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Aqui · Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2009 11:53 am Post subject: glass painting

i bought a gorgeous hand painted picture frame in a charity shop today and it's inspired me to paint a border on our bathroom mirror.

i'm not very good at drawing. if i mess it up, can i clean off glass paint before it dries?

i will practise first on a jar or something, but don't want to buy the paints unless i know it's foolproof!
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Jacky · Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2009 11:55 am Post subject:

How about looking for a design on the web, printing it off and then tracing it on to the mirror?

Libby · Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2009 12:23 pm Post subject:

I had a lovely had painted tealight holder, which got dusty and I washed and the paint came off Sad

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Pilsbury · Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2009 6:32 pm Post subject:

it depends on the paint you use as to what you use to clean it off, some are water based and some are solvnt based but with you can certainly clean them off before they dry
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morlan75 · Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 10:30 am Post subject:

Having a problem at the moment...

We baught a set of plaid "Gallery Glass" paints from the 2nd handshop un used and still in the wrappers for £4 Very Happy

I can be quite "artistic" but these paints don't seem to be working for me I tried them yesterday on a glass star lampshade we have (£2 second handshop again Very Happy

)and they seem rather "creamy" and un proffesional looking anyone else used these and had a good result? or is it just me being a twit Laughing

???

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