After you’ve finished painting, let them air dry for an hour. Then place them on a baking pan and place them in a cold oven. Heat the oven to 350 degrees (Farenheit) and cure them for 30 minutes. Turn off the oven and let them cool down completely in the oven before removing them.
Easy DIY Painted Wine Glasses
Since I’ve been hunkered down and hiding out at home, I’ve kept myself busy rediscovering my joy of crafting, decorating and cooking. And now that I have time, I’m actually catching up on craft projects I wanted to do earlier, but was too busy to dive into. I even tried my hand at sewing facemasks, but that turned into a complete debacle resulting in a broken sewing machine. So on to an easier craft that won’t give me heartburn! Today I’m going to show you how you can take simple wine glasses from the dollar store and turn them into adorable painted glasses you’ll be proud to show off during your next virtual happy hour. This craft was so easy, I wish I had more glasses to paint! I’ll definitely be creating a few for summer, in fact the possibilities are endless! Read on for all the details on how I painted them.
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What You’ll Need
- Clear, undecorated glass wine glasses. (Mine are from Dollar Tree)
- Paintbrushes in various sizes
- Folk Art Enamel Paint for Glass & Ceramics
- Printed design to use as a template
- Oven
- Water and paper plate to use as a palette
What do you want to paint? My advice – keep it simple. I had originally planned this project for Mardi Gras, but it came and went so quickly, I never got around to it. I knew I wanted to go with a fleur de lis design, so I just searched Google images until I found a very simple black and white graphic I liked. I downloaded the image and pasted it onto a document, resizing it until it was about 3 inches by 3 inches. You’ll have to play with this depending on the size of your glass. Print it out, cut it out, and tape it to the inside of your glass.
Step Two – Let’s Paint!
Before you begin painting, be sure to wipe the design area of the glass thoroughly with alcohol. Now comes the fun part! Even though I knew I was going to use the same graphic on all of my glasses, I wanted each of them to be different. I painted each color at a time. I did all of the purple, then all of the green, then all of the gold. You could use a different brush for each color, but I just rinsed mine off each time I switched and it worked out fine. I added the little dot embellishments just for fun, and I think they add a bit of whimsy to the glasses, don’t you?
DIY Painted Wine Glasses
**Update: I originally wrote about these DIY Painted Wine Glasses way back in 2013. If you came here from Pinterest, you’re in the right place! I just updated the pictures a bit and made a video – go check it out!**
Back in 2013, when I was a freshman in college (omg so long ago), I was poor. I know, shocking right?? Needless to say, my part-time job at the daycare was not rolling in the cash. To save some money on Christmas presents, I decided to DIY wherever I could. However, I have a strict policy when it comes to DIY: it can’t be cheesy. I started scouring the internet for ideas and eventually came across a picture of some rainbow-y, dotted drinking glasses. Honestly, I looked everywhere for a tutorial, but there was none to be found. I remember spending countless hours researching how to paint glass. Eventually, I came across a painting tutorial for something entirely different (I can’t even recall what it was anymore) and decided to try it on glass anyways. And, it worked! So I posted it, pinned it, and thought nothing of it. And uhhh, it took off? Like, I get thousands of views on this post every month. If you look up “DIY Painted Wine Glasses” on Pinterest, my old images are sure to come up. This was before I knew what optimized pins, SEO, and alt-text meant. This was literally before I knew what a DSLR is. The original pictures were tiny thumbnails, kinda blurry, at awful angles. And people just kept clicking anyways. It still blows my mind. The good old days of blogging, amirite?
But, my work has come a long way since 2013, so I decided to update my DIY Painted Wine Glasses post and also make a video, because I’m meta like that. AND GUESS WHAT GUYS. Craft stores have like, a bajillion times more glass paint options than they did in 2013! Back then, you only got like, 10 color options. Now, there are tons. There’s metallics and sparkles and shades galore. It’s amazing. However, I still recommend the Martha Stewart or another high-quality brand. Otherwise, it might just chip off. (Side note on this: those rainbow glasses are the same ones that I made in 2013! They totally held up). ALSO, because this is a food blog after all, I added a fun little cocktail recipe at the end. It’s a super easy Pear Gin Spritz that has the perfect flavors for all the Christmas parties! It’s sososo good. I’d highly recommend making this cocktail even if you never get around to painting glasses. Or, you can make my Pomegranate Brown Derby which is also perfect for Christmas Lastly! The video is posted below, but if you are old school, or want to print the directions, I included the written step-by-step below. Ok, I think that’s it?? If you make these, make sure to tag me on Insta with @serendipitybysaralynn and #serendipitybysaralynn.
