Glass Etched Lamp

A quick guide to how i etched the glass on a lamp to give to my mum on mothers day

NOTE:
There are tonnes of how-to guides for glass etching that i am sure are much more informative than mine. This is simply me sharing some of my passtimes with others in the hope that somebody thinks "sod it, i'l have a go"

What i used:
Lamp
Armour etch cream
glass etching stencils
paintbrush
lollipop stick
sponge

(bags and tape to cover wires etc)

This can be whatever you want, i chose this lamp as i found it while out shopping and its the kind of thing my mum likes so it was an excuse to dig out the old etching cream.

I had to remove the lampshade and tape plastic bags over the braid and the actual light fitting (as i would be wetting it later)

I ordered some glass etching stencils off ebay, some were cheap one use ones, some were slightly more expensive but re-useable.

to apply the single use ones just peel the clear film off the back, then place onto your glass surface.
There is a second clear film layer on the front that you have to seperate from the blue stencil by scraping accross the surface. For this i used a lollipop stick as it came with the stencils.

Pic 2 shows what it looks like as the clear film starts to lift off the blue stencil.

I used a thin paint brush for this so i could get an even coverage and be able to spread it around easilly.

As i was doing more than 1 stencil i applied the etch cream as quick as possible so there wasnt areas that had been covered for too long.

Now, the packaging for the etch cream reccomended that i keep it on for a minute, but on my test piece it didnt etch it as well as id hoped and you had to look close to see it.

This time i left it for 2 minutes, whats the worst that could happen, buy a new lamp..?

(try not to get it on your hands, it wont kill you but i dont think it will do much good for your skin)

Be sure to wash it off every part of the glass, and then scrape the remainders of the blue stencils off (without scratching your glass)

Its hard to capture the finished look on a camera phone, but i did my best
Im sure my mother will like it, either that or she will lie to me and say she likes it.

thanks for looking :)