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don't miss any great diy content today's all about painting techniques i have four easy painting
techniques that you probably have all the supplies already in your craft room to do all of them so
i'm gonna do a step-by-step tutorial on how you can take brand new wood and make it look old and
vintage and chippy four different ways okay let's get started today i'm going to show you four quick
and easy ways to take brand new pieces of wood and make them look old and vintage and chippy
these are really easy to do and you probably have all the products that you need right in your craft
supplies i'm using four pieces of scrap pine all cut to the same size and i'm prepping them
all the same way so when these techniques are done you can see the difference between each one
i've got them all sanded down and now i'm going to put on a coat of some oil-based stain
i like using a dark color as my base coat so when i distress that dark color will peek through
the first technique that i'm going to show you is using oil based stain we already have the first
coat of oil-based stain on there now i'm putting a second one on but we're not letting it dry
while it's still wet i'm taking my chalk paint and i'm brushing it on top of that oil-based stain
the oil-based stain and the water-based chalk paint do not like to be mixed together
and it'll leave a streaky finish as you can see here
the next technique is to use Vaseline wherever you put Vaseline on your piece
of wood the paint will not adhere to it so when you sand it later after it's completely dried
wherever there is Vaseline you will be able to see the layer of paint underneath i've applied
the Vaseline all around the outside edge of that piece of wood and now i'm taking my chalk paint
and i'm going to paint right over top of that Vaseline set it aside and let it dry completely
the third technique is to use salt i love using pickling salt it gives a really authentic chippy
look but you can also use table salt or bath salt i'm just going to paint chalk paint over the
entire board and then i'm just going to sprinkle the salt right into that wet paint the more salt
that you put on the more chippy of a finish you're going to have in the end i like to sprinkle it
over the entire board into that wet paint if you only want it chippy around the edges then just
apply the salt around the outside of the board and then set it aside and let it dry completely
the last technique is so simple all you need is a scraper i just picked this scraper up at the
dollar store you can find them at the hardware store and we're just going to paint on our chalk
paint and while it's still wet just scrape that scraper along that wet paint and take off that
top layer this will make a brand new piece of wood look vintage and old in a minute and you can
control how much paint you take off whether you want it really weathered looking or just lightly
weathered by how many times you scrape that scraper along the top surface of that wet paint
once they're all dry i'm going to take an 80 grit sandpaper and i'm going to sand all over
those boards and around the edges and finished our distressed look the first one that i'm sanding is
the oil based stain now one thing that you should take into consideration when doing this technique
is you're going to get oil-based stain on your paintbrush so don't use a good brush or you'll
have to clean it with a special cleaner to take off the oil-based stain and the chalk paint the
next technique is the Vaseline method anywhere where i have applied the Vaseline when i take
the sander over it the paint has not adhered to it and it will sand away giving a really chippy look
this one is the scraper method and it is so simple and so easy to achieve an old vintage look
just with a scraper and a little bit of chalk paint
next board we're going to work on is the one that i applied the salt to this one can get really
messy so make sure you're doing it outside or in an area where it doesn't matter if it gets dirty
we're just using that 80 grit sandpaper and we're sanding off all of that salt and as you do
it creates this wonderful finish i think this is actually my favorite for creating authentic
looking signs and using this technique underneath and here are the four techniques side by side
and you can see how each one looks completely different i've taken all four of these boards
and i've made them into signs using my mod podge reverse graphic transfer method so you
can see how much of a difference the technique of aging your wood underneath can make when you're
creating signs i hope this tutorial has been helpful and let me know down in the comments
which one's your favorite also make sure to like and subscribe if you like this kind of content
thanks for watching have a great day and we'll see you in the next video