So this week I have been planning a rather special project involving a lot of post-it notes for the planning stage:
And thanks to the post-its I avoided a booboo before putting my Photobox order in, which arrived yesterday:
I was getting itchy fingers to start on my project, so out came the paints...
And I struggled for 4 hours to get the covers and brackety ends of this Basic Grey black chipboard album...
...coated in cream acrylic paint - as you know they'll be a bugger to cut round with a craft knife if covered in paper! Then I fought with my MM paints to mix some very light pastels that I was going to alternate through the other 10 pages inside. Well, after covering 2 colours worth of the insides I gave up and thought I needed to find something that would actually stay the right shade and not end up with this ghastly bumpy finish I was getting.
So I thought... aha! Spray paint!? Can that be used??
Indeed it seems spray paint is excellent for chipboard. So very early this morning before work I toddled off to Wilko to invest in some very light white-based Dulux tester pots for my paint collection should I want to go the pastel white route for the inside pages and a big can of Antique White Matt spray paint.
This evening I have been alternating between finally making Dangerous Cake and applying coats of spray paint to the fronts of the chipboard pages - building up the layers:
Seriously - why did I not do this sooner??? I am wondering whether I need to invest in a clear acrylic sealer spray before starting on decorating the pages... but it seems much more robust than your usual acrylic paint so should be fine. :)
And Dangerous Cake I hear you say... yes, dangerous because these are the ingredients:
OK the Kirsch-soaked morello cherries are an experimental addition, and the funsize Malteasers are to make up for one of the Crunchies I ate for lunch yesterday... hm... but well now you know why it's called Dangerous Cake.
So dangerous that even the wafting smell of chocolatey deliciousness it gives off while cooling is drool-inducing.
So tomorrow I am hoping that the weather is less windy so I can get the backs of the pages spray painted ready for any crafty time I might have this weekend. :)
I also need to NOT buy any more spray paint - but that shouldn't be too hard as I've not seen anywhere stocking girly pastels and soothing colours. Lots of black, grey and in your face primary colours, but no subtle tones a scrapbooker would appreciate. hehe
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