Teri Anderson
Aww. Paint. How I love thee.
I love the way I can use you to change ugly orange letter stickers to a nice shade of cream.
I love that I can use you to make a pretty background by brushing you over and over on a boring piece of white cardstock.
Friends, you get the point. I like paint. I use it regularly when I paper craft.
And, today, I’m excited to share with you one of my absolute favorite techniques for paint on a card, straight from the pages of Card Creations, Volume 8!
On your mark. Get set. Look.
My XOXO Love Tree Card from p. 128.
See those white lines? That is faux stitching.
It is hands-down one of the easiest looks to achieve with paint.
All you need is paint and a sewing pattern tracing wheel. You can get a pattern tracing wheel by raiding a seamstress’ tool box like I did. You can also usually find them for sale in the sewing notions aisle of your local craft store.
And here is what you do:
1. Squirt a dab of paint on scratch paper:
2. Repeatedly roll the tracing wheel through the paint until the wheel is fully covered:
3. Roll it out on the paper you want to use:
It really is as easy as that.
You can do so many things with the faux stitching technique.
Besides how I used it in Card Creations, Volume 8, you can use it to:
- Make grid and lined background papers.
- Draw circles around flowers and other embellishments. Figuring out how to get the wheel to go in an even circle can take practice so I recommend trying it on scratch paper before doing it on your project.
- Make hearts and other shapes. Again, be sure to practice first on scratch paper.
Want some paint to play with at home? The good folks at Eco Green Crafts have offered up some of their pretty paints for three lucky winners. Leave a comment for me and those paints just might be headed your way. All comments must be received by midnight (MDT) on Thursday, May 27. And as a special treat, Eco Green Crafts is giving ALL of our readers 20% off any online order. Visit their web site today and enter coupon code “PC510″!
Three winners will each take home this paint set from Eco Green Crafts!
Yours in painted fun,
Teri Anderson,
Paper Crafts Go-to-Gal
P.S. Be sure to check out the blogs of Jessica, Betsy, Kim. K., Kim H., Maren and myself today. We are posting cards created for Go-to-Challenge #2. This time, we are playing with products from Little Yellow Bicycle!
P.P.S. It’s time to announce the three winners from Kelly’s Meet Rae Barthel (Again!) post!
1. Jamie (May 24, 8:48 a.m.)
2. Amy (May 24, 5:47 a.m.)
3. Heather Ippolito (May 24, 11:28 a.m.)
Congrats, winners! Kelly will be contacting you shortly to discuss your prizes and get your mailing addresses. Thanks to all who left comments!
This is a very clever idea! (Faux stitching) Yummy acrylic colors too!!
I would love to try some eco paint! Great idea for faux stitching. I’ve used the tracing wheel with ink, but your paint technique looks like it shows up better and travels farther. Thanks for the tip!
Awesome colors. Thanks for sharing your ideas. I like how versatile paint really can be. It’s not just for the walls anymore.
Great giveaway–they are so yummy…and I love the technique and plan to try it soon as I am not a seamstress!
Ooooh….love those yummy colors…and the nice tube application. I have used the tracing wheel with pigment ink, but never with paint,and I would LOVE to try it! Keeping my fingers crossed!!!!
wow, that is very interesting!! i love fresh new ideas!!
I love using paint on my projects-it give such a different result on layouts or cards-and I just love your card-thanks for the inspiration!!
Love the paint idea!!
Love the faux stitching idea! I can’t wait to give it a try!
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Cool technique! Thans for the chance to win.
Very clever!
What a fabulous idea for paint!! I think I am going to have to find one of those tracing wheels. Thanks for sharing!!
Congrats to the winners!!
I would love to win those paints so I can play too! Thanks for the chance.
Carol B
ciaoitalia2007@gmail.com
What a great idea!!!! I’m off to find one of those wheely things!
And what wonderful paints!! Thank you so much for a chance to win them!!
Wow! That is so pretty and looooks easy- I’ll have to try it!
Chrissy
So amazing!
Awesome tip! I love it! Thanks for sharing!
what a cute idea!!! I paint for a living, and have been wanting to try these paints!! Thanks for th opportunity to win a fantastic set of them!! happy Holiday weekend~
Oooooooo I love me some paint!!!! What a great idea, I love it! I’ve used my tracing wheel for dots on the paper but never thought of paint, I’m going to find my wheel and paint and have some fun! Thanks and good luck to all.
I love all of these! You guys have such great designers, I love your blog and magazines!
thank you for sharing this idea. i have lots of acralic paints but these look like new colors. i will get mine out and use them on the cards i am going to make.
Wow! Love the colors! I also have some acrylic paints kicking around but these colors are waaaaaaay nicer! Would love the opportunity to try them
WOW!! I love the way that paint stitching looks. Thank you so much, I am surely going to have to try this technique out! Love PaperCrafts- so inspiring!
What a great fun idea Teri! Thanks heaps for sharing this! I am really into paint atm. Love your card!
Love the idea. I will be trying it soon.
Great giveaway. Thanks for the chance to win.
The tracing whee though the paint is such a clever idea!! Thanks for sharing and thanks for the chance to win!
I absolutely love this idea with your paints and a sewing wheel for faux stitching. I am going to try this asap. Love it. Please enter me in your contest to win some of your beautiful paints. thank you gina kinde email ginak1117@att.net
Love that idea, and the colors are great.
It is really nice how if we just look around
our homes we can come up with some
really cool ideas.
Thanks so much
Leanna
I love this ideal, I’m sure I have seen one of those wheels in a drawer !!, I wonder what a pasty wheel would do , must try. Hubby thinks I have gone mad as I’m looking at things with wheels on !!! great ideal thanks Jenny
love this ‘painted stitches’ idea – I’m teaching crafts next week to 50 kids from 3 to 10 yrs old – I’m planning to use this method with brown paper bag scrapbooks. thank you! the kids will be painting various things with ‘found objects’ as part of the curriculum.
of course,, winning that paint set would be delightful, just like your blog~!!
Very cute idea!! I love it. Using the real stitching of a sewing machine is great but when you do not have a machine handy… this technique is GREAT!!!
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