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you don't miss any great diy content today's video is all about how to crackle paint on
glass a little bit of a tricky process i've been testing and trying all kinds of different methods
finally came up with a way that's pretty foolproof so i'm going to show you today the step-by-step um
tutorial of how i create that crackle paint on glass lots of work let's get started we're going
to do some crackle paint on some glass upcycled bottles i have a wine bottle and i have a pickle
jar i'm going to show you two different techniques that you can try to crackle paint the first thing
that we're going to do is we're going to put just a light spritz of spray paint on these
it just helps the paint bond better to the glass you can use a flat white spray paint i really like
this primer that's my go-to i'm going to take them outside and give them a light spray the primer is
all dry and it works fantastic as a base on glass when you're doing this technique you
can use any sort of color combinations my go-to is usually a darker color on the base and then a
light white on the top but like i said you can play around and do whatever color combinations
that you like on the wine bottle i'm going to start with putting a base of black chalk paint
and for the pickle jar i'm going to use some really pretty blue
this paint is completely dry this is a really good tip you want to make sure every coat of
paint in between each coat is really really dry if you try to put the next coat on while
this is still a little bit wet when you paint it on it's going to lift the paint let it dry
we're now ready to start the crackle process this is another little trick that i like to do
for when you're working on glass bottles so the bottle doesn't roll all around this is
just a lint roller and it'll stick to the side of the bottle and it'll prevent it from rolling
when we're doing this crackle process i like to do it in steps i find that if you try to do the
whole bottle all at once i didn't have as good re as results so we're gonna do panels probably three
panels before where you've completed the whole bottle now to create some crackle on this one
i am going to be using hairspray this works fantastic on wood to create track crackle also
works great on glass i have a full tutorial on how i did a wooden sign with this i'll put the link
down below in the description you can check it out any kind of hairspray will work you just want to
make sure that you put a really thick coat of it on so i'm just going to spray it on one section
and you want it to look really wet
and you can speed the process up with the heat gun i find it works better than the
hair dryer the hair dryer has such a gush of air it can kind of move stuff around
so if you have a heat gun just put it on low setting and just dry that hairspray
my hair spray is completely dry we're now going to add our top coat i'm using some white chalk paint
you can use acrylic paint or latex paint just whatever you have in your stash what you want to
do with this is you don't want to work it too many strokes you want to just kind of do long strokes
and just in that area where we put hairspray
now here's where i found it worked the best i find it works better if you dry it with
the heat gun the crackles will turn out better and show up faster than just letting it air dry
so now that we've got this on we're going to use a heat gun and you will see the crackles appear
as you can see with the hairspray it's a very fine crackle it's not a real thick pronounced crackle
but it's still beautiful but we're going to show you the elmer's glue i really like
the way that it crackles the next method i'm going to show you is with school glue
any kind of school glue will work i just have the elmer's on hand
and we're going to put it in sections again like the last one we're just going to paint
the elmer's glue and you don't want a really thick coat you just want it to completely cover
that one area you can get it right up around the rim if you want some crackles up there
this also works great on wood if you want to try this technique on wood too i have a full tutorial
on how to create crackle paint for a base for your
signs and we're just going to let that just kind of sit for about 30 seconds and just kind
of get tacky this is sap for about 30 seconds now we're going to take the white chalk paint
and again you don't want to make too many strokes in it you just want to kind of make long strokes
maybe just going up and down a couple times
and we're going to get our heat gun and dry this
and look at the crackle with the elmer's glue we're going to go on to the next panel we're gonna
put the elmer's glue right up to where we left off the same amount and then add the paint on top
the reason that i do it in sections is i found when i did it standing up
gravity actually pulled the glue and the paint down and it didn't crackle as well so i know this
is a little bit more of a process doing it this way but i do find that you'll have better results
we're just going to put that coat of white paint
we're not working it in too much
once you get the hang of this it it goes really easy
and we're going to get our heat gun and dry it up and there's the crackle with the elmer's glue
out of the two methods this is my favorite um but if you're
looking for just like a nice small crackle then the hairspray works well
now you're at the step where you can decoupage on top of this if you have some pretty napkins
i don't like doing a graphic transfer on top of these the reverse one because it is a little bit
fragile and when you're putting water on to rub off the paper it it doesn't stick that well but
decoupaging is perfect or you can just seal them up and add embellishments on top i'm going to seal
them up with my water-based polyacrylic sealer in satin and there you have two different techniques
to crackle paint on glass if you want to use the elmer's glue it gives a real pronounced crackle
and if you want to try the hairspray it gives more of a smaller crackle i've added a couple
tags on them a full plant in the pickle jar and i'm propagating my umbrella plant
and let me know down in the comments if you've ever tried either of these
crackle techniques thanks for watching have a great day and we'll see you in the next video