{"id":3347,"date":"2016-07-15T13:33:21","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T17:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/?p=3347"},"modified":"2016-07-15T13:40:06","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T17:40:06","slug":"using-vinyl-as-a-mask-during-salt-water-copper-etching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/using-vinyl-as-a-mask-during-salt-water-copper-etching\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Vinyl as a Mask during Salt Water Copper Etching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I posted a video a while back showing how I do my Salt Water etching on copper. I mentioned that I used a vinyl mask to protect parts of the metal that I did not want to etch. Here is a quick video on that idea. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qLJ_98EtRuI\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here is the results of one of my etching sessions before using the etched copper in any projects&#8230;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3340\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3340\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Salt-Water-Copper-Etched-2-2-532x800.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3340\" src=\"http:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Salt-Water-Copper-Etched-2-2-300x451.jpg\" alt=\"Salt Water Copper Etched\" width=\"300\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Salt-Water-Copper-Etched-2-2-300x451.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Salt-Water-Copper-Etched-2-2-400x602.jpg 400w, https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Salt-Water-Copper-Etched-2-2-532x800.jpg 532w, https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Salt-Water-Copper-Etched-2-2.jpg 1049w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3340\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Salt Water Copper Etched<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>and some other examples&#8230;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3354\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3354\" style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Copper-Etched-Vinyl-1-307x800.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3354\" src=\"http:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Copper-Etched-Vinyl-1-230x600.jpg\" alt=\"Vinyl as a Mask for Etching Copper\" width=\"230\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Copper-Etched-Vinyl-1-230x600.jpg 230w, https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Copper-Etched-Vinyl-1-400x1044.jpg 400w, https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Copper-Etched-Vinyl-1-307x800.jpg 307w, https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Copper-Etched-Vinyl-1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3354\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vinyl as a Mask for Etching Copper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted a video a while back showing how I do my Salt Water etching on copper. I mentioned that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mixed-media-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3347"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3355,"href":"https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3347\/revisions\/3355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}