Happy Friday, House of Shine! Cheryl here.
Do you remember two weeks back when I purchased the huge straws for Claudia and decided that House of Shine needed it's own Shine Shake?
And do you remember the picture on the bag of the happy glass?
From that bag I was set on etching Ray into a glass for Shine Shakes. Here's how it went:
I purchased the etching cream from Hobby Lobby, bought the contact paper from Walmart, and dug into my supplies for a Sharpie, Xacto blade, paint brush and cutting board. I drew Ray onto the contact paper.
And then carefully cut out the image that I wanted to be etched onto the glass.
Getting the contact paper onto the glass was no small task but I decided to be Relentlessly Passionate about it and keep trying. No images were taken of that. Sorry. But here's the glass with the etching cream on it.
I actually washed the cream off and decided that it wasn't good enough so painted some more on and left it for a long time. Long time.
Not feeling exactly like I was succeeding at this project I decided to free hand the rest of the glasses. This is kind of like painting pottery at Sunshine Glaze. You want lots of coats. And, you want to leave it on for a long time. Below are some of the other glasses I tried.
Ray's glass wasn't a complete failure. See- he's cute, right?
I might mention he completely disappears when you put Shine Shake in the glass. If you have one of those Silhouette vinyl cutters, I hear they're really easy to use on stuff like this. It would save on the cutting out of pieces.
Maybe they're not perfect but I think they're pretty darn cute. And completely personalized with whatever you want on them. I think they would be fun to have words on them. Maybe your initials. Maybe your 5 year old (or 16, or 18) year old could freehand some of their genius on a glass and it be completely special.
What would you want etched on your glass? And, do you have any etching tips?
Shining off until Monday and the Yellow Envelope Project...