stick'em up!

Materials:

• Piece of timber such as custom wood
• Resene Quick Dry Acrylic Primer Undercoat
• Resene Magnetic Magic
• Resene Dizzy Lizzy and Resene Blue Jeans
• Paintbrush
• Photographs
• Foam self-adhesive letters
• Rare earth magnets, or foam shapes and magnetic tape to make magnets

Method:

• Cut the board to desired size, if necessary.

• Seal the board with undercoat.

• Paint the board with Resene Magnetic Magic. This will require at least two coats, with three hours between them to allow the paint to dry. It is a good idea to try it out with magnets as you can apply extra coats if necessary.

• Apply two topcoats in the colour of your choice. We used Resene Dizzy Lizzy and Resene Blue Jeans from the Resene KidzColour range.

• Once completely dry, you can add the foam letters and other decorations. Remember that you are putting photos onto the board, so keep it simple.

• Finally, add your photos and hold them in place using your rare earth magnets.

Tip:

When washing out your brush after using the Resene Magnetic Magic, it is a good idea to use a plastic bowl, if possible, so the iron in the paint doesn’t get left sitting in a stainless steel sink.

words: Henrietta Vaughan
pictures: Lucent* Media