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The way I do it is to cover the top (round) part of the brad with Versamark, then dip it into whatever color of embossing powder you want, then heat it up with your heat gun.
The only two ways I know how to change the color of a brad are too
1) emboss it - heat the brad and dip it in the EP, heat and repeat until brad is covered
2) using liquid glass, crystal effects (whatever its called in your neck of the woods) Put a small amount of liquid glass in a disposable container, and a drop of re-inker and mix. Place the brads into a piece of styrofoam and then apply the colored liquid glass with a toothpick and let dry. (you can probally dip them into the liquid glass too using tweezers and then set them upright in hte styrofoam - but I personally always mess that part up)
__________________ Kate
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Somewhere in the vast information that is Splitcoast are better instructions than what I'm going to give you but I did try this and had very good results. I took my brad (held it with a tweezer) and just dunked the 'brad' part into my ink pad. I was using the craft ink and then poured embossing powder over it and then heat embossed away. I worked pretty good. On one, it sort of rubbed out (had trouble getting the brad ends to separate and played with the brad a bit), but other than that, no problems. It might stick better if you sand off the brad top a bit to make the ink adhere better. I used the craft ink but if you used the classic ink I would think you'd have to stick the brad into versamark after you ink it and then emboss because the classic probably isn't wet enough (if you are using the pad). But just give it a shot I was surprised at how easy it worked. And the tweezers were needed because the brad is just too small to hold on to when you are using the heat gun!! Ouch!! Mary
I've changed the colour of brads by using my Identipen Markers. They adhere to metals and although the colours may be a little limiting, it's worked on the most part for me....Elsie
Hmm, I'm not familiar with the Identipen markers but I'll have to check them out - it sounds much quicker and easier than embossing, although they will have to air dry a bit. At my lss this weekend they were demonstrating the Sakura Souffle pens and they seem to write over metal-type stickers, so I'm wondering how well they'd do on metal brads. Anyone try this yet?
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I dipped silver brads into red alcohol ink for my Christmas cards this year - worked pretty well and dries very quickly. The result was a very pretty metallic red because the alcohol ink is transparent and the metal finish of the brad shines through. It does scratch fairly easily, tho.
Sharpie markers work for this too, but it's not an opaque look like the embossing gives. It's a neat metallic look. When I've received cards that have embossed brads, it seems to always chip off, so I haven't been impressed with that technique.
I agree with Mary, the embossing works pretty well and is surprisingly quick as well, but use tweezers. I have found that silver brads seem to work best with most craft ink colors, although there are some that don't seem to emboss as well. I've even embossed brads using Iridescent Ice EP instead of clear and it makes a very interesting effect depending on the color ink you use.
Identipen is made by Sakura who also make the Souffle pens and Glaze pens too. I've used the Glaze pens to change brads as well.
Found this on the web, thought it may be useful......
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I love using my sharpie pens - make a very quick Christmas Ornament metallic color and they do have lots of colors that match SU's.
Sharpie markers also work great to color your staples for your craft projects.
You can emboss your brads by first heating the brad (use needlenose to hold the prongs) and dipping the hot metal into the embossing powder, No need to versamark first if the brad it hot...and they don't seem to chip as often.
Has anyone tried acrylic paint? Just thought of that - I'll have to try it!
I used liquid glass and reinker and it is soo pretty... it shines and changes the colour...... I am going to have to try the heat embossing one.... Laura
I find that the Making Memories brads come in a large variety of colors that match up pretty well to the SU! colors. So, I use them. This is also pretty easy. hee hee hee
However, this post has a lot of great ideas when you just can't purchase a brad that is the right color. So I will have to keep this post in mind.
changing color of brads
