Plasti-kote spray paint. A library of decorating tips and decorating ideas.

Communicate with your friends and family in real style by giving a boring old phone a character all of its own. Plasti-kote spray paints make it simple to create a fun design. You'll need an old phone, a selection of Plasti-kote spray paints, then get creative. You don't need to be artistic to achieve fantastic results and once you've started you won't want to stop.

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You'll need

An old phone
Stiff A3 card
Scissors (or Craft Knife)
Pencil
Newspaper

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Step by step guide

Carefully strip down the phone by removing the base and buttons, clean thoroughly.

Place newspaper down to protect the area in which you are spraying. Now spray the phone with Super White Primer. Allow 45 minutes to dry.

To achieve the background colour spray Gloss Super Yellow at one end of the phone and Metallic Gold at the other crossing over in the middle. Don't spray too close to the surface of the phone, this will help to blend the colours. Allow 45 minutes drying time.

Now you need to make a loose mask of your leopard spots. To do this take your stiff card and draw a series of irregular spot shapes (make sure you've left enough surrounding card to protect the phone as you spray). Carefully cut these small spot shapes out using pair of scissors or craft knife.

You then hold the card roughly an inch above the surface (the closer you hold the card to the phones surface the harder the edges) and spray the Matt Super Black through the loose mask. Practice this on some newspaper first as it will take a few goes to get it how you want it.