Mermaid Toothbrush Holder
 
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A beautiful mermaid swims over her underwater landscape as rhinestone bubbles trail behind her on a mirrored toothbrush holder.
This piece is an nice addition to our Under The Sea bathroom vanity series.
Materials: #15-0200 Armour Etch Glass Etching Cream #21-1658 Over N Over Under the Sea stencil #08-9606 Brushes #08-9999 Gloves #08-9415 Masking tape #15-0315 Commercial quality glass cleaner #61-3381 3 mm Hot fix crystal rhinestones #61-3370 Hot Fix Setting Wand #61-3385 4 mm Hot fix crystal rhinestones Mirrored or glass toothbrush holder Paper towels Directions: 1. Clean the side of the toothbrush holder with glass cleaner and a paper towel 2. Apply the ocean floor border across the bottom of the holder. If the border is too long, postion the part of the design across the front and wrap the extra around to the sides. Make sure it is wrapped securely against the glass at the bend, check for any parts that are poping up and smooth them down. Cover the sides with masking tape. 3. Postion the mermaid stencil horizontally across the middle of the holder as shown, tilted up slightly, so she looks like a person would look when swimming. 4 .Surround stencils with masking tape, overlapping all edges, cover entire side of the glass, cover all gaps and open spaces in the surrounding area to be etched 5. Put on the rubber gloves. Load the brush with Armour Glass Etching cream. PAT the etch cream onto the stencils (do not brush it on) until each is thoroughly covered with a 1/4 inch of cream. View the directions and How To Videos HERE. 6. Leave cream on for 5 minutes 7. Rinse off all of the etching cream under running water. Remove stencils and rinse again. Pat the stencil dry and return to the carrier sheet. Dry holder well 8. Heat up the Hot fix setting wand according to the package directions. Apply a string of 3 mm crystals in an arch behind the mermaids tail to simulate the motion of water moving when she swishes her tail swimming. Apply a random assortment of the two sizes of crystals behind the mermaids head floating upward to make the chain of air bubbles. Apply a few crystals of different sizes in amongst the coral and shells across the bottom too. See picture for postioning of all the crystals |
