Rust Technique with Acrylic Dabbers

Painting techniques for aging and distressing your papercraft projects.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• Tim Holtz Paints
• Acrylic Dabbers
• Paper Craft

[BilliesCraftRoom]

Hi Leslie

Ohh thanks, what a great idea about the dabber tops! I have to admit I'm on a bit of an experiment with different objects to apply paint with. Different foams create different textures. Lots of painty messy play yey.

Best wishes and have fun playing

Billie

One tip, if you are putting lots of layers on, go for more substantial cardstock. Anything too thin, may fall apart during the process. ;)

[liveupstairs]

As I said before Billie you have made me realise I now need these dabbers :) Thanks for the tutorial, it has given me loads of ideas to try these out on.

Lynn

[BilliesCraftRoom]

@liveupstairs

Hi Lynn

Thanks :) so glad to hear you are going to give this a try. Would love to see your results.

Best wishes

Billie :)

[creativepzazz]

Here is a tip about getting the daubers more cheaply. You can purchase a package of the dauber tops from Ranger or a craft store. These tops fit perfectly on top of a standard acrylic craft paint bottle, which is much less expensive than the paints from Ranger, plus you get many more colors to choose from!

Thank you so much for sharing this technique! I am definitely going to try it!

Leslie

[liveupstairs]

@BilliesCraftRoom As soon as the budget allows I shall be purchasing some of these - my wish list grows ever longer :)

Best wishes

Lynn