Paint Pouring
Use the latest colouring craze to create standout greetings
If you’re after a mixed media craft that guarantees unique results every
time, you have to try acrylic pouring. It’s a wonderfully messy way to create
colourful art, and you can use the technique to make just about anything. Here,
Ingrid Vichova has used the method to make bold backgrounds for bright and
cheerful birthday cards that are sure to impress.
We used...
Card: white, black Acrylic paints, Bold Birthday help it flow more, then blow into the
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PaperArtsy, various colours Liquitex Prepare paint cups using a wet paint with your mouth or a straw
Pouring Medium Silicone oil 1:1 paint to pouring medium to spread it around. Lightly mist the
(optional) Plastic cups: 2cl, 200ml ratio with Zesty Zing, Tangerine surface with rubbing alcohol and
Stirring sticks Skewers Tin tray Twist and London Bus with Liquitex allow it to dry naturally.
3
Rubbing alcohol Wax paper Pouring Medium. Add a drop of Once dry, cut the card to 15cm
Dies: Concord & 9th, Layering silicone oil into each cup, lightly square and matt onto black.Die-
Leaves; Altenew, Script Words 3, mix, then prepare white paint in cut ‘Happy birthday’ from black and
Fine Alphabet; Lawn Fawn, Happy another cup. Spread the white fix onto the greeting. Wrap black and
Birthday Line Border Stamps, paint onto white card. white baker’s twine around the panel,
Altenew, Birthday Greetings Ink-
pad: Tsukineko, VersaFine Onyx Black 2 Pour the paint mixes in the
centre. Add some more white
paint around the coloured paints to
then fix onto the blank with foam
pads. Embellish with sequins.
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Sending Craft
Hugs SAVVY
Use a tin tray lined
1 Repeat step one of the
previous project, this time
using Zesty Zing, Tangerine
with wax paper
or a non-stick
sheet to catch any
Twist and Caribbean Sea. Drip
the colours onto the wet white
e xc e s s p a i n t
paint, pour some more white to
one side of the card, then use
plastic card or acetate to pull
the white paint over the entire
surface in one swipe.
2 Lightly mist the surface with
rubbing alcohol and allow
it to dry naturally. Cut the panel
to 10cm x 14cm, matt onto black
and adhere to a white blank.
3 Die-cut the letters to spell
‘Hugs’ from black card, and
repeat with gold mirri cardstock.
Layer together and fix to the
card. Stamp ‘Birthday’ onto
white card in black ink and
adhere above, then add an
enamel heart.
Birthday it upside down onto the white
card, lift, then move the paint
Hooray around to cover the
whole surface.
1 Repeat step one of the first
project, this time using all the
colours. Prepare a ‘dirty cup’
2 Lightly mist with rubbing
alcohol and allow it to
dry naturally. Cut to 7.5cm x
by taking turns in pouring all 13cm, matt onto black, then
the colours, including the white, secure onto a blank using
into one larger cup. Swiftly flip foam pads. Stamp ‘It’s your
birthday!’ underneath. Die-cut
Chraofpt
‘Hooray’ from black and gold
Ingrid says... mirri cardstock, layer together
and adhere.
“You may have S
seen artists SHIMMERING ART
using heat guns to CARD ESSENTIAL
pop air bubbles – I’d Add a touch of
glamour to any
For acrylic pouring,
this medium is a
recommend skipping greeting with must-have for
this step, just use mirri card. £9.99, flowing paints. From
rubbing alcohol in a hunkydorycrafts.co.uk £15.50, cassart.co.uk
spray bottle instead”
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