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I am happy to post another etching project that Cynthia Gladis-Johnson shared with us! You can find her other DIY candle holder project here. Making DIY decorative glass block crafts are a growing idea to personalize, and etching them is one of the best ways to accomplish this. This time she etched them with Winnie
I’ve seen homemade DIY candle holders before, but this latest submission from the form by Cynthia Gladis-Johnson is my favorite! Why you might ask? Because it integrates the combination of a beautifully stained wood holder/stand, an etched glass insert and the idea of using markers to add some color– love it! You could even try
Hello all — it has been a while since I posted, and I am trying to find the time to get back into things. To start it up again, Rex Linder shared this sandblasted wine glass. I wanted to point out the interesting idea he used by etching the stem of the glass. This reminded
Omar Alvarez shared his multi-etched tempered glass which is lit up with an homemade LED frame through the submission form. As you may know, I enjoy lighting up sandblasted glass, especially items that are carved deep. This submission brings up another topic too, because it was sandcarved into tempered glass which is known to break
I am happy to share Tracy Bird’s etched bride & groom champagne flutes and creative wine glass designs that came in from the submission form to be featured. I really liked how she used different font sizes/types of this etched wedding gift and the stem design. These simply have each others names, whether bride or
Ross Wease seems to do a large variety of etchings and sandcarvings! He submitted these sandblasted wood, glass & stone signs in a past submission and now has shared some very large stones that were sandcarved for signs on site! Some stones weight thousands of pounds which would not be ideal to haul around. Large
This featured etching was submitted to us by Brenda Weston. Not only is her theme cool with a Star Wars etched glass, but it is also interesting that she mixed her stained glass hobby in her work. Brenda placed a stained glass border pattern around her etched glass centerpiece. I thought that was a great
Here is the latest featured submission to the blog by Diane Lee. She sent in these great pictures of various designs all hand engraved with a diamond scribe tools on mugs and vases. These look so fun! She also provided the below which talks about: what type of patterns she recommends how to hand engrave
If you like glass engraving/etching and antique art that was accomplished in the past history, you will like this post. Randy S. emailed me these pictures to get my opinion on how the design was created into a mirror inside a similar 1910-ish horse drawn Gypsy Wagon that he is restoring. And we need your
Jean Anderson sent over these glass projects of her micro-motor engraved shadings. These are excellent and we don’t really talk much about rotary engraving, so this is a great post! I get questions about how to do shading with a rotary engraver and Jean shares some details on what she uses below. Here are some
I am happy to post about Glenn Kelley. He is sharing a few samples of his sculpted etchings known as sandcarvings which were done on acrylic glass and provides his story on how he got into business doing this. That is always interesting to hear! He shared the below: We started sandcarving items as Christmas
