How to Decorate Glass Blocks with Vinyl: Cute Night Light!!

Learn how to decorate glass blocks with vinyl to make unique and cute night lights.

My new favorite project to do is decorating glass blocks.  They are so easy and make the perfect birthday, graduation, baby, wedding, anniversary, retirement, etc gifts!

Since you will be making it yourself, it will be totally unique and friends and family love gifts from the heart.  They make perfect cute night lights too!

Enter this cute night light that serves a dual purpose.  Telling my little one how much I love him as he falls asleep and provide some light in case he wakes up. This would make a great homemade baby gift too!

This is a quick and inexpensive project especially since I have a FREE SVG cut file for you!

Materials Needed for Cute Night Lights

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• glass craft blocks – I ended up scoring a bunch of these blocks at Lowe’s right before Christmas when they had their seasonal items 75% off so I got them for $2.50!!  Woo Hoo!  You can find them at any craft store though and use a coupon!
• Cricut cutting machine (I’m using a Cricut Explore Air 2)– always check prices between Cricut.com and Amazon (click links to compare prices!)
• Frosted spray paint
• Clear Enamel
• Adhesive Vinyl – I use Oracal 651 or Cricut Permanent Vinyl
• Transfer paper
• Fairy lights battery operated or lights that plug in (optional)
• Ribbon for bow (optional)
• FREE cut file – click here to download SVG or here for PNG   As with all my files, these are for personal use only.  If you would like to purchase a commercial use license, click here. 

For Valentine’s day, I used the same method below to decorate a glass block with vinyl for my hubby using these free SVG files for Cricut.  If you love free files, make sure to browse all my free SVG files.

I have a full step by step video tutorial for you below and printable directions at the bottom, so make sure to check them both out.

As I said, this is a quick and easy project.  Great for Cricut beginners!  For more Cricut inspiration, browse my ultimate resource of Cricut ideas.

How to Frost a Glass Block

I like to frost a glass block so that the lights are diffuse.  So, the first thing you’ll want to do is spray paint a glass block with frosted spray paint.  This can be found at Home Depot or Walmart or Amazon (listed above).

I love using this turntable when spray painting anything.  It really helps with making glitter tumblers!

Spray from about a foot away and side to side motion until it is fully covered.  I kept the video in live time to show you how long frosting a glass block actually took me.

Let the paint fully dry then spray two light coats of enamel on.  This prevents the frosted paint from coming off when you apply the vinyl with transfer tape.  I learned the hard way!

How to Decorate Glass Blocks with Vinyl

While everything is drying, download the SVG file from above and upload it into Cricut Design Space.  If you need help with this step, you can find step by step instructions and watch my Cricut tutorial here.

Cut out the file on adhesive vinyl and weed off the extra.

Applying Vinyl to Glass Video

Place transfer tape on the vinyl and scrape it down.  Place the pieces on top of your dry block and center them.

Apply a piece of blue painter’s tape to the top or bottom of the wording piece.  Flip it over and peel off the backing.  Gently smooth it back down.  All of this is much easier to understand when you watch the video below!

Insert fairy lights into the bottom.

Embellish with a bow if you want and you’re done!

Here it is with the lights on.

And here are your printable instructions.

If you’d like to save this tutorial for later, hover over the top left of the image below and PIN IT now.

Thank you so much for stopping by!  Please let me know if you have any questions.

Have a creative day!