How do you make your own colored chalk paint?
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Traci
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I want to know how to make your own colored chalk paint
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Do you mean the chalk paint that you write on or do you mean the chalk paint you put on furniture? If you mean on furniture, I can help but if you mean the kind you write on, I know of no recipe for that. You can also google DIY recipes for chalk paint and it will give you several. I use the one with plaster of paris and have had good results.
Elaine Simmons
on Feb 02, 2014
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it would be the kind you write on
Traci
on Feb 02, 2014
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Thank you for the suggestions but this doesn't answer my question because it is the kind of chalk paint that you would write on...thank you for getting back to me, however
Traci
on Feb 02, 2014
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You can find many recipes for this on PINTEREST but basically you use either white UNsanded grout for light color base paint--latex--and mix some of the grout with WATER to make a lump free solution and then mix with the paint. For DARK or BLACK use a BLACK UNsanded grout same procedure. Before you write on these use the side of a piece of white chalk---run it over a rough piece of sidewalk or sandpaper as some chalk these days seems to have a coating on it that you need to remove---and then rub this all over the surface and erase. This "conditions" the surface to show the chalk writing properly. IF you try and just mix the grout in it will get sandy and lumpy so you need to carefully stir with the water to make sure no lumps or uneven bits remain. Not hard just takes a few minutes. This is basicaly the same formula for either writing on or using on furniture.
Comet
on Feb 03, 2014
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Thank you sooo much for the !I cannot wait to try it out!
Traci
on Feb 04, 2014
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Lowes has some colored stock colors and will tint it for u. Use lots of layers for best caulk board
4Real Linda
on Jan 28, 2015
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I used a recipe using unsanded grout, needed much less grout than suggested. Didn't mix with water first but should have as was impossible to get the lumps out.
Cavymom
on Aug 12, 2015
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