Glass Etching
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Doing glass etching on various projects is a great way to personalize gifts. It’s fairly easy to do, but you do need to be very careful with the etching cream.
I had this glass totem that I made over a year ago. I googled to find a garden phrase and found “Friends are the flowers in the garden of life”.
Decide on a stencil
The image was designed in my Silhouette Studio Designer Edition. I was cutting this out on my Portrait, so I did it in two different cuts. After I cut it like this, I rotated it to cut the other half. Note: the “g” in garden, I didn’t make my outer most circle quite big enough.
Can you see the words? It’s tough to see white on white.
Apply Stencil
I actually ended up cutting out one word at a time and applied it without transfer paper. Because I do stenciling all the time, it was easy for me. This vinyl is VERY sticky and a little difficult to re-position. After applying each word, I transferred the oodles and boodles. (insides of the letters)
Spread etching cream with plastic knife
There were a couple of places I had to “patch” with a small sliver of the vinyl—where the letter was too close to the edge, and where the two words didn’t come together perfectly. I didn’t want the etching cream to bleed though the edges of the stencil.
After donning rubber gloves I used a plastic knife to apply the etching cream to the stencil.
Use a cotton swab to clean up smudges
There were a couple of places I got too close to the edge, and used a Q-tip to clean it up.
Rinse Etching Cream with garden hose
I scraped the excess etching cream back into the bottle, it’s reusable. It’s best to do this outside (away from pets and plants).
Carefully, I rinsed the etching cream off with the hose. I have used etching cream before and learned the hard way that you shouldn’t rinse it in your sink. When you have a porcelain sink the etching cream can leave visible damage.
Admire your glass etching project!
I love how this glass etching turned out! There are so many applications for glass etching. Think candy dishes, dog/cat treat bowls, oh and I did glass etching on a baking dish for jamie years ago.
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My daughter just bought a house and I would love to etch Welcome on the window in her door. I could also make some unique Christmas gifts!
I’d really like to etch baking pans for christmas presents.
I would etch an old window and also a mirror. I would also make signs, signs signs 🙂
I would love to etch some old windows or ??? Too many options!
I would love to do some etching on some old windows, glasses, mirrors and on and on……so many surfaces.
Thank you for the giveaway.
I have shelves of glass in my garage that I use to make totems with solar lights in them to give to people who have lost a loved one. I call them ‘memory lights’. Every day as night falls they are reminded that their loved one is still with them in their hearts. I would love to be able to personalize them with the Silhouette and etching kit. PLEASE!
I’d so love to win to try this…I don’t know where I’d even start — picture frames, ornaments…it’s all so cool.
I would start etching every mirror in the house!
That is such a cool idea! I would etch my glass flour and sugar jars first and then find some glassware for the bathroom and monogram those!
I am love everything having a “place” and I would use this on glass jars I’ve collected for storage around the house. Plus, wouldn’t it make personalized gifts easy peasy? Some of the comments gave me some great ideas. Thank y’all!
I would use it to etch like tea, sugar and flour into glass canisters or candy dishes.. Thanks for the chance to win a awesome prize.
I would definitely use this to make some things for my sons wedding in May.