Making champagne glasses with your own hands

The traditions of the wedding celebration have been carried through the centuries, and each generation has sought to replenish the ceremony with its innovations. Nowadays it has become fashionable to serve newlyweds champagne in beautifully decorated wine glasses.

Making glasses with your own hands is not as difficult as it seems, and not as expensive as a custom-made author's work. It will not be difficult to make them in two copies, so if you don’t want to refuse to beat wine glasses in the registry office, don’t refuse. No less beautiful duplicates can be waiting for you at the festive table, which can be saved and put on the table on the day of each wedding anniversary. Memories of the brightest day will not keep you waiting. Isn't it touching and romantic? So let's get back to the pre-holiday bustle and get acquainted with the ideas of decorating champagne glasses.

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General rules

Having decided to test your talent in needlework and demonstrate your taste, be patient and remember the main working points. Before you start decorating the glasses for the wedding, you will have to wash them to a shine, and then degrease the glass surface. This will require pure alcohol or acetone. Processing will be better if you wipe the glass with a cotton swab.

The creative process must be carried out with cleanly washed hands. Keep wet wipes ready. They will be removed from the hands of droplets of glue.

To remove the adhesive streaks formed during the design of glasses with their own hands, they use any solvent, including acetone used for degreasing. Depending on the size of the adhesive spot, it can be removed with:

• ear stick;
• toothpicks;
• needles.

Ensure high-quality lighting of the workplace, otherwise a lot of small flaws may remain on the glass. It will be a shame if they spoil the impression of the original design of the wine glass.

Since the design of champagne glasses can be made with a variety of materials, it will not be superfluous to know which glue to fix what.

So, textile elements are glued with ordinary PVA, miniature details, such as beads and rhinestones, are attached to an adhesive composition with a cyanoacrylate base, and voluminous beads are forced to stay in place with “liquid nails”.

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Making glasses with your own hands: great ideas

How can you decorate wedding glasses? Yes, actually, everyone. Suitable:

1. Tapes.

2. Lace.

3. Paints.

4. Beads.

5. Flowers.

6. Sequins.

7. Stickers.

8. Applications.

9. Feathers.

The list of decorative elements is quite wide, so it remains only to bring out the idea for the design of wine glasses and successfully implement it. The options below can also be used as a basis.

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Ribbon decoration

Making glasses with a ribbon with your own hands provides for a compositional variety. A single bow, and a whole collection of ribbons can act as decoration. It should be borne in mind that the disheveled edges of the parts will not look aesthetically pleasing, so the edges of the cut blanks should be burned.

In the event that the design of champagne glasses is planned to be done with multi-colored ribbons, it is important to choose ribbons of the same width. A composition of several different ribbons will look great. For example, nylon with silk can be added to the atlas. This combination is wrapped around the wine glass leg. The composition is crowned with a bow decorated with a bead or a pebble.

In the same way, you can trim the bottom of the glass with a one-color ribbon. Her bells and whistles are from the bottom up. They hide the unsightly end under a small bow or flower bud, which for a wedding glass can also be made from ribbons on your own. The volume of the element depends on the width of the tape used for work. For greater showiness, the petals are decorated with a scattering of sparkles. The flower is planted on a cord imitating the stem, which can be twisted from the green shades of floss.

Master class for making rose buds for decorating wedding glasses

A narrow ribbon is fixed in a non-working hand and neatly folded into a tight ring. Having made 5 turns, we get the core of the flower. At this stage, you need to fix the resulting roll with threads. We sew the tape with a few stitches and continue to fold it further, but with a noticeably lower density. As a result, it should give the impression that a half-opened bud lies in your palm. When you think the rose is large enough, cut off the excess ribbon. The edge is fixed by stitching.

Flower master class

You will need a tape two or three centimeters wide. From it we make a cut of 10-15 cm long. We fold the workpiece in half lengthwise and sew the edges with a basting seam. Pulling the thread, we collect the tape into a “bag”, remove the side edges inside and sew at the base. We use a suitable size bead as a core.

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Lace decoration

“The legs of tall glasses for a wedding are well decorated with lace or satin skirts tied with a beautiful ribbon”

An easier way to make beautiful glasses for a wedding is not worth looking for. You don't even need a master class here. You can glue their surface with lace in any variation. In each case, such decor will look elegant. It is permissible to make an association with the bride's dress.

What to work

In the design of glasses with your own hands, you can stand on a lace fabric with original weaving or use ribbon lace. It is important that it be lush and hard enough, then the material will keep its shape perfectly.

You will also need several colors of satin ribbons. They should vary in length and width.

Decorative flowers can be bought ready-made or you can make a bouquet yourself using the available stock of satin ribbons. Of the additional elements, several rhinestones and beads are usually attached to champagne glasses.

For fixing materials. A glue gun and white PVA will be used.

The leader in the color scheme is white lace with the addition of golden and silver lurex threads. Often use lace vanilla, cream, beige shades.But this does not mean that bright colors have no place in the design of glasses for a wedding. If the chosen color supported the general stylistic solution of the event, use it without hesitation.

What do we do

We measure out a strip of lace sufficient to wrap the upper part of the wine glass, cut it off and put it on glue. To be able to drink without eating glue, the design of champagne glasses begins 2 cm below the top edge.

While the decor is drying, you can start finishing the legs. Let's take one of the bright ribbons and wrap it in a spiral around the decorated surface greased with thick PVA.

We collect a bow from the remaining ribbons, fix it at the junction of the legs and the stand. A bead attached with a gun in the center of the bow will help to complete the composition. If desired, several beads can be placed on the lace surface.

The legs of tall glasses for a wedding are well decorated with lace or satin skirts tied with a beautiful ribbon.

If a lace fabric is used, then it is not necessary to cut it in a strip. You can choose the most beautiful reliefs and stick them compositionally or randomly on the glass.

With the active use of rhinestones, it is important not to cross the line of what is permitted, otherwise, instead of a luxurious decor, you will get a vulgar one. A modest scattering of small pebbles is quite enough to give laconic lace a festive look.

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Painting with paints

Making glasses with your own hands in this vein can be done in several techniques. Art non-professionals will love the stencil idea. They are not difficult to find in the assortment of shops for needlewomen. You can solve the problem even easier and print the necessary drawings from the Internet.

What is relevant for decorating glasses for weddings? Images of hearts, rings, roses, doves, swans, the initials of the young. This may well be symbolism, understandable only to the bride and groom.

We apply the stencil to the champagne glass and transfer the pattern to its surface. So that the first one fits well on the glass, does not move out, and does not allow the paint to spread, moisten the stencil with water or fix it with masking tape.

It is not necessary to paint over the entire free area. A drawing can only be outlined. This is usually done with golden, pale pink, pearl gray paint, or a combination of them. Instead of paint, it is perfectly acceptable to use nail polishes in the same palette.

We leave the painted glass to dry for at least 18 hours, after which it will need to be opened with a specific varnish.

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Art painting

This design of glasses with their own hands is not available to everyone. Here you need to have at least a small rudiment of the artist. A sense of color and composition is important.

How we work

Synthetic brushes of various sizes and acrylic paints on glass. From the auxiliary elements you need to prepare:

1. A palette or a one-time plate.

2. Cotton pads.

3. Ear sticks.

4. Degreaser.

Also, the drawing can be supplemented with contour markers, stained glass paints, glitter.

What do we do

Trying to turn wedding glasses into flowers. And let's start by degreasing the work surface.

We dilute and mix the paints on the palette until the desired shades are obtained. Pastel colors are obtained by diluting the primary colors with white paint.

The process of creating an image will be layered. The stamens are drawn first. They are applied with a toothpick or a thin brush. The stamens themselves are made black, and the pollen around them is drawn in orange or yellow. It will take at least 2 hours for the first strokes to dry. You can speed up the procedure and bake the paint.To do this, champagne glasses are sent to a preheated oven and kept there at a temperature of 150 degrees for a quarter of an hour.

Next we draw the petals. Here you can either draw details in the form of veins and note the play of shades, or limit yourself to the saturation of one color.

The final step in the design of glasses with your own hands will be the creation of a pedicel and a stem. Here we work with green paint and grab the stem of the glass.

To ensure that the paint is well fixed on the glass, it is better to bake it. The holding time in the oven is about 30 minutes.

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Wedding glasses in rose petals

A very delicate decor in all respects: both aesthetic and practical. This design is very short-lived, but very touching. It is desirable to create a masterpiece on the day of the celebration.

To work, you need a live rose. It is dismantled into petals. The smallest of them are glued first. The petals are slightly overlapped. Having fixed the first row of decor, the glass is left to dry. Ready? We retreat half a centimeter down and fix the next row of petals.

We work from top to bottom. The size of the petals used increases as you get closer to the base of the glass. With the right decor, the glass will become the core of a rose. Use green ribbon to decorate the legs.

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Glitter decor

Gold-plated champagne glasses are always relevant for a wedding celebration. There is not much work to create them. You can gild both the entire glass, and some part of it.

In the second case, the surface not to be processed is tightly wrapped with newspaper and fixed with adhesive tape. If you wish to make a drawing during the design of the glass with your own hands, use a stencil from masking tape. Having decided how the item will be decorated, all that remains is to treat it with a special spray. After drying, remove the pasted tape or wrapping paper.

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Decor with feathers

Pretty extravagantglass decoration for wedding. For a celebration in a classic presentation, they are not suitable enough, but at a theme party they will make a splash. Feathers can be placed at the junction of the stem and the bottom of the glass, placing them in color layers. In this case, the play of contrasts is justified: red and white, white and black, white and purple, etc. You can complete the design with a bow, beads or shiny pebbles. It is better to fix the feathers with the “Moment”, but in its absence it is quite acceptable to use PVA.

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Decor modeling

Very exciting work that can become a hobby in the future.Decorative elements fordo-it-yourself glassware made from polymer clay. At the modeling stage, it will be possible to view a sketch of the future design. Do not be afraid to apply the composition to the glass and correct the imperfections. Once all the details are molded, they are baked.

Before attaching jewelry tochampagne glasses, arm yourself with a wide nail file, carefully align the bases of your leaf flowers and open them with a layer of varnish. Now they are ready to decorateglasses for wedding. To complete the picture, you can draw the stems with a marker or add beads and rhinestones.

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Glass-groom and glass-bride

“Dressed” like newlyweds, champagne glasses will also arouse genuine interest, especially if they were created with your own hands.

To create a "groom" you will need a patch of gray or black matter, a piece of white cloth and puppet buttons.

Wrap a glass with a strip of white fabric. From black we cut out a butterfly, an imitation of the lapels of a jacket and put it all on top of an impromptu shirt.We fasten the buttons on the shirt under the bow tie and the "groom" is ready.

We will make the “bride” from a corsage ribbon, a fluffy skirt and stases with sparkles. Making her glass with our own hands, let's start by hiding the glass stem under the skirt. Then, at the bottom of the upper part of the glass, we will simulate the corsage of the dress. It remains only to add luxury to the composition, generously providing it with sparkling and iridescent elements.

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Confetti glasses decor

“The design of glasses with their own hands looks very creative in the form of painting with multi-colored bright peas, especially if gold and mother-of-pearl elements are used in the mix”

Do you want to please your guests with an unusual table setting? Decorate their glasses at the wedding too! Wine glasses with small polka dots can diversify the festive atmosphere, making it unrestrainedly cheerful or more solid. You can paint the dishes with acrylic paints, nail polish, a marker for glass painting.

Champagne glasses are degreased and painted in accordance with their vision of beauty. You can cover their surface with circles of the same size and color or go from small to large placers, not forgetting to play with the distance between the elements. Circles can be formed into a pattern. From them you can make a simple pattern or layer on top of each other. The design of glasses with their own hands looks very creative in the form of painting with multi-colored bright peas, especially if gold and mother-of-pearl elements are used in the mix.

If you do not want to mess with paints, you can paste over glasses of confetti from vinyl self-adhesive. A hole punch will help cut the same, regular-shaped circles. This is the fastest and most economical way to decorate wedding glasses in large quantities.

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Conclusion

For a wedding ceremony, making glasses with your own hands is a significant process. This is not just the manufacture of exclusive ritual utensils. In fact, this is the creation of a family amulet, because when working on wine glasses, you will invest in them a piece of your aspirations and hopes, which will certainly come true in the future. Love and harmony will never leave the house, where they understand how fragile family happiness is.

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