 of things new I know wow so not only am I recording this video with my HD webcam just to try it and see if I can honestly there's no particular reason to do it or not I just was experimenting but I also got two new stencil designs in for the May release and I got my prototypes in and we need to try them and we need to experiment with them so I figured while we were doing that we would go ahead and play with making some more melted metallic paste because you know since I came up with this DIY recipe I've had a lot of questions about it and I'm having a lot of fun making it to be really honest so we are gonna do that and I'm going to get an offset palette knife this one will work and I am going to do this one first so this is the first of the new stencils it is obviously a citrus design inspired by not oranges as some a lot of people look at and go oh oranges I'm actually I was cutting up some lemons one day to put in my tea which I occasionally like to do if I put anything in my tea and I thought that would make a great doodle that's how that came about so this is the first one that we're going to try which I'm excited and of course I want to try it in orange so I have some PBO orange what is this iridescent orange yellow metallic paint I've got this whole big bin of metallic paint on the right desk I've got to use some of it so we're going to squeeze some of this out hopefully it's not too old nope we're going to add some orange glitter this is fire opal Martha Stewart glitter okay and then I have some Lindy's Magicals in marigold yellow orange this is just a coffee stirrer from Starbucks and we'll put a you know about that much however much that much is I don't know no idea okay and then we will stir that up with some extra heavy gel medium I like the extra heavy because it's really thick and dimensional it also is a great glue when you're putting heavy things on your R journal page so it's usually my choice of gel medium to have laying around and the gel medium is about one to one to the paint and then just you know a dab of the other two things you just want to add some more metallic or iridescence to the paint and the gel medium mixture so that when it dries you really get something that looks like melted metal you could add iridescent medium to it that would also make it more anything that will make it more sparkly and a little bit of this really goes a long way I don't think it would really keep very long if you put it in a little container so I would just mix it as needed so look at that color isn't that pretty it's already so pretty alright so let's see how the new stencil works got some deli paper we're gonna lay it on here scoop up some of our melted metal and scrape it through the stencil and once you do this let it dry completely and then you have an interesting piece of collage paper and or collage elements to add to your art journals you do want to wash your stencils right away this will clog up your stencils if you let it dry on there that being said if you don't quite get them into the water right away let them soak in a wash bin or tub with a little bit of water and a whole bunch of Murphy's oil soap and just let them soak in there and that should get paint and whatever else is stuck to your stencils off I'm just going around making sure I've got all the holes filled in and then I'm gonna lift and I will probably tear these apart individually so these little edge blobs I'm not worried about I'm gonna take the stencil again and I'm going to just scrape up you know the rest of this paint I won't probably get even one more completed shape but that's okay I just want to use it all up I might get one more I have hooks above my desk so when this is done and I might have just smudged that one when I'm done I will hang it up above my desk and just let it dry this won't drip it's too thick okay love it all right so we're gonna hang this one up and let it dry I'm gonna put all of this over here so I can take it out to the garage and wash it when we're done make sure the lids on that get out another piece of paper and my other mixing plate okay we'll need another palette right so the other stencil that we have is this one this is a feather design these are all six by six stencils they're intended for and developed for art journaling specifically and I love the six by six size it's my favorite so that's why they're six by six so we're gonna try this one on some deli paper and I thought that we would try making up some pink melted metal paste this is iridescent violet blue PBO paint and then we have some cyclamen colored sparkle and sprinkle glitter I have this thing of glitter underneath my desk some of which I've had for a long time because I used to do wholesale buying and was in a craft crafters cooperative shop so a lot of things of glitter some of this that sparkle and sprinkle I think is from there and then this is more purple but I thought it would be fun to add this is a Lindy's magical this is in magenta it at least looks kind of purple in the in the container but so worse it could happen I would keep your colors sort of whatever your paint color you're using keep it in sort of that family and not veer too much from that so like in the pink one I wouldn't add like green I think that would be weird and you probably will get something that's a little muddy so give it a good mix make sure you get it well mixed and that you get all the lumps out and you get everything well blended and these PBO metallics are already in iridescent so adding that violet to here should just emphasize that and that's that looks like it's exactly what it's doing when these dry down they dry down and look even more like melted metal and if possible are even more sparkly or shiny so I think you're gonna love it all right and if I can I will stick a couple of stills at the end of this video of the pieces when they're dry I'll try to put a couple of close-up shots all right so here's our feather stencil and I figured I had to try these anyway these prototypes and make sure they the designs were going to work the way I wanted and there wasn't going to be any issues with them before I order stock so I thought well you know what what better way to do that than to do some of this metal melted metal paste and give it a try now this feather one might be a little challenging to do the scraping with because you this centerpiece lifts up so you do want to you know use a gentle hand out if we messed it up or not nope well the first one I did but that's okay so you kind of have to go when you're painting with it it's not a big deal but when you're dragging up a brush across this one it is kind of a deal not a brush what is this palette knife and this also isn't my favorite palette knife so it's just the one I grabbed that's probably part of the issue this one's definitely more challenging let's try a little bit different way I have an idea so this is a old gift card instead of a palette knife I'm gonna scrape off the palette knife and set it aside and you can see when you look at the stencil there's these parts that are loose here which is what I'm talking about so if you did it this way yeah that's easier okay so this is with a gift card so that feather goes that way this feather goes this way it's also less swipes look at that this feather goes this way I mean but it's gonna be a cleaner print yep that is a cleaner print and again I'm looking for something that I can pull the little feathers out like tear them apart and use them as collage I'm not too worried about these blobs at the end if you are you probably want to mask off your stencil in case you're messy like me if you're messy like me and you don't want that on there you want to probably be more careful than I'm being there we go that's a lot of fun so these are the two different designs that are coming out for me go ahead and look into my Etsy shop and look around and see about maybe purchasing a couple of them for your collection of art materials if I can right here I will post pictures at the end of the video of these when they're dry close-up shots of the metal and a couple of the other sheets and the other designs that I've done I'll post some close-up shots stills our video at the end so that's it for today please like share and subscribe support my channel if you can of course by shopping in the Etsy shop if you want to join one of my Facebook groups send me happy mail send me an email anything like that all the information for how to do that's in the video description of course leave a comment if you have a question comment or concern because I will answer you right away and the most important thing go out and have a great day do something nice for yourself because you deserve it like make some metal paste all right that's it I'll talk to you later bye guys here is a close-up kind of good view of the melted metal pastes that I've been playing with over the last few videos and what they look like when they're dry I mean just look at that and because I've used the golden gel medium extra heavy medium they're still flexible so some of the modeling paste will dry hard when they dry they'll be dimensional but hard and gel medium generally stays pretty flexible so you can really collage it on a number of things here are here's the pink color which is just I mean look at that look at that and here look at this orange one that's just gorgeous I mean look at that so I can't wait to use them in a journal page I hope you find this as much fun as I do and go out and have a great day