HOW TO – Gold Leaf River Rocks

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Becky Stern is a Content Creator at Autodesk/Instructables, and part time faculty at New York’s School of Visual Arts Products of Design grad program. Making and sharing are her two biggest passions, and she's created hundreds of free online DIY tutorials and videos, mostly about technology and its intersection with crafts. Find her @bekathwia on YouTube/Twitter/Instagram.

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November 28th, 2008

Spotted in the CRAFT Flickr pool: user poopscape made an interesting tutorial on using gold leaf to embellish river rocks as an alternative to hokey holiday decorations. From the site:

This Christmas, instead of forking out the big bucks for the big bling, try this instead. Gold leaf is surprisingly cheap ($7 for a pack of 25 5″x5″ sheets) and when used with double tack mounting film, it’s really easy to use. The mounting film can be cut into any design, regardless of how intricate or delicate it is. You can add gold leaf to just about any surface, but I thought I’d use it to transform the humble river rock into something special to decorate my house with this Christmas. Gold leaf is festive and Christmassy without screaming, “Christmas!” in your face. Hate that.

I love the Andy Goldsworthy recreation above.

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