How to Create Personalized Dinner Plates
Creative gifts or personalized ones are always a nice gift for special occasions. A personalized dinner plate is a unique gift to to celebrate an upcoming birthday, wedding, baby shower or holiday.
Personalized dinner plates make great gifts: They're useful, attractive and creative. You can tailor them to recipient's tastes, color scheme and personality, and they don't have to cost you a lot of money to create.
- Difficulty:
- Moderate
Instructions
Things You'll Need
- Plain ceramic dinner plates
- Non-toxic ceramic paint
- Kiln
- Paintbrushes
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Choose your dinner plate size and shape. Many paint-your-own-pottery places offer a wide selection of dinnerware to paint. They offer round, oblong, square and sometimes triangular-shaped dinner plates for you to design and paint.
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Sketch your design onto the plate. It is up to you if you want to add a lot of design or just a few simple decorations. You can write words, draw pictures, or just make designs. Sketching the design first will help ensure the painted product comes out looking the way you want it to look, and will also help give you guidelines when painting.
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Choose your paints and decide how you want the dinner plate to look. Many pottery studios have a wide variety of colors of paint available, and some places allow you to mix your own colors, so you can have a tailored, one-of-a-kind personalized plate. Find the brushes you will need to paint your dinner plate. You may need fine brushes if you intend on having a lot of detail on the plate; wider brushes will be necessary if you want to cover a larger area.
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Paint the dinner plate as you desire to make it personal. Follow the design you sketched out on the plate for guidance. You may want to add a glossy coat of paint to give the entire plate a better shine when you are done. Ask the workers at the pottery painting place if you need a final coat, as some paints have the gloss mixed in, so you only need a single coat.
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Give the finished product to the worker at the pottery store to be fired in the kiln. The personalized dinner plate will be ready for you to pick up in a couple days.
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Tips & Warnings
Don't use paint that is not authorized for use on food service items. Other types of paints may include lead or other substances that may be poisonous to use on dinnerware. Don't paint the bottom of the dinner plate. Paint on the bottom of the plate will melt when the plate is in the kiln, causing it to stick to the kiln and possibly break.
