A few weeks ago I wrote about finding old window panes in a field. My friend and I had the idea to clean them up, paint them and then use them decoratively in our houses. And since she is such a great friend, she did all the work! Here is the before picture.

My friend cleaned up the panes and then they looked like this…

The she painted the areas that she wanted crackled with a base coat. This must be an acrylic paint. This is the color that will show through.

After the base coat is dry, paint on the crackle paint, only on the spots you painted with the base coat.

Then paint the whole thing another color with acrylic paint. She chose black.

When painting this coat make sure you have plenty of paint on your brush, because you can only go over the crackled areas once. If you paint over it more than once it streaks and looks really bad.

Finally seal the project with a sealer.

Here are the finished projects.

Close up….

Aren’t these just beautiful!

You can find out more about the crackle paint technique here.

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