Etch-a-Monogram

Steps:

1. Clean a clear glass plate thoroughly.

2. Apply clear shelf paper to the back side of the plate center, where the design will go.

3. Prepare your design or image by blowing it up to the correct size to fit the center of the plate. Cut out the design.

4. Place the design on the back side of the plate, with the front facing through the top of the plate.

5. Hold the plate up to the light and trace through the design that so you get the image in reverse.

6. Center the traced, reverse image on the back of the plate. Tape it down at the edge in one spot.

7. Lift the image and slide a piece of carbon paper underneath the image and trace the image onto the plate through the carbon paper.

8. Proceed as in the project above — cutting out the image with a stencil knife, spreading on the etching cream, letting it dry, rinsing the plate off, and removing the shelf paper.