Glitter Painting Tutorial Step-by-Step

Just finished an awesome project!! I enjoyed making it so much, that it never sat for more than a day untouched--which is amazing in this house hahaha.

Tada! Here, I'll show you how I did it!

You'll need:

Acrylic paint
A Canvas
Painters Tape
Glitter
Alenes Tacky Glue
Water
Container
Brush
A Surface (portable is best, I used a large piece of foam board)
A piece of paper

Paint your canvas your base colour--mine was black. This colour will show through the glitter when you take the tape off.

Tape it off however you want. I just randomly did it. Whatever feels good, just do it!!

Start painting in each section with the base colour of what colour of glitter you are doing.

I went into my glitter drawer and picked a few colours that I thought went together nice--although I am TERRIBLE at putting colours together *blush!*

Mix some alenes tacky glue with about a table spoon of water and mix it up well. I used an old face-scrub container with a screw top so I could close it up and go back to it later without having to remix glue every time.

K, here's a bit more step by step of the glittering and gluing.

Pink section

Pink glitter!

Brush glue into the section. Try to stay just over the edge of the pink. If you go much over onto the tape, its wasting precious glitter! I ran out twice--good thing i work at michaels so I was going there anyways today to work hahaha to pick up more!!

Dash the pink glitter all over the glued section. I do the edges first, then sprinkle all over the edges. I didn't have a ton of the pink so I had to tip the canvas on its side to pour the glitter onto a piece of paper to catch it, and then used the sheet of paper to sprinkle it back on again, and kept doing this until all the glue was covered.

Tada! A section all glittered up! I do all of each colour at one time. All the pink sections--let it dry for a few hours. All the blue sections--dry for a few hours--etc.
Dont do more than one colour at a time or bits of the wrong colour will get in the other colours' wet glue and be not cool!!

Now is the fun part!!

Peel off the tape!! This was ultra satisfying!! Peel carefully, because the glitter shakes shakes shakes off! Ahhhh I got it every where lol, my husband yelled at me many times during this project hahaha.

Voila! It's my new centre-main-ultra-awesome-favouritest-piece-of-art!! Anyways i hope this helped you make your own!! Let me know if you have any questions!!

Have you made a painters tape painting??

Rachael

 I just wanted to let everyone know a bit more about me! I work part time at Michaels arts and crafts and that's where i get a lot of my inspiration--and my need to create!! So after awhile, once i found out about Etsy, I started a shop about a year ago. Just a few months ago I started taking it really seriously. I don't like working for the man! lol I want to be my own boss. :)

 

So now, in all of my spare time, I am creating accessories! Headbands, hair flowers, earrings, bracelets, necklaces, even jewelry display pieces for your wall!  I also have a great passion for crocheting now too. :) It's definitely an awesome winter activity!

This is the link to my shop:

http://www.etsy.com/shop/RachaBee?ref=si_shop

So enjoy a few of the pictures of my product, and let me know if you have any comments or questions, or even if you have a shop so I can check it out!!

What is your favourite kind of stuff to create???



Thanks for stopping by!

Rachael

Homemade Potato Chips Tutorial

Okay!! This is my first tutorial, so sit back, grab your coffee (mine is in my mustache cup that i painted :D)

and sit back and learn how to deep (or should I say shallow?) fry chips!!

Peel thy potato (i just used the cheap russets)

I made a big mess... haha I am terrible at peeling potatoes--usually its my husband's job but he was working today :) owell!!

Then slice those babies with a mandolin

Use the guard thingie!! I have seen way too many people slice off a piece of their hand--yuck!

Put some oil in your metal pot (I used olive oil because I wanted to use it up before it expired teehee, so that is probably expensive if you use olive oil every time haha)

I put it to medium heat on my stove, waited until it was hot enough that when you flick a bit of water in the oil it crackles like crazy. Then put in some of your thinly sliced potato bitties! My pot held about 8 large slices at a time.

Notice the METAL utensil on the stove. Make sure it's metal lol I just used whatever metal utensil i had in the drawer and it turned out to work pretty good!! It's like a.. uhm.. spaghetti grabber? hahaha Whatever you get it!!

sizzle sizzle sizzle--sizzle sizzle sizzle--sizzle sizzle sizzle

k anyways lol, leave them in there until they start turning a bit golden brown. Trust me, they can burn fast haha, even when they got a darker golden brown they didn't taste as good--I took them out juuuust after they were cooked through.

and VOILA

Quickly toss a little bit of salt on them while they are still hot. Yum yum in my tum! A little time consuming, but delicious!! I hope you enjoy :) If I could do it, you soooo can!!

Let me know if you have any tips to help me out for the next time--how do you make your chips?

Thanks for stopping by!

Rachael

Amazing Iced Coffee!!

 

I finally found an iced coffee recipe I ADORE!! I have tried several times and several ways, and I finally found a homemade iced coffee that rocks my socks off!!

Apparently the key to an amazing chilly coffee is cold brewing the coffee, not just adding ice to regular coffee.

 I took 4.5 cups of water, and added 1 cup of coffee grounds (I just used folgers medium roast grounds, though wikipedia suggests coarse grounds. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_brew_coffee) in a jug, and put it in the fridge overnight, around 12 hours. Then, I put a paper filter in a strainer over another jug and slowly added the coffee mixture until it was all strained through. I must admit it did take a few hours lol, I kept going back to it whenever i remembered to refill the filter. :) 

Next, just fill a glass with ice and pour about 2/3rds coffee in there and 1/3 flavoured creamer (I use the toffee caramel stuff) and add a straw. AMAZING!!!!! Anyways, enjoy! Let me know what you come up with!!