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deidra from our upcycled life and i do lots of thrifting upcycling repurposing and diy content
and today's video is all about creating faux crackle gloss this is gorgeous it's really
easy to do if you got some crayons dig them out of your stash let's get started
i'm going to do this crackle glass technique on these glass jars that i've pulled out of my
recycling bin you're going to need some crayons and you're going to need the white crayon for
the first project you want to make sure your gloss is nice and clean wipe it down with an alcohol pad
and then just start drawing all over your glass jar lines in different ways and up and down and
sideways all over the whole jar and you can do the bottom too make sure you're putting
enough pressure on the crayon that you're leaving an imprint on that glass and to get a
proper crackled glass look you want to make sure you're using the white crayon for this project
i've got it completely covered now we're going to get our polyacrylic sealer
water-based i have a little glass dish and i'm just going to pour a little bit you don't need
very much into the glass dish and then we're going to use some really fine silver sparkle
you don't want a sparkle that's going to be a bigger chunk you want a really fine almost dust
silver sparkle and we're going to incorporate that into the poly acrylic sealer i'm just going
to use my paint brush and mix it up really well no set amount just until you think that
it will look good and sparkle nice on your gloss and then you're just going to take
that polyacrylic sealer with a sparkle and just cover that whole glass jar the top and the bottom
i let the first coat of the poly acrylic sealer completely dry and now i'm going back in with
that crayon again and re-marking on top of that polyacrylic all over in that crisscross pattern
up and down and across no real set way just go over the whole thing with a crayon and then we're
going to go on top with another layer of that same poly acrylic sealer with the sparkle in it it's
really important that you let it dry really well in between coats or you're going to have things
kind of move around underneath i set mine out in the sun and it dried really quickly after i've
got that second coat on and before it dries i like to take my paint brush and just dab it it gives it
a little bit of a stippled effect and it helps pop that crackled glass look when it's all dry
okay so we're getting there it's now completely dried again
we're gonna go back one more time again with that crayon
crisscross everywhere marking it up and down i'm trying to create a really fine crackled glass look
i'd like to do two or three layers of this crackle technique
i just think it makes it look more authentic and more like crackle glass
and we're going to apply our last coat of that polyacrylic sealer with the sparkle in it same
thing we're going to tap it on and just kind of tap it up and down give it that stippled effect
put it outside in the sun and let it dry completely
it's now completely dried i am going to take this outside and i'm going to give it its final coat
and i'm going to use my engine enamel this is going to put a really heavy duty coat
on the outside of it so it can be dusted it's not going to be waterproof but it's going to
be water resistant so you can wipe it down with a damp rag if you need to when you want to clean it
putting a liberal coat on we're going to set it aside and let it dry completely
i'm going to do a second one but we're going to use pink this time the pink crayon
and same method we're going to criss-cross over that whole entire glass jar
you can see how you can get really creative with this technique and you can do it for
all the different seasons i was thinking how cool this would be to do one for halloween
and do it in black with a black crayon and black sparkle i think that would look fantastic so
i have this completely covered all over with the crayon same thing we're gonna pour in a little bit
of that poly acrylic sealer and i have some pink sparkle just gonna add it into it stir it up with
my paint brush to incorporate it really well and i wanted to do a little bit of a twist with this one
i'm gonna get my gel food coloring i bought this pack of all these different colors i'm just gonna
add a little tiny dab of it into that poly acrylic sealer it's just going to tint everything to have
a little bit more of a pink color and i think it'll look really beautiful when we paint it
on top of that jar if you don't have any food coloring you can always add just a little dab
of acrylic paint also first coat we're going to paint over the entire glass jar over all of that
crayon and do the sides and the bottom and make sure you're saving all of your glass jars out
of the recycling bin because this is just one of many diys that you can do with glass jars
let it dry completely we're going back in with the crayon again marking every which way up and
down and sideways and then we're going to do another coat of the polyacrylic sealer again
bye
and here are our finished glass crackle jars i think it actually looks really authentic
especially the white one the pink doesn't show maybe quite as much but still would be
fun to do in all kinds of festive colors but the white is gorgeous and how easy of a diy
is this with all you need is a little bit of glitter polyacrylic sealer and a crayon
i just hot glued some twine on the top of this one and i had a piece of lace that i put
on the white crackled glass and this is what they look like at night aren't they beautiful and they
just sparkle so nice with a little candle in them so give this technique a try and let me know down
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