Glass – Page 11 – Sherry Glaab

Jolly Roger

A rainbow Jolly Roger to surprise a dear friend from high school!

Today I was able to take advantage of some unseasonably warm weather to finish a couple of projects I started before the holidays. This guy, while not my usual sort of project (also not the best photo), is hopefully going to be a nice surprise for a dear old friend. I still might pour another layer of resin over it, but will wait to decide. The skull and crossbones are made with traditional stained glass and the “rainbow” is made with sparkly mica chips. The clear backer glass is recycled from an old window and the underside edges of the clear glass are taped with yellow painters tape to catch the resin drips.

Outdoor fun

I want to send a shout out to 3 Matadors for a fun, safe, small outdoor event. I must admit I was a bit anxious in the days leading up to the event, as I haven’t done any events since November 2019 due to COVID-19, but the size of the event and spacing of vendors was great and the steady stream of mask wearing visitors was not too crowded.

Snow & Rainbows II

Just a quick post to show off my first rainbow projects and today’s little gems. Methinks my new orange marker isn’t going to work out. Will need to find a paint pen…..

Prepping today’s little projects (suncatchers, ornaments, finish up coasters)

Mica rainbow heart suncatchers / ornaments – lots of sparkle!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Today is Thanksgiving, a great day to make some progress on small projects! Today was second layer of resin over the two heart / mica rainbow suncatchers / ornaments and also for the first mica rainbow coaster. I liked the first mica rainbow batch so much that I decided to make a round mica rainbow suncatcher / ornament and three more coasters to match the first. Next up will be the second layers on those. I also made a medium sized stained glass snowman suncatcher that will need another layer of resin and some decorations tomorrow.

I was able to pop out a few finished projects from yesterday’s batch, too!

Snow and Rainbows

Continuing to try and make some new things for the small, outdoor, masks required pop-up craft fair I signed up to do at 3 Matadors for December 5th.

First I needed some more snowballs for snowmen, as I used up all the ones I had on hand. Back to the old grinder so to speak. 🙂

Making snowballs – rough cut then grind down to round

Getting the “big” snowman ready for resin

Laying out all of my small projects to work on today

Before I start mixing my resin, I lay out all of my projects and needed supplies. Today was the second layer of resin on the holly suncatcher and all five coasters, though one will be a new coaster design and the other four will be sandollars in the sand. I like to elevate the larger projects like the snowman panel so I can reach any drips that happen. I sometimes tape the underside edge, but forgot this today.

After resin and decorating – ready to cure!

I’m trying out some new colors of mica for the rainbow projects. I think they will be really pretty!

Close up of the rainbows / snowman suncatchers and coaster

Now everything just needs to sit overnight to cure.

Repairs

Popped the holly ornament I repaired yesterday out of its mold. It doesn’t look as good as new, but it’s still pretty! I put it in my kitchen window.

Multitasking

Yesterday the friends who will be the recipients of the big Frank Lloyd Wright window came over and we decided to do another layer of resin. I decided that I really needed to move it to the garage for the final layer so I could access all sides of the window, despite the space being more prone to dust / humidity. Luckily it is an unseasonably warm day and the temperature in the garage was 75, which is perfect for my resin (Envirotex Lite).

This took a bit of planning as I had to mix up a lot more resin than usual and keep my family out of the garage (next to impossible today for some reason). However, after pouring, spreading and using my heat gun to clear the resin, everything looks good so far. Hopefully we can move it into the mud room later in the evening so the temperature remains a bit more consistent while it continues to cure overnight. In the meantime, I had a few smaller projects in the works I wanted to continue / start. Unfortunately this included repairs on a holly suncatcher I made yesterday. I had covered it with some wax paper to keep dust out while it cured and the paper made contact with the resin and made a giant mess. I had to carve some lumps off of the suncatcher today when it was cured enough, reinsert it into the mold and sort of “top it off” with another layer of resin. We’ll see how good it looks tomorrow (hopefully). I don’t think it will look as good as it would have had it not needed the repair, but I can likely keep it to use at home.

After chipping off the bumps and reinserting in the mold, prior to repair layer of resin

So all in all, I poured a second layer on three beachy coasters, first layer on two more beachy coasters, repair layer on the holly suncatcher / ornament and the first layers on three snowman ornaments.

Snowman

I finished this guy yesterday and he cured overnight. Measures approximately 6.5″ w x 9.5″ tall, stained glass on recycled window glass coated with resin and decorated with glass chips, ground stone, glass glitter and blue shell accents.

Today’s Little Projects

I’m on roll with the holiday ornaments. I only have four molds, though, so I can only make four every other day, and that’s if I actually don’t skip any days, which I do. So it’s not a high output production, but it is a labor of love. 🙂

I poured the second layer on the fourth “Holiday Confetti” coaster and the first layer on the other five pieces. In addition, I poured the resin and decorated a small (though big compared to the other items) Snowman panel.

The yellow on the glass is actually painters tape I applied to the underside of the glass to make cleanup a bit easier. I pour a small amount of resin over all of the stained glass, then spread a thin layer over the rest of the backer glass so I have a substrate for my decorations to adhere to. In this case, I used crushed stone for snow, clear glass chips and blue shell chips for sparkle and interest. I dusted a bit of fine glass glitter over the snowbank and bottom area as well, but I’m finding that the glitter doesn’t seem to show up very well / as I would hope.

I also popped out some finished products from yesterday’s time spent creating.

I used some of the fine glass glitter in the Cardinal and Snowman suncatchers / ornaments above and it didn’t turn out as I had hoped. The glitter is sort of cloudy instead of sparkly. It still looks ok, just not the way I expected it to look. It might be better on the surface of my non-mold resin projects, so I will keep experimenting.

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