Staining Glass Bottles Using Vitrail Glass Paint

Staining Glass Bottles is relatively a simple and fun way to recycle your empty bottles and turn them into something useful and nice to look at.

Materials:

Clean Empty bottles
Vitrail Glass Paint
Thinner or Acetone
Rags or Tissue paper
Medicine droppers
Measuring cups

Procedure:

1.  Thoroughly clean used bottles with soap and water.  Make sure that there is no dirt or left over water or substance left in the bottle.

2.  Make sure that it is dry before you begin with Staining Your Glass Bottles.

3.  Were using Vitrail Glass Paint for this project.  Vitrail Glass Paint which comes in a variety of colors, cost about Php 100++ from National Book Store.  Since, it's quite expensive to buy them all I've just decided to try 2 colors (blue & Yellow).  For this project, I used 8 oz bottles. I wanted to know how much paint would be needed to cover the entire bottle, so I used medicine droppers and measuring cups.  After a few trials, I found that it would take 5 ml or 1 tsp of Vitrail Glass Paint to cover 1 bottle. Covering the entire inside of the bottle takes much patience and quite challenging if your using pure Vitrail Glass Paint.  Using the available thinners from National Book Store is quite expensive if your just be needing a small amount, just enough to help the Vitrail Glass Paint to flow smoother.  So I decided to try to use Acetone to dilute the paint.  After a few trials, I found that 1 drop of Acetone using a medicine dropper per 1 ml of Vitrail Glass Paint should be enough to cover the entire bottle.

Caution:  Be careful not to get any of the paint on your clothes as it is quite difficult to remove.

4. After mixing the paint you can now gently pour it inside the bottle and cover it with cork or a bottle cap.

Caution: You may want to use a face mask to cover your mouth and nose as the fumes from the paint and thinner could be quite irritating to children and those people sensitive to strong smells.

5.  You may now begin covering the bottle with paint by gently swirling the bottle from bottom to top.  Make sure that you don't miss any spots.

Below is a sample video on how to cover the entire bottle with paint.

6. Allow enough time for the paint to dry.
7. Congratulations your done...