OH SO CHIPPY!! I love it!! ~~My fail project was my * looks so easy* upholstered pallet ottoman. I found lots of tutorials online, and thought oh, I got this. Easy Peasy. Sure..... I drag this ginormous pallet into my living room one afternoon and begin. I cut and I stapled, and cut and stapled. Figured it wasn't cushy enough, so I ripped up some old pillows and stuffed it full.... My ottoman came out looking like a giant green, lumpy marshmallow. I was HUGE!! and since I had used so much fabric, the bottom didn't have room for me to screw my legs in, so I did the best I could. The first time it got sat on, a leg broke off.... Now my pallet ottoman is out on the back patio & the cats have laid claim. You can just imagine how "lovely" it looks now, with all of the clawmarks, missing legs...holes and cat fur. It's such an eyesore and needs to go in the trash, but the cats love it...My loss was their gain! :)
I LOVE it when I see you've done another video!! My project gone wrong is still sitting in my garage... I bought a reaaaaaally old wooden chest and planned to sand it, paint all of the sides with a white milk paint and make it chippy, and stain the top of the chest a nice chestnut color and hand paint an old french label on top. After sanding the top I realized all of the tiny holes in the chest are from woodworm :/ So I bought the stuff to cover it in to make sure there was no more woodworm, but all of my great intentions kinda fell flat after that. I REALLY want to finish it and see my idea come to life!
When I first decoupaged a huge image onto a table top, I didn't use water to wet the paper first. So it turned out into a huge mess of bubbles and wrinkles. I decided to make lemonade out of the lemons by really sanding it down and even majorly distressing the paint. It ended up looking really cool! Now I know what to do and not to do with decoupage! I'd love to win this. Especially since I've always been afraid to try dark glaze or wax :)
very lovely! this is just what i hope to achieve with an antique bureau I use to store towels, linens, etc. Distressing beat up furniture is just brilliant. Take something old and messed up and beautify and un-mess it up by messing it up!
You always make me smile! I just checked out The Real Milk Paint and wow - so excited! As for that project that did not go as planned............I used Modge Podge on shoes, just like I had seen on Pinterest. Um, yep - I didn't think carefully enough about what kind of shoes and how they bend, etc. Let's just say after 1 wearing they were done. Live and learn and onto the next project!
I was turning a wooden serving tray into a jewelry hanger. I painted it teal and was trying the crackle effect with elmers glue and white paint on top. My 1st attempt I tried using a spray paint over the elmers glue....Bad idea! it took me 2 more tries but finally got it! A layer of elmers glue and a thin coat of acrylic paint did the trick! I sped up the crackling process by using my hair dryer. It turned out great!!! Never give up!
I just painted 2 wall thingies I had cut for me out of premium pine plywood. I used powdered milk paint. I used sweet pickins, but I didn't use the bonding agent. I ended up using the entire pint on both of them because I redid them 4 or 5 times trying to get the look I wanted. I'm just starting out doing this stuff and I'm learning by trial and error that's my favorite way to learn. I never got the milk paint to flake at all not one flake. It just went on there like it was suede! It wouldn't flake it all period when it would dry it was powdery looking but I couldn't get it to flake it all without doing some sanding, but it would just send off! I can put some oil on there and it would really look like suede. I was using Red Wagon. I ended up doing a lot of staining underneath and all kinds of weird things because by the end I just wanted it to look like old metal tractor. They were Shamrocks with my cousin's last names cut out in relief in the middle. And then the and family were cut out separate and glued on. on one of them I put mahogany stain on one part, green stain and another part and my favorite stain in the whole world, provincial on another part, and then painted the Red Wagon over it sanded it and then I use three different colors of Wax. I even used copper wax white wax antiquing wax let that kind of dry and then use Clear wax all over it it came out of muddled mess! I liked it! Only thing I didn't like was all the beating I did all the gouges and carving I did all went away. It got all filled in with waxes and stuff LOL one cousin likes things a little more pristine so hers was easy painted wax distress the edges painted letters glue them on sprayed it and I was done! My uncle had a can of aerosol wax, ever heard of the such? Me neither probably nobody ever will either. He doesn't even know where it came from he used to be a cabinet maker and it's so old he didn't even know where it came from but he gave it to me and I love it. I only use it on special projects.
I'm a decorative artist...and as a gift for my sister, I cut out from wood, and painted a lovely winter scene that was cut to fit in the center of a large grapevine wreath. The scene was an old vintage red car, with a family inside...that just found their Christmas tree with the words "Over The River and Through The Woods". I spent hours painting each little detail. It turned out great. To PROTECT my hours of painting, I sprayed a clear sealant over top...only to cringe and watch a Chemical reaction explode on my painting! A reaction I could not stop! My entire paint project BUBBLED everywhere and was being destroyed in a matter of minutes! My heart sank. It bubbled everywhere. All I could do was cry while it continued to dry. When all was done and said, this painted looked GREAT!! The bubbling created a texture, like a hammered metal appearance adding to the vintage vibe...it was fabulous! To this day I do not know WHY I got that chemical reaction, and it never happened again even when I wanted it to! ~~~ Love Your Videos, Deb!! Happy Hugz, debinchicago
My all time favorite screw up was my chalk paint French country velour chair. Wish I found you and your soft velvet sofa before I chunked the crap out of my vintage chair!😭😭😂 Love your charm and your humbleness. Love how you are always learning and never claim to know all. You will go far!💞
I love all that texturing on the table! What did Bobby think??! My project was an unexciting, blonde boring stool that needed a new life! I decided to chalk paint it a custom mixed green color-which looked great- then, decoupage it with some interesting colorful heraldic looking flowers- think Tudor roses. Anyway, since I typically don't have a true "plan" when I start a project and just let things develop as they may, I decided that the seat of the stool needed something really fun and vintage-ee looking. I enlarged a print of that "Man in the Moon" face,-you know the one-to fit the seat just perfectly. Finished off the edge of the seat with an aged black and old white check border and wah lah--- awesome seating for my Fall craft show booth. WELL....in all of my creative indecision when painting the piece, I FOrGoT that I hade quickly WaXEd the paint BEFOre I started the decoupaging. I sat on the stool off and on for about 30 minutes before the Man in the Moon was featured on the butt of my jeans! The wax didn't let the glue do its work and the image peeled right off of the paint. Not quite the "effect"I was going for!!! I'm just glad it happened to me and not to a prospective buyer....
I purchased crown molding off of ebay and a great price and was so excited. I did a beautiful finish on it, cut the pieces and when I started nailing them up, quickly discovered why I was so cheap.... many of the pieces were warped, meaning I had to take it down, put it up in smaller sections, and try and cover the seams. It all worked out eventually and only I know the secret but if I had to do it over again.....
I painted the top of a huge square coffee table navy blue then decoupaged rusty metal stars to each corner! I used Mod Podge not only to adhere the stars but also as a finish for the whole table. What I didn't know at that time was that Mod Podge came in different finishes! The old worn rustic look I was going ended up with a pretty high gloss shine! Also one star had one point that didn't stick, which made dusting a bit treacherous!
My latest fail (somewhat) is a canvas of the night sky which did with layers of acrylic paint, glitter and crystals and the big problem came when I attempted the beach sand portion at the bottom. I tried using acrylic modeling medium mixed with craft sand and that was a big thick mess. I let it dry and added a layer of white glue and sand thinking that might give me more molding ability. Nope. Yuck. I added a layer of sandy colored acrylic paint thinking maybe my problem was more a tonal one. No. Even yuckier. Lastly added another thick layer of craft glue and sprinkled and patted the sand on. This gave best result. Still not perfect looking. But worst of all is the massive shedding this multimedia piece does. Sand and glitter all over the place! I enjoyed reading about others failed projects. Makes me feel like I'm in good company haha! Great job on the table Debie. Really pretty and I would never guess you had problems with it in the process. Came out great
Thanks for sharing Andrea! I've enjoyed reading the comments too, I think the fails are part of the process, and so much can be learned from trying again and again!
Hey Debbie! I love your videos! I have had lots of messed up projects, but I think the best was when I made t-shirts for a Taylor Swift concert I went to with my mom, sister, aunt and cousins. I made t-shirts before by using spray paint and a stencil on a yellow background shirt, but these shirts were red. I though it would be fine so I made a beautiful multilayered stencil, but the spray paint was not showing up. I had to spray multiple coats on to the shirts before you could see it. By the time I was done the shirts were stiffer than a board and I used like 6 cans of paint. However, I spent so much time making them that my family insisted on wearing them to the concert(including my mom and aunt...they are all so nice). We may have gotten a lot of wierd stares that day, but we had a fun time anyway:)
A friend gave me this really, really beat up chair because I loved the shape of the arms and legs. I spent the better part of a week sanding off the old stain and finish and smoothing out all of scratches, dents and even cat scratched (her cats had been using it as a scratching post!), in the hot humid summer (I'm seriously talking about 120 degrees with the heat index). Then primed and painted it and it looked wonderful until I realized I had no idea how to cover a chair with the back shaped like this one, or how to reattach the arms, and I'm fairly certain I lost some screws...on top of all of that, I haven't been able to find a fabric that I love enough to us and I realized I don't even own a staple gun. The chair is now sitting in a rather hidden corner of my bedroom waiting for the day I remember to buy a staple gun and screws, find suitable fabric, and figure out the arms business. The sad thing is that this isn't even the first time I've done this. I'm the queen of not thinking a project completely through and then realizing I don't even have all the tools or supplies to finish it. I also have a tiny rocking chair I got when my daughter was still small enough to fit into it (at 9 now, she's a bit big for a toddler sized chair) that I painted and crocheted a seat for but could never figure out how to attach it.
I am eager to try the Milk Paint now that I have seen the chippy video...I usually use a de-glosser on on my pieces to avoid paint coming off with a scratch or scrape...I am a furniture painter that typically sands the piece with a sander after painting then sealing it with a Matt or Satin Finish..Yes, I do multiple colors sometimes.. I do like the affect I do currently but I'm seeing and learning many new ways now of getting that rough old distressed look similar to what I'm seeing in the old India furniture I'm seeing so much of that is soo expensive... Thanks for the video...You are funny. :)
I use calcium carbonate to make chalk paint. When I use the stuff from the building supplier that comes with pretty rough grains, it is very hard to distress with a sanding machine, but starting with low grid paper, it gives a very textury look. Waxing clear and dark, very rough and aged look.
I knitted a sweater without a pattern for the first time! It looked great on my lap and then I put it on and one of the sleeves was shorter than the other! That sweater still sits untouched in my closet!
Hi from England. We upcycle furniture and wanted a really hard covering over some wallpaper (decoupage) on a dining table top. I decided to use an epoxy resin but got the mixture wrong so the top went all orange peel like. It was soooooooooo hard taking it off because the epoxy resin is super hard but we managed it and the second attempt was fabulous. We luv your videos. BoogalooBoutique
The last project that has not gone as expected was this morning . I bought a pine shelves and lime green enamel , the idea was to stay smooth, but instead , I bought little paint , but as I am very impatient , I painted the painting stretching far . Now is green ... but the grain of the wood still looks . The truth is that I like more ...
Well, after living in my rented home for 15 yrs... I finally bought it this past October. Excited to chalkpaint my dark, drab, horrible looking cabinets an antique white which I fell in love with, I decided to go over them with a reddish wax... ugh.. not super proud of the result, I should have went with a dark wax. They will have to do for now...so much time and work went into them. :)
hi Michele!waxing darker color over white is one of the most challenging techniques, and cabinets are a big job, try adding clear wax, often you can use it like an eraser. I'm sure you cabinets look much better than before!
I love the chippy look! My oops moment was a few months ago! I chalk painted a table and I was going for the cracklelook and was using elemers glue technique well instead of the crackle look the top coat of paint instead of crackling looked like it was melting off. It was an octogon shaped table and I learned that to get the look I wanted the sides of the table needed to be laying flat not upright!
Love your table!!! I have not used milk paint before and would love to win! I saw your paint on Heirlooms page and plan to get me some of that goodness ;). Well my "failed" project was a desk I tried to chevron and my measurements totally were off at first, but I stuck to it and it came out beautiful...another was a recent wood sign I did and the paint bled through in the seam of the contact paper stencil, but I found a great way to prevent that from happening again. ;) Love your shows!!!
OMG I love your videos, this last week mercury was in retrograde..... which meant everything I cut with a power tool this week I screwed up on and cut crooked, too small, etc. So I had to give my sanity and power tools a break ;)
I'm trying to build an outdoor grilling side table for my father in law out of an old stereo stand I had in the shop, and it's now going well. At all. But it's still fun. :)
I rescued an old paint-chipped dresser from the side of the road. The poor thing had sat in a wet area for awhile and the legs were very weak and had almost rotted off. After sanding down the piece to the original soft oak color and adding sweet vintage ceramic flower knobs I had to try to replace the legs... It was so hard to find any kind of wood leg that would match the style but once we found something we had to trim it to the right length of the back two legs and somehow screw it up into the dresser. My little vintage dresser now stands a little wobbly but nonetheless I saved it from the landfill and it serves a purpose!
Hi Debbie, Love your channel and you! Yes I did have a project not go exactly like I wanted.... hopping to give new life to some matching corner shelves I painted them baby blue then crackle glaze then white. Although I wanted allot more blue to show through I ended up with mostly white and a tiny bit of blue. In hide site I should have distressed to have more blue show through but this was years ago before I knew about distressing. My project would have turned out so much better if I had seen this video first.
Please tell me your channel is active! You are amazing! I have an old (like over 100 years) chair that I want to get chippy. The varnish is practically gone, and its very dirty. How can I prep it for chippy goodness?
Love this project, love the video and love you. I've only used milk paint that I've made from skim milk. I know I can get the powder on Amazon Italy, but not the Espresso Glaze. Any idea about what I might use in place? thanks!
my fail project was making a confetti bowl the problem was that i use way to big confetti and i saw a tutorial here on youtube and it was adding layers of confetti and mod podge so i said ohh this is easy and yeah lol love your videos!!
I loved your video. I swore I would never use milk paint again till I saw your video. I painted a very large end table with milk paint ( not the brand you used) and was horrified as I watch all these really big chips just fall off. I never thought of sealing it or using a bonding agent. As the table sat it began to flake even more even after a few months. I had to sweep up the paint flakes. Since then I have painted, and repainted it with chalk paint and am never really satisfied. I will try again with The Real Milk Paint. Thanks for your video.
Well I TRIED to distress an entertainment center that an X built, you know take out some frustration , lol just could not get the right look, I am always watching clips on you-tube to get extra ideas, this was truly my epic fail project, (along with the X) hahaha.. I love the color green you used on Bobbie's table & you are just a hoot & really fun person .... God bless your future endeavors ....
Found love you and your channel!! My project fail was a junk store coffee table I had bought to paint white and distress. Thought it was a piece from Lane so must be good quality, right? All went well and I had it proudly displayed in my living room....til 2 days later when I noticed red streaks all over it! Went over the table with more white paint, light sanding....next day same red streaks!! Went to furniture refinishing place to ask if they knew why. Turns out some furniture refinishing is done with oil based red paint to give the piece a deeper color when they stain it. Once you sand the piece you open up the pores and it will continue to "bleed" and there's nothing you can do to cover it. Was such a nice table but had to eventually let it go cause it looked to weird to keep. Oh well!!
hi Bethany, oh I've had the dreaded bleed through problem before! It's most noticeable on white paint. If you have to deal with this again, stop painting and brush on a coat of Zinnser shellack. Then let dry and proceed with a chalk type paint and your bleed through is bye bye!
I tried a paper appliqué using one thin layer of a really pretty paper napkin.... very exciting, except when I was tooooo impatient and tried distressing the top before it was dry. Let's just say I'm gonna need to sand the entire top and start over. 😱 live and learn, right?
I love you videos :) I just wish you would show the finished product again at the end :( just like a nice overview of the details and the finished results :) I usually rewind it to the beginning and look at it again :)
+Jessica Ramirez I agree and I would but at Vidcon it was advised to rap up a video quickly because thats when people click off the video, RUclips determines which videos to promote based on watch time. I do usually create a blog post with more photos and extended info, and link it in the description. as well as post photos on my Instagram, Fb and Pinterest, hope this helps :)
Chippy mess was my first failed project with milk paint. I was doing a beautiful half moon spindled leg table from the 30's. A friend asked me if I could make it chippy! I thought, yeah - milk paint is great for that, or so i had heard. It was a chippy mess! it was similar to your table - without the bonding agent It was too chippy (if that is even possible - well in this case it was) If you just looked at the table it would fall off in chunks and was so hideous. I wasn't close to any vendor to buy bonding agent (I thought the same thing you did. I had done so much work to this table upfront - repairing legs and was now faced with having to REDO the table. I ended up driving 2 hrs round trip to get bonding agent and painted over the whole table. After that it was exactly chippy enough for the friend. Lesson learned - always have all the tools and supplies handy, just in case it doesn't go the way you expected! Love your energy!!
do you think we should paint without bonding first to get that serious chipping in one color and then do the next coat with the bonding agent and glaze after? and... my big fail was using a dark wax that just went on crazy bad... i had to pull it all off with paint thinner and start over. waste of hours....
Debi - in order for the paint to turn out chippy, does the furniture piece have to have a varnish on it? and do I need to put a finish on after I'm done painting?
It always sounds so much better in your HEAD... You plan it out.. think your clever because you have never seen anything out THERE like your plan... get everything ready... start executing YOUR plan.. to end up in pile on the floor with you on top... yeeeeppppp that's the whole picture...
I spray painted a bar stool, taking time to tape off wicker backing, sanding and repainting foot rest part. My second can of paint shot out clumps and was a different color even tho I bought same color. UGH! Start over or keep going. It's going to hold plants outside this summer!
I had this cute kitchen table... it was oak... boring. well to me anyway. I fell in love with a semi gloss table from Pottery Barn. However it was out of my budget by LOTS of $$$. I decided to paint my table. I bought the paint and went to town. It began to chip within a month humidity in Ohio was its demise. No problem! I didn't originally want a chippy. But though eh...why not? It was working for me. So I decided to help it and this is where it went horribly wrong... the chippy turned into peely...and it peeled like the plastic covering on a new appliance. In large sheets. The final look was a few chips of my chosen paint color.... =/ I did re sand it and re painted it. All was better then. (I neglected to sand prior to the first round.) Le sigh lesson learned!
I found a really good old wood bed frame that I plan to get chippy with some white milk paint. Someone talked me into painting it with regular paint and I hated it after. SO! I sanded it down to start over. Now where to find that dark glaze I wonder?
I had a similar problem painting plastic theater marquee letters for a sign I was building. I couldn't get any paint to stick and I didn't want to sand it. Luckily I discovered Adhesion Promoter by Duplicolor. It's meant to be used in the auto industry when painting bumpers, but I discovered when I have any troubles with paint I'll use Adhesion Promoter on any surface. The Real Milk Paint looks like it can be used in making diy chalk paint :)
Hi I just wanted to say congratulations that you finally made it on tv I was watching home and family I sew the show the book case is nice maybe I can use my own flag from my country to put on something good job
I cant find these paints in my country ... What can I do painting with paint without sanding? can you help ... you are very creative and ı love your speaking style..
I attempted to wallpaper a room. It did not go well. I ended up spending time and money removing to then paint. I do plan on creating a gallery wall and accent wall hopefully it turns out better than the wallpaper
I have a project that didn't go as planned. I have a grandfather clock that I gutted with the intention of adding shelves inside, then painting it with something like...ooohhh....I dunno....The Real Milk Paint maybe? Then it would be a lovely chippy curio cabinet instead of a high maintenance grandfather clock. That was my plan anyway, but things didn't go as planned. What I ended up with is a gutted grandfather clock that has been sitting in my garage for a year, waiting for me to work up the nerve to actually add shelves and paint it. That was definitely NOT my plan. It just happened. I'm thinking I could send it to you with strict instructions to paint it NOT chippy so that when I get it back it will be super chippy with sprinkles on top.
so i was making a duct tape to go bag and the blue print or guide did not make sense so i had to do my own way but in the end it all worked out it came pretty cool
Only one project?? I have a whole corner of my room dedicated to What Could Have Been projects. My first project was a tube top or, essentially, a short maxi skirt.
Ihave a lovely old wing table - Now moms gone -I'm reluctant to get rid of it - Its been in our family for years - Lassie our border collie would sleep underneath her spot was that ! -And we had many christmas dinners & birthday parties - Mom would put her sewing machine on it making curtains & shortening pants - Even backing we'd come home from school and there would be racks & racks of buns cooling down ready for icing - So as you see its a part of the family - So I want to paint it to make it look loved & Use modern colours - I have some check suit lengths upstairs some where ? & Im gonna recover the chairs with it & use the unusual colours as the palett im gonna be using ! ...
I Don't want to make it look like an olde worlde piece -Although it is ! -I want to make it look modern with the colours & Fabric! I big problem is smell of paint !- - I'm Asthmatic And paint triggers it off -Would should I look for in paints that I chose ?
I failed with a 100 year old rocker. they are not meant to have screws put in them. When we tried to screw in a new seat cracked the chair. Oh well it still looks good and can hold a doll or stuffed animal ok.
I tried to to make your sea glass bowl but with marbles and sea glass it looked really good but I also mixed tackey glue and bonding glue so it chipped a lot so I sadly had it make a necklace kinda like your rose seashell one only with sea glass and one with marbles
please help i did this same tutorial on my leather sectional couch and its chippy but i need your bonding agent , which i cant find on my own. need a link. the entire couch is chipping
I tried to make a glittered heart on a shirt. I left the template on the shirt to long, and when I went to peal the template up, the paint came up too.
I literally laugh out loud! Love how you pick up the furniture..!😂. and oh yes, I also talj with my hands..! 🦋🇿🇦
OH SO CHIPPY!! I love it!! ~~My fail project was my * looks so easy* upholstered pallet ottoman. I found lots of tutorials online, and thought oh, I got this. Easy Peasy. Sure..... I drag this ginormous pallet into my living room one afternoon and begin. I cut and I stapled, and cut and stapled. Figured it wasn't cushy enough, so I ripped up some old pillows and stuffed it full.... My ottoman came out looking like a giant green, lumpy marshmallow. I was HUGE!! and since I had used so much fabric, the bottom didn't have room for me to screw my legs in, so I did the best I could. The first time it got sat on, a leg broke off.... Now my pallet ottoman is out on the back patio & the cats have laid claim. You can just imagine how "lovely" it looks now, with all of the clawmarks, missing legs...holes and cat fur. It's such an eyesore and needs to go in the trash, but the cats love it...My loss was their gain! :)
Shelley, that's hilarious and sounds like something that would happen to me! Lucky cats, now they have a lounging pad!
I LOVE it when I see you've done another video!!
My project gone wrong is still sitting in my garage... I bought a reaaaaaally old wooden chest and planned to sand it, paint all of the sides with a white milk paint and make it chippy, and stain the top of the chest a nice chestnut color and hand paint an old french label on top. After sanding the top I realized all of the tiny holes in the chest are from woodworm :/
So I bought the stuff to cover it in to make sure there was no more woodworm, but all of my great intentions kinda fell flat after that. I REALLY want to finish it and see my idea come to life!
Finish it Heather, it sounds wonderful!!!
I will, I will! :)
I couldn't have loved this project more, lol. Tfs, Laura
When I first decoupaged a huge image onto a table top, I didn't use water to wet the paper first. So it turned out into a huge mess of bubbles and wrinkles. I decided to make lemonade out of the lemons by really sanding it down and even majorly distressing the paint. It ended up looking really cool! Now I know what to do and not to do with decoupage! I'd love to win this. Especially since I've always been afraid to try dark glaze or wax :)
very lovely! this is just what i hope to achieve with an antique bureau I use to store towels, linens, etc. Distressing beat up furniture is just brilliant. Take something old and messed up and beautify and un-mess it up by messing it up!
You always make me smile! I just checked out The Real Milk Paint and wow - so excited!
As for that project that did not go as planned............I used Modge Podge on shoes, just like I had seen on Pinterest. Um, yep - I didn't think carefully enough about what kind of shoes and how they bend, etc. Let's just say after 1 wearing they were done. Live and learn and onto the next project!
I was turning a wooden serving tray into a jewelry hanger. I painted it teal and was trying the crackle effect with elmers glue and white paint on top. My 1st attempt I tried using a spray paint over the elmers glue....Bad idea! it took me 2 more tries but finally got it! A layer of elmers glue and a thin coat of acrylic paint did the trick! I sped up the crackling process by using my hair dryer. It turned out great!!! Never give up!
I just painted 2 wall thingies I had cut for me out of premium pine plywood. I used powdered milk paint. I used sweet pickins, but I didn't use the bonding agent. I ended up using the entire pint on both of them because I redid them 4 or 5 times trying to get the look I wanted. I'm just starting out doing this stuff and I'm learning by trial and error that's my favorite way to learn. I never got the milk paint to flake at all not one flake. It just went on there like it was suede! It wouldn't flake it all period when it would dry it was powdery looking but I couldn't get it to flake it all without doing some sanding, but it would just send off! I can put some oil on there and it would really look like suede. I was using Red Wagon. I ended up doing a lot of staining underneath and all kinds of weird things because by the end I just wanted it to look like old metal tractor. They were Shamrocks with my cousin's last names cut out in relief in the middle. And then the and family were cut out separate and glued on. on one of them I put mahogany stain on one part, green stain and another part and my favorite stain in the whole world, provincial on another part, and then painted the Red Wagon over it sanded it and then I use three different colors of Wax. I even used copper wax white wax antiquing wax let that kind of dry and then use Clear wax all over it it came out of muddled mess! I liked it! Only thing I didn't like was all the beating I did all the gouges and carving I did all went away. It got all filled in with waxes and stuff LOL one cousin likes things a little more pristine so hers was easy painted wax distress the edges painted letters glue them on sprayed it and I was done! My uncle had a can of aerosol wax, ever heard of the such? Me neither probably nobody ever will either. He doesn't even know where it came from he used to be a cabinet maker and it's so old he didn't even know where it came from but he gave it to me and I love it. I only use it on special projects.
Your videos always make me smile 😊 Please never change. You're my kind of person.
I'm a decorative artist...and as a gift for my sister, I cut out from wood, and painted a lovely winter scene that was cut to fit in the center of a large grapevine wreath. The scene was an old vintage red car, with a family inside...that just found their Christmas tree with the words "Over The River and Through The Woods". I spent hours painting each little detail. It turned out great. To PROTECT my hours of painting, I sprayed a clear sealant over top...only to cringe and watch a Chemical reaction explode on my painting! A reaction I could not stop! My entire paint project BUBBLED everywhere and was being destroyed in a matter of minutes! My heart sank. It bubbled everywhere. All I could do was cry while it continued to dry. When all was done and said, this painted looked GREAT!! The bubbling created a texture, like a hammered metal appearance adding to the vintage vibe...it was fabulous! To this day I do not know WHY I got that chemical reaction, and it never happened again even when I wanted it to! ~~~ Love Your Videos, Deb!! Happy Hugz, debinchicago
I am always looking for ways to get this finish and you are the best tutorial I have found! Actual chips...
My all time favorite screw up was my chalk paint French country velour chair. Wish I found you and your soft velvet sofa before I chunked the crap out of my vintage chair!😭😭😂 Love your charm and your humbleness. Love how you are always learning and never claim to know all. You will go far!💞
I love all that texturing on the table! What did Bobby think??!
My project was an unexciting, blonde boring stool that needed a new life! I decided to chalk paint it a custom mixed green color-which looked great- then, decoupage it with some interesting colorful heraldic looking flowers- think Tudor roses. Anyway, since I typically don't have a true "plan" when I start a project and just let things develop as they may, I decided that the seat of the stool needed something really fun and vintage-ee looking. I enlarged a print of that "Man in the Moon" face,-you know the one-to fit the seat just perfectly. Finished off the edge of the seat with an aged black and old white check border and wah lah--- awesome seating for my Fall craft show booth. WELL....in all of my creative indecision when painting the piece, I FOrGoT that I hade quickly WaXEd the paint BEFOre I started the decoupaging. I sat on the stool off and on for about 30 minutes before the Man in the Moon was featured on the butt of my jeans! The wax didn't let the glue do its work and the image peeled right off of the paint. Not quite the "effect"I was going for!!! I'm just glad it happened to me and not to a prospective buyer....
Your nerdiness is so endearing
I purchased crown molding off of ebay and a great price and was so excited. I did a beautiful finish on it, cut the pieces and when I started nailing them up, quickly discovered why I was so cheap.... many of the pieces were warped, meaning I had to take it down, put it up in smaller sections, and try and cover the seams. It all worked out eventually and only I know the secret but if I had to do it over again.....
ugh! good for you for making it work, I bet it's beautiful!
I painted the top of a huge square coffee table navy blue then decoupaged rusty metal stars to each corner! I used Mod Podge not only to adhere the stars but also as a finish for the whole table. What I didn't know at that time was that Mod Podge came in different finishes! The old worn rustic look I was going ended up with a pretty high gloss shine! Also one star had one point that didn't stick, which made dusting a bit treacherous!
Kat, your table sounds great! I've used the wrong kind of Mod Podge before too :(
My latest fail (somewhat) is a canvas of the night sky which did with layers of acrylic paint, glitter and crystals and the big problem came when I attempted the beach sand portion at the bottom. I tried using acrylic modeling medium mixed with craft sand and that was a big thick mess. I let it dry and added a layer of white glue and sand thinking that might give me more molding ability. Nope. Yuck. I added a layer of sandy colored acrylic paint thinking maybe my problem was more a tonal one. No. Even yuckier. Lastly added another thick layer of craft glue and sprinkled and patted the sand on. This gave best result. Still not perfect looking. But worst of all is the massive shedding this multimedia piece does. Sand and glitter all over the place!
I enjoyed reading about others failed projects. Makes me feel like I'm in good company haha!
Great job on the table Debie. Really pretty and I would never guess you had problems with it in the process. Came out great
Thanks for sharing Andrea! I've enjoyed reading the comments too, I think the fails are part of the process, and so much can be learned from trying again and again!
Hey Debbie! I love your videos! I have had lots of messed up projects, but I think the best was when I made t-shirts for a Taylor Swift concert I went to with my mom, sister, aunt and cousins. I made t-shirts before by using spray paint and a stencil on a yellow background shirt, but these shirts were red. I though it would be fine so I made a beautiful multilayered stencil, but the spray paint was not showing up. I had to spray multiple coats on to the shirts before you could see it. By the time I was done the shirts were stiffer than a board and I used like 6 cans of paint. However, I spent so much time making them that my family insisted on wearing them to the concert(including my mom and aunt...they are all so nice). We may have gotten a lot of wierd stares that day, but we had a fun time anyway:)
A friend gave me this really, really beat up chair because I loved the shape of the arms and legs. I spent the better part of a week sanding off the old stain and finish and smoothing out all of scratches, dents and even cat scratched (her cats had been using it as a scratching post!), in the hot humid summer (I'm seriously talking about 120 degrees with the heat index). Then primed and painted it and it looked wonderful until I realized I had no idea how to cover a chair with the back shaped like this one, or how to reattach the arms, and I'm fairly certain I lost some screws...on top of all of that, I haven't been able to find a fabric that I love enough to us and I realized I don't even own a staple gun. The chair is now sitting in a rather hidden corner of my bedroom waiting for the day I remember to buy a staple gun and screws, find suitable fabric, and figure out the arms business.
The sad thing is that this isn't even the first time I've done this. I'm the queen of not thinking a project completely through and then realizing I don't even have all the tools or supplies to finish it. I also have a tiny rocking chair I got when my daughter was still small enough to fit into it (at 9 now, she's a bit big for a toddler sized chair) that I painted and crocheted a seat for but could never figure out how to attach it.
I am eager to try the Milk Paint now that I have seen the chippy video...I usually use a de-glosser on on my pieces to avoid paint coming off with a scratch or scrape...I am a furniture painter that typically sands the piece with a sander after painting then sealing it with a Matt or Satin Finish..Yes, I do multiple colors sometimes.. I do like the affect I do currently but I'm seeing and learning many new ways now of getting that rough old distressed look similar to what I'm seeing in the old India furniture I'm seeing so much of that is soo expensive... Thanks for the video...You are funny. :)
I use calcium carbonate to make chalk paint. When I use the stuff from the building supplier that comes with pretty rough grains, it is very hard to distress with a sanding machine, but starting with low grid paper, it gives a very textury look. Waxing clear and dark, very rough and aged look.
You’re a riot! Loved it!
I knitted a sweater without a pattern for the first time! It looked great on my lap and then I put it on and one of the sleeves was shorter than the other! That sweater still sits untouched in my closet!
Hi from England. We upcycle furniture and wanted a really hard covering over some wallpaper (decoupage) on a dining table top. I decided to use an epoxy resin but got the mixture wrong so the top went all orange peel like. It was soooooooooo hard taking it off because the epoxy resin is super hard but we managed it and the second attempt was fabulous. We luv your videos. BoogalooBoutique
The last project that has not gone as expected was this morning .
I bought a pine shelves and lime green enamel , the idea was to stay smooth, but instead , I bought little paint , but as I am very impatient , I painted the painting stretching far . Now is green ... but the grain of the wood still looks .
The truth is that I like more ...
You actually made me laugh and your videos are very informative. Well done.
Oh Debbi thankyou for being yourself
Well, after living in my rented home for 15 yrs... I finally bought it this past October. Excited to chalkpaint my dark, drab, horrible looking cabinets an antique white which I fell in love with, I decided to go over them with a reddish wax... ugh.. not super proud of the result, I should have went with a dark wax. They will have to do for now...so much time and work went into them. :)
hi Michele!waxing darker color over white is one of the most challenging techniques, and cabinets are a big job, try adding clear wax, often you can use it like an eraser. I'm sure you cabinets look much better than before!
I have used Mod Podge in my milk paint as a bonding agent. Works great!
I love the chippy look!
My oops moment was a few months ago! I chalk painted a table and I was going for the cracklelook and was using elemers glue technique well instead of the crackle look the top coat of paint instead of crackling looked like it was melting off. It was an octogon shaped table and I learned that to get the look I wanted the sides of the table needed to be laying flat not upright!
Love your videos! You r so entertaining, funny, talented and inspiring!🤗
I love it! Especially the color.
Love your table!!! I have not used milk paint before and would love to win! I saw your paint on Heirlooms page and plan to get me some of that goodness ;). Well my "failed" project was a desk I tried to chevron and my measurements totally were off at first, but I stuck to it and it came out beautiful...another was a recent wood sign I did and the paint bled through in the seam of the contact paper stencil, but I found a great way to prevent that from happening again. ;) Love your shows!!!
OMG I love your videos, this last week mercury was in retrograde..... which meant everything I cut with a power tool this week I screwed up on and cut crooked, too small, etc. So I had to give my sanity and power tools a break ;)
I'm trying to build an outdoor grilling side table for my father in law out of an old stereo stand I had in the shop, and it's now going well. At all. But it's still fun. :)
I rescued an old paint-chipped dresser from the side of the road. The poor thing had sat in a wet area for awhile and the legs were very weak and had almost rotted off. After sanding down the piece to the original soft oak color and adding sweet vintage ceramic flower knobs I had to try to replace the legs... It was so hard to find any kind of wood leg that would match the style but once we found something we had to trim it to the right length of the back two legs and somehow screw it up into the dresser. My little vintage dresser now stands a little wobbly but nonetheless I saved it from the landfill and it serves a purpose!
Beautiful job.
I know Bobby will like it that is!!!!
I loved watching your video! !!you are a hoot!!!
Hi Debbie, Love your channel and you! Yes I did have a project not go exactly like I wanted.... hopping to give new life to some matching corner shelves I painted them baby blue then crackle glaze then white. Although I wanted allot more blue to show through I ended up with mostly white and a tiny bit of blue. In hide site I should have distressed to have more blue show through but this was years ago before I knew about distressing. My project would have turned out so much better if I had seen this video first.
Please tell me your channel is active! You are amazing! I have an old (like over 100 years) chair that I want to get chippy. The varnish is practically gone, and its very dirty. How can I prep it for chippy goodness?
All my projects never go as planned but I always make the best of it 😊
Thanks for sharing Adriana, most of mine too!
Love this project, love the video and love you. I've only used milk paint that I've made from skim milk. I know I can get the powder on Amazon Italy, but not the Espresso Glaze. Any idea about what I might use in place? thanks!
Love your work ... 🤗 I'm new at this
my fail project was making a confetti bowl the problem was that i use way to big confetti and i saw a tutorial here on youtube and it was adding layers of confetti and mod podge so i said ohh this is easy and yeah lol love your videos!!
I loved your video. I swore I would never use milk paint again till I saw your video. I painted a very large end table with milk paint ( not the brand you used) and was horrified as I watch all these really big chips just fall off. I never thought of sealing it or using a bonding agent. As the table sat it began to flake even more even after a few months. I had to sweep up the paint flakes. Since then I have painted, and repainted it with chalk paint and am never really satisfied. I will try again with The Real Milk Paint. Thanks for your video.
I have never used milk paint but love this chippy look. Would love to try milk paint by WINNING some. Pick me pick me.
Well I TRIED to distress an entertainment center that an X built, you know take out some frustration , lol just could not get the right look, I am always watching clips on you-tube to get extra ideas, this was truly my epic fail project, (along with the X) hahaha.. I love the color green you used on Bobbie's table & you are just a hoot & really fun person .... God bless your future endeavors ....
Found love you and your channel!! My project fail was a junk store coffee table I had bought to paint white and distress. Thought it was a piece from Lane so must be good quality, right? All went well and I had it proudly displayed in my living room....til 2 days later when I noticed red streaks all over it! Went over the table with more white paint, light sanding....next day same red streaks!! Went to furniture refinishing place to ask if they knew why. Turns out some furniture refinishing is done with oil based red paint to give the piece a deeper color when they stain it. Once you sand the piece you open up the pores and it will continue to "bleed" and there's nothing you can do to cover it. Was such a nice table but had to eventually let it go cause it looked to weird to keep. Oh well!!
hi Bethany, oh I've had the dreaded bleed through problem before! It's most noticeable on white paint. If you have to deal with this again, stop painting and brush on a coat of Zinnser shellack. Then let dry and proceed with a chalk type paint and your bleed through is bye bye!
I tried a paper appliqué using one thin layer of a really pretty paper napkin.... very exciting, except when I was tooooo impatient and tried distressing the top before it was dry. Let's just say I'm gonna need to sand the entire top and start over. 😱 live and learn, right?
I love you videos :) I just wish you would show the finished product again at the end :( just like a nice overview of the details and the finished results :) I usually rewind it to the beginning and look at it again :)
+Jessica Ramirez I agree and I would but at Vidcon it was advised to rap up a video quickly because thats when people click off the video, RUclips determines which videos to promote based on watch time. I do usually create a blog post with more photos and extended info, and link it in the description. as well as post photos on my Instagram, Fb and Pinterest, hope this helps :)
Great video, nice technique, and thanks for the entertainment....
Chippy mess was my first failed project with milk paint. I was doing a beautiful half moon spindled leg table from the 30's. A friend asked me if I could make it chippy! I thought, yeah - milk paint is great for that, or so i had heard. It was a chippy mess! it was similar to your table - without the bonding agent It was too chippy (if that is even possible - well in this case it was) If you just looked at the table it would fall off in chunks and was so hideous. I wasn't close to any vendor to buy bonding agent (I thought the same thing you did. I had done so much work to this table upfront - repairing legs and was now faced with having to REDO the table. I ended up driving 2 hrs round trip to get bonding agent and painted over the whole table. After that it was exactly chippy enough for the friend. Lesson learned - always have all the tools and supplies handy, just in case it doesn't go the way you expected! Love your energy!!
My latest project fail was a sewing project...so I think I'll stick to painting from now on
Thank you so much, you're so real, delightful watch!! :-)
do you think we should paint without bonding first to get that serious chipping in one color and then do the next coat with the bonding agent and glaze after?
and... my big fail was using a dark wax that just went on crazy bad... i had to pull it all off with paint thinner and start over. waste of hours....
Thank you so much for the advise!!! I will keep that in mind 😃
Hi Debi...can I use a bonding agent from the paint store? Or is the stuff you use specially formulated for the Real Milk Paint?
Thanks !
You make me laugh!! I feel like we should be BFFs! Lol!
I have a dresser that I want to use in our guest bath for the vanity. What would be the best top coat in a bathroom?
Debi - in order for the paint to turn out chippy, does the furniture piece have to have a varnish on it? and do I need to put a finish on after I'm done painting?
It always sounds so much better in your HEAD... You plan it out.. think your clever because you have never seen anything out THERE like your plan... get everything ready... start executing YOUR plan.. to end up in pile on the floor with you on top... yeeeeppppp that's the whole picture...
I spray painted a bar stool, taking time to tape off wicker backing, sanding and repainting foot rest part. My second can of paint shot out clumps and was a different color even tho I bought same color. UGH! Start over or keep going. It's going to hold plants outside this summer!
This is so lovely.
thank you Crafts & Glory !
This is GORGEOUS :) love it!
I have a question what is the name of the color that you used ? I loved it :)
I had this cute kitchen table... it was oak... boring. well to me anyway. I fell in love with a semi gloss table from Pottery Barn. However it was out of my budget by LOTS of $$$. I decided to paint my table. I bought the paint and went to town. It began to chip within a month humidity in Ohio was its demise. No problem! I didn't originally want a chippy. But though eh...why not? It was working for me. So I decided to help it and this is where it went horribly wrong... the chippy turned into peely...and it peeled like the plastic covering on a new appliance. In large sheets. The final look was a few chips of my chosen paint color.... =/ I did re sand it and re painted it. All was better then. (I neglected to sand prior to the first round.) Le sigh lesson learned!
did you seal the final paint coat and if so, what did you use
so what I was looking for to do a bench I'm putting in my home cafe...ty
What do you do with all of your dirty cloths?? Can you wash them?? Or do you have to throw them away? Thanks!
I found a really good old wood bed frame that I plan to get chippy with some white milk paint. Someone talked me into painting it with regular paint and I hated it after. SO! I sanded it down to start over. Now where to find that dark glaze I wonder?
I had a similar problem painting plastic theater marquee letters for a sign I was building. I couldn't get any paint to stick and I didn't want to sand it. Luckily I discovered Adhesion Promoter by Duplicolor. It's meant to be used in the auto industry when painting bumpers, but I discovered when I have any troubles with paint I'll use Adhesion Promoter on any surface.
The Real Milk Paint looks like it can be used in making diy chalk paint :)
good info George, thanks for sharing! The real milk Paint is awesome, I might have to try making some chalk paint and see what happens!
Just wondering what the color of milk paint used on the table.
Hi I just wanted to say congratulations that you finally made it on tv I was watching home and family I sew the show the book case is nice maybe I can use my own flag from my country to put on something good job
I cant find these paints in my country ... What can I do painting with paint without sanding? can you help ... you are very creative and ı love your speaking style..
you are awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's been for years how's the paint holding up?
I attempted to wallpaper a room. It did not go well. I ended up spending time and money removing to then paint. I do plan on creating a gallery wall and accent wall hopefully it turns out better than the wallpaper
Hi! What color was it that you used?
I have a project that didn't go as planned. I have a grandfather clock that I gutted with the intention of adding shelves inside, then painting it with something like...ooohhh....I dunno....The Real Milk Paint maybe? Then it would be a lovely chippy curio cabinet instead of a high maintenance grandfather clock. That was my plan anyway, but things didn't go as planned. What I ended up with is a gutted grandfather clock that has been sitting in my garage for a year, waiting for me to work up the nerve to actually add shelves and paint it. That was definitely NOT my plan. It just happened. I'm thinking I could send it to you with strict instructions to paint it NOT chippy so that when I get it back it will be super chippy with sprinkles on top.
so i was making a duct tape to go bag and the blue print or guide did not make sense so i had to do my own way but in the end it all worked out it came pretty cool
I LOVE THIS!!!!!
Lina's chalk- & milkpaint, DIY, Recycle & Remake c
I know will like it!!!!!!!!
wow! thanks!
I have SOOO many screw ups. Hard to pick one. But with each one I learn.
I tried painting a filing cabinet and after sanding for forever the paint still didn't fully stick.
Only one project?? I have a whole corner of my room dedicated to What Could Have Been projects. My first project was a tube top or, essentially, a short maxi skirt.
Ihave a lovely old wing table - Now moms gone -I'm reluctant to get rid of it - Its been in our family for years - Lassie our border collie would sleep underneath her spot was that ! -And we had many christmas dinners
& birthday parties - Mom would put her sewing machine on it making curtains & shortening pants - Even backing we'd come home from school and there would be racks & racks of buns cooling down ready for icing - So as you see its a part of the family - So I want to paint it to make it look loved & Use modern colours - I have some check suit lengths upstairs some where ? & Im gonna recover the chairs with it & use the unusual colours as the palett im gonna be using ! ...
I Don't want to make it look like an olde worlde piece -Although it is ! -I want to make it look modern with the colours & Fabric!
I big problem is smell of paint !-
- I'm Asthmatic And paint triggers it off -Would should I look for in paints that I chose ?
Every project I start never goes as planned. I must gave a pretty high opinion in if my skills. Lol
What colour is this?
My failed project was the seashell bowl I tried to make using the method you used to make the seaglass bowl. The seashells wouldn't stick together!
I failed with a 100 year old rocker. they are not meant to have screws put in them. When we tried to screw in a new seat cracked the chair. Oh well it still looks good and can hold a doll or stuffed animal ok.
aw, I cracked a few projects with screws too, it's frustrating!
Just make sure you do pilot holes and dont put too much pressure as you fasten the screws
Quirky and weird has a fine line.
Did Bobby like it?
I tried to to make your sea glass bowl but with marbles and sea glass it looked really good but I also mixed tackey glue and bonding glue so it chipped a lot so I sadly had it make a necklace kinda like your rose seashell one only with sea glass and one with marbles
where can i get that bonding liquid please.
please help i did this same tutorial on my leather sectional couch and its chippy but i need your bonding agent , which i cant find on my own. need a link. the entire couch is chipping
what color is that
I tried to make a glittered heart on a shirt. I left the template on the shirt to long, and when I went to peal the template up, the paint came up too.
oh no :( did you try again?
Oh no!!! why???? this beautiful table 😭😭😭