hi guys it's Deidre from our upcycled life welcome to my channel if you like thrifting diy's and
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video on how to make sand paint this stuff is fabulous it can take a glass jar a glass vase
pretty much anything and turn it into something that looks like old pottery and it has a nice
beautiful texture to it so today step by step tutorial on how you can create your own
sand paint and also if you've gone back and you've looked through some of my other videos
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for all my Youtube friends okay let's get started and this is what you're going to need to create
your sand paint you're going to need some plaster of paris some warm water your paint of choice you
can use the acrylic latex or chalk paint some sand and just something to mix and measure with
you're going to use one quarter of a cup of plaster of paris
two tablespoons of warm water make sure your water is warm because it
will mix in with the plaster of paris much better and you're going to stir
it really well and make sure it's all mixed together so it's nice and smooth
now if you're working on a bigger project you can always double or triple this recipe it's
just something that if you are mixing it up you want to make sure you use it right away because
it does not store very well and it will harden up so that's the texture that you're looking for
and I'm going to put in two tablespoons of the acrylic paint and like i said before you can use
a acrylic paint you can use latex paint i would make sure that you use an eggshell or a satin in
the latex or you can use your chalk paint and you can pick any color that you want for this project
i picked this color because i wanted to have kind of a terracotta finish when i put it on my vase
and mix that paint really well into that plaster in paris and water mixture
and the last step is to add the sand now we have some sand in our yard so that's what I'm using
and your texture of your paint will be determined by the sand that you're using
so if you're using a really fine sand you'll have a fine texture
if you're using a really coarse sand then you'll have more of a coarse
paint when you're finished and I'm going to put in four tablespoons into this mixture
I'm going to give it a little stir after the first two before i add the next two tablespoons
and if you're using your own sand you want to make sure that you dry it out completely
before you use it you don't want any more moisture going into this recipe than what it's called for
and this is the consistency that it should be it's almost like a wet cement consistency
i will have the recipe at the end of the video where you can take a screenshot of it
um at the very end or you can go down in the link
in the description and I'll have the recipe down there too
and there's your finished sand paint all ready to be put on a project
I'm going to be painting this vase i found at a thrift store it looks like somebody may have tried
to spray paint it a little bit so I've just washed it really well got off all any film or anything
that might have been on it and then I'm going to paint the sand paint directly onto the vase and
I'm hoping to get a nice terracotta feel to this project you do not need to prime when using this
paint recipe it adheres to just about any surface so you can paint directly right on your project
without any prep and this is what it looks like it's nice and gritty and has lots of texture
and there's not really any sort of technique when painting with this you just slap it on you
can kind of chunk it on and up and down and it doesn't matter if you have lumps here and there
because when it's all finished that's the look that we're trying to achieve i have the first coat
all finished and you want to make sure you let it completely dry before you put your second coat on
and you can see it kind of changes color as it dries so you'll know when it's completely dry
okay my vase is completely dry and we're going to put on
a second coat and the same thing you're not any sort of technique just spread it on and let the
chunks end up where they end up and brush it on and cover all the areas of the whole vase
okay the second coat is on and it's all finished so now i have
to just be patient and let it dry completely
it's all finished and i love the way it dried and the way it looks it looks like an old terracotta
planter and i have a feeling I'm going to be painting every glass jar i have in my home
i decided to paint some other bottles that i had too in some different colors
and they turned out fabulous also
so gather up all those projects that need to be updated and give this sand paint a try
and here's the recipe for the sand paint take a screenshot and save it to your phone
and you'll have it to reference back to and it'll also be linked down in the description
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