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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.

comp pic July in body copy

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.

spot the diff in body results

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.

Introducing Chalk spray paint, the most recent addition to the PlastiKote spray paint range.

With a flat chalky finish, Chalk spray paint is ideal for recycling old furniture or giving a vintage look to something more modern. There are seven heritage colours to choose from with three more being added in the Spring. You can also find out more about Chalk on the PlastiKote website here.

Chalk colours: Dark Hessian , Old Hessian, Pale Rose, Vintage White, Pastel Green, Frost Blue, Caffe Espresso

PlastiKote Chalk spray paints small

You can use one colour over another and then gently rub back to reveal both layers. Or spray Chalk over Gold or Silver in the new Leaf spray paints and then lightly rub back to give an aged look.

Leaf spray paint in Gold and Silver

Here’s a picture of one of our favourite projects in Chalk – a cabinet sprayed in Pale Rose.

cabinet inside

How to:

Give the cabinet a light sanding to give a good key for the Chalk paint.
Make sure the cabinet is clean and all dust from the sanding is removed by wiping with a damp cloth and allowing to dry,
When completely dry, use Twist & Spray Primer to give a light base coat all over. This will increase coverage, adhesion and durability.
Following the instructions on the can, apply Chalk. It’s really important to shake the can for the stated 3 minutes before spraying to ensure the paint mixes well. We recommend shaking the can regularly throughout the spraying process and particularly in between coats.
The paint will be dry in two to three hours but allow the paint on the cabinet to completely Harden off for 48-72 hour before using.

Here are a few more Chalk projects we’ve been working on over the last few months:

Bathroom caddy in Chalk Frost Blue. Key cabinet in Chalk Vintage White

Sewing box in Chalk Caffe Espresso. Stool in Chalk Pastel Green

WIN: a £50 Hobbycraft gift card with PlastiKote spray paint

How to: the ultimate chalky finish with PlastiKote Chalk spray paint