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content today is a different spin on crackle paint if you've been following along you've
seen me make crackle paint um with a paintbrush this is a different technique and it turns out
fabulous makes a perfect base for any of your diy projects or for your signs
make sure you stay to the very end to see how it turns out because you're gonna love it okay
let's get started for this technique you're going to need a piece of wood to do your technique on
some school glue any type of school glue will work a little block of wood about this size
it doesn't have to be perfect and a squirt bottle that you can put water in to do this
technique you want to use a dark color first you can use any paint latex acrylic chalk paint
whatever you have on hand and you want to use up i'm going to put a coat over this whole board
making sure it's covered completely our base coat is all dry this technique is going to
create such a weather chippy look now we want to put on a second color that's kind of like
an accent color it can be any color you want and you don't want to put it over the whole board just
add it here and there so when we do the crackle technique it'll just peek through in some places
now we're ready for the secret potion our elmer's school glue i have a little dish of water and
we're going to do one part water to two parts glue it doesn't have to be exact but we want the glue
watered down a little bit so it flows really well and then we're just going to mix it together with
a little skewer until it's all incorporated into that water you want it mixed so it's almost like a
syrup that's the consistency that we're looking for we're now going to add this to our board
the thinner the amount of glue that you put on your board the thinner the crackles the
thicker you put it on the thicker the crackles and you want to cover your whole entire surface
getting right out to the ends of your board
when you're brushing it on you want to do long brush strokes
you don't want to have short little brush strokes long ones right from the start
to the end of the board that gives a nice consistent crackle
we're gonna let that glue just sit till it just starts to get tacky probably take about five
minutes now this is where our wood block comes in i have a plate and i'm just using some white
chalk paint you want to use a color that's lighter than what you've put on the base you're going to
dip it in the paint and it is going to create a real chippy finish when you apply it to the wood
you're going to take your block of paint and you just want to
rub it across you don't want to do too many passes you don't want to
work into that glue too much and that's all there is to it and then you can go on
to the next one just dragging it across creating that weathered chippy looking wood
it's a little bit messy
but it's worth it
now we just let it dry and let the glue do its magic
it's been about 10 minutes and we're already getting some fantastic crackling happening
i'm gonna keep letting it dry now you can dry this with a blow dryer or a heat gun but i find
it doesn't crackle as nice as if you just let it air dry so when i'm doing this technique
i just set it aside and don't touch it and let it do its work it's the next day
everything is completely dry look at the crackle that we created with that block of wood
it looks absolutely fantastic what i'm going to do now i want to sand all around the edges
and the outside i'm going to take it out to my shed i'm going to use an 80 grit sandpaper and
really sand it aggressively i'll finish sanding and like i said i was really aggressive with it i
really sanded it with an 80 grit sandpaper because we're trying to make a real authentic looking old
piece of wood you can leave it as is just the way it is right now it does look fantastic you can add
some antiquing wax you can add a little bit of stain around the outside but i'm going to show
you a little trick that i like to do that takes it to the next level let's get it set up now this
next step it can get a little bit messy you want your wood to be standing up and we're going to
have a mister to wet your wood you're just going to spray it completely all over the whole piece
i've just got some black latex paint and i'm just going to just dab it
you don't want very much doesn't have to be very much and we're just going to let it flow if it
does a little bit anywhere where there's raw wood you want to put a little bit of that black
paint just dabbing it just with a chip brush it works perfect you don't want to slop on too much
you want just enough to cover the edges and once we get it all covered we're going to go back to
that spray bottle and we're going to spray and let all that paint run it's going to give a fantastic
weathered look just add as much water until you get the desired effect
and it will give the wood a look like it's been outside for 100 years
this is why i say it gets a little bit messy because you're just going to
keep adding the water and letting it run down
okay i'm going to let this drip for a few minutes and then i'll come back and i'll show you how it
turned out i've got it all sprayed down and i have the look that i want now i've just got
an old t-shirt and i'm just gonna blot the top and the middle here and just blot some of that
extra water off and then we're going to set it aside we're going to let it dry completely
i've taken the board and now we're going to let it dry lying flat little tip when you are
squirting on the water it may reactivate the glue and the paint a little bit so don't touch
it i touched it here in a couple spots and it smeared the paint a little bit so once you've
sprayed the water you've got your desired effect don't touch it let it set aside and dry completely
so there's another painting technique for you to try
it makes a fantastic base for any of your diy projects for furniture
i love using it as a background for my signs that i make and it's so easy and simple to create
now's the time if you're going to use this technique on furniture or some sort of a project
and you need to seal it up i would seal it up with some polyacrylic sealer and it'll work perfect i
hope you've enjoyed today's tutorial thanks for watching have a great day and we'll see
you in the next video and if you love this video you'll probably really love the next one take care