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WIN: a £50 Hobbycraft gift card with PlastiKote spray paint
Here’s your chance to win a £50 Hobbycraft gift card from PlastiKote spray paint.
Our vlog this month is a step-by-step guide to using Chalk spray paint. If you love the flat matt finish chalk paints give, you’re going to love our Chalk spray paint! It’s quick and easy to use – great for giving a vintage vibe to a piece of furniture or home accessory.
To help inspire your own Chalk project, this month’s competition features three of our favourite Chalk spray paint makes: Project A – a wicker basket sprayed in Chalk Frost Blue, Project B – a recycled key cupboard sprayed in Chalk Vintage White and Project C – an old stool sprayed in Chalk Pastel Green with a new fabric covering on the seat pad. These projects were all completed in an afternoon.
To enter our competition, just tell us which is your favourite. Email your answer A, B or C together with your name, address and phone number to competition@spraypaintideas.co.uk and put JULY COMP as the subject. We’ll pick one lucky winner at random after the closing date of 31st August. Good luck!
Entrants’ email addresses are added to our database to receive our monthly newsletter. If you wish to enter our competition but do not want to receive the monthly newsletter, please state NO MARKETING in your email.
Thank you to everyone who entered our May competition. Congratulations to Margaret from Coventry who spotted there were three differences between the two Dusty Coral pictures, shown below. Did you spot them all? Lucky Margaret has won a £50 Etsy voucher.
For terms and conditions for the July competition, click here.
Want to know more about PlastiKote spray paint? Visit our website here for more information about the product or pop over to our Pinterest page for lots of inspirational projects.
How to: add colour to your garden with PlastiKote spray paint
With longer days and warmer weather, people flock to garden centres to stock up on bedding plants and flowers to fill their borders and add colour to outside spaces. With PlastiKote spray paint, you can add instant colour to the garden as well as freshen up tired-looking furniture and recycle all those garden centre plastic pots as well as planters and ornaments. PlastiKote Garden spray paint comes in ten gorgeous colours and can be used on most surfaces, from metal and wood to stone and wicker.
Here’s a simple project to get you started. It’s as easy to use as 1,2,3!
1 Make sure the item you are spraying is clean and dry.
2 Apply several fine layers of PlastiKote Garden spray paint in the colour of your choice (this basket is in Azalea, the other two are Light Blue and Lavender). The instructions are on the back of the can.
3 Allow to thoroughly harden off (48-72 hours) before putting in the garden.
Have you been inspired but are unsure about using spray paint? Watch our vlog in this issue which shows how we recycled on old pallet to make a colourful plant stand to display pretty spray painted plastic pots. It includes a top tip for spraying pots that are already planted up.
Hopefully, we have inspired you to have a go. Share your ideas with us on Facebook or Instagram#plastikoteuk – we’d love to see them.
For more inspiration, check out our YouTube or Pinterest page.
Reader project: a vintage vibe with PlastiKote spray paint
Here at Plastikote Towers (okay, the office!), we love to see how you use PlastiKote spray paint around the home and every month feature a project that has caught our eye.
This month, it was Sarah on Instagram @sarahmaguire_myvintagehome who posts images of her fabulous home full of reloved and revamped furniture and accessories. She loves granny chic and vintage interiors. We love her style and use of colour.
She says: “My name is Sarah Maguire and I’m a spray paint addict. I’m a vintage collector and have been for around 20 years. I use spray paint for most of my painting projects unless it’s too large.
I’ve spray painted pretty much everything. Tables, chairs, picture frames, shelves, baskets, lamps. The list is endless.
I find it gives a much smoother finish especially the gloss sprays. There’s such a huge range of textures and colours to chose from too.”
Do follow Sarah on Instagram to learn more about her style and see more projects. If you love the vintage vibe, you won’t be disappointed.
We really enjoy seeing the diverse mix of ideas and creations using PlastiKote spray paints. If you have a spray paint project you’d like to share with us, email info@spraypaintideas.co.uk. If we feature it on our blog, you’ll get some ‘thank you’ spray paints.
For more information and inspiration from PlastiKote, follow us on Instagram here.
Competition: WIN a £50 Etsy voucher with PlastiKote spray paint
Here’s your chance to win a £50 Etsy voucher courtesy of PlastiKote spray paint.
If you’ve never used spray paint and are a bit apprehensive, our advice is to buy one can and try it out on a couple of small projects before tackling something bigger. There are probably a few bits lying around the house or in the attic that you’ve fallen out of love with or are looking a bit tired. One can of PlastiKote Twist & Spray – a great all rounder that works on most surfaces and is easy to use – will do several smaller items. Visit our YouTube channel for how to videos and top tips on using spray paint.
The vase, frame and lamp stand in this picture have been sprayed in Twist & Spray’s Dusty Coral. It took just one can and a few minutes to do each one plus drying time. It’s so quick and easy.
This month’s competition is a bit of fun – spot the difference. How many differences can you spot in Picture B (not including the letter!)A 3, B 5 or C 6? Email your answer A, B or C together with your name, address and phone number to competition@spraypaintideas.co.uk and put MAY COMP as the subject. We’ll pick one lucky winner at random after the closing date of 30th June. Good luck!
We run a competition every month and entrants’ email addresses are added to our database to receive our monthly newsletter. If you wish to enter our competition but do not want to receive the monthly newsletter, please state NO MARKETING in your email.
Thank you to everyone who entered our March competition. Congratulations to Liz from Beckford whose favourite project was B – the Ikea table. Liz has won a £50 Ikea gift card so may be she’ll be doing her own table soon!
For terms and conditions for the May competition, click here.
Want to know more about PlastiKote spray paint? Visit our website here for more information and lots of inspirational ideas
Mini makes: fun festival makes with PlastiKote spray paint
This summer, are you gallivanting to Glastonbury or legging it to Latitude?!
The festival season is upon us and you may be one of the lucky ones looking forward to a couple of days of great music, fab food and a stay under canvas. We though we’d share a couple of mini-makes using PlastiKote spray paint to help you stand out in the crowd.
With the British weather, an essential item for any festival are wellies. Personalise a pair of old welly boots with PlastiKote Twist & Spray (we find the Gloss finish works the best) and some funky vinyl stickers.
They should last for a whole season of festivals.
You don’t want to trip on tent pegs at the end of the night, so why not spray them with PlastiKote Fluorescent spray paint? They’ll be more visible and also easier to find when packing up.
Follow us on Instagram @plastikoteuk for more ideas and projects. And don’t forget to tag us if you make something using PlastiKote spray paint – we love seeing them #plastikoteuk.
For product information, visit the website www.plastikote.co.uk.
How to: Download the NEW PlastiKote spray paint Colour Finder App
We are delighted to introduce the new Colour Finder App from PlastiKote spray paint.
This clever little app will help you find a colour match to, say, a favourite fabric, vase or flower. Take a picture on your smartphone or import an image from Pinterest and this easy-to-use app will enable you to find the nearest colour match in the PlastiKote spray paint range.
There’s a colour palette for you to browse, products to discover and a handy option to find your nearest store. You can even visit the blog and enter our latest competition via the app.
If you’re new to spray painting or are looking for ideas for your next makeover, talk a look at the Tips and Inspiration section where you’ll find top tips for spray painting and short videos to inspire a new project.
Available on the App Store or Google Play, download the app today!
(Click on the store icon to download.)
How to: PlastiKote spray paint – New Year, New Colours
Introducing the latest addition to the PlastiKote spray paint family – Matt Classic Teal, Dusty Coral, Duck Egg Blue, French Grey and Satin Lime Green in the Twist & Spray Colour range. They work beautifully together or can be used individually to update items around the home – spray frames, vases, lamp stands, chairs, almost anything! Available in 400ml cans, it’s an affordable way to add a splash of colour or keep up with the trend.
If you’re a spray paint novice, PlastiKote Twist & Spray Colour paint is a great product to start you on your spraying journey. It’s easy to use, quick to dry and can be applied to almost any surface. And no annoying brush strokes!
Here’s a super simple project that anyone can do.
You will need:
Belly baskets
Dust sheets/newspaper
PlastiKote Twist & Spray Colour (we used Classic Teal, Dusty Coral and Lime Green)
As we wanted to spray only the bottom half of our belly baskets, this set of three (from Amazon) were perfect as they came folded as in the picture above allowing them to be sprayed without having to mask any area. If you purchase some that aren’t folded, use masking tape and newspaper to mask off the area you don’t want sprayed.
Apply the Twist & Spray Colour of your choice following instructions on the can. Make sure the basket is dry and clean before starting and use long, even strokes to build up the colour. It is recommended to build the layers rather than try to get an even coverage in one go. A project like this should only need two coats, allowing 15-30 minutes between each coat. The basket will be touch dry in under an hour.
Allow to thoroughly dry before putting into use.
Hopefully, we’ve inspired you to have a go. Share your ideas with us on Facebook or Instagram #plastikoteuk – we’d love to see them.
For more inspiration, check out our ideas on Pinterest page.
Competition: win a £50 Hobbycraft voucher with PlastiKote spray paint
Is your New Year’s resolution to get more creative? Enter the PlastiKote spray paint competition and you could win a £50 Hobbycraft gift card to go shopping for some crafty goodies!
If you’ve seen our ‘How T’o post on this month’s blog, you’ll know that five new colours have been added to the PlastiKote Twist & Spray Colour range.
To enter this month’s competition, just tell us which is your favourite colour – A Lime Green, B French Grey, C Dusty Coral, D Duck Egg Blue or E Classic Teal. Email us your answer together with your name, address and phone number to competition@spraypaintideas.co.uk and put JAN COMP as the subject. We’ll pick one lucky winner at random after the closing date of 28th February. Good luck!
We run a competition every month and entrants’ email addresses are added to our database to receive our monthly newsletter. If you wish to enter our competition but do not want to receive the monthly newsletter, please state NO MARKETING in your email.
Thank you to everyone who entered our December competition. Our congratulations to Ann from Roade, Northampton, who has won a £50 Ikea gift card. She correctly answered the question asking which seed heads had been sprayed in this picture. The answer, of course, was B – Alliums.
For terms and conditions for the January competition, click here.
Want to know more about PlastiKote spray paint? Visit our website here for more information and lots of inspirational ideas
Mini make: recycle biscuit tins with PlastiKote spray paint
If you received a tin of biscuits or chocolates this Christmas, once the contents have disappeared, why not recycle it with PlastiKote spray paint? Far better than adding to landfill, reuse tins for all sorts of storage solutions – a sewing box, a cake tin, a first aid kit. Just follow our simple step by step instructions:
Make sure the tins are clean and dry.
Spray using one of the many colours from the Twist & Spray Colour range, following instructions on the can. We used Cameo Pink for our cake tin.
Once the paint was completely dry, we added sticky letters as decoration or you could leave it plain.
Here are the finished tins.
Lace and doilies were used as stencils on these tins to add some pretty decoration.
Follow us on Instagram @plastikoteuk for more ideas and projects. And don’t forget to tag us if you make something using PlastiKote spray paint – we love seeing them.
For product information, visit the website www.plastikote.co.uk.