2 comments on “A Month of Spookdays: Soda Can Box

  1. I am continually delighted with the creativity your bring to your projects. The way you incorporate spooky elements into a variety of projects is inspiring. I want to recreate that bowler hat!

    Your soda can box if gorgeous, too. Have you seen painted-metal aluminum boxes, that have kind of a color wash in certain areas? Any suggestions for a paint that could be used that would adhere but could be diluted to make a wash?

    Please let me know your address to enter the raffle.

    • Thank you so much!

      The first thing I think of for a wash-style color on metal is alcohol or solvent based ink. I have several that would work on hand, so I used aluminum foil and did a quick test sheet:

      Test sheet

      Copics are wonderfully bright. I think they’d be my first choice. The Adirondack alcohol ink makes a nice wash. StazOn is hard to see here, but it’s nice. I used it from the pad, but you could more easily paint with it from a refill bottle. Sharpies are also nice and bright. You could dilute all of these with alcohol. They set almost immediately, and don’t rub off.

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