I don’t know why it’s taken me eight children to finally think of permanently etching their names on individual cups. We’ve tried everything from assigning colors of plastic cups to names on pieces of masking tape. Now the proof cannot be washed away and has to be carefully used.
Here’s the process we used to etch our names on the glass mugs. We bought mason mugs here
We used stickers to spell out everyone’s names. Obviously I am sharing the names of my children here but most of you don’t know which ones go with which child (except for the boy). We put stickers on two sides of the mug, which is why you can see the names spelled backwards.
Next we taped off a rectangle around each name.
The etching cream gets painted on where we want the glass to be etched. It won’t etch where the stickers or tape are on the glass.
The etching is left on for only about 5 minutes. It doesn’t take long at all.
Wash off the cream under running water. The etching cream is very acidic so PLEASE wear gloves. At first it won’t look like the glass has been etched. But it is!
Peel off the stickers and tape. Wash the glasses again and you are done!
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I love this idea. Thank you for such a great tutorial. Can’t wait to try it out. There are only 4 people in our family but I still have at least 20 glasses used each day!
Love this! Sounds like a great solution to our cup issues, too. I have a Julia as well, it’s a beautiful name. 🙂
I see a super fun summer project that can be made into Christmas gifts for friends and family. Awesome!
That’s a cool idea! Now I want to do it. Is etching cream expensive?
good tutorial…I’m going to mark my glass canisters this way.
That is a brilliant idea. You did a great job!
So cute! I would love for you to submit this to “Or so she says…” (and any other great ideas you want to share :))
Mariel
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I have colored cups with their names in permanat marker… but these are cuter. I’m having a hard time with the names. I can only think of them as chocolate children.
I had NO idea! Thank you for that – love when I can learn something new!
These turned out fantastic! I love the mugs with handles and may end up getting them now – thanks for the link
My hubby would love this.
SO great! I love those mugs…”confidence boost in a cup” my hubby always says. Okay– he doesn’t really say that. But I think so because they are so handle-awesome.
Fantastic! And I already have the mugs!
We’ve struggled with how many glasses we have at the end of the day, too. We’ve tried the different colors, then permanent marker names (which fade after dishwasher washings anyway).
These look great! I love the reverse etching, what a great idea to use the stickers!
I love this idea, too! I recently did glass etchings with the young women in our ward and we made it way more complicated than we had to, apparently. I love how you used the stickers! I’ll be doing this with my kids soon!
This is a beautiful thing. I hate crafts and it’s still a beautiful thing. Love it. I might even DO it!
What a great idea. I’ll have to keep this one in mind.
I LOVE this idea. We have been using colored plastic cups for years, and each has a labeled refillable water bottle that we keep in the fridge.
My kids and I are making these this week during spring break for sure!
So cool, thanks for sharing!
that is so cool!
What a great idea. I’m adding this to my list of things to make.
Oh you have to help me do some 9x13s for college or something! These are so cool!