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Look for Less May 2019 - Yami & Casey | DIY Rustic Wood Plaque

Apr 09, 2020
Hello everyone, this is delicious, today you welcome our neighbor to my channel. I have another installment of my monthly

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for Less Challenge, the

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for Less Challenge is a monthly challenge that I organize each month with a different partner. host, we asked you to recreate a home decor piece that may be out of your budget and we want you to do it yourself for much

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and if you're new here, I love high-end style on a budget so I share many videos on home decor, DIY, room makeovers, Dollar Tree, and much more. I would like to thank my co-host Casey for coffee with my sunshine this month.
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I can't wait to see what he creates, be sure to check out his channel after this. I'll have his channel in the cards above, as well as in the description box below, so you can see what he made and the playlist to add your videos if you participated this month or if you want to see everyone else's projects. in my description box below if you love Look for Less challenge make sure to like this video and subscribe so you too can be a part of the Family too if you like to watch the Look for Less challenge or participate every month .
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I have a very important announcement at the end of this video that I don't want you to miss, so stay tuned, all that being said, let's get started with this month's Less quest, okay, so if you've been following my channel for a while, you know I'm a fan of DIY

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projects and I found this beautiful piece in Kirkland. Now, this isn't the most expensive inspirational piece, but at $60 for several pieces of

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, I knew I could recreate this for a fraction of the current cost. For this project I decided to use the 36 inch poplar wood pieces that you can find at Home Depot, these are only a dollar and five cents each and I used ten for this project.
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I also used these same ones when I created those faux farmhouse shutters last winter. Now you will have to cut them and you can use the small miter saw kit that costs only ten dollars. I'll go ahead and link it below or you can use an electric miter saw. We're also going to need some type of tape measure and pressure. We like to use my fabric 1. The original artwork was 30 inches square but this was too big for me so I cut them to 24 inches and cut 4 of Now once everything was cut I made sure to sand them all the edges to make sure they were nice and smooth.
look for less may 2019   yami casey diy rustic wood plaque
I used a hot glue gun for this project as it will be quite lightweight and holds up very well, as all of the pieces are 24 inches long in order to make a perfect square, you will need to join them together as you see here. Now that the frame is ready, we will move on to the next part, which is the big one. X on the back, so for this I placed two pieces of wood diagonally across the square and made my marks with a pencil as to where I needed to make my cuts. I cut these pieces out, sanded them and then attached them to the frame with some hot glue too and then to add a little more stability to the corners I took some large popsicle sticks, traced them on the back corners, cut them out and glued them together with hot glue the ends, that way it made the frame a little sturdier.
Okay, now we move on to the white square part of the frame. Well, for this you will need two more pieces of poplar. I cut them in half and used 45 degree angles to cut the ends down. The exterior measurement will be 18 inches and the interior measurement will be 15 inches. You will assemble them into a square and also hot glue these pieces together. I cut more popsicle sticks and use them to reinforce the joints. This also stops attaching this to the larger frame because now we are going to assemble the final piece, which is the smaller square with the four pieces of wood in all its corners, for this you are going to cut four pieces. of wood, the outside edge is 10 inches and the inside edge is 7 inches again, assemble your square and then put it together with more hot glue, use a couple more popsicle sticks to reinforce those corners and now you will attach a new piece of poplar. wood from the top down to the center of the frame, make sure the piece of wood is inside the frame and then place these little squares directly on top of it, making sure it is centered to make sure you use a tape measure on the top and bottom and make sure they are both the same distance from the frame.
Make marks with a pencil and then cut out the pieces. We use a jigsaw for this because it is a little more complicated, however, you can do it. Use a small mini miter saw kit or, if you have a heavy-duty box cutter, you can score the wood and break it down. Make sure you cut out four of these after cutting them, sanding them and then gluing them onto your small square and then using. more popsicle sticks to reinforce these joints too, okay, so the next step is to stain or paint these pieces. Now the big square was white, so I had my cute little helper who was dying to get some paint and paint the big one. square white I used my favorite Adirondack white chalk paint from the entire cart so after we finished we used some of the stripping wash on the driftwood color since I wanted it to have a coastal feel and we went ahead and used this on these little ones. square and finally for the large frame and the X I used some wood stain on walnut and went ahead and stained everything.
I used a brush to apply and wiped off any excess after all the pieces were dry. I went ahead and sanded. on them to give it a slight distressing tone and then I started assembling. I put the white frame on first making sure it was level on all four corners and used hot glue to apply it to the X, then placed the third piece right on top. up now, since this was the final piece that was going to hold everything together, I used a little bit of e6000 to adhere this square to the blank and then I turned the piece over and started hot gluing all the pieces from the back to make sure that everything was fine and safe.
I made sure to hold down any pieces that needed a little extra pressure until the hot glue dried that way it was nice and secure and here is the finished product so let's see how I made the original. from Kirklands for $60 and I was able to recreate this for only $10.50 now the only thing I needed to buy because I had all the hand painted pig glue was the wood which was a dollar and five cents each and I only bought ten of them so I think I did pretty well on this one. I really hope you enjoyed this look for

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, it was a lot of fun to make and honestly if it weren't for the color differences I think it would be pretty hard to tell which one. was the original and which was the one deceived now for that important announcement.
I won't challenge myself to search less for the next few months. I have some big things happening in the background that I can't wait to share with you. Guys, but it's happening during the summer. Well, I have my kids at home and it's going to complicate things, so I'm going to give it a quick break, but don't worry my friends, it'll be back and I'll let you know as soon as it happens. Thank you so much Casey for being my co-host this month. It was a pleasure working with you and all those people who send messages every month.
I couldn't do this without your support, so be sure to check out that playlist in my description box so you can see what else was created this month. There are some amazing YouTubers who joined every month. Alright, make sure to like and subscribe because I'll be coming to see you very soon and don't forget I have my room. The challenge of the month is approaching. I'll see you in my next video until then.

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