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How To Make Faux Galvanized Metal Letters

August 29, 2016 By: Linda @ Mixed Kreations11 Comments

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For these wooden letters I am using a faux galvanized Metal technique. One that I learned from a blogging buddy of mine, Sherry over at the Savvy Apron.

make wood look like galvanized metal

These faux galvanized metal letters are for another project that I am working on. But I wanted to try out Sherry’s paint technique.

I did change it up just a bit. Where she does messy paint stokes, I dabbed the paint on like when stenciling. (Supply list at the bottom of the post)

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Faux Galvanized Metal Technique

First start off by painting your letters with black Acrylic paint.

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Once dry dab on some of your charcoal grey paint, leaving some of your Black paint showing through. Before it dries use a paper towel and blot the wet paint a few times so that it will leave a blotchy looking area with some areas darker than others.

If your letters that you are giving the faux galvanized Metal technique to are large. Then you may want to work in small sections at a time. So that your paint doesn’t dry before you get it all blotted.

Faux galvanized metal

After that dries start adding some rainy day grey paint, again dapping it on but leave some of the under coats of paint showing.

Continue this technique with the metallic paint as well.

make wood look like galvanized metal

The & sign I did just a little differently so that it would stand out between the J and L letters. It had some burlap over it but I just painted over it.

I started off by painting it black like the letters then I went straight to Dabbing the metallic on.

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Wood Letters
Delta Ceramcoat Black Acrylic
Delta Ceramcoat Charcoal Acrylic
Anitas Rainy Day Grey Acrylic
Folk Art Metallic Acrylic
Old Paintbrush for Dabbing
Paper Towel

To see Sherry’s faux metal technique hop on over to the Savvy Apron, where she loves creating things, cooking, and more.

Don’t forget to stop by next week to see the rest of my project. Why I need these faux galvanized metal letter .

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  1. Sarah Jean says

    August 30, 2016 at 8:39 am

    These are very cool. We have a large “A” hanging in our apartment for our last name, but it would have been even cooler to have made it myself.

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    • Linda @ Mixed Kreations says

      September 6, 2016 at 6:53 am

      Thank you Sarah! Maybe next time you can give this a try for some other letters or words that your going to use in another project, or decor.

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  2. Michelle says

    August 30, 2016 at 10:27 am

    Lovely Linda, and painting over the burlap gives it such an interesting effect. Pinning for future reference, thank you

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    • Linda @ Mixed Kreations says

      September 6, 2016 at 6:55 am

      Thank you Michelle! I wasn’t sure how painting over the burlap was going to look, but they were out of the “&” in wood. But I think it turned out pretty good.

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  3. Ilka says

    September 2, 2016 at 6:47 pm

    This is a great easy and simple technique you are showing Linda. The letters turned out great!

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    • Linda @ Mixed Kreations says

      September 3, 2016 at 5:06 am

      Thank you Ilka! I am happy how easy it was to do, and how they turned out.

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  4. Janine says

    February 21, 2017 at 12:54 pm

    Oh my goodness, you did an awesome job at making these look like metal! Great post, Linda!

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    • Linda @ Mixed Kreations says

      February 25, 2017 at 6:11 pm

      Thank Janine! This was fun learning a new paint technique. This is one that I will be using again and again.

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  5. Wendi @ H2OBungalow says

    March 23, 2017 at 6:17 am

    These are cute! I love paint and especially faux painting anything. Good tutorial, pinned:)

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    • Linda @ Mixed Kreations says

      March 23, 2017 at 4:41 pm

      Thank you Wendi! I love faux painting techniques as well. It’s fun trying out the new technique’s on different things. Thanks for pinning!

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    August 23, 2017 at 7:01 am

    […] flag. I got this idea at Lovely Etc. I kind of combined some of her paint technique along with my faux galvanized metal technique to come up with this one. And I got to say I’m pretty happy with the […]

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