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Hi there, for my first project of 2016, I decided to make a special wine mug for myself after a craft fail.  I had misplaced my  etchall® etching crème,  so I used the  etchall® Dip ‘n Etch  liquid to etch a name on a beer mug for my daughter, she was going to give it to her boyfriend's dad as a Christmas gift, I tried to etch only the center of the mug where the name was supposed to go, so I used a lot of masking tape to tape everything else, as you can see below.  However I didn't have enough of the  etchall® Dip ‘n Etch  liquid to cover the name, so I tried different containers and moved it around this way and that trying to only etch the area of the name, well, the name etched really good, however I guess with all the dipping I had to do, the masking tape was not strong enough to keep the etching liquid from getting onto the rest of the mug, so let's just say it didn't look good, not to be given as a gift, so I put it aside and tried it a...

I went to an estate sale last summer and they were about to end it, I just happened to be coming from Panera, I had to make a coffee run mid day.  I looked around and found a tray full of these small glass bottles, they all had a piece of masking tape on the lids, that looked very old.  There had to be about 20 jars, I asked how much for all, and well I believed I paid like $2.00 for all of them.  I figured I would be able to make fun designs on them. First step, adding the vinyl letter where you want them to be, here you can see one bottle has the word"Joy" on one side, the other two I placed letters on all sides, one spells out the word "Peace", the other "Noel", once I had all the letters placed, I added masking tape to the areas I didn't want to etch. Here you can see the glass bottle inside the plastic cup, I added the liquid after to make sure there was enough   etchall® Dip ‘n Etch liquid  without going up over the maskin...

Hi there, I've had several glass blocks at home and had wondered how to decorate them for the holidays, finally I decorated one for my office.  I decided to paint some poinsettias and add the word Noel. It was a very simple and easy project and looked so pretty right along my other etched items I made for my office. You can add lights or battery type candles inside the glass block .  I just wrapped a pretty red wired ribbon and some gold ornaments to the top of the block and it was ready for display. Materials used: etchall site  - Etchall cream, designer tip/bottle Viva Decor Glass effect paints Glass block Red wire ribbon Gold ornaments Glitter glue First thing I did was place my image on the inside of the glass block. Second, I took my designer tip and added the etchall cream on all the areas I wanted to etch., as you can see on the photo below, some of the flower petals and leaves were only traced with the etching cream, but left alone so I ca...

I made a couple of small painting of the Grinch holding a holiday ornament, I've seen this image on the Internet and decided to paint it.  I had a small mirror and decided to go ahead and paint the same image on it but I didn't want it to be shiny, I wanted a frosted look. This is the size of the mirror I used for this project I had a sheet of tiny star stickers so I removed a few stars and took the sheet and placed it over one corner of the mirror, I wanted the stars to be frosted too but I wanted a bit of the shiny mirror to remain.  The photo below shows the film I placed on a corner, I started to add the etching cream carefully making sure not to get any under the film, I wanted that area to remain shiny.  Next I took the etching cream from Etchall to cover the entire mirror and used the etchall squeegee to spread out the cream, this tiny tool is the best way to apply the cream.  I left the etching cream on the mirror for 15 minutes as directed, after ...

Hi there, with the holidays so close it's time to start making some crafty gifts.  I found some cute little glass containers that I can decorate with tiny little trees and then fill them with some fun candies or cookies to give out to family and co-workers.  I decided to do some etching on the glass containers and then add some fun glass paints, decorating the top lids and then simply filling them up with some fun candies latter on.   I wanted some fun trees, hand traced to make each one different, this bottle shows a tree on each side, as you can see on the two photos below, I used the E tchall® Designer Tip to create each little tree, following the instructions, you leave the etching cream on the glass for 15 minutes, then you can rinse the cream off under running water, dry and your glass is ready to decorate anyway you want. Here you can see a close up of the etching cream, and you can see how I made the trees.  This photo shows the etche...