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miss any great diy content today's video is on how to make baking soda paint it creates a
fabulous finish nice and textured and it's been really popular over on tik tok and Instagram
so I wanted to do a tutorial on how I make mine and it's super simple super easy make sure you
stick through to the end because I've used some upcycled glass jars from my recycling bin and
made them pretty with this baking soda paint so and also the graphics that I used on this project
are available in my Etsy store um all my YouTube friends make sure you use the code save 50 and
you get 50 off all the graphics in my shop I'll put a link up here and down in the description
and if you see any that you like make sure you grab them and you can try this project yourself
okay let's get started okay this is what you're going to need your paint of choice a measuring cup
a stir stick and baking soda and you can use latex or acrylic paint for this recipe
this recipe is so simple I use the ratio one to one so I have a quarter of a cup of latex paint
and I'm going to add a quarter of a cup of my baking soda this recipe creates a nice fluffy
grainy texture and I love it and you're just going to incorporate this baking soda into the
paint and stir it really well until it's blended and you'll see that it starts to go kind of fluffy
and that's when you know you have it mixed really well and it'll thicken up quite a bit too
I've also done some tutorials on other textured paints and if you have a chance
you should check those out I did one on coffee grind paint and also on sand paint
each one has different textures and different ways that it paints on
so definitely check them out and see which one that you like the best this is the consistency
that it should be when you're all done stirring and incorporating the baking soda
okay I'm going to paint some of these gloss jars from the recycling bin
so I can show you what the effect is with this baking soda paint
this paint recipe can be used on wood on ceramics on glass on any project and you can adjust the
amount of baking soda that you add depending on how much of a texture you want for your project
I find with this paint it usually takes two sometimes three coats
this first coat has dried completely and this is what the texture looks like
after one coat and now I'm ready to put on the second coat
and now the second coat is completely dry and for my last finishing coat
I don't like to use the brush because I want to get rid of those brush lines that i find
are quite prominent when you're using this recipe so I'm going to use just a small piece of sponge
and I'm just going to sponge it on all over the whole glass
this will also give it a little bit more of a textured look also
and look at that isn't it fabulous
now I'm going to show you how I'm going to finish these off I painted another jar
also they're all completely dry and I'm going to put some graphics on them
I printed off some graphics on some napkins I have a tutorial on how to do
this I'll put the link down below in the description and up above and when
I can't find my own napkins I like to make my own especially if I want to put graphics on something
so I've printed these off on my printer and I'm just going to cut them down to size
to fit onto my jar and then we're going to decoupage them on with mod podge
when applying these onto my jars i don't want to have the straight lines of the napkin
so I'm just going to dampen a paint brush in a little bit of water and just kind of make a
ragged edge all around the napkin so it blends in better when i put it onto the glass bottle
and it just gives it more of a nice finished look and you just want to be really gentle with this
just dampen it just enough to make the napkin wet take your paintbrush around the edge where
you want to remove the excess napkin and it will just tear apart really easy once it's wet
these graphics are available in my Etsy store if you'd like to try these on your own project make
sure you use the code SAVE50 so you get 50% off the graphic or all the graphics in my store and
download them right to your computer and you can use them at home whenever you want to get crafting
we're going to decoupage those napkins onto the jars with my mod podge mat
I'm going to decoupage these napkins using the water method i find this
method works the best when you're trying to apply to any sort of a textured finish
you're going to completely soak the napkin and then really carefully just make sure you
get all the wrinkles out of it it'll tear really easy so you just want to be very gentle with it
but it will get a little bit of wrinkling so you just want to make sure that it's nice and flat
and then you're going to apply your mod podge right to the glass jar
on top of the paint and you just want a light coat you don't want to make it too thick or
you'll introduce bubbles and wrinkles so you just want to smooth it right out
just a light coat the same size as the napkin that you're going to be decoupaging on
I like to take a cloth and just dampen up any water that would be still standing on
the napkin because you don't want it soaking wet and the nice thing that we've put it on
this little plastic sleeve is you can pick it right up and apply it right onto the glass jar
and you don't have to worry about any wrinkles or bubbles because it'll go on nice and smooth
you want to make sure you have it nice and centered and then just press it down
and just work out any water or any little bubbles underneath and smooth it right into that textured
paint
and then you can very gently very carefully just peel away that plastic sleeve and your graphic is
left right on that jar and when you're using a white napkin on a white paint it blends in
perfectly of course this technique if you were using a darker color with a nice white napkin
you would be able to see the outline of it so if you were going to do this technique you would want
to stick with the white paint as your background and I'm just going to work away at the second jar
and for my top coat i like to use a water-based polyacrylic sealer
and all finished I had a few embellishments and some little tags that I made and i think they're
really cute and I love having that textured paint underneath it just kind of makes it
look kind of rustic and old and gives it character so grab that baking soda that you
have in your kitchen mix it into some paint and try this technique and you'll have a lot of fun
let me know down in the comments if you've ever tried this before and make sure to check out the
coffee grind paint and the sand paint because they're fabulous finishes also thanks so much
for watching today's video and if you have any questions or comments leave them down below I
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