Etched Pint Mason Jar Mugs

 These are my first attempts at sandblasting on glass using outdoor grade vinyl as a stencil.

I used Make The Cut software and my Cameo to cut the stencils.  The font is Alako-Bold.

 Deer clip art image. Traced and cut with MTC.

 Another deer clip art image.

 The font is Antigoni.

Front of jar

 This jar is etched both front and back.  The font is Alako-Bold.  I used the Oklahoma image from the 50 States Cricut cartridge.

Back of Country Girl jar

 Another deer head clip art image.

 Antigoni font with an etched oval.

 The crown was a free SVG file; the font is Alako-bold.

Front of OU mug

Back of OU mug

Front of OSU mug

Back of OSU mug

Design on back of ECU and Ada mug

 The ECU and ADA mugs are etched on both sides.

I used Yearbook Solid font for the Ada and ECU mugs along with a clip art paw print.

My New Hobby

I've been decorating some glass items with vinyl and in the past I have used etching cream on glass.  Lately, I've been seeing a lot of things online about sandblasting or air erasing on glass and decided I wanted to give it a try.

DH and I went to Tractor Supply today and purchased this sand blasting cabinet.

Then I called my sister, who recycles everything she can, and asked for some of her glass jars to experiment on.   This is my very first project.  Woo-hoo!  My name etched on a pickle jar!  LOL!

You can see that I didn't get it blasted uniformly.  Silhouette vinyl was used for the stencil and the grit pretty much chewed it up so the edges of the design aren't perfectly smooth.  We had to play with the air pressure a bit and finally settled on 50 psi.  I did a few more pickle jars and a couple of empty wine bottles and decided it was time to do a "real" project.

I chose a heavy beer stein and put the Browning deer logo on it.  This time I used Oracal 651vinyl for the stencil.  It has more adhesive than the Silhouette vinyl so the grit didn't get underneath the small pieces of the design.

This one turned out really nicely so now I have a new hobby to take up my time!  Shirley, aka Okieladybug, and I are doing a craft show in December so I'm going to get busy etching items for our booth.

Christmas Gift - Glass Etched Mugs

This was my project this evening.  I have two of the sweetest great-nephews so I made these mugs for them.  They're going into a goodie basket with some flavored hot chocolate mixes and some cash.  Both boys are old enough that they will appreciate having some extra spending money but I didn't want to just give them cash or another gift card this year.

I found the mugs at Walmart and used Armor Etch to put their initials on the side.  Not very complicated at all.

The light on my work table made the glare beside the letters.  I tried several different alphabets before realizing the Pooh Font would work best.  Dealing with the curvature on the side of the mug was a little problem with some of the other fonts I tried.