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DIY Vintage Farmhouse Truck

May 31, 2021
Hey guys, it's Carrie with my dear mom for Iowa and I'm so excited for you to tune in to today's video, even though I sound like shit and it seems like my head is blocked and stuffy, but don't worry, I'm pushing. Through the show must continue and I am very excited to share today's video with you. See this cute little cake here? I'll show you how to make your own three-dimensional

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that you can change. for every holiday every season using nothing but Dollar Tree items, you won't believe how easy it is. In fact, I'll give you two options to do this and in a later video, stay tuned, I'll give you the caravan. that matches, so you're going to want to turn on all your notifications, if you don't have them on already, you're going to miss out, so hit that notification bell, turn on all your notifications so that when the caravan video goes live.
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Watching you all because this video will blow your mind and how easy it is to do right so the first thing we're going to need to get started on this project is two of these wood cutouts that Dollar Tree I had around Christmas now I know you're probably sitting there saying girl, it's almost Valentine's Day, you know it very well. Dollar Tree doesn't have these

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s yet, but don't worry because I'll give everyone a proper template if you head over to my blog, which I'll put a link to below. You can download these templates and you can make your own using foam core, so all you're going to do is print this and then you can print this. so it's whatever size you want, but this is approximately, let's see what one, two, three, four, five, six, seven is, this is approximately 814, so if you print this on a legal size sheet of paper, you should Be good then, what you're going to do after you print your template, you're going to take a piece of foam core and you can buy the foam core at Dollar Tree or you can get the slightly thicker cone that they have. at the craft store, so it's totally up to you how thick you want your project to be, so after tracing the outside, you'll take your scissors and cut out the fenders and top. of your truck and then you're going to trace them on cardstock again.
diy vintage farmhouse truck
You can get this cardstock at Dollar Tree or you can pick it up at any of the craft sources it's completely up to you so basically you're going to have everything I have here because we're not actually using the tree so again if you visit the link I have below for my blog, you can download your copies for free, you're welcome. Okay, so let's get started, so first thing. What we want to do is uproot this tree, yes, now for the second one. If you're using these trucks, you'll need to remove the fenders from both of them, as well as the little top of your cab here, and you'll be able to do that.
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That's just taking a knife or a paint scraper and just sliding it under those fenders and being very careful, being very careful, you do it because you don't want to break it, but if you break it, don't worry, I actually broke one. of mine you can glue them back on and we're going to sand them so you can't even tell they're broken but you should know they're not too fragile but you may end up leaving something on your side piece here the fenders came off pretty well actually They weren't even glued together properly, so we have our truck parts ready now.
I plan to use the back of my truck to change them for all seasons, so I picked up this cute little basket from Dollar Tree and wait until you see what we're going to do with this little friend that's going to go in the back of this truck and I'm going Let's decorate this for every holiday. You can imagine that, so let's leave this aside for now, if you're super OCD, you can take your sandpaper and sand it, but this is actually going to be on the inside, so I'm just going to turn it around and on the back of this one, oh yeah, I'm going to sand it down, just this is going to look good, so I finally got all that nasty glue off and I actually had to end up scraping it off with my knife.
Don't tell my husband I used the good bone from the kitchen, okay, so let's recap what we have so far. We have one of our trucks that we have done absolutely nothing to, but I'm going to sand this down and then we have another truck that we took all the pieces off and turned it around and this is what we're going to use for the back, now We're going to stick them here on the back because I want this to be a mirror image of itself, so it looks like I'm going to need a little Sammy on this part too, which is no big deal or I could really leave it at that.
I don't think you need it to be honest. and that's probably what I'm going to do today, okay, now that we have our sandpaper, I'm going to go ahead and scratch something better and then I'm going to use my sandpaper to take the rest of this shine, it's much better, so let's do a pause for a minute and let's clean up this mess and we'll be back. The good thing is that if you are using the templates that I provide is that you won't have to sand off any glitter and it will be much faster than if you use these, so there is an advantage to using them, so now let's go ahead and glue our pieces together. and again I'm using my cordless glue gun from Shahbandar because I don't like under what those pesky wires are fine, so now that we have all of our pieces ready to go, it's time to glue on our little bed for our van.
Now I want my truck. I want the little pieces of wood to stick together. up a little bit, so I'm going to have it sticking out right there, so I'm just going to need to put glue on this bottom piece, okay, so the next thing we're going to do is cut out our support pieces to come into our truck now, like I said, you can use your truck like this and it would be perfectly fine if all you're going to see is each other, but I have to take it up a notch, so I'm actually going to cover all of this up, I'm going to paint it so it looks super cute now to make our support pieces, we want to make sure that we have our pieces in the center so that my pieces are exactly the same diameter or the same width as our little basket here, so I'm going to mark it with my pencil and then I'm going to take my knife and I'll cut approximately one, two, three, four, six, seven eight.
I'm going to cut approximately ten. of the nine or ten of these and that's what I'm going to use to hold up my truck, okay, so I don't have any of my little cross pieces cut out and now we're just going to put this on. I'm just going to put a little bit of hot glue on each end. I'm just going to put one in the center. I planned to make two, but I think one will be clean. I just want to put it in the middle and keep it in place. This is really going to help. to stabilize this piece and give them one that will last a long, long time.
I'm going to take a piece and put it under here to camouflage the fact that this is not what's not going. all the way back, so I'm going to put a little bit of glue on this one and put it right underneath, okay, now that all my crawl spaces are done, I'm going to take my glue gun and reinforce them. kinda just so they're not going anywhere now this is where a cordless glue gun would come in handy you know? And in fact, I just noticed that there's going to be a little hole right here from where I stopped, so I'm going to cut. one more piece, okay, so there's one last thing we need to do before we start gluing on our cardboard or cardstock and that's going to put in some pegs.
I tried a couple different ways of doing this type. of work and not be wrinkled where it smooths out here and honestly the easiest thing to do was just glue two dowels here on top so your pieces just turn around so it took us a bigger dowel. from some kind of package of dowels that I bought at Walmart, I think it was, and I put in a larger dowel and then a smaller towel so it was right over the edge and filled it with hot glue. Now I'll be honest if you were making this from the template I gave you I would just cut it flat so instead of trying to turn it around I would just square it up and get rid of that because it will save you a lot of trouble trust me my. which I might have to go back and do the same thing with this border right here in the front, but I'll know more once I start covering it and we'll just wing it and see how it goes well, so now I want to take our cardstock and I cut the cardstock into the long side and we're going to want the shiny side up so it's actually going to be wider than I need and we're just going to trim off the excess on one side but let's go ahead and start gluing it so I'm going to start on the back from the truck.
I'm just going to put a little glue on the edge of both sides and cut out my cardstock. about four inches wide and that was just to have enough room to play that way. I don't have to worry about it being perfect on both sides. I'll just grab my exact knife and head down. the edges, what is something once you're done, okay, so now let's stop it. I think this will work much better if we roll it, but like I said, if you're using the template I gave you, do yourself a favor and cut. That goes away and you won't have to worry about putting your pegs on top here, so now you grab your Exacta knife or your box cutter, either one.
I just find where you find exactly where your edges are and then you can see, you can see the edge I left it a little bit longer and I'll just tuck it under and put a little bit of glue on the edge, but you want to roll it up first before you glue it on, that'll help make it stay without wrinkling too much and you can take the leftover piece from the paint stirrer and just polish that e/m to smooth it out a little bit and while I'm at this point I'm going to take my exact knife and just trim that edge off.
Okay, and I'll show you what that looks like below. Can you see that edge is nice and clean? Okay, so next we're going to start our next piece of cardstock here, so it's going to start there. Work it like we did with our other piece now again. I'll take my cardstock before I glue it up and just mark it to make sure your folds are where they're supposed to be right over and over again. We'll go back and rotate both sides once we're done and again, this border here is going to be really tricky, so if you're using this one, I would just remove it and frame it just so you don't.
Go crazy trying to get it over that edge, but I think we can do it right, as you can see my paper was getting wrinkled on the end here, so I went ahead and did the same thing I did here on this part and put another one in. peg here and I just filled in the edge where the peg met my support here, but if you're doing this with that template, trust me, just cut it out now. I'm going to Mod Podge over my cardstock here, so what is Mod Podge? which a couple of times then I'm going to take my sandpaper and smooth it out to smooth out all those wrinkles because I don't want them to look good now once we get to this second edge, we're going to do the same thing as I did before and I cut it here, it's okay, now let's trim off the excess and honestly, I didn't even get a chance, so I'm going to go ahead and glue another peg into this little rounded part here just to be safe.
Well, I have my last one, I'm going to cut it out and I'm just going to paste it in that space. Oh, everyone, this cold is really kicking my butt, so now we're ready to do our last piece, okay? We have our dowel alone and our glue has cooled. Let's go ahead and glue on our next piece. I'm going to go very slow. Remember Shaunice above. I'm going to hold this until it cools and we're done. I'm just going to keep gluing until we get to the edge of our fender here, right up to the edge of this fender, we're not going to cover the tires, so I decided to go ahead and finish the edge right here under this second little one. roll here and not go over the fenders because it was a bit of a weird finish and I don't really hate the way it looks.
I think that's okay, so the last thing I'm going to do here to finish this seam is just to fill this with hot glue. I don't want anything to show, so I'm going to take that and then I'm going to take one of my wrists and smooth it out, most likely it won't show and you won't. I'll notice it, but I really don't want to take any chances and once this is all painted, you won't even notice any of it, as it seems rough right now, but I promise you won't even notice when it's all painted, sorry. , this is what the back looks like, this is our paint shaker, we have the sides and then the front,super cute okay so the next step for our project is going to be Mod Podge on the cardstock.
I don't want the cardstock to be waterproof and you don't know, I want it to be more durable, so I'm going to give it maybe two or three coats of Mod Podge and make sure you let them dry between each one, that way you'll get a nice, even coat. , so I went ahead and put three coats of Mod Podge on my cardstock here and let it dry really well. between the coats and I just took some 320 grit sandpaper and just smoothed out those edges on the front here so you don't know and it doesn't look wrinkled like that now once we get everything primed and painted it looks so okay, so don't let this stage make you think, oh my god, it's going to look horrible because it's not.
I promise it will be simply adorable, so the next step will be to prepare everything. I'll give you both. on the sides a good coat of primer, but I will leave this wood natural. I'm really digging into the way it looks with the natural one and then I'll go back and add some little details just to extend that. bed and these are just little craft sticks that I cut to size, but I think that will extend the bed a little bit so it looks more perfect and then I'm going to put these little details in, so cute.
Okay, but like I said, the next step will be to just print everything. Okay, also my truck is primed and ready to paint and you can see it from the inside. I didn't paint everything, I just painted on the other sides. the wheels in case that shows, but no one will see what's here, so I didn't really take the time to worry about doing that, so I'm going to paint my whole truck turquoise. You will know that I live on the beach. so of course I have to have a nice turquoise truck so I decided to use an appropriately named color called ocean breeze and this is a crab art painting so shake it up real good.
I'm going to put some of my plate here and start painting now. I'm going to paint the entire truck, except the wheels, this pretty turquoise color. Okay, so I put two coats of turquoise on the truck, took my pencil and just outlined where I'm going to put the tires on the rims and also on the door. Now I went ahead and made a little grill on the front here and I'm just going to paint it, but I've decided I want my windows just a little bit. A little bit bigger, these little windows here to me look a little weird and out of place, so my solution is going to be to just take a little piece of cardboard here, then I'm going to hot glue it on the inside and when I paint it, I'm going to paint the overdrawn part, you know how some people overdraw their lips.
Well, we're going to overdraw our window here just to give that illusion that the window is bigger than it really is, so let me cut out my glue gun. Here and I'll wait for it to warm up and in the meantime I'll go ahead and start adding some shading, so I'll add some highlights and some lowlights. I'm not going to paint everything as super solid like I do. I want it to have kind of a cartoon effect, so I'm going to use, I'm going to put a little bit of my ocean breeze paint on my plate here and then I'm going to take a more bluish kind of color here and this is called rain tropical and then I'll have one called minted aqua.
I'll also pour some water on it, so these will be my highlights and lowlights. I'll use them to mix them together now. little piece here, I think I'm going to paint that white just to give it a little bit of white because I have the matching camper that I'll show you in a different video, okay, so I want a little bit of shadow. here, so I'm going to put a little bit of my color, my aquamarine color. I'm also going to grab some gray. Now this is the elephant color in the Waverly Chop paint. I'm just going to use a little bit of that that I don't use.
I don't need a lot, but I want to give a little bit of this to those shadows, so I have my gray and I'm going to take a little bit of my turquoise, so I'm just going to blend those two together and While I have my gray on my brush, I'm just going to touch that border a little bit, so I'm going to take a little bit of my big turquoise and just blend them together to try to get a darker turquoise. I don't want to stay in the shadows here, think about it even if you think you're not a painter, don't be, don't be afraid to try it like painting, if you don't.
I like the way it looks, then I just paint over it, that's the beauty of painting because I'm definitely not a professional painter. I just do what I want and hope it turns out, but you have to think about your shadows and know what that is. It's going to be a darker part and you already know it in your head, just try to plan where those shadows should be. I'm going to grab a clean nail and just blend these colors again. I'm going to go back to my original color. not turquoise and I just want to mix my shadows with the other one because once I have the shadows I'll go back and do my highlights.
Okay, now that I have my shade Z, I'm going to take a little bit of my lighter blue and also my mint green and just put a little highlight on it if you get too much highlight, don't be afraid to take your brush that has your original color on it and just blur it. Those are together and the great thing about your highlights and your lowlights is that you can use them to mark your lines without actually making a line, right? I think I like it now before I move on to the other side. Maybe I'll move on. my glue gun is hot now I'm going to go ahead and glue my piece on this side like this and I'm going to paint this black and then I'm going to work on my tires next to you right now I'm going to jump back in and use my white and then the last one little piece will finish it off with a little bit of outline okay that looks nice okay I'm going to need to do my wheels my rims next on the inside and this is the Waverly Chalk Paint and silver lining and then I'll finish it off with the target.
I think before I do the black outlines I'm going to go in and add just some highlights with some white around the edge, not much, and just use my finger to spread them out. I just like to add depth to my paintings. I think it makes a huge difference, it just makes everything come alive and again, I am NOT a professional in any sense. I do what I like and I hope it looks good, I think it looks pretty good, so the last thing I need to do I'm going to take this brush at an angle and I'm going to paint black paint.
You'll probably look at this and freak out a little bit, but you know what a color and a ship looks like and it's all kind of outlined, that's what I want this to look like, so I just want to take it very lightly. edge of my brush and just kind of an outline. I don't want it to go full circle. I just want to give it that pop art look. I think that's what you call it, it's just another layer of dimension that you're going to add, but it really makes a big difference and when you do this you want to use a super light touch and turn the brush sideways, that's why I find that these angled brushes work great, oh my gosh I love it.
It's great now that I still have black paint on my brush, I want to get a lot of that paint off because I just want to outline the silhouette of the door handle here, wow, let me have gotten too much of my bad and Now I also want to use the tip of my pointed brush and ever so slightly give the illusion that this is being outlined, as if to say I don't want a Superstar Club. I'm just not a big fan of it, but I like a messy pop art look. I'm also going to add Lon just a little bit below that edge, maybe a little bit like this, oh my gosh, I can't wait to paint the other side exactly the same way.
How about two cute and stinky ones? Well, while I have my glue gun plugged in, I'm going to go ahead and put in this last detail. I took some craft sticks and cut them to the right size to fit here because my basket wasn't as long as I wanted. I really wanted it to be a little longer, so I'm going to give it the illusion that it's longer by gluing these craft sticks right here, so I have two. that I'm going to glue like this and then I have some little cross pieces that are going to go through, I actually didn't quite realize, I forgot to put my target on my window, I want a little bit of a little bit. of a shadow there, okay, what do you think isn't the most precious thing you've ever seen in your entire life?
So I'm just going to paint the grill on the front and I have to paint the windshield and then I'm going to paint this side exactly the same way I did this one and then I'll come back and show you the finished project when we're done. Well, here's our truck, all decorated for Easter, isn't this the most adorable thing you've ever seen? Have you ever seen in your life? No, I used one of the paintable ornaments at Dollar Tree House right now and just removed the hook and used markers to color in its features. Now I also used some of the raffia carrots that are in the stores as well as some styrofoam and some plastic eggs, check this out, this cute little sun was actually made with some chocolate or that subbu designed a Sydney, if you want to see subbu's designs and chalk couture, I'll be sure to link their link. down in the description box, so be sure to check it out until her mom gets brave with the city I sent you or the little banner.
I just took some jute cord and some ribbon and tied it all together, so this whole project cost me less than five dollars. to do, but it doesn't look like a million dollars, that's enough for today's video. If you enjoyed this video, be sure to leave it with a big thumbs up because that would mean a lot to me and until next time, happy. do it yourself

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