Glass Etching 101: Transform Any Glass Into A Great Gift!

1. Intro To Glass Etching: Hello, everyone. Welcome to glass etching 101 My name is 80 Perkins and I am the creator of Acne. Does what dot com, the D I Y and lifestyle block. In this class, you will learn the proper techniques off how to use glass action solution. You will also learn having carbon create your own custom stencils. And third, you will get some gift sizes and tricks and projects that she can use to get the most out of your new hobby. Now let's get started. But wait, there's more. By the end of our class, you will have your own custom edged Weinglass whiskey glass, champagne, glass, mason jar, whatever. You'll have all the tools and skills you need to customize anything. Now let's get started. 2. Materials: Let's talk supplies. It is really straightforward. You need a glass action cream, a brush and a stencil of some sort. Other chills you could use to create your own design is tape and contact paper. With painter's tape or masking tape or Scotch tape, you can take around your glass and mask off areas to create a nice gym. Metric five. Bernie Anthropology Like with contact paper. That's what we're gonna be using today. You can take a design, tape it on to the contact paper, use an Exacto knife and carve it out. Once you car about your design, you will adhere it to the glass. Smooth out all the bubbles that you use, your etching solution and voila! This is the best way to have your very own custom stencil. 3. How To Use Tape To Create Designs: you want to make sure that your glasses clean, you can use soap and water or rubbing alcohol and a cotton swab after another dry. You can start designing the first month I want to show you is using tape. You can take normal blue painter's tape not off the peace or rip it off. And you can just place the tape on the glass to mask off the areas you do not want. Etch, because anything that is exposed will be etched. The great thing about tape is that it is very accessible. You could find blue Painter's tape anywhere your local hardware store. You can create nice geometric patterns and designs with it. You want to make sure that your tape is completely flat because if it isn't, it increases the chances of etching cream leaking underneath it and they'll mess of your design and you do not want that so this part would be edged and this part would be edged, and these would be nice and clear. You can let your imagination run wild and get some real funky geometric going on here, just adding on additional tape. But it's all up to you. This is just one method to do all of this. Now go on to the next method 4. How To Use A Stencil To Create Designs: the next month that would like to discuss is pencilling. There are various types of stencils, but these are the type of stencils that do not have adhesive attached to it. What do you want to do in that case, is either use spray adhesive, blue painter's tape or central taped to it. Here, your stencil onto your glass, I will say, with a wine glass like this, I recommend smaller stencils or using a stencil like this on a larger glass, think mirrors or other glass panes. 5. How To Create Designs Using A Cricut Machine Cricut: For those of you who having electronic cutters, you could do this using STG file. 6. Where To Get Images For Glass Etching: Now, this is the part that you guys have all been waiting for, creating your own custom stencil. What I like to you do is prince out a image that I would like to use, preferably an SPG file or a silhouette. That way, you know that you will have a complete solid form. That's the best way to cut it. The best way to do all of it. 7. How To Create and Apply A Custom Stencil: creating my own custom stencil is by far my favorite way to etch glass. First, what you want to do is find an image that you would like to etch. You want to make sure it's a solid. It's possible. Anything that is right will be clear. Anything that is black will be etched. So in this case, this part will be clear and this part will be etched. I already cut a four by four square of clear contact paper. You can use other tax of contact paper, but I think clears the best. Now that I have my image, I'm going to take it on to my contact paper. Please know if you're using any image that has letters or numbers. You want to make sure you printed out using mirror image. Otherwise, you're gonna have a backwards glass. No one wants a backwards class. You just want to make sure that image is on the contact paper. What? Do you have your image on your contact paper? You're going to start using your exactly nice some exactly knife tips. You want to hold your Exacto knife like how you would a pen right here at the grip If you feel as if you're exactly blade is to lose, you can tighten it right here with your exact tonight. You want to cut at a 45 degree angle. If it is too high, you won't have enough leverage to cut through your contact paper. If it's too low, you won't have enough leverage to cut through your contact network. So now we're gonna just begin to cut. You want to apply pressure so it goes through both the Prince of Paper, the liner of the contact paper and the vinyl of the concept paper Lieutenant Armed A. But for your wrist, I recommend doing small cuts. When you're going around curves and edges periodically, you want to check the back of your contact paper just to make sure you're cutting through it. Peel the contact paper off. This adhesive is what will become your stencil. Take your glass. You're going to just I like to work from one side, so the other you want to position it, how you like on your glass and lay it down as flat as possible. Robot. All of those bubbles. Let's say you have a real stubborn part that is not laying down. You can use your Exacto knife to cut your image and reposition it. For this design, the slice overlapped, but if you had a gap you can use take to cover it. 8. How To Apply and Remove Etching Solution glass (Final project): Now it's time to fetch going to take your edge in solution and your phone brush. You just get good amount. Trust me. This isn't that attractive looking, but it'll be beautiful in the end. You want to just dab it on your glass, Tabb, and you smooth it out. You don't want to brush it because that increases the chances of that you cream leaking underneath your stencil. You want to get a nice, thick coat of it on, kind of just scolded around like this. You're going to let this sit for 15 minutes, and then after that, you are going to completely rinse off your action cream pill your stencil, rinse again, then dry. 9. Glass Etching Gift ideas: What I love about this crap is that it is so easy to do and it makes a fantastic gift. You could edge wine glasses, wine bottles, even mirrors. Something I personally love is to get spice jars from Amazon and etched the seasoning onto the glass. Instant organization, Instant chic. 10. Thank You!: you have just completed glass etching 101 I want to thank you all for coming and please connect with me because I want to see all the projects you're working on with your new hobby. And until then, don't forget life is better when you do it yourself by.