Paint Pouring on a Thrift Store Jewelry Box

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$12
1 Day
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I love picking up these cheap little jewelry boxes at thrift stores. I used to think painting jewelry boxes was boring! But then I started stenciling them. Then I moved on to paint pour jewelry box projects and I’m hooked. Jewelry boxes like these are usually CHEAP. Especially when they’re missing a knob like this one was. I paid $3 for it.

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SUPPLIES NEEDED FOR PAINT POUR JEWELRY BOX

  • old wooden jewelry box
  • 5-7 colors of paint
  • pouring medium
  • small cups (2-4 oz) – 1 for each color
  • 1 larger cup (6-10 oz)
  • tongue depressors 
  • paint brush
  • varnish
  • sanding block
  • metallic wax
  • jewelry box handles – Read  “Where to Find Jewelry Box Hardware”.
  • tissue paper
  • decoupage medium
  • scissors


On my first paint pour project I painted the body first and then the top. This time I did the paint pour first. Both options worked. Make sure you read about my first project to get all the details.PREP THE PAINT FOR POURING:

You’ll need a small cup for every color. Mix an equal amount of paint and pouring medium. You may have to adjust this depending on the thickness of the paint. I was using chalky finish paint and a couple of them I’ve had for a while. They were thicker so I added a bit more pouring medium. Just play around with it ’til it pours smoothly.

Mix each color individually with a tongue depressor. 

Next, the part that still terrifies me. Pour all the colors into one big cup! This is called a dirty pour.

There's a video on my blog from the pouring medium manufacturer if you want to see it in action. I haven’t been able to get a good video of myself doing this… way too messy!


FINISH THE JEWELRY BOX:

At first, I painted the jewelry box white. But that was too stark of a contrast. The picture below shows where I filled the holes with some wood putty. I was missing one of the knobs and I didn’t have any more that style. So I bought some new handles that looked good on the gray. They were antiqued brass but I used some silver metallic wax on them.

I decided that a light gray matched the top better so I used DecoArt Yesteryear and added a whitewash over it.

You can see the difference before and after the whitewash below.

And it's finished!

There were some stains inside so I decoupaged some tissue paper. That turned out pretty good, too!


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