Monday 31 May 2010

Metallic Paint Effect

It's been a dreary Bank Holiday Monday. Ideal to just sit indoors and get messy! Out came my Viva metallic paints, paintbrush, water and paper flowers. Yes, paper flowers.
It's a technique that Glenda at Graphicus demonstrated on Create and Craft TV years ago, that I have copied once before. Today I decided to have another go.


The technique is very simple.....but very messy. Using a large paintbrush loaded with metallic paint, paint over a large paper flower as if you were trying to colour the flower to use it on a project. The 'scrap paper' beneath the flower becomes your art work to cut into smaller pieces to make cards with. I used two different size daisy flowers and two colours of paint for my playtime.
Using metallic paint really makes a picture that sparkles in the light. I'm afraid my photos don't show that effect very well, so you'll have to use your imagination - or even have a go yourself!




Four cards from the blue metallic painted paper........




.............and four from the blackberry metallic paint.

The final photo using a flash, gives an idea of how sparkly the cards are when made up. I stamped Graphicus sentiments to add to some of the cards, but I usually wait until a card is needed before stamping the appropriate words. 
The reason I got messy today? Well, I need two Father's Day Cards, and haven't got anything suitable already made. Both of the Dads like gardening and flowers, so most probably a couple of the blue ones will do the job. But I haven't decided which ones yet!

4 comments:

  1. Beautiful cards. I love that first big sentiment stamp - it's amazing!

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  2. How utterly fab..great colours, great technique and the addition of those lovely blocks of text - really it does it all for me!

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  3. metallic fun!

    these look wonderful and there is nothing better to do thank keep yourself busy when the weather is miserable! right!

    hey, i keep myself busy with art even when the weather is grand! lol

    thanks for stopping in..and to answer your quesion, i will be framing the watercolour and keeping it around the house for a while...and i might eventually sell it...but for now..on display it goes for sure!

    take care Ann...

    enjoy your monday!

    ciao bella
    creative carmelina

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  4. More fabby work. I LOVE this technique and may well have to try it out. I love messy painty work.

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