How to Decorate Wedding Cake Champagne Flutes
Decorating and personalizing your own wedding cake champagne flutes ensures you get the design you want. Etching your wedding flutes yourself may save you money, while giving you the chance to leave your mark on future treasured keepsakes. You can etch any design, symbol or phrase that you desire without paying high custom prices. You can even add decorations around the stem to coordinate with the colors or other elements of your wedding theme.
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Things You'll Need
- 2 champagne flutes
- Soap
- Clean cloth
- Vinyl resist material with adhesive backing
- Spatula
- Stencil
- Marker
- Sharp craft knife or scalpel
- Glass etching cream
- Hot glue gun
- Beads, crystals or silk flowers
Instructions
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Etching the Glass
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Clean your champagne flutes with warm water and dish soap then and them with a soft, clean cloth. Apply the vinyl resist material directly onto the glass and smooth the material using a flat item, such as a spatula, to eliminate air bubbles.
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Use a stencil to draw your desired shape, such as your new monograms, entwined hearts, wedding bands, seashells or any other shape that moves you and complements your wedding theme. You can also write your names, wedding date or draw your design by hand.
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Cut your design out using your craft knife or scalpel. Be careful so you don't cut through to the glass. Peel away the vinyl you've cut out, leaving your design exposed. If it doesn't look the way you want, take the vinyl off and start over.
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Spread the etching cream generously over the design cut-out, creating a thick coat of cream. Leave the cream on the glass for the amount of time recommended by the manufacturer, which will be between two and ten minutes.
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Wash the cream off the champagne flutes, then remove the vinyl. Wash the glasses with warm water and soap. You'll be left with a cloudy-looking indentation of your design.
Extra Embellishments
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Determine what sort of embellishments you'd like to add to the stem of your flute. Choose a string of glass beads, crystal hearts, silk ivy or a single silk stem.
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Wrap your decorative item around the stem of your champagne flutes until you are happy with the results.
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Secure the ornamentation with hot glue, then readjust it the way you want it. Place the flutes in a secure location until the wedding day.
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Tips & Warnings
Practice your design on a flat piece of glass or a small mirror before attempting it on the curved glass.
Do not wash your flutes in the dishwasher; it can discolor your design.
