Today's Tutorial: Painting on metal

Metal elements are hot in Scrapbooking these days and I am addicted to painting them. My current favourite technique is to paint them a nice silvery colour with some blue and green patina style accents. It's super easy.

 I like to use Distress Paint in Brushed pewter as a base coat (especially nice if your metal is too dark for your project). Then I let it dry, you can heat it with a heat too but keep it well above the metal as it will bubble and leave a bumpy texture. Next, I apply Glimmer Glaze in the colour "All That Jazz", it's nice brilliant blue and looks great over the metallic Distress paint. Finally a few drops of Glimmer Glaze in "Sea Kelp" provides a nice contrast, this colour is really dark so I usually add just a few drops and spread it with a dry brush. (Glimmer Glaze is a sticky, translucent enamelish paint, reminiscent of nail polish. Use with good ventilation.)
Here's a few examples of some I have done in the past: (click on image to it larger)

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I hope you enjoyed this little tutorial! Thanks for reading!!

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Tutorial Tuesday- the Saturday edition!
Well, it's been a while since my last entry and my tutorials have ground to a halt! All I can say is Sean has finished his practical teaching assignment for school and my work hours have finally chilled out, so without further delay here's my next video:


P.S. Since no one actually got my grammar flub on my last video (but did find a few other choice mistakes!) I will keep the giveaway of accordion flowers open for the comments on this post. By the way the lovely term I used was "Not so much great". I think I just felt my English teachers all cringe in unison.
So, leave me a comment and I might send you some of the flowers from the video and some other surprises from out-of-control scrapbook stash!
Thanks for visiting.

Tutorial Tuesday-Washi Tape Weaving

Hello all!

I'm starting a new series of tutorials on my wee blog here. I've already recorded two videos and have a few fun ideas that I can't wait to share.

The first is Washi tape weaving. Washi Tape, for the uninitiated, is a Japanese art paper tape. I have quite a few rolls that I purchased from the Paper Place in Toronto, and hardly ever use them. I recently came across a tutorial on weaving that was lovely, but completely baffled me. So I put my crafty OCD to good use and developed a new way to play with it. I them filmed a cheesy video to share with you all.

Here is a couple of cards I made with the technique. The circular card is made from the sample I did in the video.

And without further delay here's the video...enjoy!!