Daubers

"I don't paint things.
I only paint the difference between things.
~Henri Matisse"

I discovered Radiant Rain Paint Daubers come in an appropriate rainbow of colours and they shimmer beautifully. They come in little bottles of thin, paint like liquid and include metallic shimmer in the bottom. There is a sponge applicator on the top of the bottle.

When you want to use your paint, make sure you shake the bottle really, really well first. Otherwise the metallic colour will stay on the bottom and you won't get the effect you would like.

After it is thoroughly mixed (I shake it like I would a bottle of nail polish. You will hear the little ball bearing rattling in the bottle to help mix it up) just turn the bottle upside down onto your project and tap away on it till you have the colour laid down the way you want it. The paint will gradually come through the sponge applicator on top of the bottle.

You can keep adding colour in layers to your project.

If you are colouring something porous like chipboard, you may want to do lots of layers as the thin paint will soak into the cardboard until it has been saturated enough to thicken up.

You can add more than one colour to your project of course. When I made the Twinchie, I used both copper and gold paint. I waited a few minutes between layers to allow for drying time as I did not want to contaminate the sponge applicators with another colour, but you could speed things up with your Heat Gun as well.

You can also take off the sponge applicator top and use your the contents like you would use a regular bottle of paint! Just pour a little out on a pallette, dip in your brush and start painting. I would use a painter's pallette rather than use the colour directly from the bottle to avoid mixing another colour or two into the paint.

If you haven't tried them before, daubers can be fun to use.

If you are looking for a shimmer effect though, you can fill a spray bottle with a little water and some rubbing alcohol, then add some Stampin' Up! shimmer paint and you will get a lovely fine sheen!

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