.
• Gem glass adhesive.
• Aleene's Glass and Bead Adhesive is what I use.
• Glitter glue for glass.
• Delta Air Dry PermEnamel Clear Gloss Glaze OR
• Mod Podge - I found this doesn't work as well. But some people like it.
• Paint brush for glitter.
• Paper towel to remove glitter mistakes.
• Medium-sized container used to catch excess glitter.
• Rubber gloves.
• Tweezers to pick up and adhere small gems and beads.

Make sure you are in an air-vented room. 

• The gem glue smell is extremely strong and could knock out a gorilla.
• If you are pregnant, I would suggest doing this outside or not doing at all. 

READ all glue labels before you begin to know dry times and warnings. 

Adhere glitter first because the glitter glue will dry faster than the gem glue. This way you can do both steps within an hour of each other.

Steps to adhere glitter to wine glass:

1. Dip tip of paint brush in the Clear Gloss Glaze.
   
2. Paint a layer of the clear gloss glaze in the area you would like glitter. 
3. Open the glitter container.
4. Hold the wine glass in your hand over the medium-sized container.
5. Pick up the glitter and sprinkle the glitter over the area of glue. I completely cover it.
   
6. Carefully blow off the excess glitter into the container. 
7. Make touch-ups.
   
8. Carefully dump the excess glitter in the container back into the glitter shaker.
9. Wait at least 30 minutes before adding glitter to another area. This way you won't mix colors.

Steps to adhere gems to wine glass:

1. Add a small amount of the platinum bond glue to the wine glass. You don't need much. 
   
2. Place gem on top of bond adhesive and press down.
   
3. Continue adhering all gems.
   
4. You should not wash your wine glass for 10 days after adhering gems to ensure the platinum bond gem adhesive has completely dried.

How to Paint Wine Glasses - What You Need to Begin! (Part One)

How to Paint Wine Glasses: Beginning painting and painting techniques (Part Two)