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Tips & Techniques

A simple guide to how to choose, and mix, paint colours to match your Mint Decoupage Papers, and how to blend them for a seamless finish.

Mineral Paint vs Chalk Paint - what's the difference?

All the important differences between Mineral Paint and Chalk Paint using Mint Mineral Paint and Annie Sloan Chalk Paint.

My beautiful Italian inspired cupboard - I hope you love her as much as I do! 
In this quick tutorial I give you the basics of how to resin using Barnes Epoxy Glass over our Mint decoupage paper - Karen's technicolour bouquet.

Easy peasy cute Christmas board upcycle using decoupage paper Mint Christmas, Merry Christmas stencil and some fabulous Annie Sloan Chalk Paint.

Such a fun way to transform a board to be used for placemat, platter or just hang it on your wall.

Create a fabulous crafty, bright and colourful clock using a resin board, Mint decoupage paper "Karen's technicolour bouquet", and Annie Sloan paintUnique Options top coat and a clock set from Spotlight (you can grab one from any decent craft store). 

A super quick and easy upcycle of a plant pot using Annie Sloan Chalk Paint in Scandinavian Pink and Original and using our Barleycorn Vintage stencil Scandinavian Botanical.

We use a Chalk Paint dipping technique on this one and it's super fun!

Here's a step by step tutorial on how to use our fabulous A1 Transfers. This video shows the Poppies transfer being applied from start to finish.
Check out these instructions for how to apply our newest decoupage paper - Karen's Technicolour Bouquet.
Keen to work with pigments but a bit unsure on how to go about it? Check out this full guide on how to mix and how to use them.
Check out this technique for a super quick and easy, pretty much wrinkle-free, wet method of using decoupage paper.

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