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today i'm going to show you how you can make baking powder paint not baking soda paint and
not chalk paint baking powder paint and it creates this fluffy amazing paint texture
that i love to use on my glass phases it makes them have that kind of
ceramic look so it's a really simple easy recipe i'm going to show you the step-by-step
tutorial today on how you can make your own and we're going to paint this glass vase
that i picked up at a thrift store for 1.99 it was on the 75 off table and i'm gonna turn this into
a terra cotta looking ceramic planter that fits right into this holder so let's get started
what you're going to need for this recipe is some baking powder make sure you're not using
baking soda because you'll have a completely different texture when you mix up your paint
you want the baking powder if you're a baker you know the difference between baking soda and baking
powder the baking powder when you introduce it to any sort of a water substance it will rise and go
fluffy so that's what we want to create with this paint and i just picked up a tester paint
um container at home depot and i picked out a really nice terracotta color this is called
sunset bear and it's just a matte latex paint you can also do this with acrylic paint and
it works well and then you just need a little container to mix your recipe in
when you mix the baking powder into the latex paint it will start to fluff up and it kind of
gives this moussey kind of textured paint now the only thing is when you're mixing this up
only mix it up for what you need for that certain project this does not store well
it will thicken right up and be no good after you've mixed it up after about an hour so
only mix up what you're going to use for that specific project now you can adjust this recipe
to how much fluffiness you want in your paint i have the best results with one tablespoon of the
baking powder mixed into about half a cup of latex paint i'm now going to put in about half a cup
of the latex paint and like i said it doesn't have to be completely accurate you can adjust it
for how much fluffiness you want in your paint you will notice as soon as you start mixing it
it's going to fluff right up and give like a moussey kind of consistency and that's what you
want that's what you want the baking powder to do in your paint just make sure you mix it up really
really well and if you want to have it a little bit fluffier you can always add a little bit more
into the recipe if you want to but you can see the consistency see how it's fluffing
right up that's what you want it to do okay so now we're gonna get painting our vase
i've cleaned my glass face really well with soap and water and then i took some alcohol rubbing
alcohol and i cleaned it off really well to make sure that there's no grease or grime that was left
on it and i'm just going to use just a simple little chip brush and you just paint your vase
and you're probably wondering okay well what's the difference between a baking soda paint and
a baking powder paint and a chalk paint the chalk paint you're using plaster of paris
and it will adhere to any surface with minimal prep you don't have to prep much of the surface at
all baking soda paint gives kind of a grainy texture almost like sand in your paint when
you're mixing it and this baking powder paint gives it kind of a fluffy kind of ceramic look
to your projects so it's just kind of one of those things that you just kind of play around
and see what texture you like the best and just start painting your projects
i'm just going to finish putting on the first coat and then we want to seal the container of
the unused paint really well because it will dry really fast and then you won't be able to use it
again when you're putting on your next coat so i've got this almost finished i'm going to set
it aside and we're going to let it dry really well and then we're gonna put on our second coat
i've got the first coat on and you can see kind of the fluffy texture to it
i just love this paint recipe okay it's gonna probably take a couple hours to dry and if you
really love this pink color there's the code right there and this is the type of paint that i bought
this is drying really well and when you do a project like this a vase you want to make
sure that you paint in here too so it looks you can't see the glass and it looks like
it's an actual ceramic pot so i'm going to go ahead and paint that and as you can see this
is probably about an hour and a half later you can see how my paint has fluffed right up it's
and it's starting to thicken a little bit so we don't have a whole lot of shelf time
left with this so i'm just kind of hoping that it dries really well before it dries right up
so i'm just going to put a real good coat on the inside of this face
i've got the inside all painted and now i'm going to paint another coat on the whole outside
and you just want to just layer it on it's going to look kind of thick
as you can see but i love that texture
so i'm just going to work away and put a second coat on this whole vase i've got it all coated
with a second coat and i don't have too much left i actually kind of measured this really well
but what i'm going to do i think i'm going to let it dry and put the rest of this on as a third coat
but i want to create a little bit more texture so while it's still wet i'm just going to go around
and just dab the whole vase with my paintbrush and it just gives it a little bit more texture
and this is what it looks like after you've dabbed that paintbrush on it
the second coat has completely dried you can see the texture that it gives
and i had a little bit of paint left over um but you can see how it's really
thickened up and it's started to not really be able to use that well so what i'm going
to do is i'm going to use up the last of it and put a real thick coat all over the base of the
vase i love the texture that this baking powder paint has made fantastic
my vase is completely dry and i love the texture that this baking powder paint made now i want to
turn this into more of a terra cotta look so i've got a little bit of acrylic paint
and i'm just going to take a sponge and just kind of sponge it just to take away a little
bit of that stark kind of terracotta color and make it look like an old vintage terracotta pot
i am really enjoying making the baking powder paint i'm loving the texture that it gives and
i think this glass face i'll cycle beautifully if you've never tried this painting technique
give it a try because it's really easy to create fantastic diy projects i hope you enjoyed today's
video and it was helpful let me know down in the comments if you've ever tried this recipe
thanks for watching have a great day and we'll see you in the next video