Not sure if this is allowed if it isnât a card but I wanted to share this discovery and experiment. I got some nail polishes at Dollar Tree the other day, wondering how they would do as a craft supply.
I got clear top coat, silver, and gold and silver chunky glitter polishes for $1.25 each. Today I played with them a bit with some stamped images and die cuts and punchies left over from other recent projects.
First I tried coating a stamped image with clear nail polish to see if it worked something like diamond glaze, and because I had a second image, I tried swiping some of the glitter polish over that one. The clear polish one went on thick and dried relatively slowly for nail polish tho faster than glossy effects of diamond glaze. It dried flat and left a sheen on the image. Itâs okay but the purpose made products are better. As for the glitter polish, I liked the look tho this image wasnât really meant for it.
The next column is a little hexie punchie and two punchies from pattern paper. One of the blue ones and the yellow one have glitter polish on them and I really like the way this turned out, especially that you can see the pattern under it. I think this would be cool on Christmas cards or any theme where a little glitz is good. The remaining blue dot is clear nail polish. Again a little shine but nothing spectacular. Good in a pinch or if you want something that dries faster or is more subtle than the diamond glaze type products.
The larger hexagons are where I tried spreading the polishes on white cardstock and then punching out after they dried. The top two are the glitter polishes in silver and gold, and the bottom is the silver polish going from thicker on the brush at the bottom to thinner and more sheer at the top. Really like all of these. I especially like the random distribution of fine and chunky glitter in the glitter polishes.
Next I wanted to see how the glitter did on darker colors so I tried on two dark purple flowers. Harder to see here but these looked really cool in person.
Final row is the silver polish, trying different thicknesses of coverage. I like the two bottom ones best, the sheerest one has kind of the effect of glimmer paper and the second one has enough color to look more metallic while still letting more of the purple show through. On the top two where the nail polish is thicker, they look more purple in the picture than they do in life, the silver is much more reflective and covers up the color more.
So I am going to be experimenting with these further in actual cards, but I thought I would post this in case anyone else might be curious about using cheap nail polish. I would not, of course, use this on anything like a scrapbook or anything you want to keep for a long time as no telling what it does to the surface or how the color might change over time. But for a quick card decoration, I think these are fun!
If this is something I shouldnât post in the gallery, let me know and Iâll take it down.
Date: Tuesday, February 15, 2022 GMT Views: 279
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