Whilst clearing out my garden shed I found some hideous, yet in perfectly good condition, plant pots. I recently saw a post here about making chalkboard paint, and thought "labelled pots". Each pot is painted and the labels are just drawn on with chalk, so I can change the labels as I change the contents of the pot.
So how do you make chalkboard paint?
You need:
- acrylic paint
- grout
- something to paint (in this case plant pots)
How do you do it?
Mix half a cup of acrylic paint with one table spoon of grout.
These measurements always confused me - there are too different sizes of cup to define a cup! I think only in the USA do thy work frequently with the measurements. I have spent hours trying to find conversions, but then I found scoops with the measurements on them in Pound Stretcher! WIN!!
Once you've mixed enough to remove all lumps, paint your something. You have to paint rather quickly as the grout causes the mix the dry quickly.
As you may see from the top photo that pint acrylic paint was measured out. "But all your pots are blue!" The pink paint was thick and the lumps couldn't be removed, and the mixture wouldn't spread, but if you leave the paint in the sun for a while it thins out enough to work perfectly.
So how do you make chalkboard paint?
You need:
- acrylic paint
- grout
- something to paint (in this case plant pots)
How do you do it?
Mix half a cup of acrylic paint with one table spoon of grout.
These measurements always confused me - there are too different sizes of cup to define a cup! I think only in the USA do thy work frequently with the measurements. I have spent hours trying to find conversions, but then I found scoops with the measurements on them in Pound Stretcher! WIN!!
Once you've mixed enough to remove all lumps, paint your something. You have to paint rather quickly as the grout causes the mix the dry quickly.
As you may see from the top photo that pint acrylic paint was measured out. "But all your pots are blue!" The pink paint was thick and the lumps couldn't be removed, and the mixture wouldn't spread, but if you leave the paint in the sun for a while it thins out enough to work perfectly.
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