Thursday, April 29, 2010

Glass Etching Tips

1.  Create a stencil using your Cricut Vinyl:  Use negative image for Stencil-so weed out the image.
2.  Isolate stencil from the rest of Vinyl leaving yourself a 1/2 inch border all the way around image.
3.  Make sure to Clean and Dry your Glass Item.
4.  Apply Stencil to Glass.  If etching a baking pan from underneath be sure you flipped and reversed your letters or image so it can be seen correctly from the top.
5.  Tape off stencil to avoid any over spill of etching cream.  Tip:  you can use Transfer Tape cut into stips
6.  Apply  cream over entire image.
7.  Wait 10 minutes then put excess cream back into bottle
8.  Rinse remaining cream off of glass under running water.  Pat dry and remove stencil. **

**Note if you want to color etched portion then you must do so after drying and before removing vinyl stencil.**

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