Looking for a topic posted here previously

[TAIrving]

My searches have all failed to find the desired post.  I think it was earlier this year but maybe last year. The post showed a special type of paint/coating on a dwarf’s beard that really made it stand out. Any help much appreciated, thanks in advance. 

[don in brooklin on]

I use DecoArt® Snow Writer Paint.  I get at Michaels

Really fun stuff.

I find it better to paint white under it.

 

[TAIrving]

That looks like what I was looking for. Thanks Don. 

[TAIrving]

Do you have a pattern for the gnome?  My wife is quite taken with it. 

[don in brooklin on]

1 hour ago, TAIrving said:

Do you have a pattern for the gnome?  My wife is quite taken with it. 

Attached is the PDF with instructions that I did for someone on another forum.  If you have any questions please let me know.

 

 

New spring gnome.pdf

[TAIrving]

Thank you Don.  

[barb.j.enders]

Thanks Don

[don in brooklin on]

Programming note:

If anyone has downloaded the PDF, it was created with Inkscape 1.2 using multipage option.

It opens just fine in Acrobat but if you want to modify I have found that when I open it I get a grey desktop. 

I found that if you open new document and then import the PDF it gives you a clean SVG to modify.  (you can delete blank page and the instructions with the page option- the bottom of the left tool bar)

 

[john nelson]

Another way to reproduce this project would be to just make a paper copy of the photo (full size) and glue it to the wood and cut out.  Quick and no painting...no mess. 

Cute project.     What is  DecoArt® Snow Writer Paint?                 JAN 

[don in brooklin on]

1 hour ago, john nelson said:

 What is  DecoArt® Snow Writer Paint?                 JAN 

I get it at Michaels for about $4.00 CDN  Amazon is way more money

[john nelson]

Just what do you use it for??????  Texture?????    Just HOW do you use it?  When and why would you want to have snow???   I never heard of it ??????   ( I have lived a very sheltered life....Lol).         jAN

[meflick]

5 hours ago, john nelson said:

Just what do you use it for??????  Texture?????    Just HOW do you use it?  When and why would you want to have snow???   I never heard of it ??????   ( I have lived a very sheltered life....Lol).         jAN

John, yes it is used to add texture usually to painted projects that you want “snow” on, at least that was its original intent when put out. Decorative painters like Tole Painters, or like Sheila Landry’s painted projects have been using it for years. But as Don has shown, it can be used to add a white texture to any white item like here on the gnome’s beard which decorative painters have also done so it’s not limited to using for just “snow”. It has been around for many years so perhaps you have been living a sheltered life. 🫢

[John B]

3 hours ago, meflick said:

John, yes it is used to add texture usually to painted projects that you want “snow” on, at least that was its original intent when put out. Decorative painters like Tole Painters, or like Sheila Landry’s painted projects have been using it for years. But as Don has shown, it can be used to add a white texture to any white item like here on the gnome’s beard which decorative painters have also done so it’s not limited to using for just “snow”. It has been around for many years so perhaps you have been living a sheltered life. 🫢

Must be something to do with John's I had never heard of it either, But.............................. then again it could be because we don't have snow

[OCtoolguy]

1 hour ago, John B said:

Must be something to do with John's I had never heard of it either, But.............................. then again it could be because we don't have snow

Wait, what about "The Man From Snowy River"? You must have snow somewhere near a river.

[John B]

1 hour ago, OCtoolguy said:

Wait, what about "The Man From Snowy River"? You must have snow somewhere near a river.

That's the other-siders mate, Those that live in that largely unexplored region, East of the WA border.

[OCtoolguy]

9 hours ago, John B said:

That's the other-siders mate, Those that live in that largely unexplored region, East of the WA border.

Sounds like the U.S. 300 years ago. Who knows what's over there. Maybe time to check it out.

[barb.j.enders]

On 7/4/2022 at 1:29 PM, john nelson said:

 I never heard of it ?????? 

Snow is a form of precipitation that falls in the winter time. We had way too much of it this year.

[meflick]

Given our present heat wave I could do with a little snowy weather for a day or two.