Video: Cutting a Paper Pattern for Stained Glass Projects

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If you don't have a light table for stained glass patterns, don't worry. Learn how to cut out a paper pattern to transfer onto art glass in this free video about preparing glass for stained glass crafts.

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Now I'm going to show you the other method of transferring your pattern design onto your glass. You can cut your pattern out if you don't have a light table. You can either use an art blade, or you can use a pair of scissors. And I'm going to go ahead and cut out, you notice you have two copies. I've got this copy that I'm cutting from and I've got another copy down here that I'm laying my pattern out on that I'll be assembling on. So make sure you always have two copies. So I'm just going to finish cutting this piece out. I'm going to be cutting it in the center of the line if I can. Again, be careful not to cut your other pieces wrong, because all these are going to fit together pretty nice and close. Foiling is a lot closer piecing than lead. There's a little bit more allowance in lead, but there's also a different method for cutting it out of your pattern, I'll explain that at another time. So there, I've got that piece of my butterfly wing cut out, and what I want to do is, I'm going to choose which type or color of glass I want to use for the insides and outsides of my wing. And I think since the green is in the center, I want to use, probably, the purples, because it's going to allow for more light to come through. So I'm going to choose a purple for the inside, and the yellows or the oranges for the outside of the butterfly wings. I'm going to grab my purple glass. Since it doesn't have a pattern in the glass, there's no particular place that I really need to pick for that part of the butterfly wing. And you would have some adhesive, and just apply your piece of pattern to your glass. And what I would do in this instance, and what I'm going to do, is I'm going to cut out each one of these pieces, place them on here to make sure I'm actually able to get every single one of these pieces out of my glass and I don't run short.

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Cutting a Paper Pattern for Stained Glass Projects

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