- 1). Buy the mirror and picture frames. You can either look for old picture frames around the house, or shop around for picture frames of your choosing. Several discount retailers carry inexpensive, thin, floor length mirrors with flimsy backing that would work well for this project. Buy enough mirrors to have enough surface area to fill each of your mirrors. If this is your first project of this kind, you may want to buy one or two extra mirrors to allow for mistakes.
- 2). Prepare the mirror. Carefully remove the border and backing from your mirror so that you have just the mirrored glass. Lay down a towel on a flat surface that can evenly and completely support the mirror. Then lay the mirror on top of it, reflective side down.
- 3). Remove the glass from each of your picture frames and place them on the back of your mirrors. Then, trace the outline of the glass removed from the picture frames onto the back of your mirror. Mistakes happen with glass, so line up your outlines to make as few cuts as possible.
- 4). Score the mirror. Line up a straightedge or yardstick with the line you want to cut along. Stabilize the straight-edge with your tape or with the hand you don't cut with. Use the glass cutter to score the glass along the line with an even, steady pressure. As you cut, you should hear a "snick" sound that lets you know that you are scoring the glass.
- 5). Set aside your straightedge. Using the non-cutting edge of the glass cutter, gently tap along the score you've made to ensure that the score goes all the way through the glass. Next, line up the scored edge with the edge of the table so that the shorter portion of the glass mirror is hanging out over the table edge. Then, carefully snap off the shorter end. Continue doing this for each cut that you make in the glass until all of your squares are cut out.
- 6). Take the cut glass and insert it into your picture frames you have selected, then hang them on the wall in a cluster or rectangular pattern.
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