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Etching Cookie Plates - Christmas Gifts For The Neighbors

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Etched Cookie Plates for Our Neighbors The Cliff Note Version: 1. I use Armor Etch Etching Cream, for about 15 minutes. 2. Cricut vinyl - 631 vinyl - worked best for my stencils 3. Plates were $2 each at Big Lots 4. Split Monograms were free from Cayuda Designs 5. Don't forget to mirror!!     This is one of those projects that I started at 7am, thought I'd be done by 10am, and actually completed around 7pm.  But once I got the process down, it really went fast.   First I tried to use contact paper from the Dollar Tree as my stencil.  But it was too thin, and too clear to weed.  Then I tried 651, but I got part of it stuck onto a plate before I was ready and it was super hard to remove (even though it takes days to fully cure and be permanent).  Then I tried cardstock - but that's a pain, because the centers of my letters do not adhere, they move around.... and I tried the acetate that I bought for the acetate christmas ornaments (I had bought...