You can find the DIY Calcium
Carbonate Powder recipe here: http://inmyownstyle.com/2013/02/diy-chalk-paint-review-update.html It is the most natural of all the DIY recipes as it is sold at the health food store for bone health.
I like the Calcium
Carbonate Powder recipe the best.
I have not used a DIY version to paint fabric, but I am sure it would work just as well as Annie Sloan, especially if you use the Calcium
Carbonate Powder recipe.
I used the Calcium
Carbonate Powder recipe to make the chalk paint.
Hi Kim — If you use the Calcium
Carbonate Powder recipe to make chalk paint you can use any paint, even ones with a primer in them.
I use the Calcium
Carbonate Powder recipe.
If you are using a paint with a primer in it, then you should use the calcium
carbonate powder recipe.
Hi Cindy — If you use the Calcium
Carbonate Powder recipe you can use any type of paint.
Using the Calcium
Carbonate Powder recipe, do you think chalk paint will be OK even if the water paint itself is not recommended on wood?
I would make it using the Calcium
Carbonate Powder recipe.
Hi Kim — If you use the Calcium
Carbonate Powder recipe to make chalk paint you can use any paint, even ones with a primer in them.
Hi Cindy — If you use the Calcium
Carbonate Powder recipe you can use any type of paint.
If you are using a paint with a primer in it, then you should use the calcium
carbonate powder recipe.
When you have a small item that you want to paint, but don't want to have the expense of buying an entire quart or gallon of paint in the color you want you can use craft paint as long as you use the Calcium
Carbonate Powder recipe (CCP).
Not exact matches
I like the hard finish that is achieved in this
recipe when you mix Calcium
Carbonate Powder with Plaster of Paris.
Hi Milly — Acrylic paint will work with Calcium
Carbonate Powder, but will bind up if you use the non-sanded grout
recipe.
If you want to age your piece by sanding a lot of the paint off, don't use this
recipe, use the Calcium
Carbonate Powder alone.
Hi Milly — Acrylic paint will work with Calcium
Carbonate Powder, but will bind up if you use the non-sanded grout
recipe.
If you want to age your piece by sanding a lot of the paint off, don't use this
recipe, use the Calcium
Carbonate Powder alone.
Here is the CCP
recipe I use: 2 Tablespoons Calcium
Carbonate Powder, 1 tablespoon water and 1 cup paint.
If you want super durable — hard even to sand finish, use the Calcium
Carbonate Powder and Plaster of Paris mixed
recipe.
I have written about many pieces of furniture I have painted using one of three DIY chalk paint
recipes — non-sanded grout, Plaster of Paris, and Calcium
Carbonate Powder.
I tested it out with Websters Chalk Paint
Powder and the DIY
recipe that uses Calcium
Carbonate.
No matter what
recipe you use Calcium
Carbonate Powder all by itself or mixed with Plaster of Paris — you are going to like the finish.
Hi Sam — I have found that you can use acrylic paint with the Calcium
Carbonate Powder (CCP)
recipe with no problems, but it may bind the paint if you use Plaster of Paris or Non-sanded grout.
I would use the Calcium
Carbonate Powder mixed with the Plaster of Paris
recipe.