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It's finally time for another step-by-step DEMO! Just in time for holiday gift
making, we've got Easy Glass Etching - this is a great way to personalize or
I love making stuff, and I love helping ornament glassware from Goodwill or the dollar store, make the glass
other people make stuff. Creativity is
pebbles you use for memory magnets even cooler, or even decorate plain
my passion and my spiritual path.
glass ornaments from the craft store! I'll go over the supplies you'll want to
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is to see things from a The designs are limited only by your imagination! Keep in mind, though, that
different perspective, and then to help you are basically making a stencil: the etching cream eats away at the
other people see things differently, too. surface of the glass, making it whiter or more opaque, and wherever the
This bott... stencil is, the etching cream can't go.
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jewelry from bicycle inner tubes , and pattern. I'm being careful not to get too many fingerprints on the glass as I
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2. Again, make sure your glass is clean! In this example, I've got a blank
glass holiday ornament from a craft store. It's nice because it's kind of a cube
shape, and has nice flat surfaces for etching! Then, cut out the stencil,
leaving a generous border.
3. Peeling the paper off the back of the sticker, position the stencil and
stick it to the surface of the glass. Burnish it down with a fingernail or a
burnishing tool like I'm using here. Then, follow steps 4 - 7 from the Easy
Glass Etching Basics tutorial above to apply the etching cream.
Here, I've used two different star punches to punch a larger stencil pattern
out of sticker paper and apply it to the glass all at once.
Variation 2: Multiple Stencils and The
Round Surface
Because of the distortion that happens when you apply sticker stencil to a
round surface, and the difficulty in finding a place to hang or set it while it
dries, round and really curvy surfaces present a special challenge.
Here, I'm decorating the surface of this glass ball ornament in stages. I've
already put a few snowflakes on it, as you can see, and now that it's dry I'm
going back and adding more in.
Start applying your stencil from the center, and work your way out with your
thumbs. There will be wrinkles in the stencil, but this way you can distribute
the wrinkles evenly and keep the design from getting too distorted.
Here, you can see the wrinkles as I keep working to burnish the stencil to the
surface with my thumbs and thumbnails.
Then, when you go to apply the etching cream, create a little nest of
aluminum foil for it to sit in. This will keep the ball from rolling off the table, or
dripping etching cream all over the floor.
The Results!
Etching is subtle - not something I'm exactly known for - but it also adds an
extra layer and dimension to mixed media work. Imagine etching the glass
you use to frame a piece, or etching the surface of a collaged and soldered
slide glass necklace. Then, of course, there is colored glass, and paints that
can be poured inside those glass ornament globes . . .
Have fun!
Posted by Bridget Benton at 6:48 PM
Labels: DEMO
6 comments:
fingerstothebone said...
Michael5000 said...
Cool tutorial!
Crafter said...
M-Joy said...
martinamc said...
You can use your stencils easily for is to etch glass. This is a
process where you would place your stencil patterns on a piece
of glass whether its a glass mug, glass window, or mirror.