Adirondack Acrylic Paint Dabbers

Feb 11, 2011

I bet you were expect­ing another tag using Per­fect Pearls? Well this one fea­tures Ranger’s Adiron­dack Acrylic Paint Dab­bers. When using paint I find it most inspir­ing to cre­ate whim­si­cal pieces with brighter col­ors rather than my usual vin­tage style and shades. Kinda strange when I think about it. Also, did you notice I used my Can­vas Album as inspi­ra­tion for this tag? If you did, you are a very devoted blogger.

I always find it fun to use items around my scrap­room to cre­ate designs… one of the sim­plest things to cre­ate are polka dots with the non-bristle end of my paint­brushes. All you do is dip the end of the brush into the lid of the paint­brush and start cre­at­ing dots. Clean up is super sim­ple too. All you have to do is swipe the end with a paper towel and you are good to go. I also like using lids to jars or the rim of a drink­ing glass to cre­ate cir­cles. They always come out so per­fectly imper­fect. Oh and accent­ing painted polka dots with Dia­mond, Ici­cle and Crys­tal Stick­les adds quite the sparkle. I let each layer dry before I add the next and once all three lay­ers are dry you have awe­some sparkley polka dots.

Sup­plies Used: Adiron­dack Acrylic Paint Dab­bers — Shell Pink, Lemonade, Water­melon, Aqua, Cool Peri, Snow Cap, Pitch Black; Stickles — Plat­inum, Dia­mond, Crys­tal, Icicle; Glossy Accents; Claudine Hell­muth Stu­dio Art Brushes; Inkssentials Sur­faces Manila Craft Tag — #8, Tim Holtz Alpha Parts — Newsprint; Maya Road Trim; Fiskars Heart and Cir­cle Punch; Small Round Mir­rors; Book Pages; Wendy Vec­chi Stu­dio 490 Flower Stamp

Wish­ing you all a won­der­ful week­end. Next week, I will show you projects using new Tim Holtz prod­ucts. You are so going to love these.