Show Notes: Paperclipping 50 – Puffy Paint
Opening: It’s my opinion that a strong underlying design can really get a person’s attention and pull them into your layouts. And it’s the details that keep them there even longer. Today I’m going to share some ways to add great dimensional detail with Dimensional Paint.
1. {Show minibook}. This is the cover of a minibook I’m currently working on. {Show paper before added details}. This is the original paper I used and you can see that I added Diamond Stickles to some of the flowers and dimensional paint to these other ones here. This is such a fun way to add interest to a place where you only want one color. Just change the texture and add dimension.
2. Introduce paint: This is Scribbles 3-Dimensional Fabric paint and it dries to a shiny, wet-looking smoothness and stays raised up on the page. Let me show you how it works and share a couple tips for using it with success.
3. Dimensional Paint Demonstration–If you’re used to using Stickles, this product is similar in a lot of ways, but a bit trickier. It’s got this long nozzle, but the paint comes out in a bigger pool than you expect if you’re used to using products like Diamond Glaze or Stickles. I recommend always squeezing some out on scratch paper before you start to remind you how it flows.
4. Unlike Stickles, you can’t see this product coming through once you’ve used it because the paint colors the nozzle. What I do is place the nozzle at a distance from the edge, much farther than I normally would with my glue or Stickles, so it has room to come out without going out of your lines. Then you can push it around where you want it. You can also raise peaks if you want.
6. Dimensional Paint is also different from Stickles in that it isn’t nearly as forgiving. If I go out of my lines with Stickles, I can just push the product back where I want it with my fingernail or wipe it off but you can’t do that with the paint because it leaves its color behind. Depending on what you’re filling, you can sometimes adapt the shape of what you’re making if you go out of the lines.
This product takes a long time to dry so I plan to let it sit overnight or all day before I do anything further with it.
6. Another way to add dimension is with a clear dimensional glue, like Glossy Effects of Diamond Glaze. You’ve seen me use this as an adhesive, but you can also place these products on top of something to give it a glossy, dimensional look. It works like an epoxy.
7. {Show Minibook} It may be hard to see it on these tiny letters on video, so I’ll demonstrate it with letters that are larger. {Demonstrate}
