I must agree with eyedocwife's idea as a super one - I've fond that the best way to remove ANY stain is to "re-constitute" - if you will. (For example, to get motor oil off of jeans, I spray them with WD-40 and wash as normal - take them out of the washer and - viola - NO MORE MOTOR OIL!! But trust me, the first time I sprayed WD-40 on my clothing I said a lot of prayers!! But back to your erase board. I'm a public speaker and in one of our "tecnhiques" classes, a speaker said that he feared he'd ruined a client's white board with what turned out to be permanent marker, but was relieved when a woman came up during a break with a little pad of acetone nail polish remover and the ink came right off. If the ideas above don't work, you might want to give it a try!! ... View related article.
Well, here's some feedback from a "crazy" artist... 1. I've painted 25 of them with all sorts of metallic paint (of course, colors that matched my client's room). On some of them, I drizzled glitter glue, on some I stamped wild designs and then heat embossed the designs, on some others I put random stripes of 2-sided tape and them applied foils to the sticky areas. So here I sit with 25 wild decorated disks with holes in them... What to do? Get out 25 upholsterly tacks, take some polymer clay to make attractive tack "covers" and get to work. Bake the clay with the tack inside. When cool, draw a rendering of where you'd like the disks to go in the room. Then match up a disk with a clay-covered tack and (FIRST MAKE A PILOT HOLE - YOU DON'T WAN'T TO HAMMER POLYMER CLAY) pin them to the wall. They might just look retro; or possibly like planets, or beach balls, or one client wanted all round fruits represented... Whatever. I also had fun with a 7 and 8 year old who shared a bedroom and wanted the disks to each be different sports balls. (When done we'd made pro golf balls, baseballs, soccer balls, volley balls, basketballs, bocci balls, pool balls - like the 8 ball -, tennis balls, ping-pong, polo balls, croquet balls, shooter marbles, miniature golf balls, kickball, whiffle ball, red/black checker playing pieces)
2. For "sunpainting" on cloth or T-shirts, wet the fabric, put on the special paint (I use Set-A-Color), then lay the CDs on top - take a little trip outside and let the sun do the work. You'll have a wonderful pattern of "circles and circles". They can overlap or not.
3. Last, if you use a product called "Radiant Pearls" you know that this amazing paint will simply not dry on plastic. So, you can put little puddles of "pearls" on CDs and then store them in the plastic cases - just to keep the lint off them.
4. Okay, one more. Break the CD into litle pieces. Melt them by holding an edge with metal tongs, hit them with a heat gun and watch then distort, etc. When you like the shapes, put them in cold water to "hold" the shape. When you have a few you like, take glue meant for plastic, glue a few pieces together until you have the shape of a glamorous pin. Let the glue harden. Then drizzle the piece with glitter glue, different paints (made for plastic) and a myriad of other products. When dry, give the whole piece a nice coat with polyurothane and attach a pin on the back with E-6000 glue or 2-second glue. You'll have cool, one-of-a-kind jewelry.
I've just started doing some furniture re-finishing and I might just have a little help for you. I've been using this orange (supposed to be nicer to the environment) paint remover that you can spray onto your furniture. The directions specifically say that "it works on painted wicker, too." My next piece to do is wicker, so I'm going to try it. The problem is, I'm not at my home so I don't have the name of the product - but it's orange, in a spray bottle and I'm sure the word "Citrus" is in the product name!
Good Luck!
(Also check with your local hardware - hopefully, you've got an old-fashioned one where the people really know what products are out there -these folks are INCREDIBLY Invaluable. ... View related article.
