Hi this is Julie with Beadaholique.com and today I'm going to show you how to make a fun bangle
bracelet little different approach to it
so that I have this Nunn Design bangle bracelet with this channel core
a lot of things you can do with it and one option is to paint it and I'm going to show
you how to do that to me show you how to add some embellishments as well and
give you some tips along the way
so what you need for the paint is Vintaj patina and this is
specially made for metal, so it's gonna stay on there really well
you're going to need a paintbrush and I recommend if you think you're going to
be doing several of these to get the paintbrush with a flat tip
even
about the weight of the bracelet, if you do you wanna make a lot of these, if you
don't you don't need such a specific brush but it really does help
than I've got these little embellishments. They're SWAROVSKI flatback pearls. I'm going to
add them using some g s hypo cement
and then I just have a little plastic bag, it's actually what the bangle bracelet
came in which I'm using as my paint tray
and I've covered my work surface
so first off shake up the patina
and put some on the paint tray or in this case my little plastic bag
Vintaj patinas do dry very quickly so you're not going to what to put a lot
on there
put some on the tip of the brush
not soaking our brush
and we're just going to start to paint the core
now you'll notice you're not getting a lot of coverage. I don't want you to
paint a heavier coa.t I want you to do this nice light coat to begin with
and actually go back over
the area that you started
so you don't have a lump there
see how I'm holding it, I'm not touching any of the sides
and also making sure that you don't cover the rim, the edges
gonna make it look really nice and polished
so rotate
pick up a little bit more paint just again on the tip
and painted in that core
go back over
restart it just so you don't have a big
puddle of paint right there
and rotate
a little more paint
just do that until you get to where you started
now I'm going to put this down for only about five minutes for this first coat
because it is so thin I can go right over it again. You can see it's uneven. You
could see the copper through it
don't worry about that
you're going to do several coats again and you will end up with a nice solid opaque color
go wash your brush out in the meantime now, the patina will dry on it's own and
you'll end up with a paint brush that's not going to work anymore
so you can see this is not completely dry
and actually look at what happen and this is going to be what can happen on yours, you'll see
a little gaps here and there and you also notice it's definitely not a nice even coat
so we need to do another coat and we're going to do that the same way. I already pre shook
this
put some down
on my little piece of plastic and do the exact same thing
we're just gonna go over
paint the area again
I want to show you a little bit of this before I sign off again to paint the
whole and let it dry
there are still streaks
so what you're going to do and I'm not gonna show every step of this in the
video because you don't need to see me painting over and over again
you're gonna paint
enough coats
until you have a completely opaque solid layer
with the green it took five coats of paint, with this light blue
it's probably going to take the same amount and just
paint a layer
let it dry throughly
and then go back and paint another layer
what you're going to be doing is when you're going over the layers you can
start to get a nice even look along the edges
it's going to start to look even and more solid
along the band until it's completely and a nice solid opaque layer
and don't be tempted to do a super thick layer, that's not going to help you in the long
run
nice even coats
letting them dry
and then go back in paint a top coat
it did end up being coats but I do have an nice even coat of blue
I'm ready to go ahead and add my embellishments
I'm going to use G S Hypo cement
and a little mini magical pick which has this little tip on the
end which will allow me to pick up my embellishments. You can use flat back
rhinestones, you can use these little cabochon pearls, you can do whatever you want
to put on here or you can leave it blank. I'm going to spruce it up a little bit with a
polka dot designed using these great little SWAROVSKI embellishments
so what's nice about Hypo cement is that it has this great little applicator tip
and what I'm going to do is you'll probably notice there are slight imperfections in
my paint which is just bound to happen. You probably have the same thing
so I'm going to start
by putting an embellishment over one of those. Squeeze a little bit
of the G S Hypo cement
right onto my bracelet
put up an embellishment
and stick it on there
now I want a polka dot pattern. I want this to all be even. Make
another little dot
and another one
go ahead
place these into the dots of glue
now rotate it slightly and then if you get too much glue that's coming out
of your
applicator tip
if you have your work surface covered
just go ahead and
smear it onto your work surface it
this does dry pretty quickly so I'm doing about three dots at once before I
place them on
now I'm going to go ahead
put the tip back into my glue
and I'm going to let this dry in an upright position for about
ten minutes and then I'n going to feel like I can rotate it and continue adding more
of the little pick dots
these are dry, I can go ahead right now and so I could feel free to
rotate and now I'm going to do the same process again
look for any imperfections I might want to cover up
it helps if you are doing like a random polka dot pattern
this is as much as I want to do this time and I do believe on the next time
around I can finish it up
last segment
rotate
do the exact same thing
does not take a lot of G S Hypo cement
just one more dot and we are done
now you have
a great
pastel, in this case pastel bracelet
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