DIY Glass Etching Gift Idea | PCC 11th Anniversary Blog Hop

Hi Crafty Friends! Welcome to the PCC Design Team Blog Hop!

From May 15th - 21st, we’re celebrating PCC’s 11th Anniversary with a HUGE Birthday Sale - 50% OFF all designs and commercial licenses! Deal of the Day is also back, featuring a different bonus deal each day of the sale. Plus, PCCRewards Members will earn 2x points throughout the sale!

This blog hop is extra special for me because it’s my very first hop here on my blog! I’ve joined several hops on Instagram before, but this is my first time participating in one on my blog, and I’m so excited to be part of it.

For today’s project, I wanted to share something a little different from my usual paper and cardstock creations. I’m a sucker for love, and my wedding day is one of the best - if not the best - days of my life so far. Anything that celebrates love instantly gets me happy. Though I have to admit, I am not a fan of the dressing up and attending wedding receptions part (an introvert here!!) But what I truly love most is the meaning behind it all.

So today, I’ll be sharing a simple little hack for creating beautiful, personalized, and meaningful gifts for weddings, anniversaries, or even wedding souvenirs! I would have loved knowing how to make this when I was DIY-ing for my wedding!

For this project, I used the Mr. And Mrs. Design from Printable Cuttable Creatables and etched it onto the glass cover of this jewelry box. What started as a plain, boring jewelry box became something personalized and extra special!

Materials Needed

• Mr. And Mrs. Design file from Printable Cuttable Creatables
• Vinyl
• Transfer tape
• Weeding tool
• Armour Etch
• Paint brush
• Rag or cloth
• Water
• Jewelry box

Instructions

1. Open Cricut Design Space.

2. Upload your Mr. And Mrs. Design.

3. Measure your jewelry box and decide what size you want the design to be.

4. Resize your design in Design Space.

5. Add a rectangle shape slightly bigger than your design. We need this extra space so the etching cream won’t spill over the edges of the stencil and onto the glass. Place the rectangle over the design.

6. Select both the rectangle and design layers. Click Slice.

7. Remove everything except the rectangle with the sliced-out design.

8. Cut the stencil on vinyl.

9. Weed the vinyl by removing the inside design pieces and leaving the rectangle stencil intact.
Transfer the vinyl onto transfer tape.

10. Clean the glass surface of the jewelry box, making sure there’s no dust or lint.

11. Attach the vinyl stencil onto the glass.

12. Remove the transfer tape carefully.

13. Apply a generous amount of etching cream, making sure the entire design area is covered and that the cream doesn’t spill outside the vinyl stencil.

14. Leave it on for 10 minutes.

15. Remove the excess cream and place it back into the etching cream jar - yes, you can reuse it! A small jar of etching cream can go a long way.

16. Since my jewelry box isn’t fully glass, I wiped away the remaining cream with a wet cloth instead of washing it.

17. Once all the cream is removed, carefully peel off the vinyl stencil. And tadaaaa! Your once plain jewelry box is now personalized and extra special!

You can use this technique on so many other glass surfaces too - mirrors, wine glasses, jars, windows, and more! Imagine all the beautiful personalized gifts and keepsakes you can create. You can also experiment with flowers, intricate borders, monograms, and other decorative elements.

I may be the last stop on the hop, but I hope you’ve enjoyed hopping along with the rest of the amazing team! Here’s a quick recap of everyone in the hop:

• Printable Cuttable Creatables
• Paula
• Dorlene
• Michi
• Ana - ME! Thanks for being here!

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From Workshops to Weeklies | Last Week in My Planner and This Week's Planner Layout

This week's Happy Planner layout is a bit more special and personal because for this week’s layout, I used some oopsies from my Bee Happy Weeklies stickers! Since I colored and made the stickers myself using one of my favorite Paige Evans stamp set, it already made the spread more special (and meaningful!) but what made it even more fitting for this week were the sunflower images.

Sunflowers were our wedding flowers, and with our 11th anniversary coming up this weekend, they were just perfect for documenting the week. That’s why I added the “Special Day” title sticker for Saturday. I also included several self-care boxes throughout the spread because the past few weeks have been nonstop between projects, Globe Gcash sessions, workshop prep, and regular life things. So those sticker boxes are little reminders to rest and recharge too.

For this spread, I also used a cute pink gingham washi from Simple Stories and the boxes and title stickers were from The Happy Planner Seasonal and Mood Tracking sticker books.

For my Life Lately updates, of course, the biggest highlight of last week was definitely my Arts and Crafts Workshop collaboration with Happy Sandscapes. I’ll be making a separate blog post dedicated to the entire experience because there’s so much I want to share, but for now, all I can say is that it was such a huge success. Seeing everyone enjoy the workshop and create together made everything worth it. The income was honestly just secondary - the experience itself was what made it so fulfilling. Working with the girls, hearing their excitement, and seeing how happy they were throughout the event was incredibly heartwarming.

For now, here are a few photos from the workshop - the before and after of the work table and of course, our group photo!

As for reading… absolutely none happened last week. Haha! Instead, I’ve been binge watching Revenge again while working on projects, preparing workshop materials, and doing chores around the house. I’m already halfway through the final season though, so hopefully I can squeeze more reading time in before the month ends.

Food-wise, we visited Bup twice last week. You already know how I am when I discover a new favorite place - we end up eating there repeatedly until the “newness” wears off. That’s exactly what happened before with Half Lemon too… though ironically, we also ate there again this weekend!

This time at Bup, I tried a single patty burger instead of a double, and I actually liked it much better. The texture worked better for me because the burger wasn’t too soft, and you could still feel the crisp edges of the patty. They’ve also installed outdoor misters now that summer is slowly creeping in. Evenings still aren’t unbearable yet, but I know the intense heat will be here soon enough.

Our second visit there was completely impromptu. We had gone out to buy last-minute workshop supplies and randomly decided to snack afterward. But despite being spontaneous, we came prepared - we bought a cup of ice before heading there because their canned sodas aren’t as cold as we like them. So yes, bringing our own ice is now part of the routine.

Most of the week’s crafting projects revolved around workshop preparations too. My Cricut has unfortunately been acting up lately whenever I do Print Then Cut, and I’m really hoping it’s just exhausted from all the heavy use this month since I’ve been juggling workshop prep, June DT projects, and market work all at once. Fingers crossed it behaves again soon because I still have so much lined up.

Saturday ended up becoming our little “successful workshop celebration” day, which basically meant I didn't need to cook. Haha! We had brunch at Half Lemon before grocery shopping, then ordered Popeyes for dinner afterward.

One of the projects I finished last week was for Bee Happy Weeklies, where the prompt was to use our favorite stamps to create stickers. Even though it was a bit last minute, I managed to finish not only the sticker sheets but also a matching reel for them and I really love how they turned out.

I also worked on another DT project using Traci Reed Designs newest collection, Milestones. I created a 5x5 three-fold folio album which I think would be perfect both for future personal use and as additional stock for future markets and sales.

This morning, I wrapped up the last seven cards for May’s Kendra’s Card Challenge. I was supposed to post for KCC today, so I really wanted to finish the set and thankfully, I did. One thing I’ve been trying to do more intentionally after our Spring Market is creating more themed cards instead of generic ones. People really do look specifically for birthday, anniversary, and occasion cards, so I want to be more deliberate about building stock with actual occasions in mind.

And I think that’s pretty much everything from last week! Though I feel like I’m forgetting something. But chores are calling, and I still want to work on June deliverables today… and maybe, hopefully, squeeze in a few projects for Paige Evans' International Scrapbook Day 2026 too.

Here's sleepy Lucky beside me while I finish this blog on the bed.