 Hey guys, how are you today? So I just have another idea for making acrylic skins This one that I did the other day is nail polish I Know right. I know I'm crazy. I know and but it's so pretty. So this is a old non-stick craft sheet. I have that's Obviously well-loved and a bit past it. It's inside of a cookie sheet and Literally what I did is I took some nail polishes that I have here in the craft room specifically for doing this kind of thing with They're mostly from the dollar store and things like that. I literally poured them out on here and then I Move them around while they were wet with a toothpick and let it dry. I covered the whole thing with Collage paws you could use Elmer's glue Mod Podge whatever you have a pretty thick coat Let that dry completely. You can still tell this is not completely dry. It's been there's just so much thickness here Plus you've got this nail polish Which is very chemically, you know, I Want to say acetone base, but that's not the right word. It's not the right chemical and it probably doesn't mix well with the Elmer's glue. I will tell you that I tried something else before this and it really really didn't work In fact, I had the lift off The craziness that came up from that with ended up with lifting it off with packing tape I used Like an acrylic varnish and it is finally dry and I got I did get this interesting pattern Which I can use as a skin or as an element of collage and artwork But it took forever to dry and there was some sort of weird chemical reaction between the nail polish and the acrylic Varnish, but I did get it to dry. I didn't get it to lift Then next time I used the collage polish and I worked much better. So then I had the idea okay What if I tried this with an acrylic pour and made a skin that would be really interesting if I could do that and You would get those interesting. Hopefully cells and and textures. So we're going to zoom out a little bit I'm going to mix up some paint and we're going to do an acrylic pour on here Hopefully I don't make too much to have it spill underneath because that's a bad thing and We're going to let it dry for a couple days and we'll come back and see what it looks like that would be a fun acrylic skin All right, I'll be back. Let me get my stuff together So We're going to just set this empty one aside for a minute I have two colors of metallic paint here and this is just a little bit of paint poured out in these little containers I'm going to add some pouring medium Because we're going to be thinning down the paint. So before we do that We want to add some binders to the paint so that over time the paint doesn't break down and crack and all of that stuff So the first thing we're going to do is add the pouring medium Mix it in really well until it's not lumpy scrape the sides scrape the bottom Make sure you've got it all mixed in we have such a little amount of paint it shouldn't take very long Then I'm going to add some flow trawl Which is from the hardware store. It's a product made to increase the flow of latex paint I'm going to add a little bit of that in It does a similar thing to the pouring medium But a little bit differently and it is something else you can add to the paint to Help it like flow and be and move without Breaking down the properties of the paint and Breaking down the binders. I'm not a chemist. So I don't understand. I just know that if when I use it it works All right, so it makes mix that in really well Then you really want to have the paint runny and if you can see I Don't know if you can see But that's not it just it kind of clumps off the palette knife So that doesn't work. We really want it to flow in a stream off the palette knife So next this is just water tap water nothing special. I'm going to add a few drops at a time mixing it in scraping the sides scraping the bottom until we get something that runs off and The only thing I can tell you about doing this is you just have to practice and see what works for you use craft paint use something Inexpensive while you're practicing and figuring out what works for you. I have some black and white. That's already mixed up on the side It should be okay. It needs to be shaken, but it should be all right the flow trawl and the Pouring medium will also increase the drying time of your paint So that means it's going to take a lot longer to dry than it normally would Which in this case while you're manipulating manipulating your paint is what you want That's better It'd be a little too thin now, but we're going to go with it I think I just splattered myself with paint because you know, it's what we do, right? So let's do this one Now my black and white do not have any silicone Oil in them at all if you are familiar with watching acrylic pour videos Some people do them with with some people do them without Sorry somebody called the house phone, which is weird. All right, so that's just about good so we are going to add a Drop of silicone oil to these. This is treadmill oil Just going to put one drop because it's not very much paint. I'm only going to add it to the metallics Then I'm going to mix again mix this one in All of these Additives to the paint will aid in the kind of reaction between the colors to help you form cells and Interesting patterns in the paint. Okay, so here's my white This is just pouring medium flow trawl acrylic paint and water It's been sitting for a little bit, so We want to shake it up really well. Okay Should be good. This is the black some of the metallic some white. We're going to build what they call a Dirty pour. Basically, you're putting all the colors in one cup. I'm going to zoom you in And you already see kind of what's happening inside that cup Turquoise copper white Turquoise and some more white Now I am pretty sure that's a way too much paint So I'm going to grab a little mini canvas Need a couple of little These little triangle feet things you get them at Sorry, I need to zoom out. You get these at the hardware store in the paint department and we're gonna sell Gonna put some white around This will help ensure that the edges get covered So as I'm pouring this to cover the canvas what I want to do is Deliberately drip it onto the whoa Actually look what happened. I like that so deliberately drip it onto the non-stick craft sheet Okay, I'm going to stop there because that is really pretty and it's already forming cells Here and here I'm going to zoom you in a minute after I wash my hands and We have this accidental intentional Skin here on the non-stick craft sheet right here That's going to make something really interesting that will be able to peel it off So rather than do these pours on Paper if I do them on the non-stick craft sheet then I have something I can use in a future project I may need to cover them again with collage posh before I peel them off to thicken them I love this circle right here that came Love that so much. I can't even tell you. Let me clean my hands and I'll be right back See that I was just gonna pour some paint to get a skin and because we ended up with too much paint I got a little canvas out of it and how cute is that I Realized for some of you you may be going I don't get it. I Think you have to have a love of abstract painting to really like acrylic pours I'm not going to do lots of acrylic pouring tutorials on this channel because there are a million of them out there And there's a million artists out there who do them really really well I'll try to link a few of their channels in the description below for those of you who are interested But that being said it is fun to do and I like the idea of having this leftover paint from a pour That's been poured on this acrylic craft sheet that I can use as an embellishment in another Project probably a journal page I'm going to be doing one of those pretty soon with these after they're dry If you're interested in seeing what I do with them on a journal page Follow me on social media all of my social media links my Facebook groups I'm part of my website everything else is in my link tree link the link tree link is in the description below We'll click it. You'll get all the links. You'll get the whole list of every place that I am on the internet So I hope you give it a try look around your studio. See what you have old nail polish acrylic paint You know think about how you can make your own unique embellishments a little bits and pieces and things that you can use in a page Here's one. Let me zoom out a bit Oops, that's the wrong way Here's the one I did just today with bits and pieces that I have the had the word dream some paint some writing a Little bit of doodling and a sticker I had from a friend KP over at rubber moon And so you don't have to have super complicated things to make a really interesting journal pages. That's an old leaf from a walk Some old pieces of paper a little bit of stenciling and some washi tape So I want to make some of these acrylic skins and nail polish skins to use on pages like that I can't wait to give it a try. I hope you do too. Let me know what you come up with if you have questions comments or concerns Put them down in below underneath the video. I'd love to see them And that's it for today. Check out those link tree links. Check out my Etsy shop If you want to support the free content on this channel, you can go peruse my wish list or my tip jar and All of that is very much appreciated That's it for today The most important thing is to go out and have a great day and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it And I'll see you later. Bye guys