Stamping with paint expiraments!

Hi ya everyone! I sure had fun playing with paint this week- watching the "Thinking Inking" week 4 video really got me going. I've only got the one gold paint dabber but lots of other metallic and acrylic paints to play with.

I made the first card here using my gold paint and the Starburst Lace stamp from Hero Arts. I also used the Old letter Writing stamp from HA in the background. Used antique linen distress ink to warm it up and vintage photo around the edge.

Used a few paper poinsetta's from Hero Arts and even painted some clear gems with the gold paint. The gold paint gives it such a lovely shimmer and I was pleasantly surprised how well the detailed Starburst stamp came out.

The next expirament I used my favorite pearl white paint from Lumiere. I've got a whole set of these wonderful metallic paints- got them here at Dick Blick. They dry nice and quickly and I use these watered down in a mini mister instead of Perfect Pearls......and they work great!

I used my favorite big snowflake stamp from Stampin Up (the set Winter Post) all over some white cardstock. Let it dry and went direct to the paper using my Adirondack Stonewashed ink pad. I wanted a dark navy blue border but didn't have any paper that color so I used my Night of Navy ink pad to make the border. I added some pearls onto the center of each snowflake and did the border of the Nestie die cut to make it look a bit frosted too. 

Her are the ink colors and the paint I used. I simply shook up the jar of paint and used a round make up sponge to dab some paint right out of the cover.....then loaded it onto my stamp. Super easy and you don't have to have a paint dabber to stamp this way.

Now onto to more "somewhat" exciting news in my house.  My little guy lost his first tooth today......actually just about 2 hours ago! It's been loose and wiggly for the last few days and it was really bothering him when he got home from school. So being the former dental assistant and knowing all the "teeth" things I inspected the situation (the adult tooth was already poking up through the gums)  and with a bit of a tug and twist popped that tooth right out like nothing! I'm sterilizing the tooth in a Dixie cup with bleach and water.....this disinfects it and that's how they do it at the dentist office too- just FYI.

He's happy it didn't hurt and now I get to play the "Tooth Fairy" tonight- wohooo- can't wait!

Thanks everybody for stopping by and I hope you get to try stamping with paint- it's really pretty fun! Messy.......but fun!

I'm getting rather excited for Halloween night to come- it's so fun to go out with the kids and take them "Trick or Treating". I'm dressing up as a nice witch! I hope our weather is better Halloween night than it is today- 50 mph winds and icky cold rain.....yuck!

 

Inky Hugs, Anne