Transferring Vinyl For Etching

Etched glass vinyl step three apply transfer tape.

Transferring vinyl for etching.

Next we will use transfer tape to transfer our cut decals from the paper backing to our glass cloche. Etching a pyrex glass baking dish with etching cream is hands down one of my favorite things to make with my cricut or my silhouette cameo. 3mil calendared vinyl with the impression of etched or sandblasted glass designed for use in window and mirror graphics fine or coarse textures for a realistic impression fine pattern closest match to avery etchmark 7 year durability available in 12inch x 7 5inch and 12inch x 1. Metamark etched glass permanent adhesive.

Start by applying a piece of transfer tape to the top of the decals. Reverse weed means you re only removing the vinyl you want your etching to appear under once your vinyl is weeded cut a piece of transfer tape the size of your vinyl backing and apply it to the front of the vinyl decal. Carefully reverse weed your design. I have made and given away so many of these etched pyrex dishes as hostess gifts wedding gifts house warming gifts or just to say thanks and my friend.

Weed out the parts that you want etched and leave the vinyl on the surround. Transfer mask craft mask craft mask grid or t s transfer tape care all are dishwasher safe after a 24 hour curing process applies to. And i think it s one of the best gifts you can make with your cutting machine too. Using your scraper go over the entire decal to make sure it adheres to your.

Use transfer tape to transfer entire image and surrounding vinyl to cleaned glass. Then use your application tool to smooth the transfer tape down and attach it to the vinyl. I purchased a 12 x 24 sheet of silver etched glass vinyl so i needed to use my 12 x 24 cutting mat with it normally i like to cut full sheets of vinyl without a cutting mat but this did not want to cooperate on its own so it was my cutting mat to the rescue. Press down any bubbles especially ones that are close to the edges of the image or monogram.

Press down with fingers to ensure good adhesion everywhere. Most clean dry hard surfaces. People typically use laser printers and transfer the toner from glossy photo paper or they use uv lights and images of their circuit printed onto transparencies to develop a phot. It s rather unheard of using adhesives like vinyl as an etch resist.

Styletech coloured etched glass permanent adhesive. Printable permanent adhesive vinyl. Get the etched look without the mess.