I headed to their website, and was immediately impressed with the number of colors they offer. I had quite the difficult time narrowing down which I wanted to try out, but after a great debate, I made my choices...and then stalked my mailbox until my package arrived. ;)
My thoughts then turned to what I wanted to try the paint on. Luckily, I was in the middle of a project that could benefit from a little metallic paint.
We had a large wooden tray that needed a major makeover. {Yes, I had already started sanding when this "before" was taken...whoops!}
Once that was dry, I tapped off {and aluminum foil-ed off} the areas of the tray I didn't want to get paint on. Then I grabbed a couple different widths of stencil tape from my craft basket and started laying out patterns. {And before you ask...nope, I didn't measure a thing. I just eyeballed everything to make sure it appeared even. One of my requirements for this design was that I did NOT want to have to measure a. single. thing.}
After all the tape was down, I used an exacto knife to cut away the pieces I didn't want.
Then I took my tray outside and gave it two coats of gold spray paint and primer {Rustoleum's Universal in Pure Gold...best gold spray paint out there...in my opinion, of course}. I wanted the design to appear pretty opaque, and I wasn't sure how sheer the metallic paint would be. So I figured, better to prime the surface and be safe, rather then sorry!
Once the spray paint dried, I pulled out the new paint...woohooooo! {I used Brass - ME289.}
I placed a few small blobs of paint onto the tray and rolled 2-3 coats on, waiting only a few minutes in-between each of them.
Then I peeled back the tape to see things unfold...
It's amazing what a little metallic paint can do, huh?
And now for my honest opinion of this stuff....it rocks!! I was hooked after the first coat of it went onto the tray. The paint is incredibly easy to work with, the finish is beautiful and a little bit goes a long way with this stuff!! In fact, I was so smitten with it after completing our tray, that I immediately started working on a couple wooden signs for some special blog ladies in my life...and thennn I used it on a couple gallery wall additions for our hallway!
Word even got out to a friend of mine that I loved the paint so much, that she graciously volunteered a table of hers to be made over with the Blackened Bronze - ME238 Shade. ;) Keep a look-out for the reveal of that next week, and enter my very first giveway below!! :) One super lucky reader will win their choice of either one quart and 6 oz. container of any color OR four 6 oz. containers of any color OR a metal effects kit {one pint primer, one pint reactive paint, one 4 oz. solution or rust activator, one spritzer cap, one pint of Permacoat Xtreme for rust only} from Modern Masters!! :)
Good luck everyone!
**All opinions in this post are 100% mine...I'd never lie to my amazing readers!!**
