Best Way to Paint Different Color on Embossed Tin
I'm really enjoying my exploration of adding colors to the Nunn Design Findings. It adds a look of "handmade" – this is a quality that I think is really important when creating jewelry that you want to be one-of-a-kind. Here are some inspirational ways to incorporate color. These jewelry pieces are featured in our gallery.
Designer: Past Innovation Team Member Karen McGovern
Designer: Becky Nunn
Designer: Nunn Design Shipping Diva Haylee Troncone
Learn How!
Here are 10 way to learn how to add colors to metals.
1. Colorizing Metals with Swellegants
This blog post by Heather Powers of Humble Beads is killer! I love her patina chart featured here. On her blog she provides us with the formula for creating each of these amazing finishes. This woman really put some time into this post!
http://humblebeads.blogspot.com/2012/07/swellegant-tips-and-color-formulas.html
Learn about Swellegants from Christi herself in this video. She is talking about using the Swellegants on polymer clay, but there is great information here that applies to metals too!
2. Colorizing Metals with Mica Powder and Nunn Design Sealant
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This is a super simple and quick way to add color to metals. In this video I created for Beadaholique, I walk you through how easy it is to add Mica Powders to Nunn Design Sealant and paint it onto brass stampings.
http://nunndesign.com/video/how-to-add-mica-powder-to-sealant/
3. Colorizing Metals with Colorized Nunn Design 2-Part Resin
Adding to your metals Nunn Design 2-Part Resin that has been colorized with Castin' Craft's Opaque Colorants provides an enamel like look and a pop of color.
Download our free tutorial on How To Add Opaque Colorants to Resin
4. Colorizing Metals with Nail Polish
A quick and easy way to add color to metals is by adding fingernail polish. Gail Crosman-Moore addresses this in her blog post; Learn 6 Ways to Add Color To Metal featured on Jewelry Making Daily's Blog.
5. Colorizing Metals with Alcohol Inks
Rena Klingenberg walks you through a tutorial on Jewelry Making Daily's Blog using alcohol inks to colorizing metals. This looks very doable.
http://jewelrymakingjournal.com/coloring-metal-with-alcohol-ink-tutorial/
Caroline at Blueberribeads Blog also used alcohol inks on her etched pieces. I really like her tutorial using designs that she cuts out of a Silhouette Cameo machine. The lines are so clean on her etching!
http://blueberribeads.co.uk/archives/1497
6. Colorizing Metals with Soft Solder
I have been exploring using soft solder on the Nunn Design Copper Findings. It totally works!! I'm totally smitten with soft soldering. To learn more about soft soldering, check out this blog post on Jewelry Making Daily about a new book that Laura Beth just released titled; Solder Alchemy.
7. Colorizing Metals with Heat
I just took a class with Mary Hettmansperger at Bead & Button. I'm looking forward to getting this book. Mary covered so many great ideas on ways to add color to metals in her class that I was a little panicked that I wouldn't remember!
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1454700165/ref=rdr_ext_tmb
I haven't seen this PDF tutorial that is on sale by Payton Jett, but I sure love the look that she is creating on metals!
https://www.etsy.com/transaction/107991935?
8. Colorizing with Mica Powder and 2-Part Resin
Innovation Team Member Stephanie Gard Buss creating this great downloadable tutorial showing how easy it is to mix Mica Powders with 2-Part Resin to create color on resin. Download our Free Tutorial: How To Colorize Nunn Design Resin with Mica Powders
9. Colorizing Metal with Colored Pencils
I like this tutorial by Francesca Watson on Art Elements. She is a funny writer! http://artjewelryelements.blogspot.com/2013/07/coloring-on-metal.html
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Jill Erickson did this fun video for Art Jewelry layering colored pencil on copper. http://jewelry-crafts.wonderhowto.com/how-to/color-copper-metal-with-color-pencils-for-jewelry-368792/
Susan Wade teaches a color on copper class too. I really enjoyed the classes I have taken from Susan at Bead & Button.
http://www.wadestoneandglassworks.com/Classes-II.html
10. Colorizing Metals with a Natural Patina
Good Grief Girdie creates a patina with apple cider vinegar and sea salt.
http://goodgriefgirdie.typepad.com/blog/2011/02/patina-fun.html
Shop The Supplies!
To create some of these above techniques, here are some of the products that Nunn Design offers to help you add color to metals.
- Shop our Brass Stampings
- Shop Nunn Design 2-Part Resin
- Shop Castin' Crafts Opaque Pigments
- Shop Swellegants! Sorry, we aren't offering this anymore, but you can buy it directly from Christi here!
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Best Way to Paint Different Color on Embossed Tin
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