SPRING FARMHOUSE THRIFT STORE DOLLAR TREE MAKEOVER DIYS

Hello everyone, welcome back to Monarch Mom's DIY, I'm Cindy, if this is your first time visiting my channel. I hope you hit the subscribe button and also the bell to be notified of all my future uploads and welcome back to those of you who are already subscribed today, I have four

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s, the first is to use this wooden frame, 3.8 by 10 canvases, some floral moss, some jute twine from Dollar Tree, and a few other items. I'll explain as we go, the first thing I'm going to do is give this wood frame not just a solid coat but a rustic looking coat of white Waverly chalk paint and you'll see I'm also going to make sure to paint the inside edges and exterior of the frame.

For a complete look, next I'll take three of these eight-by-ten stretched canvases from the Dollar Tree and paint them with my Waverly Chalk Paint in the color truffle. I'm not going to need to paint the edges and you. I'll see why in a moment because I'm going for that rustic look. I'm not worried about the paint completely covering the canvases if it's a little scratched, that's even better, so I did a Google image search and I think. I just put in a flower outline, a bird outline, and a butterfly outline. I printed them on cardstock and am simply cutting them out.

I'm using them as a template for the three images I'm going to paint in the center of these canvases. I decided that my canvases weren't rustic enough looking, so I decided to add just a few streaks of dry brush white chalk paint over the truffle brown. Once it was dry, once the canvases were dry, the next step was to take a staple remover and remove it. all the staples to the back of the canvases and then I'm going to remove the canvases from the wooden frame. Next I take some hot glue or wood glue and I glue these three wooden frames together and then I just cut off the excess canvas around each of my brown areas that are painted and you could actually cut all the way down to the brown because part of it will be behind the frame.

Now, the next step was a lot of fun, but a little complicated and takes some time. You've seen me use this moss before and I'm only taking a little bit of area at a time and now I'm going to cover just the front of my wooden frames with the floral moss, sorry my glasses are still in the way. but you can see what I'm doing here, just do one small area at a time and use more moss than you need so it will protect your fingers from the hot glue once you've done everything, just lightly. scrub and remove any hanging moss that is not completely attached; you just want to be able to see the outline of each of the frames and you don't want it to cover too much of the center, of course if you find areas that are a little bald go ahead and cover them now for my next step.

I have each of my templates on my canvases. I'm just tracing with a pencil and then I'm going to paint them. I paint the outline shape with celery chalk paint. It's a light. green I love to use it in the

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and I think it looks great on this dark brown background, so like I said, here is the celery chalk paint and using a very small tip brush I'm doing the outline, here is the flower. Other ways you could do this, if you wanted, you could paint the canvas with the celery and then when it's dry, place the stencil and then paint the brown color around it so that when you lift the stencil you're left with the celery.

I simply chose Do It This Way for this project and it really didn't take long. I think the key is to have a brush with a small enough set of bristles so you can especially get to the butterfly and bird in those small areas, but the idea is not that they look realistic, I just don't know if you call it a motif where it's just a dimensionless shape and just these three to remind us of

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, so once I painted all three, shapes I'm going to go ahead now and re-glue the canvas to the back of each wooden frame.

Sorry for my head there, sometimes where my camera is makes it a little difficult, so as you can see, just the brown part of the canvas. it fits behind the frame so I just press each one of these so I think it's called a reverse canvas where now the actual canvas is on the back of the frame but it shows towards the front if that makes sense so we got the butterfly , the flower and then the bird at the bottom and now all three are attached to our mossy frame that we made from the wooden frames from each of the canvases here.

Sorry, it's a little out of the frame. I'm just taking two pieces of jute twine and I'm hot gluing them to the top canvas, on the back of the top canvas, I think I'm going to slide it over here in just a second, there we go, so I'm going to use my pinky finger guard . Some of you made sure I was using that, so what I'm going to do is glue one side of the rope and then I'm going to attach my wooden frame. Remember that frame we painted white at the beginning. I'm going to attach that and each of these jute twines will go around the top of the wooden frame and then glue them back to the back of the canvases, if that makes sense, so these three pictures will hang in the center of the frame white wood you'll see what I mean here in a moment, so here are the three pictures hanging from the frame.

I decided to use two of these metal words in this three pack. I'm using the word welcome here and then. Spring here and I simply hot glued them to the moss to finish my project. For my second project, I'm going to take this birdhouse shelf, some moss, some chalk paint, this glass jar, some wooden hearts and some jute twine, the first thing I'm going to do do. To make, I bought this for $2 at Goodwill, it just sits on a table. I'm removing all this moss, the fake birds, and the wooden heart that's attached to the bottom.

I really wanted a neutral

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look for this birdhouse, so I'm taking my mineral chalk paint and giving everything a coat or two to cover up all the other paint that turned out very pretty but just doesn't fit my style of painting at all. decor. Once the mineral chalk paint was dry, I took some masking tape and I'm going to tape around the two pointed areas of the ceiling so I can paint them with my darker gray called elephant. I also decided to paint this part of the shelf the darker gray as well just to give it a little more dimension here.

I have my Waverly Chuck paint in white and two of these wooden hearts that I also showed at my

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. I'm just going to give them each a coat of white chalk paint on the front and sides and this is always the fun part is removing the tape and seeing the nice crisp paint lines with the two different colors of gray paint on the aviary. Next, I grab this glass jar from Dollar Tree and I just want the base. I liked the square size of the So I'm removing all the metal pieces from the jar and just a little googan on this paper towel removes the rest of the sticky residue from the bottom label to decorate the top of the jar a little. bit, I'm just grabbing some of my jute twine from Walmart, this is the end of my roll.

I'll have to go back and get some more, but I just use little dots of hot glue every once in a while, I'm attaching the jute twine starting at the top and I'll wrap it three or four times just to cover the top of the jar and to finish the top of the birdhouse. I'm hot gluing these two white hearts that cover the holes left over from the original design of this birdhouse and then I'm taking one more piece of jute twine and just making a simple bow that I'm then going to hot glue to the front of my jar and here is the finished product.

I love how this turned out with just a few simple changes for the third project. I'm taking this around a piece of wood that I found at the thrift store some of these wood ball legs. I'm not sure what they are called pegs of some kind and In this printable I found online, I decided I was going to make a riser with legs. These are very popular right now in

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decor, so I'm going to remove the little feet that were on the bottom because the bottom will now be the top. In my project I'm simply establishing where I'm going to put these little feet, they're flat on one side.

I got them from another project I started and never finished, so now I sanded the bottom so everything is nice and flat and I'm going to give it a coat of Waverly chalk paint in the color group. I love this light robin's egg blue. I used it last spring for a couple of my DIY projects and I really like being able to add a little color with this paint color, but it's still a neutral tone. I decided to also paint the feet blue, but I'm going to make them in navy blue. This is acrylic paint, so as you can see, it doesn't cover all the way. plus chalk paint, so I had to apply two coats to these five little feet that I'm going to glue to the bottom of my riser.

Here again you see my technique of using a skewer to paint and Here I am, hot gluing my dry feet to the bottom of the elevator. I painted both sides of the round piece of wood with the pool and hot gluing the dark navy feet to the bottom and here it is all turned upside down, it's nice and flat. I found this printable online, it's a little small for this size wood so I'll try to loosely draw the reef and the words with my pencil. I'm going to link it in the description box and if I can figure out how to do it.

Make a card here at the top. I'll link a video where I show how to transfer words to your project, but this was pretty basic, just drawing some circles, adding some random leaves with a pen, and then writing the words. pencil, you can always erase it and go back and fix it, so first I'll write the impression at home and center it and then I'll add the blessing in italics and that's how the finished product turned out. I love how you can dress. this for your decoration, my last project today is this sewing planter that we found.

I'm also going to use a pizza pan and a splatter screen and some chalk paint and spray paint. First I should say that I'm going to take my black Waverly chalk paint in the color ink and I'm going to paint the legs of this I don't even know what to call it I'm going to call it sewing kit apparently what many of you told me is that on The Day These also came with a hinged wooden lid that would have a flap back I guess so you could remove the lid completely or just have half of it but this is what it looks like.

I'm also painting the Handle with my black chalk paint and being very careful not to let it fall off and stain other parts. I decided that for my farmhouse decor I was going to do black and white for this item and turn it into a small side table, you will see what I do to make the top, so to make the top of my table I am using this screen splash guard that this little handle has and also a pizza pan. I measured it beforehand to make sure it would work. They fit on top of my bucket and what I'm going to do with these two items is after I remove a little handle from the splash screen, I'm going to take the pizza pan and the splash screen outside to the garage and give them to you. a very good coat of black spray paint.

Now I'm taking my white Waverly chalk paint and giving kind of a light coat of white chalk paint to the top, middle and bottom sections of my cube all the way around and then to those raised areas. The raised areas will turn black, so before I paint the two black stripes, I'm going to use my tape like I did with the birdhouse chandelier and just put a little bit of tape on each side of both raised areas so that when they paint black. There will be nice, crisp lines between the black and white chalk paint and again, the best part is removing the tape and seeing the nice, crisp lines between the two different paint colors.

You'll notice that my black chalk paint on this project is pretty solid, while I went with the light white type, with a marbled and rustic look, so to finish my lid, this time I'll grab some of my 6000 glue. I tried these little tubes from Walmart and I'm just putting them around the edge of the bottom of the splatter screen and then what I'm going to do is a little bit in the middle where that screw is and I'm going to center it on my pizza pan so that it become the lid of my box. I keep whatever it is in a bucket so you can put it this way as a lid, you can also turn it over and flatten it to use it more as a table, that's how this project turned out.

Thank you very much for watching and being a part of my channel, please let me know. in the comments which of these thrift store

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s did you like the most and what would you like me to do in future videos thank you very much give this video a big thumbs up and see you next time bye.