DecoArt DASK270 Glass Stains Sample Pack

The colors all turned out rich more me. Only the yellow is a little pale. It is important to have the glass absolutely level or the stain bleeds to one side. I would not recommend applying vertically. Apply horizontally and then mount. I would wait three days before mounting. I found it is easiest to suck up air bubbles as opposed to breaking them open with a toothpick. This is a good product. It does take at least 24 hours to dry and clear. I use stick on leading with the product. (Glass gallery instant lead lines). I would recommend not applying adjacent colors the same day. Basically, do every other space one day and fill in the next.

These are beautiful colors! They are bright, vibrant and clear. They can not be used on an already installed window, as they drip horribly. However if you are using these on a glass window that is able to be laid flat, they work GREAT! Beautiful colors, that are clear & vibrant. I even used these on plexi-glass and had a beautiful end product. I do not suggest mixing these colors with other stained glass paint. I did try it and some colors were fine, however with other colors it did not, causing a HUGE mess. A chemical reaction occurred when mixing this product with that of another company.

I purchased this product to do a computer case mod on a clear acrylic case. It adheres fine to the material and the color is bright, clear, and a nice accent to the clear fans as I variegated red, yellow, and orange on the blades. The kit comes with yellow too, a plus since yellow isn't in the picture, so I didn't expect to get it. Light shows through it very nicely. It's like a cathedral glass effect. It adheres to transparency material as well, and I'm painting manga art for the sides of the computer.

It did an OK job. I know this is probably designed for use on staining glass while it's horizontal, but I used it for windows in my house (vertical surface). I had to apply coat after coat until I ran out and still the colors weren't vibrant enough. I'm going to need another bottle of each color that I used. I wish they offered a translucent version instead of just transparent. Next time I'm going to use the Krylon glass spray stain. Live and learn.

When I was a teen I used to make lots of glass art. I am pretty sure I was using the cheapest stains I could get. Now years later I am trying to get back to it but these paints are nothing close to what I remember. The 'leading' has too thick nozzle and it is not very easy to make a continuous line of the same width. Other thing is it says it needs to dry for 24h before applying the stains. Indeed it does not seem to dry at all. I am impatient to wait so I went ahead and applied the stain. It is too runny. It just falls off to the bottom leading edge (assuming you are painting on a vertical material like a tumbler). Yo can keep rotating your object over if possible and after few minutes it appears the stain is drying and not falling that much anymore. Wait too long and it stops falling at all and you end up with too much color in one part and too little everywhere else. Considering I applied just a drop or two this is not acceptable.It seems to work ok on very small surfaces, like half sq inch. The color is not very saturated (too transparent) so what you end up with is too much of the leading mass/color and too little of the stain. So if you need to use this product then I would suggest to use only on horizontal surfaces and get a better leading paint.

I just recently bought this to "paint" a lot of glass bottles that I got at the local thrift store since I'm a collector of colored glass bottles. I prefer collecting real colored glass, i.e., cobalt glass, or red glass (which are my favorites) or yellow and even green glass. However, those items are either not being manufactured any more or are way too expensive. Since most of "colored" glass that is now being produced is actually "painted" or coated with a type of glass paint, I thought I'd try making my own since the ones I've bought in the past have had the "Paint" flake off, which annoyed me greatly since they seem to be charging as much for them as what I used to pay for REAL colored glass.Anyhow, the product is as advertised. It is transparent and it does look like what you buy at the local stores. Cleanup is easy with soap and water. You can either use the nozzle on the bottle or a brush, but if you use a brush you need to use a soft watercolor-type brush to avoid a streaked look. (But don't use real expensive watercolor brushes!) The paint seems to go on easier if you use a brush, although you do get that gloppy, gloupy drippy look. So that's the positive aspects of this product.The negative side: I did not like the fact that the product has a "nozzle" (sort of like what superglue has) instead of a "mini brush" on the end. I found that using the nozzle to paint on round bottles was a bit difficult. The paint tends to run and drip. I tried using it with a brush, and so long as you continue to paint the object without going back over where you have already painted, it's fine. I unfortunately discovered that if you go back over an area already painted before it dried completely, the previous area lifts up and so the object does not have a smooth glass-like finish, but has "lumps" and "bumps" which is clearly noticeable. If you're going for an "imitation" colored glass look, like I was, this is not a good thing.Also, there was no instructions with this sample kit as to how long I should wait between coats, or whether I needed to heat treat it in an oven to "set" the color. There is another manufacturer (with much more expensive paint) which requires you to heat treat it and then it's microwave and dishwasher safe. For my purposes, since these bottles will probably never be washed or microwaved, I didn't care and this was really only an experiment to see if painting bottles with this product would allow me to "imitate" the look of real colored glass.I also intend to experiment with using this glass stain to "paint" a scene on glass, so stay tuned to this "station" for further updates about this product as I experiment some more. :)