Y’all this is one of those lit­tle tips I wish I had know a loooong time ago. Once you see how easy it is to rust met­al using cin­na­mon, it will knock your socks off. And I have to warn you, after try­ing this lit­tle trick to mak­ing met­al look rusty, EVER-E-THING is gonna be rusty up in here.

I am always see­ing these adorable lit­tle gal­va­nized pieces here and there. Craft stores, the dol­lar tree…etc But I rarely snag one sim­ply because it looks a lit­tle too shiny. I like for the met­al to have a nice lit­tle age to it. I dis­cov­ered this need lit­tle rust­ing kit and used it to rust my hard­ware on my DIY kitchen island, but I want­ed some­thing a lit­tle quick­er for crafting. 

WATCH THE VIDEO TUTORIAL HERE

SUPPLIES

• Cin­na­mon
• Mod Podge

That’s lit­er­al­ly it! Of course you need what­ev­er met­al you wish to age. In this case, it was a cor­ru­gat­ed heart from Hob­by Lob­by and a cute lit­tle Dol­lar Gen­er­al sign to attach it too.

I did­n’t take very many pic­tures of the process because it is pret­ty much self explana­to­ry. All you lit­er­al­ly have to do it apply a thin coat of mod podge to the met­al. Sprin­kle with cin­na­mon and then apply anoth­er thin coat of mod podge on top. 

SERIOUSLY.

The only mod­i­fi­ca­tions I would sug­gest is a sec­on coat of cin­na­mon and mod podge for more “rust”. I did­n’t even wait between my coats. 

For the rest of this project, I stained the lit­tle wood piece I found at the local Dol­lar Gen­er­al and dry brushed it with a white Waver­ly chalk paint. 

Once the sign and the heart were nice and dry. I attached them with hot glue and VIOLA! A beau­ti­ful lit­tle piece of Valen­tine’s Day decor that match­es the rest of the room. 

I have a few oth­er Valen­tine’s Day DIY’s on the blog as well! Go check them out!