hey everyone this is Debra at craft project whiplash and I thought I would do a little how-to video real quick and kind of compare the different colors of gold when you're trying to take a metal embellishment and maybe you have silver but you don't have any like antique brass or antique bronze which is what I like to use most of the time so I've tried the different metallic paints I've tried all kind of these type of paints and they don't really work that well so I wanted to tell you show you what I found and you can kind of compare now first off this is kind of what I'm going for so I want this sort of antique bronze little filigree kind of look where it's like dark in the crevices and stuff so that's what kind of what I'm going for so I bought a couple different things the rub and buff I bought a sharpie oil-based pen and this one is in color just as gold this one is a regular Sharpie gold metallic this one is a craft smart which I believe is a Michaels brand and it's a paint pen and this is gold okay and they all kind of do I did just basic painting so you could kind of see the difference so this one it's a little bit of a lighter gold this one has a little bit more of a deeper antique kind of gold and this is a antique gold but it's shinier so it's kind of I'd say in the middle of these two okay so that's just what happens when you just take the pin and paint it and let me show you this is what it looked like on the other side it just sort of that antique silver that you can buy a lot of embellishments in but this works on any color metal doesn't matter what color it is and these dry really fast the two sharpies this one dries pretty fast it's just I mean negligible less than a minute where these are almost instantly but that's not that big a deal okay and to get this sort of antique look what I've done is taken a black soot distress marker and you want a brush well this is what I did you want the cheapest brush that you can find this is like something I've had forever it's almost like a straw or like broom it's just real stiff um even a brush that you've had pain in it is dried and you don't come out just sort of a really neglected brush but I find that it works the best compared to say am a smooth a smooth one so and if you notice on these like graphic 45 ones they're painted like with a gold and then they have this sort of black dark kind of overlay and to me it kind of looks like it's just been brushed on there so it's kind of kind of where I'm going for too so and the reason that I'm doing this is because a lot of times you can find embellishments in one tone of metal but you can't find them in the color that you want and you're doing a project like I love the antique bronze but I can find a lot of stuff in silver and I can't seem to find it in the color that I like so like I found these sunflowers and only I've never been able to find them any other finish than this sort of antique silver so so real quick this is how I do it so just take one and I did the three so you could kind of compare and then figure out which one that you like the best okay so what we're going to do is we're going to take here's the one that's the darker the gold sharpie and I just did and this one but I was off-camera so but that's sort of after before after so here's this one before and then just take your Oh me the brush side and just scribble over the whole thing really quickly you don't really want it to dry so you kind of want to be quickly if you need to do it in segments but this this part you don't have to be perfect on you can just just basically brush it on there and then take your brush and I just kind of kind of hard like really burnish it on there and then get it into the elbows crack so that the black kind of sits in the cracks and the more that you brush it off of the the smoother spots will be lighter and that makes it look more like store-bought you can even take your finger and kind of brush a little bit more off of that area if you want to and this is the this is the before and this is what we're kind of going for or this one and look at that so it's it's a you know it's a little bit different this is a little bit darker I think than most of the metal pieces but this is pretty close now this is the darker sharpie marker which is not my favorite I like it and it good works in a pinch but I like the oil pin look the best so here I'll show you this one real quick because it's a little bit of a brighter color so when you rub off the black it has a brighter brighter color in the background sort of I guess it all just depends on what you're going for and what you particularly like convenience this is water-based and the this sharpie is all based it kind of wants to separate off there but it's it works and this one to me looks the most like store-bought antique bronze I'm really just really burnishing it and I feel like this one leaves it a little bit shinier like you would like you would get in a store-bought one compared to say this one that's a little bit duller and that one is this regular gold sharpie and this one is the oil pin gold sharpie and then this one if you like it's actually really pretty too so that's the craft smart paint pen and they're all done with the black set distress marker so you guys you could experiment with what I suppose you could probably even use like the spray stains or I don't know I haven't tried it so but this was just a quick video because I wanted to show you how I get this look without having to you know buy a separate and also here's another one too this is the silver so it's a bright shiny silver and then that's what it looks like after and then this is the one I bought at the store at Michaels so I think it's pretty close I mean for what you're using it for you know in the pot on your projects I don't do a lot with that color but I do a ton with this color and this one I use the Sharpie oil pen um this ribbon both I didn't like as much because I felt like it was a little pinkish a little wrote like wrote now if you're going for a rose gold that's great to me that's it says antique gold on the container but to me it looks like rose gold and then put these down this is what it looks like after the distress so it actually looks really pretty afterwards I think so it's just kind of whatever your preference is but this is how I figured out how to do it and I can use some of these pieces that I've had in my stash a long time that I just silver I went through a silver phase and I'm not really lacking that right now and I have tons of so silver embellishments so that's what it originally looked like and then that's what it looks like you can see and then the distress pin goes gets the dark all down in all the cracks and stuff so anyway that was a quick video I just want to come and give you that little tip and if you have any questions or anything let me know and I'll see if I can answer them for you all right thanks bye guys