If nothing else, I'm a stubbon pig. I'm going to die trying to get a faux stained glass effect.
So, since I did a big cooking job yesterday, today was going to be light. I did go and get the gallery glass paint. I made a half-hearted stab with the liquid leading - uh no - - too hard.
I thus re-cut the image from contact paper. In hindsight, I definitely should have used the good black vinyl, but since I had absolutely no idea of what I am doing, I used the contact paper. The contact paper cut smoothly, but weeding the image - that alone was a challenge that took me the better part of an hour to get done.
Then got the image (background oval) on the acetate - BTW the acetate cut like butter on the cougar - really smooth!
Applied the contact paper to the acetate and then began the process of painting. That took a couple of hours and it is drying. There was a tiny little bit of seepage to the other side and if the good black vinyl had been on, probably would not have been noticeable. In addition, I would have put less paint on, now that I understand about the seepage issues. The contact paper probably was not on flat enough which did not help.
Either I will recut another piece of black vinyl to put on top of the image to the other side (and I will have to mirror my image before cutting), or, airbrush the cardstock piece black to put on top (since it is already cut). I am leaning towards the already cut cardstock, because I am not really looking forward to weeding another vinyl piece of this image. In addition, if I put repositionable glue on the card stock, I think it would be easier to adhere and position over the vinyl.
I made one coloring mistake, but ah for a first effort I think this is cool beans. The gallery glass is definitely the way to go if anyone else is interested in a faux stained glass. I am going to see if I can find black contact paper anywhere, because I definitely want to do more of this, but with less complex images.
As soon as the paint dries, which I think won't be any earlier than tomorrow, I will post. It is taking it's own sweet time...
Pat
Edit: In second hindsight, I should have used transfer paper to get the finished piece over to the acetate (after weeding all the inner cuts) for a smoother placement to avoid seepage, and I have loads of the it here. Why I don't think of these things when I do them I haven't the foggiest.........