Day of the Dead Sugar Skull Plate

Day of the Dead Sugar Skull Treat Plate

A Dollar Store ceramic plate is easily transformed into a colorful Day of the Dead Sugar Skull treat plate with etchall® creme and DecoArt® Americana® Multi-Surface Satin™ Acrylics.  

Materials:

etchall® Creme
etchall® Squeegee

etchall® etchnet® Reusable Stencil - Sugar Skull 

DecoArt® Americana® Multi-Surface Satin™ Acrylics - True Bue, Deep Turquoise, School Bus, Pumpkin Patch, Red Hot, Purple Iris, Turf Green

Fine paint brushes

Black ceramic plate 

Instructions: 

Place stencil on center of plate. 

Center stencil on plate

Use squeegee to apply thick layer of etchall® creme.  Let set 15 minutes.  

Apply thick layer of etchall® creme

Return creme to bottle.  Wash and dry etched plate. 

Plate after etching

Use fine paint brushes and all shades of Multi-Surface Satin acrylics to embellish etched sugar skull.   Heat set according to manufacturer instructions. 

Add details with multi-surface paints