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Step 18Paint and distress your wand
These steps have been more or less covered in greater detail in the HP Awesome Wands instructable and in the Wizardry & Magic section of dadcando, but I have put a brief description here. You have to mind you don't paint over the switch contacts and the LED.
1) Seal the wand with spray paint or emulsion (must be something that sets or dries water proof).
2) paint with wood colour or colour of your choice
3) paint with black mixed with a little water and wipe off as you go so that paint stays in the cracks and corners
4) detail with gold paste, gold paint, gold or silver marker pen or gold or silver leaf
Don't worry if you get a little bit of paint on the switch contacts and they stop working, all you have to do is carefully scratch off the paint to reveal the metal at the point where they touch.
HOWEVER take care not to spray the LED, the best way to do this is to wrap a scrap of tape round the end when you are spraying so that it stays unpainted.
1) Seal the wand with spray paint or emulsion (must be something that sets or dries water proof).
2) paint with wood colour or colour of your choice
3) paint with black mixed with a little water and wipe off as you go so that paint stays in the cracks and corners
4) detail with gold paste, gold paint, gold or silver marker pen or gold or silver leaf
Don't worry if you get a little bit of paint on the switch contacts and they stop working, all you have to do is carefully scratch off the paint to reveal the metal at the point where they touch.
HOWEVER take care not to spray the LED, the best way to do this is to wrap a scrap of tape round the end when you are spraying so that it stays unpainted.
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