Using Cut Running Pliers to Break Glass

We're going to start by using a pair of cut running pliers. These are very inexpensive, plastic versions, and we will leave a link to them below. The pliers have a small bump in the middle which helps the glass to break in a nice clean line. We put on some thick gloves for extra safety precautions because even though you shouldn't have any small broken glass shards anywhere when done right.

The lightest amount of pressure needed is used to line the pliers up with our score line and press down the glass should break smoothly along your line. For our final front piece, we're going to add a line one and half in up on our second triangle template, going to be cutting our final piece of glass into this shape to allow for an opening in our terrarium.

Here are all of our pieces cut out before assembling. Use some sandpaper to rough up all the edges of your glass; your glue will stick much better this way. We're going to use some plain masking tape and assemble our terrarium from the inside. This will help keep it together while we glue next, we're going to lay down strips of tape on the outside where we're going to place the glue. This will give us a clean glue line when we take off the tape.

The glue we're going to use is the Le stick and seal which is specifically meant for bonding glass; lay enough glue down to cover the ridge between the glass pieces and then remove your tape guards. Repeat this process on all sides of your terrarium, and let your glue dry for about 24 hours once dry you can remove your tape that's on the inside of your terrarium to add a faux soldered effect.

We're going to go over our glass glue in E6 6,000 black which is a very strong craft glue; so try not to get any on your hands and also try not to breathe it in. Mask up if you need to place fairly thick lines of Glue on all of your edges but be careful not to overuse it or it may start to run in places that you don't want it to go.

We also went around the edges on the inside of our opening to create a matching effect, and again allow this glue to dry for 24 hours. Disclaimer: Yes we all know that proper glass frames are meant to be soldered with proper metal but in our true DIY Spirit we want to find the easiest and most affordable way for you guys to make your own and we think that it turned out pretty great in the end.

Side tip because the black E6000 did not specifically mention glass on the label we picked up the clear glass glue as a first step just to be sure it would work. We later tried a mini terrarium using solely the E6000 and it seemed to bond just as well. Feel free to skip the stick and seal glue if you don't want to use two types of glue or you're working on a smaller project.

Not So Hard Was It

Wasn't that hard? I know so good; so good so hella good; so hella good though we were on Etsy like looking up like inso picks and there's so much money. We know we were like trying to figure out what shape we want to do like a diamond and like like I think that out of all the ingredients materials we had especially the picture frames we can get like three Rs out of that M.

And obviously the glue and the glass cutter can like last you for a lot longer yeah if you were already to own those things for whatever reason like it's not an expensive DIY so yeah to buy all the materials like it might upfront cost you a little bit but if you go in with it with a whole bunch of friends or something and you guys make a couple then the cost goes way down.

Terrarium Info

In this video we kind of had our terrarium already pre-made but if you want to know more into like how to actually build a terrarium with like the dirt and the rocks and the actual plants and all that goodness we did a video a while ago about like terrarium info on how to build your own jar so we'll link that below for you if you want to know more on that.

Catching Us

If you guys don't want to wait to see us until next Tuesday which is the one we upload every Tuesday duh um then you guys can catch us on our social medias links below. You guys get it Instagram Snapchat that's a new thing so we're trying you know to use that I Snapchat right now before we did this super fun super fun and if you guys like this video make sure you like it and if you love it make sure you sub it.

Links

We left a link to the inexpensive plastic cut running pliers below for your convenience.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhow do we usually do this hello my name is Kelsey and my name is Becky and we're the star girls and today we have a really amazing DIY for you oh my goodness mind is blown oh my good we blew our own mind one of our literal literal favorite DIYs to do is things that are in stores forella scrilla and we do it for cheap and we tell you how to do it yay yay well if you guys didn't figure out from like the title the thumbnail All That Jazz this is our terrarium DIY which like can I tell you how this came about we're like on Pinterest like we've seen these Greenhouse kind of terrariums made from picture frames cuz like obviously the main component of AUM is glass and it's like what where do you get like cheap glass it's like vintage picture frames so we're looking at these like picture frame green houses they like pop a picture and like they're not super cute and we started to like look at more and more and we're like yeah none of them are really cute there was like one kind of cute one um and then Becky's like well I have this like glass cutter maybe we can just like cut the glass and I'm like what we have a glass cutter what the heck is that I did not know this existed I used it for my palette table I have a small one in my bedroom if you saw our room tour and I just bought it like for my own personal whatever didn't think we'd ever actually use anything cuz cutting glass is like I thought so much more legit than it actually is so yeah so when we're like picture frames and glass cutter we can make our own shapes and then we just need to glue it together somehow and so we will tell you today how we did that to make this super awesome Hela like geometric ha hel geometric terrariums okay we'll see you guys after to start you're going to need some glass we picked up a couple of old frames from our local thrift store for a couple of dollars each we bought 2 8 1/2 by 11 frames and 2 11x 14 frames next we're going to draw out our template if you want to make the same size we did draw out a baseline of 8 and 1/2 and line up the middle of 7 and 38 these are all inches and connect the points to create a triangle our second template is going to be a base of 8 and 1/2 and a midline of 11 in and connect again to create a triangle we're going to be making one of this size and two of this size we're also going to go back and extend our lines on our triangle to make our glass cutting a little bit easier to cut our glass we're going to use a glass cutter it's just a small tool with a little tiny wheel on it which helps to cut the glass it's pretty cheap and can be found at most hardware stores so place your piece of glass over our drawn out template and line a r up with one of the lines make sure to allow a tiny gap for the width of your tool so that the wheel perfectly lines up with your template firmly roll the glass cutter down the line in one straight move we're scoring a line onto the glass instead of cutting through it it should make this really awful scratchy noise if you're doing it right next we're going to use a pair of cut running pliers these are very inexpensive plastic version and we will leave a link to it below the pliers have a small bump in the middle which helps the glass to break in a nice clean line we put on some thick gloves for extra safety precautions but if done right you shouldn't have any small broken glass shards anywhere using the lightest amount of pressure needed line the pliers up with your score line and press down the glass should break smoothly along your line for our final front piece we're going to add a line one and half in up on our second triangle template going to be cutting our final piece of glass into this shape to allow for an opening in our terrarium and here are all of our pieces cut out before assembling use some sandpaper to rough up all the edges of your glass your glue will stick much better this way we're going to use some plain masking tape and assemble our terrarium from the inside this will help keep it together while we glue next we're going to lay down strips of tape on the outside where we're going to place the glue this will give us a clean glue line when we take off the tape the glue we're going to use is the Le stick and seal which is specifically meant for bonding glass lay enough glue down to cover the ridge between the glass pieces and then remove your tape guards repeat this process on all sides of your terrarium and let your glue dry for about 24 hours once dry you can remove your tape that's on the inside of your terrarium to add a faux soldered effect we're going to go over our glass glue in E6 6,000 black this is a very strong craft glue so try not to get any on your hands and also try not to breathe it in mask up if you need to place fairly thick lines of Glue on all of your edges but be careful not to overuse it or it may start to run in places that you don't want it to go we also went around the edges on the inside of our opening to create a matching effect and again allow this glue to dry for 24 hours and disclaimer yes we all know that proper glass frames are meant to be soldered with proper metal but in our true DIY Spirit we want to find the easiest and most affordable way for you guys to make your own and we think that it turned out pretty great in the end and side tip because the black E6000 did not specifically mention glass on the label we picked up the clear glass glue as a first step just to be sure it would work we later tried a mini terrarium using solely the E6000 and it seemed to bond just as well feel free to skip the stick and seal glue if you don't want to use two types of glue or you're working on a smaller project so it wasn't that hard was it it was not that bad and it turned out like so amazing I know so good so good so hella good so hella good though we were on Etsy like looking up like inso picks and there's so much money I know we were like trying to figure out what shape we want to do like a diamond and like like I think that out of all the ingredients materials we had especially the picture frames we can get like three Rs out of that M and obviously the glue and the glass cutter can like last you for a lot longer yeah if you were already to own those things for whatever reason like it's not an expensive DIY so yeah to buy all the materials like it might upfront cost you a little bit but if you go in with it with a whole bunch of friends or something and you guys make a couple then the cost goes way down and it's really just getting over the the fact of like oh my goodness I'm cutting glass it's scary cuz it's really not um one more thing though I want to add is in this video we kind of had our terarium already prade but if you want to know more into like how to actually build a terrarium with like the dirt and the rocks and the actual plants and all that goodness we did a video a while ago about like terrarium info on how to build your own jar so we'll link that below for you if you want to know more on that and if you guys don't want to wait to see us until next Tuesday which is the one we upload every Tuesday duh um then you guys can catch us on our social medias links below you guys get it Instagram Snapchat that's a new thing so we're trying you know to use that I Snapchat right now before we did this super fun super fun and if you guys like this video make sure you like it and if you love it make sure you sub it and we will see you guys next week bye guys byehow do we usually do this hello my name is Kelsey and my name is Becky and we're the star girls and today we have a really amazing DIY for you oh my goodness mind is blown oh my good we blew our own mind one of our literal literal favorite DIYs to do is things that are in stores forella scrilla and we do it for cheap and we tell you how to do it yay yay well if you guys didn't figure out from like the title the thumbnail All That Jazz this is our terrarium DIY which like can I tell you how this came about we're like on Pinterest like we've seen these Greenhouse kind of terrariums made from picture frames cuz like obviously the main component of AUM is glass and it's like what where do you get like cheap glass it's like vintage picture frames so we're looking at these like picture frame green houses they like pop a picture and like they're not super cute and we started to like look at more and more and we're like yeah none of them are really cute there was like one kind of cute one um and then Becky's like well I have this like glass cutter maybe we can just like cut the glass and I'm like what we have a glass cutter what the heck is that I did not know this existed I used it for my palette table I have a small one in my bedroom if you saw our room tour and I just bought it like for my own personal whatever didn't think we'd ever actually use anything cuz cutting glass is like I thought so much more legit than it actually is so yeah so when we're like picture frames and glass cutter we can make our own shapes and then we just need to glue it together somehow and so we will tell you today how we did that to make this super awesome Hela like geometric ha hel geometric terrariums okay we'll see you guys after to start you're going to need some glass we picked up a couple of old frames from our local thrift store for a couple of dollars each we bought 2 8 1/2 by 11 frames and 2 11x 14 frames next we're going to draw out our template if you want to make the same size we did draw out a baseline of 8 and 1/2 and line up the middle of 7 and 38 these are all inches and connect the points to create a triangle our second template is going to be a base of 8 and 1/2 and a midline of 11 in and connect again to create a triangle we're going to be making one of this size and two of this size we're also going to go back and extend our lines on our triangle to make our glass cutting a little bit easier to cut our glass we're going to use a glass cutter it's just a small tool with a little tiny wheel on it which helps to cut the glass it's pretty cheap and can be found at most hardware stores so place your piece of glass over our drawn out template and line a r up with one of the lines make sure to allow a tiny gap for the width of your tool so that the wheel perfectly lines up with your template firmly roll the glass cutter down the line in one straight move we're scoring a line onto the glass instead of cutting through it it should make this really awful scratchy noise if you're doing it right next we're going to use a pair of cut running pliers these are very inexpensive plastic version and we will leave a link to it below the pliers have a small bump in the middle which helps the glass to break in a nice clean line we put on some thick gloves for extra safety precautions but if done right you shouldn't have any small broken glass shards anywhere using the lightest amount of pressure needed line the pliers up with your score line and press down the glass should break smoothly along your line for our final front piece we're going to add a line one and half in up on our second triangle template going to be cutting our final piece of glass into this shape to allow for an opening in our terrarium and here are all of our pieces cut out before assembling use some sandpaper to rough up all the edges of your glass your glue will stick much better this way we're going to use some plain masking tape and assemble our terrarium from the inside this will help keep it together while we glue next we're going to lay down strips of tape on the outside where we're going to place the glue this will give us a clean glue line when we take off the tape the glue we're going to use is the Le stick and seal which is specifically meant for bonding glass lay enough glue down to cover the ridge between the glass pieces and then remove your tape guards repeat this process on all sides of your terrarium and let your glue dry for about 24 hours once dry you can remove your tape that's on the inside of your terrarium to add a faux soldered effect we're going to go over our glass glue in E6 6,000 black this is a very strong craft glue so try not to get any on your hands and also try not to breathe it in mask up if you need to place fairly thick lines of Glue on all of your edges but be careful not to overuse it or it may start to run in places that you don't want it to go we also went around the edges on the inside of our opening to create a matching effect and again allow this glue to dry for 24 hours and disclaimer yes we all know that proper glass frames are meant to be soldered with proper metal but in our true DIY Spirit we want to find the easiest and most affordable way for you guys to make your own and we think that it turned out pretty great in the end and side tip because the black E6000 did not specifically mention glass on the label we picked up the clear glass glue as a first step just to be sure it would work we later tried a mini terrarium using solely the E6000 and it seemed to bond just as well feel free to skip the stick and seal glue if you don't want to use two types of glue or you're working on a smaller project so it wasn't that hard was it it was not that bad and it turned out like so amazing I know so good so good so hella good so hella good though we were on Etsy like looking up like inso picks and there's so much money I know we were like trying to figure out what shape we want to do like a diamond and like like I think that out of all the ingredients materials we had especially the picture frames we can get like three Rs out of that M and obviously the glue and the glass cutter can like last you for a lot longer yeah if you were already to own those things for whatever reason like it's not an expensive DIY so yeah to buy all the materials like it might upfront cost you a little bit but if you go in with it with a whole bunch of friends or something and you guys make a couple then the cost goes way down and it's really just getting over the the fact of like oh my goodness I'm cutting glass it's scary cuz it's really not um one more thing though I want to add is in this video we kind of had our terarium already prade but if you want to know more into like how to actually build a terrarium with like the dirt and the rocks and the actual plants and all that goodness we did a video a while ago about like terrarium info on how to build your own jar so we'll link that below for you if you want to know more on that and if you guys don't want to wait to see us until next Tuesday which is the one we upload every Tuesday duh um then you guys can catch us on our social medias links below you guys get it Instagram Snapchat that's a new thing so we're trying you know to use that I Snapchat right now before we did this super fun super fun and if you guys like this video make sure you like it and if you love it make sure you sub it and we will see you guys next week bye guys bye\n"