Tips for Painting Concrete Stepping Stones | Paint Beautiful Butterflies with Stencils

In this video, Patricia Rawlinson gives tips on painting a concrete paver or stepping stone to put out in your yard. You'll learn some great tricks on sealing, paint application and varnishing on concrete. You'll also learn how to use layered stencils. Layered stencils are the best and easiest way to paint details designs like a butterfly.

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🎨Paints: Use a good quality craft acrylic paint, if your paint is runny or seems thin, it won't perform as well as paints that have body and are not thin.

In this project, we used DecoArt Patio Paint in the following colors:
Pine Green
Tiger Lily Orange
Wrought Iron Black
Feisty Yellow
Warm White
Holly Berry Red
Citrus Green

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⏰Times:
0:00​​​ - Intro
0:09 - Getting Started
0:34 - Sealing the Concrete
3:35 - Base Coat
6:26 - Shading the Edge
7:47 - Butterfly Base Coat
12:22 - Blending in Yellow
14:33 - Adding in White Sparkle
15:13 - Shading in Red
17:16 - Stenciling the Butterfly Detail
21:12 - Dabbing in Extra Detail
23:30 - Stenciling Background Swirls
27:52 - Fairy Dust Trail
37:06 - Varnish Finish
39:25 - Finished Reveal

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