We’re basically home free at this point.. (Cotton to Metal on etsy).
is really worth it..If you’ve ever used any of the painting tapes before, you’ve probably noticed that they aren’t totally perfect.
Even if you use a high quality tape, you’ll still often end up with paint bleeding and little blips here and there just because of user error or weird humidity or something like that.After I show you this little trick in a second here, you’re going to LOVE your painting tape.So here’s what I did for this little project:.
After painting my base color (the grey) and letting it dry, I decided I wanted a total of 5 stripes, so I just needed to tape off 2 stripes that I would paint on top in the aqua color.I measured where my lines for the edges of the aqua stripes would need to go and marked 3 little dots per line, then I connected the dots with my painting tape, making sure to tape OUTSIDE the stripes that I would be painting on.. Now it’s time to go ahead and paint the aqua stripes on, right?
Here’s the trick!
I went back over the inside edges of the tape (where the aqua would be going) with the grey color again to really seal the tape down.And then go to the local recycling depot, which is where people take things like this branch knocked down during a storm….. To be turned into this stuff!.
To be picked up by me for free to use in my garden!.After a bit of weeding of course.. Chris started to make this neat path in the garden too using our free mulch.
You can see it needs some of my weeding skills as well..So that’s one little corner checked off my list as looking presentable.