For my daughter's 10th birthday party we decided to do a "Beach Ball" theme party. The invites were printed on a beach ball picture picked randomly from the web. The party was at home and although we had enough happening to keep the kids entertained, I still wanted to go with one craft activity. What if it rains!!
So we picked beach bags from Daiso the $2 store and decided to personalise them. The bags were made of plastic and I was not sure what to decorate them with.
Beach Bags
A trip to Art Friend resulted in picking up Stencils with a beach theme and 'Painty pens' (otherwise known as 'paint markers') as advised by the staff there.
They are oil based, permanent pens that work like paint brushes. The colours are vibrant and the pens are easier to control as compared to paint brushes. They also work on many different surfaces like plastic, glass, ceramic and metal and dry almost instantly.
Zig Painty Pens
In our test run we ran into a problem. The minute we lifted the stencil off the bag, the paint started spreading. Finally we decided to use permanent markers of the same colours (fortunately we discovered a whole set of coloured markers in my craft cupboard) and do the whole design outline first and then use the Painty pens to fill up.
Coloured Permanent Markers
It worked beautifully.
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