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Friday, May 15, 2009

The Casserole Dish

We are going to have an enrichment meeting focused around the casserole dish!

First we will etch our names into our dishes...no more tape or markers on the bottom of OUR pans!

Supplies-

Glass
dish
Contact paper
Craft knife
Etching Cream
Gloves
Glass cleaner
Graphite paper
Stylus or pencil
Paper towel
Old paint brush

1.Create a design you want. I typed our last name in the font and font size I wanted on my computer and printed it out. I also used little clip art pictures around our name.

2. Cut a piece of contact paper at least 1″ bigger around the edges than your design. Place the contact paper on your dish where you want the design.

3. Place your printed design over the contact paper where you want it and place the graphite paper between your design and the contact paper and trace around the letters or design using a stylus or pencil. (If your contact paper is on the outside on the bottom of your dish you will want to transfer your name backwards, so when you are looking at it from the inside its not backwards. That is how I did mine.)

4. Using a craft knife cut the contact paper on the lines you traced. Once you are done remove the contact paper where you want it etched, leaving the rest on.

5. Make sure all the edges where you cut are down really good, then spray glass cleaner on a paper towel and gently clean the surface of your dish where you will be etching.

6. Put your gloves on and shake the etching cream bottle good. Using an old paint brush put the etching cream on generously where you want to etch. Let it sit for a minute, Then I take the etching cream off with my brush and put it back in the bottle, so it lasts longer.

7. Then under warm rinse the rest of the cream off and then take the contact paper off and you have your wonderful design!

THEN, we will have recipes for a breakfast dish, lunch dish, and dinner dish.

We will end with casserole sampling. The sisters in our ward signed up to bring their favorite casseroles to share. We are providing the punch and cookies.

****If you know someone who does vinyl lettering, they can make a stencil of everyone's last name! I'd of course offer to pay them, but it shouldn't be that expensive per name. I'm sure that the sisters probably wouldn't mind paying a dollar or so, for their name either. Anyway, if you find someone who does vinyl lettering, just have the print out the name in a mirror image. It works fantastic and it's so EASY! You just stick it on, then put the cream on top, clean it, and peel it off. It's beautiful!

6 comments:

The Hansen Family said...

I love this idea! Is the "craft knife" just like an exacto knife?

Caity said...

I've never heard of this. Very cool idea. I just found your blog and truly hope you keep posting enrichment meeting and activity ideas! Keep them coming!

Natalie Sue said...

Yes! We used an exacto knife. If you know someone that does vinyl lettering, it's even better!

Mandy said...

Will this not melt in the oven? At what temp can you bake it?

Natalie Sue said...

Hi Mandy - we didn't leave the vinyl lettering on the dish. We just used it as a stencil. You can make the letters in the vinyl peel off to create a stencil. Then we used the etching cream and it etched into the glass. Then you remove the vinyl and the dish is good to go! I've been using mine on various temperatures and it's held up great! I hope this helps!

Jarod and Tanya Rollins said...

Like someone mentioned vinyl lettering works great. We actually used contact paper (cheaper than vinyl) and cut out the names on my cricut. Than you use it like a stencil. Works great!