hi there it's Deidre from Our Upcycled Life welcome to my channel if you like thrifting diys
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have a video on how to make coffee grind paint and this stuff is fabulous the end result on a project
um is just I love the texture of it so make sure you stick around so you can get the recipe for
it and I'm going to show you what I did to a thrifted vase to upcycle it with this paint and
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okay let's get started I'm going to teach you how i make my coffee grind paint
this is what you're going to need to make your coffee grind paint a measuring spoon and a
measuring cup some warm water some paint of choice plaster of paris and some dried coffee grinds
you're going to add a quarter of a cup of the plaster of paris
and I actually have filled this up a little bit more than a quarter of a cup
so I might need to add a little bit more water but the recipe calls for a quarter
cup and two tablespoons of warm water I'm going to mix this all together
and i do need to add a little bit more water because I overfilled my quarter cup a little bit
so I'm just going to put in another tablespoon of water because you want a nice creamy consistency
you want to make sure that you're using warm water so it dissolves the plaster of paris really well
I'll have a link down below in the description where you can purchase plaster of paris on amazon
and this is what your plaster of paris mixture should look like nice and creamy
now you're going to add two tablespoons of your paint of choice you can use chalk paint
latex paint acrylic paint and any color I like using a white because then when you
are finished you can have your coffee grinds show through
incorporate the paint really well into the plaster of paris mixture
and now you're gonna add a quarter cup of the coffee grinds i actually took these out of my
coffee maker put them on a cookie sheet and let them dry overnight you don't want the moisture
in the coffee grinds to be in this paint formula stir it really well make sure it's all blended
really well into that plaster of paris and the paint mixture and we're ready to use the paint
okay it's all incorporated together and this is a consistency that it should look like
when all of the coffee grinds are all mixed in with the plaster of paris and the paint
and this is the vase that's going to get the makeover I picked it up at the thrift
store for a couple bucks and it needed to be freshened up so this coffee grind paint
is going to be perfect for it and we're ready to get painting and you can use this paint on
any project on wood on glass on ceramics just use your imagination and give it a try
now I'm using long strokes just trying to get the coffee grinds kind of evenly
dispersed throughout the project um later on the next coat you can kind of
pat it on but this first coat you just want to liberally paint the whole vase
and you can already tell how fabulous this texture is going to be
and if you guys have never used one of these Wooster
paint brushes they are amazing for craft projects I'll put a link below down in the
description so you can check them out on amazon because they're really neat crafting paintbrush
and i got the first coat completely done and it looks really great I love the texture of it
and now we're just going to let it dry completely before we put on the second coat
now when you're putting on the second coat just do long strokes and wherever you see there might
be a little spot where you need to add some more texture you can dab it on with this paint brush
and just it doesn't have to look perfect that's not the idea of this kind of paint
you just want it to kind of look very rustic and very old and antique so just dab away paint and
it'll look fabulous when it's all dry
and to finish off this second coat I'm just going to take my side of my paint brush and just kind
of dab all over the whole vase just to give it a little bit more texture and if you see any spots
that need a little bit extra paint or a little bit extra of the coffee grinds just dab it on
at the end of the video I'll have the recipe so you can take a screenshot of it
and I'll also have a link down in the description
okay I've let this dried completely and now i want to take my sanding
block this is like a 120 sanding block and I'm just going to gently
sand the whole vase and what this is going to do is it's just going to take that paint off the
little edges of the coffee grinds and let that brown of the coffee grind kind of peek through
and I have it all sanded down and it looks wonderful I love the way the little bit of
the coffee grind kind of shows through that brown and it makes it look really antique
now when using this paint i like to seal it with a polyacrylic sealer I'm using the verithane
matte finish and I'm just gonna put a liberal coat over the whole vase i find if you don't do
this with this paint technique the coffee grinds kind of have a tendency to kind of fall and flake
off a little bit and this seals everything in nice and tight you also might find that you have
a little bit of a coffee odor and by putting the poly acrylic on top of it it will get rid of all
of that smell not that it's a bad smell because I love coffee but it just if you're putting in
your living room and somebody's sitting beside it you don't want to have that coffee odor so
by putting the poly acrylic on top of it it will seal it all up and eliminate all of that smell
and here's the finished vase and I just love it I love this texture it's so cool and last week
I did a video on how to make sand paint and this is the vase that I did with the sand paint so go
back and check out this recipe because it's really cool too I'll leave a link up here and also a link
in the description and give them both a try let me know which one you like best okay happy painting
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