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We love painted floors here at Dooney & Daughters and have painted floors in our Auckland shop. For many painting your floors is a great way to freshen up a space and add some colour into a room. Using The...
In this short tutorial we talk through how to make coloured waxes with The Artisan Company premium chalk paints and high performing clear wax. What is coloured wax? The Artisan Company has two different waxes - Clear Wax and Dark...
In this tutorial we show you how to use two of the different metallic glazes by The Artisan Company. What is a metallic glaze? The metallic glazes are a translucent paint with metallic pigments, designed to enhance a colour or...
A quick guide to our favourite Staalmeester brushes and what they're used for. If you have any questions about which brush would be best suited to your next chalk paint project, please get in touch. Pro-Hybrid Round Brush These brushes...
We get asked all the time about the difference between the decoupage papers and what they should be used for, so we thought we'd jump on here to give a quick overview of them. Napkins Napkins are great for decoupaging...
This week we had a play with the new décor stamps by ReDesign with Prima. What are décor stamps? The Clearly Aligned Décor Stamps feature customised, printed designs on the clear acrylic stamp itself. This allows you to clearly align your...
This week we worked on a large stencil project as a display piece for the shop and thought we'd give a bit of an introduction to stencilling, the different types of stencils and different tools that you can use. What...
Following on from our last blog post about transfers where we talked about the basics of transfers, this week we demonstrated how to put a transfer onto a bedside table. Applying a transfer to a piece of furniture involves the...
We've dubbed this week Metallic Week in our Remuera shop! We are now stocking the full range of The Artisan Company metallic cremes and glazes and thought we'd go over the basics of what they are and how to use...
For this weeks online training, we demonstrated how to use a napkin for decoupage. Napkins give a beautiful and traditional decoupage finish. They work well on flat surfaces and because they're so thin, they are also great on curved surfaces...
