I was too excited to stop my project and run and get a top coat. I realized after I had started to tape off my faucet that I didn’t have a primer. The steel wool and/or sandpaper will roughen the surface so the paint has something to stick to. Make sure to clean the surface you will paint and rub it down with steel wool or 220-grit sandpaper. To begin, you will want to prep your faucet and/or fixtures. I used Rust0leum’s Painter’s Touch Ultra Cover paint in Metallic oil rubbed bronze, and this bathroom project barely put a dent in the can. Unfortunately, we didn’t have the budget to replace the faucets, so I decided it was worth a try to paint them… The name of her business is Memories Artwork.Have you ever wondered if you can paint a faucet? Our house was built in the ’90s. Her portfolio consists of over 500 designed layouts and she was hired to design an album that was given to his Holiness the Pope in 2005 on his visit to Cologne, Germany.
#PAINTING A HUGE TIME SINK PROFESSIONAL#
Schimmel is a Professional Scrapbook Designer who designs custom and premade scrapbooks, cards, frames and teaches scrapbooking courses in Germany. A little word play? Go for it! You will love it, I promise!
There are so many more.īe creative, be daring and don’t be afraid to dabble here or there. So, you can see how many ways there are to use acrylic paint for scrapbooking projects, although these are only a few techniques. You would be surprised what a difference it makes! If you’re using a scrapbooking frame for your layout, paint or stamp it to match the layout. To create special titles for your layout, you can use paint with stencils, but make sure you temporarily adhere the stencil to the page before you start to prevent it from moving around. You first can stamp the paint directly onto the layout and when it’s dried adhere a piece of transparency on top of the first stamped image and stamp a new coat of paint slightly off to one side of the original stamp to give it a popping out effect. You can also use the acrylic paint with a sponge or a stamp to make patterned cardstock from plain cardstock.Īcrylic paint also works well on transparencies and has a great 3-D effect, especially if you’re using a stamp with the paint. That will neutralize the original color of the cardstock, so you can just paint over it for a new color of cardstock. What you can do is paint a base coat of white gesso for priming. You’ve just created your very own special embellishment! How cool is that?!ĭo you have any cardstock you never use, because you don’t like the color or you can’t find anything to match it with? Paint them over with acrylic paint and then cover with gloss. You don’t like the color of your brads, tags or buttons? Instead of using ink for stamping, take a foam brush, dab into your favorite color of paint and brush a thin layer onto the stamp you want to use, press onto your layout. It makes a very special and romantic type of frame with pastels and very pop art using bright colors. 2 cm in width), dab a little paint onto the tip of the brush and paint along the edges of the photo (yes, on the photo) and onto the cardstock itself with just one or two strokes along each side to give it a vintage or rummage look. Adhere the photo on the layout where it’s going to remain (so make sure that is where you want it), then take a medium sized dry brush (approx.
#PAINTING A HUGE TIME SINK HOW TO#
There are so many possibilities and here I will describe a few for you:ĭon’t know just how to accent your photo in a subtle manner?įrame it with acrylic paint in the color of your choice. The colors are just wonderful! This type of paint can be used with dry brushes, foam stamps or foam brushes and sponges, and as a base or for decoration. You really can use most water-based brands, but I love the kind that Making Memories offers. One of my favourite accents is acrylic paint. There are such a variety of accents that can be used in any type of scrapbooking project. In this project, learn how you can use acrylic paints in your scrapbooking projects. Acrylic paint is wonderful, because it is acid-free, dries very quickly, it's water-based, and when used undiluted, has a great opacity so you don't need much to cover things up with (even mistakes).
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