Father's Day Gifts with Glass....

OK, for Father's Day, I made gifts for the 2 most important Dads in my life, MY DAD & My Children's Dad(Hubby) I went to my local Dollar Tree store, and bought 2 plain glass Beer mugs. Opps, I somehow deleted the picture of the plain mugs....

Using my Cricut, I cut the words #1 DAD & #1 PopPop out of a sheet of black Vinyl... Carefully placed the stencils on the mugs... Don't forget to put on the tiny pieces cut out of the center fo the letters! I also used blue painter's tape to tape off a bit of area around the stencil incase i got messy. I then used one of the hundreds of paint brushes laying around my house to apply a nice liberal coat of Etching Cream. I use Armour Etch. the instructions say let sit 15 minutes, from personal experience i know 25-30 is better, this time I let it sit for an hour.

Then Run it under cool water and get all the cream off. Peel off the stencil and tape. Give the Mug a good wash. Let Dry, Wrap and present your gift...

Don't forget, fill with your (or dad's) favorite beverage, and ENJOY!!

Glass Etching

I decided to try my hand at glass etching! Since I went a lil nuts buying clear glass ornaments for a project, i did my first etching project on one as well. A monogramed ball for my Aunt & Uncle. I used my cricut and some vinyle to make my won stencil. The hard part was getting a flat piece of sticky vinyl to lay flat on a round ball! Patience was a HUGE help! Once I was done fighting with the vinyl, i brushed on a semi thinck layer of etching creme. The bottle said 15 minutes, I left it on for 30 minutes, and next tiem will let it ssit even longer.

After peeling off the vinyl, i just rinsed the cream off. and this is my finished result. Now this was a VERY difficult item to get a decent photograph of. This was the best I could do.