I'm back from a road trip to Arizona where I saw many amazing sights like the Grand Canyon, the Petrified Forest and the Painted Desert. Among the many fascinating things I saw were petroglyphs. These are ancient drawings carved into the rock in many places around the world. These petroglyphs inspired the slate sign I etched here.
I received some new materials from etchall® for this blog hop and I was eager to try them out. One item was a etchall® resist gel to use with etchall® etching crème.
After studying the petroglyphs, I chose a simple sun as a motif on a slate sign. I drew my own image with a circle and rays.
Here it is drawn with pencil on the slate. You can erase whatever pencil marks that are left later.
Then, I let it dry until it was clear. Using a toothpick, I filled the ring and rays with etching crème.
After fifteen minutes, I rinsed off the etching crème. Ordinarily, I'd scrape off the etching crème and return it to the bottle, since it is re-useable. But, in this case, I used very little crème. Once the crème was rinsed off, I pulled of the resist gel.
Here's the result:
I liked the look of the primitive sun on the rough slate, but I thought it needed a little more. So, I added some smaller petroglyph motifs on both sides.
I drew the motifs with pencil, then used a toothpick dipped into the etchall® etching crème and went over the lines. After 15 minutes, I rinsed them quickly under running water.
Here's the final result of my etched slate sign:
Etched Slate Sign |
Etched Slate Sign |
Take a look at all the other designer's etched projects for this blog hop. You can find them all on the Designer Crafts Connection Blog.
love it, slate is the only thing I have not etched and now that I see this I have to get some. thanks for sharing
ReplyDeleteWOW! I didn't know you could etch slate with Etchall! I will have to try that.
ReplyDeleteThat worked great on the slate! Too cute!!
ReplyDeletecool idea!!
ReplyDeleteThat is so cool, I have a piece of slate and I want to etch it now!
ReplyDeleteSlate is a whole new surface! (To me, anyway....) Love it!
ReplyDeleteHi Terry! I didn't know you could use it on slate!!!! Wow! cool idea. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteWow! Great way to use the resist gel - great project!
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