Diy: Drinking Glass Etched Animate Existence Ikea Mugs

I received supplies for this post from Cricut in addition to Plaid Crafts.

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DIY: Glass Etched Animal Ikea Mugs
I beloved these Ikea mugs. There's five of us inward the household unit of measurement in addition to I bought five mugs. I idea it would travel fun to monogram them or something...then I decided etching everyone's spirit brute would travel the best! I picked animals that everyone likes in addition to they turned out great!

Glass Etching is loads of fun in addition to a permanent means to customize glass. However, it's super tricky to photograph, hence delight forgive me.

I picked these five animals: Llama, Unicorn, T-Rex, Dragon in addition to Wolf.
Right click to salvage off these silhouettes if yous want. Personal job only.

Then job your Cricut Explore Air™ ii machine to cutting the shapes out of vinyl.

Weed out the within (positive space) of each animal. You postulate a stencil. Put transfer record on the give of the vinyl in addition to cutting each sort out individually, but larn out equally much infinite equally possible approximately each animal.

Peel off the backing in addition to house the vinyl on the mug where yous desire it. Then gently pare off the transfer tape.

Repeat for each mug.

Then job Martha Stewart Etching Cream. It's chocolate-brown in addition to thick. Use a paintbrush to fill upwardly the within of the icon evenly amongst the paste.

It tin demonstrate unevenness if non completely covered, hence travel real generous. This tin travel scraped dorsum into the bottle in addition to reused, hence it is non wasteful.

Let the mugs sit down for xv minutes. Then job a silicone spatula to take away close of the etching cream. It tin travel returned to the container to job i time again on some other project. Then launder off the remaining cream amongst warm, soapy water. Peel off the vinyl in addition to launder again. Then dry.