Guidance to Create Stunning Glass Birthday Cards

Glass painting is one of the most popular crafts in the UK. This can mostly be because of the exquisite effects of glisten and light, which can be obtained using soft outliners. Glass Painting is also attractive as a result of it’s diversity. Often we find that designers will apply their glass-paint techniques to birthday cards and this article offers all the advice required to getting started in painting onto glass.
Two variations of different glass painting are in existence today - water-based and non-water based. Both have a wide range of colours and are mixable throughout their classes.
When applying an outline, you can choose one of three different ways while creating glass painted birthday cards:
Outline Stickers - These are perfect for newcomers to glass painting and they are best used on flat, level surfaces. Starting out in the corner, gently peel up the sticker, being careful not to stretch or distort it and apply it to the clean glass surface area of your birthday cards.
Glass paint outliner - These are applied by squeezing the outliner from a tube to make a fine outline. They are available in a variety of colours. They are able to be used as an outline for the design prior to paint being applied or piped over a pre-painted surface as fine detailing.
Leading Tape - Doors and windows usually necessitate this type of outliner.
Approach:
Before starting to paint, ensure that there are no specs of dust and grease on the glass area of the birthday cards, to ensure good adherence. Make use of a solvent, such as white-spirit or methylated spirit.When working on a flat surface such as a birthday card, designs are usually traced straight through. Flat surfaces are the easiest to work on, so try to lay the birthday card of a horizontal surface. 
A straight line can be created with a glass paint outliner by touching the nozzle onto a glass surface then applying a gentle even pressure, lift the nozzle from the surface and stretch out the out liner along in a straight line. Tap the nozzle down onto the glass surface when you are ending the line. Whilst filling in areas in between outlines of the glass section of your birthday cards with a paint brush, apply paint liberally by peddling the paint or making use of a pipette. This is able to provide a flat, stained-glass appearance. To get a lighter coloured paint, weaken with water for the water based paints or gloss-varnish for the non-water based paints.
Always pour paint into a palette rather than straight from the jar. This prevents colours becoming dirty or diluted. Glass paint can also be applied using a sponge, though birthday cards very often have lesser areas, whereby this technique is normally better for larger areas.
To finish, you may want to safeguard your solvent based paints with a layer of varnish, glass paint varnish is available in either a matt or gloss finish. Gloss finish tends to be most common for birthday cards, although if you want something distinctive, you may choose to use matt varnish. The gloss varnish can be used as a colourless thinner to obtain pastel shades without affecting the transparency and depth of colour. The matt varnish gives a finish in the form of frosted glass. To add finishing touches to a project, while the paint is still wet, you can use tweezers to add beads or sequins. The wet paint is able to act as a glue. Glitter can also be added by sprinkling it over the wet paint giving your birthday cards that special bit of glisten.
Note: Whilst using these techniques in situations other than for your birthday cards, glass paint ought to be applied simply for ornamental items, the colors are not dishwasher proof. It can, nevertheless be cleaned by wiping with a moist cloth.