TOP 22 FARMHOUSE DIYS/HIGH END FARMHOUSE HOME DECOR/BEST FARMHOUSE DIYS/RUSTIC FARMHOUSE

Hello everyone, I'm Holly from Hot Humble Pie. Today's video is an extra special compilation video for the year 2020. I've rounded up your favorite

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DIYs, which means every time I uploaded a video I paid attention to which ones ranked number one in that video and those are the DIYs that they made the final cut today and as always I hope you enjoy the show and if you haven't subscribed to my channel yet I would love for you to click that button just use more of that super chunky wooden sign. and the $18 Home Depot furring strip and I laughed so hard at the next scene so I watched that scene of my husband cutting like crazy probably about six times and I laughed so hard I burst into tears because I'm sure when I started. on my YouTube channel I didn't expect to ever be in a video cutting off some legs in a little farm chair and then I started laughing because I realized how many videos I've seen where I see husbands and also you know we're DIY girls.

In the end we drag those husbands down somehow and they come to the rescue when the work gets a little harder than we can do, so bless their hearts, I think it's so cute and so much fun, so grateful and you know which is just one of those things in life. which is so sweet it makes me smile so using my wood glue and hot glue to attach this little chair I'm gluing it to the back of the chair so this is where I went wrong so if you guys make this chair and I recommend that you do it because it is very nice, leave that back piece that you see there where I have to glue it.

I should have left it in one piece, but I was thinking, oh, a chair has four legs, so I cut off four legs, but of course, that's it. it was a boo so first glue the back strip and then measure what you need for the front leg because I end up having to reinforce the back with a stick which is no big deal because no one is going to see the back because I have it I put on the bottom of my ladder and mistake number two I glued it with the holes on the front there are no holes on the other side and I don't know what I was thinking I didn't realize that but once you got that wood. hot glue it on, it's going to be more trouble trying to move it and I knew that so I decided to go ahead and fill it with putty, sand it, you won't notice it when it's stained and you won't, and that's it.

It's an easier route and here I wait 24 hours for everything to dry because this front piece is very tight and puts counter pressure on both front legs. I bought this dye through Amazon because it was an odorless water. water based acrylic stain and I thought it would have a little bit of that slip factor, but no, it's equivalent to acrylic paint thinned with water. I add a little black. It's also black walnut, not the black walnut we think of with minwax. a little more reddish, I love the color it gets when I mix it with the black paint, but I end up having to apply it with a baby wipe to get the slip factor, but if you're interested I leave it. link below in my description box because many people on Amazon give it a 5 star review so you might want to check it out but this craft is hands down the cutest craft I have ever made.

I'm happy when I look at it, I feel joy, it's so cute, so I found this glass plate and it's one of those glass plates that looks like plastic, trying to look like glass or crystal, so I saw it. I really liked its shape. The shape was very charming and I decided to give it a coat of my DIY chalk paint. I have to give it two coats because it's glass, but actually this is the plate where it's the first time I paint big. Glass, I make a little vase with the actual video, but this is where I actually get to test it on super slick shiny glass and find that the staying power in the way it sticks beats name brand chalk paint and the only thing I I really like it. about my DIY chalk paint is that it comes out snow white, I mean you go on with whatever color you want because it's solid, you know you can make it however you want, but I love it so I'm using the carbon paper again and this maybe I do print.

I make my words louder because I don't want to deal with all those flowers, the vines at the bottom, that's too much even for me to do on a computer screen. My neck would hurt a lot, so I just tape it to the top and push. My carbon paper below and tracing on this plate. I'm using a combination of colored pencils, the black marker and paint. Now I choose colored pencils. I have the really expensive kind that is almost oily, so when I do it right, literally. It looks like an ink stamp and I explained earlier in the video why I like ink so much.

It's just great for a country house. It's actually great for any vintage style. So I don't know why crafters don't talk much about colored pencils. I'm a big fan, I think they're underrated because I think you have to buy the expensive ones, but if you get the expensive ones, they're a great option along with all the other paint markers, pens. Chalk pens are another great option for you if you are doing any type of antique crafts. Here I should probably mention that you see me going back and forth with a marker. I actually have to dip it in paint because It turns out you know I have that fine tip, label the chalk paint and the same goes for the Waverly chalk paint.

When I try to write on it, the chalk paint dries out the tip and cap no matter what I do. Guys, do you have any suggestions on how to avoid it? I would love for you to leave a comment below, but every time I try to do this, the tip gets clogged and then the marker doesn't work anymore, it only works with the fine tip. The pen was not thick, I shook it, wet it and rubbed the tip very hard, as if it were a rough surface, and I ran it for a while again, but then it did it again, so it is not an option for draw with chalk paint, that's for sure, chalk paint is too dry and gives off some kind of dust or sealant that causes the tip to dry out and you can't, you know the ink doesn't come out anymore, so just a word of warning.

I decide I'd like this plate to have the natural wear look of the glaze with the little chips and worn edges, so that's what I'm doing here and here, I'm just using my finger to smooth it out. above to make it look like a legit scrape and here are the final results and I'm very pleased with this one too. I have it on my

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sideboard front and center in my living room. He looks really very beautiful, very, very happy with it. I need a heart shape, obviously I used a dollar tree one, but you can make your own and then you're going to cut out some cardstock and heart shape and you're also going to need a dollar tree mop and I'm just cutting that mop out and gluing it on. as you see straight down on the heart shape and I drew with a ruler there with a line as you noticed because they're only going to glue it up to that line. and then you're going to need to tape it in place so it doesn't move, so I'm going to go ahead and tape it in place because we're going to trim it after turning it over about an inch. under the cardstock heart so you have like a little fringe there and now you're going to see why I drew that line, you're going to fold it on that line on the back and you're going to cut off the bottom part because we don't need that, we want that The bottom part hangs and flows freely and I use skewers and craft sticks to give that part more stability.

You can use whatever you want on the back and I'm going to use some white chalk paint, which is actually the cheapest white chalk paint I could find at Walmart. This is the moment I decide I have to figure out how to make chalk paint because I'm not going to pay for Waverly, it's too expensive, not at the price. That I use it makes crafting not fun for me because it gets too expensive and I'm not happy with cheap, so here I am using Apple Barrel Territorial Beige. I'm going for an ombre effect with this. I saw something on pinterest that inspired me in pink colors and I'm just making this a neutral color well I'm doing it totally different than it was on paper but I'm doing this with the mop thread and I'm taking the color a little bit lower the back cardstock and the next color is apple barrel khaki, these are all apple barrel paints and I'm just going to the V shape design here, I'll show you in a minute, I'll flip it over. and I'll show you how I'm doing it, there I go, the last color I'm going to use is the ancient parchment, believe it or not, and I'm going to tilt all the tips of the ancient parchment and there's the The last thing is that I really like the way the territorial beige got darker there too on the cardstock seam and it just looks so fresh and

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and I didn't show it but I paint my beads with a third coat of apple barrel paint. in the antique parchment color, I don't want them to be bright white, we're going to use a needle, some thread, this is also dollar tree jute thread and I tie a nice little "can you see what I am" bead ".

I'm making a nice strand of beads on the top and I'm just gluing them to the back and then I'm using small beads. These are the smallest ones on the dollar tree and I decided they would look really pretty in the end. Now here's a trick and you can see it here when you did the math at the beginning. I glued them. They look so fake they look like they were just glued together and the thread was hanging off the edge because it was thicker than the bead. if you put it on and twist it while the hot glue dries, press and twist, you can see me making it press and twist, press and twist while the hot glue dries, it makes it look like the thread is going through the bead hole like it's really threaded on the mop thread, so that's the trick I figured out and of course I glue two b together in some places, three beads together in some places, I just make a variety to get a lot of dimensions and textures and you know, It comes out very pretty, but you can do it however you want to do it, I didn't, there was no rhyme or reason to it, I wasn't counting, I was just doing it all by eye and placing them where I thought.

It looked good keeping the piece balanced and I decide the top is a little rougher looking than I want so I edge it with some solid mop thread and also make a couple of tassels because I think it will looks very nice. This is kind of a bohemian farmhouse for sure, but that's the last thing you guys have and that's how I made it. This is what you'll end up with when you're done and that's actually made from an Amazon box, believe it. or not, then you will need an Amazon box or any cardboard box, a very sharp knife and you will cut that box into three pieces, then you will glue those three pieces together now they don't have to be solid.

Three pieces, you can see I'm going to glue one piece together, which means you could make a full puzzle piece in the middle and the back, but for the front I recommend you use one solid piece that you're going to need. a little bit of joint compound for this craft and you'll spread it on the front of your board nice and thin, just like you spread it on icing. This is 2.5 tablespoons. You will use between three and five tablespoons. I used five tablespoons now. I'll put a little on the back, but it can be extremely thin and you can even see the cardboard through it.

The purpose of it being on the back is so the board doesn't bend, but it allows the front to dry completely. 24 hours before doing it, you can try it after six to eight hours if you think you're not going to damage the front, but you can hold up to 24 hours, that's fine, and then let the back dry for at least six hours. Before puttingty on the side edges, I recommend using putty because it is thicker and covers the layers of cardboard better, and it also cracks and has lumps and bumps, which adds to the illusion that it is old weathered wood after use.

Dry for 24 hours, you will lightly sand and just sand any areas that you think are too

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or you know it's totally up to you, it's your personal preference, this is your baby, but it should look like this. When you're done, you can use any color paint you want. I'm just telling you the mix I used and I'm dry brushing it. You will need to start with a clean baby wipe and any brown color. the wipe will work these baby wipes are from the dollar tree but the wipes need to be clean because they need those skin conditioners and all those moisturizers in them that's what gives it that slip factor and helps it stain, now some of you who watch my previous video.

I saw myself doing this with foam board, but the surface is dry and dries very quickly. This surface on the joint compound is very slippery, so if you use a new baby wipe, you can almost remove the stain and what ends up happening is you get all these light and dark tones that mimic the way real wood is dyed andThey add to the overall illusion of real wood, you will use about five to six baby wipes and in any area where you see small holes just press down and gently dampen the wipe if you have to with a little water so the paint get there, but just work with it and press gently until every little area is stained.

Look what happens when I get a new wipe. Look, it removes the paint and that's what it gives you. Lots of leverage and control with this craft. I was even able to do that on the other end of the board I had painted about 10 minutes earlier. I was able to light it up. I could remove the paint gives you plenty of time to step back and look at your craft and decide where you would like to add or remove different styles so you know you can create a very realistic looking grain and there it is. nice now for the side dip the brush in water and then dip it in the paint and then paint the sides because you're going to need it so you know there are some deep cracks in there, you can just paint with paint, but it will. use a lot more paint and waste paint and then when you're done just wipe it off.

Amazon wants 21.99 for this now with tax, it'll be more like 24, maybe close to 25 now for those of you who watch my channel, you know? I have a lot of free wood and I'm trying to make this easy to use so I'm using a foam board. I'm using some free wood on the bottom because I want some weight to hold it up so it doesn't move. Tip over when I put the silk flowers if you don't have free wood. One trick I used to do all the time when I didn't have any free wood was to just glue three pieces of cardboard to the bottom to keep my foam board because foam boards still cost money and then I would just go for a little walk in nature and pick up stones, they are free, hopefully they are easy to get unless you live in the city, but usually even somewhere, even if you are in the city there is somewhere even a park that has some stones and failing that if you don't have stones you can always throw like a bag of pinto beans that kind of thing not the whole bag but you just I would take the pinto beans mix it with a little bit of school glue and just pour a little bit in there and press it down let it dry for the night.

I mean, there are a lot of ways you can add weight to the bottom, but you don't want it to tip over, so here I am, I'm just gluing down the foam board so we have our nice little flower pot. These are the three colors I'm using now. I don't even bother zooming in at this point because you know we're blurry, blurry, blurry. Worry so you don't have to use the exact same colors I was using. I think it was a burnt umber color. It was surely ancient parchment. They are all apple barrel paintings and I think the other one was chocolate sprinkled.

Now here's the fun technique I wanted. I show you with baby wipes and it works even on foam boards which is amazing but there you have it I paint the paint even the paint on the other side which I painted first it still works if you press really hard you get that factor sliding with a baby. wipe and you will get this beautiful stained brown type result, it's the substances they put in the baby wipe. I think skin conditioners and all different moisturizers have a big slip factor so I'm painting the edge of the foam board very heavily or it will. look past the stupid and here you can see that the center of this is kind of a light and it has like blurry spots around the side and to be honest with you, I'm going to be honest here, this is a look for less, so I'm going Going for the looks, but I didn't mind the way it looked almost like a cloned and stamped cookie cutter box, just lying around.

I'm my house is

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and a farm, that's what I'm transferring it to. I'm in the process of changing it to that look because I love it so I want my box to look much more rustic and much older almost like repurposed wood so even though I'm going for the look I'm still making it my own I'm using a makeup sponge to dot the burnt shadow color and old parchment and just a washcloth to blend it out. I'm painting the edges and using a little putty to close up all the small edges. also because one edge had like you could see through it and that looks stupid and my end result is really pretty and of course I'm using my favorite method, carbon paper and I printed it oh wait no I couldn't stand it . corrected, I brought it closer to my computer screen and now traced it again.

It will be printable in the description box. I did my

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to find the type of source that was close to Amazon's, so it might be a bit. a little different, but I think it's pretty close and in the end I like my box better and here I am adding nightmare foam. Now I say nightmare on your part because I said don't throw your phone away when it arrives. This is that type of foam when you cut it it turns into a million little balls and it got stuck to me and I totally regret it, it wasn't worth it, I threw away the rest but for this craft I'm using it because I went through all the trouble and got dirty a lot so I thought just on principle but there it is and last but not least one of my favorite things to do to make things look real and I've been doing this since the 1990s so that's a little bit. carpet adhesive and I just put a little bit of glue on it and pushed the four corners on both sides so now you probably recognize that this is a coffee can and of course I chose the most gigantic one I could find because I wanted to struggle under the camera to film it I'm using pewter gray granite gray and black three colors and I'm doing an antiqued metal to be clear I'm not doing galvanizing that's a different technique and you're going to see me doing a different technique than you would if you wanted to galvanize it and The first thing I'm going to do is put the pewter gray on it because you have to knock down that shine to even start to look like you're an old piece of metal.

I will also say that you don't have to pick a big coffee can like I did, you can pick any sweet, I mean, this is definitely a one size fits all, any can, you can duplicate this process, this craft, anything you want. You can do it miniature all the way up to the biggest can you can find in the world, it all works and there you will need the pattern for the spout and I will show you what the pattern looks like roughly, make sure you measure. Place it against your coffee can so it fits nice and tight as possible.

I'm using Krylon shiny aluminum. Now I want to recommend that this is a drying technique and this has been around forever. I made a series of countertops years ago using this technique, but if you want to distress metal or galvanized metal like wood, you need to start with black cardstock. I recommend that you do it again. The black gives it some kind of depth and richness that just adds more authenticity to the finish. results now I thought, oh I'll miss this one with a little bit of white, I'll put some white in there, it was a waste of paint, save your paint because I did a test in plain black, it looked identical so it was a waste of time. but this is a great technique for aged metal.

If you want galvanized metal, you have to go a step further and draw those little amoebas on it, but it's a great technique for aged metal. It looks great, so what are you going to do here? is to find something stiff, this is a very thick, stiff paper towel roll, you know the center, you can use anything round and you're going to gradually curl the cardstock because if you go too fast you're going to get wrinkles and that's going to make your piece of craft is fake so you can see me now gradually getting smaller and the reason you can't reuse the small piece very quickly is because you will get a crease so you will start with a larger roll and a smaller one. until finally you can stick it where you want without wrinkles and I just hot glued mine which worked well and if you plan to try any of these crafts let me know in the comments or if you have any suggestions I always love to hear from you and in the bottom, where it will join the can, you will need to bend it a little, don't worry if it breaks because you won't see it, but you need to smooth it out.

Lift it up a little so it's flush and flat with your can, so now I'm making the handle. I roll it up first and then press it down so it's flat, but I fold it on the cardstock because it does. just one layer of cardstock will look too thin and fake and I'm doing the same process where I just fold it slowly, roll it slowly so we don't have any folds or wrinkles, perfect now. I just do the exact same process that I did with the tin because it has to match, of course, I'll do it on the spout and the handle so you can see me do four to five different layers of paints with the pewter.

Grey, black and light gray than pewter gray again and never completely dry in the middle, they blend together. You know, I used to wear makeup. I mentioned that in one of my videos I used to wear makeup and that helps. I hang out a lot when you craft, I do hair too and I'm just sharing a little bit of knowledge that we know about hair, most of you probably already know this, but when you see someone with brown hair, it's never just brown because hair is made up. of much. There are different colors that give you the final brown color so you know hair is never one dimension it always has many dimensions so if you just get an artificial brown color and apply it to your hair or if you have seen someone do that It looks very flat, has no shine or sparkles and does not give off any other color.

It's because it doesn't have any other colors in there, so it's very important that you know when you dye your hair what you use. I guess the

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method really is to weave different colors to make it look like a natural brown, but anyway nature in general tends to be multi-dimensional and it's the same with metal if you only apply one or two coats of paint, believe me. You won't be happy, it won't look real and everyone will know it's fake and you'll wonder what you did wrong, so it's a lot of work but it's fun, crafting is fun, it's relaxing and if you do all the different layers.

You will get a very believable, very authentic result and the final trick to making faux metal or faux metal is that you always have to add iridescent silver on top and it doesn't matter what color iridescent or pearlescent or whatever and you use. paper towels, that works great, don't use a sponge because you'll end up with air bubbles and little square marks and again you won't be happy, so stick with a crumpled paper towel, crumpled kleenex, kleenex leaves hair behind, use a towel of paper. You'll be happy and just add that iridescence all over where you painted and you'll be heading in the right direction, it'll look good and as I mentioned in previous videos, you're a big fan of carbon paper because it's ink and back.

Back in the day they used mainly ink and some paint, but I think I read somewhere that it was mainly ink, so I'm a big fan of carbon paper and the look of ink, and you guys, whenever I can, I put the paper on top. computer screen and trace the words because invariably no matter how careful you trace the words, even when you print them out, you'll need to make corrections when you finally pick up the paper, so it's a waste of ink for me anyway, that's it In my opinion, you guys want to print it, you can, but I always end up having to make corrections anyway, so I save the ink.

My kitten is here with me. If you can hear him right now, he is speaking. But I just save the ink and trace. It pulls right off the computer screen and works great. I am using e6000 and this time it works. Now I'm going to say that the fumes from the e6000 are toxic. I have a venting mask and it is non-toxic once it dries unless you plan on it. in eating it, but if you don't have a mask, make sure you're sitting with plenty of ventilation or use a glue with fewer fumes like super glue and of course, make sure you're generous with the hot glue and don't worry.

If you can tell because you won't see it now I have a water can in my garage, it's not pretty at all like that, I mean, it's actually like a normal old water can from today, and it's rusty and old, etc I use it as a template or guide for what it should look like if I try to make it look real and I've decided to go ahead because I want it to hold and corrode so here I am, I'm trying. to figure out how to cover the seam or how to add a little more realism and I try it with a wire like this and I know it's not so I end up thinking ah huh putty and that works great oh my gosh it was pretty dry. up and old and I got it working I added water it worked great I go ahead and fill in all the seams where the spout is where the handle is everywhere there is a seam even in the spout area where I glued the cardstock and there is a seam on the I put some caulk on it, it works great now they could use caulking.

I'm sure ofthat you could use silicone nail filler, whatever type of filler you have at

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and you guys, I'm even considering the idea, maybe that. toothpaste, if you have that old toothpaste, it's white and it might work even in a pinch, but I would do a test first and I think it would probably take two or three days to dry completely, but I think it might even work, so I know I'm just giving you different suggestions because we're not really supposed to go shopping anywhere right now, but you know I tried the glue, the glue didn't give me the realism and I will say one thing, the stains added so much strength that I actually forgot this thing was fake at one point when I was taking pictures of it and I lifted it off the handle and it didn't break or anything it just stood up but it was amazing so if you want extra durability go for the putty and while I was looking This video I remembered that I didn't use e6000 for the handle, which is even more notable because I was able to lift it and it didn't break, that's a lot for putty because I'm pretty.

I'm sure without that putty that handle would have come off, but apparently I have to tell you now that you know that hot glue for the handle is enough because I remember at the time thinking this was just for

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ative purposes. I'm not taking it with me, so I went and picked it up, so yeah. go with the putty like I said, if you have something like that I'm sure coke would work, in fact I have it too so I thought well if the putty doesn't soften with water I'm just going to use putty. It would have worked the same and of course I'm painting it pewter gray to match and now I'm going to go through the process of aging it and getting it to match and this is where we are now.

So I'm adding iridescent silver and I'm choosing sprinkled chocolate for this because believe it or not, this time it actually looked more like rust on the burnt umber color and I just used a small Q-tip on all the places where the metal would have fused. together like it was my can of water outside, I let it rest and begin my process of making everything look corroded, old, rusty and used. Now I thought I was really clever using those little pearl buttons for fake nails, but I've actually seen a couple of youtubers. do this so you don't know it's not an original idea, a lot of people can see the use for those, they are great for that with the foam board, I use carpet tacks, that's great because you can drill holes in the foam board, but with other surfaces where you can No, and you need it to have like a little nail, these are great and you can paint them any color you want and I'm just showing you I made all four, look it looks so amazing, do you know what I do?

I had certain expectations for this craft and I can honestly say it exceeded my expectations so I was very excited because I'm going to tell you up close and personal, you can't say this baby isn't real and I have to mention the last and final detail here. was to make small thin black ribbons everywhere in the deepest part of where the actual metal connection would be to add to the corrosion look, you will need a sharp knife to cut through some aluminum cans, cut the top off first and then along the side and then the bottom, keep the bottom and cut it like I'm showing you here.

You will need six cans in total for this craft. Go ahead and make some templates for the petals. You will need three, a large, medium and small. Then you are going to cut out three cardboard circles. I recommend that you also use gloves for this craft. At first I didn't, but I gave in. I didn't cut myself, but I felt like I could do it, so I took precautions and I suggest that you do too, so you will glue petals and then in between each of those spaces, as I show you here in the video, you will start with the six petals large at the bottom and then they will do. six more petals between the spaces and then you'll do the small petals the same way between each of the folds of the medium petals which I hope you'll stick with me here, go ahead and glue the middle one down now I used heat glue, but I ended up tearing off the middle and adding e6000 and hot glue just to make it really durable.

I think you guys should do it too because there is some pressure with curling, it's like it wants to come back so you need some. stronger adhesive I painted one green, pink and purple, I actually like the way the purple came out, it's a little streaky like a glaze, but I didn't worry about any imperfections, you guys don't worry because they are going to be galvanized. and you won't notice any of that when we galvanize it, so I'm going to go ahead and add some dimension with the purple, just adding different colors like you would see in nature, where the flowers have shadows and are darker and lighter. colors and that's what we have when we're done and then you take yellow and you're going to apply it with a sponge on purpose so that it has texture and looks all marshmallow and squishy like a real flower, would you know better? you want it to be flat, you want it to have texture and I'm using burnt umber there just to add a little bit more shadow and dimension to make it look like a real center, well hopefully something like the real center of a flower and here I am.

Using pewter gray now, this is a good trick that I love when I want to do any type of mini galvanizing. I love using blush brushes. This blush brush was only a dollar at the 99 only store and I think it makes cool little mini galvanized dots so you can Guys might want to try that and here's one of those noodles or lunch whatever, those unhealthy things They are full of sodium and I thought they would make great plant pots so I cut them in half and painted them with a coat of black paint. to make sure all the words are covered and I give it two coats of dry brush white paint because I was going to do just one coat but then I looked at it and it's still a little darker than I wanted.

I wanted them to be a little brighter. So I go ahead and give it a second coat of white paint and here's something I made on my computer with labels and a farmhouse font. You will now be in an online image. It's a website that hosts images, so the link is below me. description box, you guys can now download this and do the exact same thing if you want, you can resize it to whatever size you want, but I take burnt umber there and I dye it and here's some cardstock that I'm going to cut out. the back of these flowers, you know the picture, I forget what it's called, someone in the comments tells me what it's called, however you place this for the picture, but I'm using burnt umber here to border the flowers and make it look look old and rustic. and you know aged because these are going to be galvanized summer flowers but they still have the farm theme and here I am, dry brushing the foam board and I move so fast and my brush is so dry that the board never gets really wet because of the paint and that way I don't have to deal with any curling because I don't want to have to paint the back of the board this time, but there's actually about five to six layers of paint in there, you just have to make sure that every time you Whatever you make it, it's very, very dry and here I am measuring it and marking it with a pencil so that those pretty lines go down and after all that painting my pots white I end up having to make them brown. to dye them a little bit because my original plan was to have a dark brown background, but I changed it to the white background and here are three skewers and I just painted a nice natural dark green color like the stem that you would find on flowers during the summer, but you can paint whatever green you want and I'm using an egg carton here to cut out the bottom of the egg cups because these flowers need to be elevated.

I realize that if I push them down it will flatten all those curls. on the petals and then I get flat flowers, I just dry brush this frame that I was going to throw away with some apple barrel paint territorial base and darken the leaves that I steal from those valentine hearts that aren't actually valentines anymore It's not my style so I wasn't going to use those either and I take some black paint and distress the pots a little bit. I'm going to glue the egg cups to the top of the skewer stems and these will help hold my flowers.

Above, it works great for you, the petals hold their curls and the 3D effect is really pretty, you don't need to use a foam board to fluff it up either, but I don't know if you noticed that my cat chewed on the left side. of that foam board, so I was going to throw it away or use it just as filler, but obviously you can use anything that's firm and I'm aging around the labels here because I love farmhouses, I love the rustic look and I love grow old beautifully almost everything, so I'm just modifying, sealing everything and putting the finishing touches.

I'm going to apply two thin strips of hot glue to attach the pots to the bottom of the base and I'm doing the same with the leaves, I'm sure you can see what I'm doing but in case that's my last pair of leaves, I decided to use some burlap and cut it into strips and then just push it down where the dirt would be and it turns out to be super cute and distressed this little butterfly with burnt umber color. He's just this random butterfly that I was going to throw away because it was set up as a Michael thing that I didn't like about Michael's and here he is.

Guys, one final craft and I love this, I mean I really love it, I don't think the camera does it justice, it reminds me of that craft you would find at a corner boutique in a tourist area that sells one of- pieces of Unique art is like that when you walk in and it is simply stunning, they are so pretty they shine. I

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ly recommend you try this craft. You will need an egg carton and a roll of paper towel. but don't know that I'm going to try to make a succulent now. The reason I'm doing this is because I actually priced them because I needed some extra ones for the staging of these videos and they're so expensive I think three was like 18 if you want them in the size that I'm going to do now and when I looked at this egg carton I realized it was a really good thickness, you know, look at it, it would be a great imitation for those big thick sheets. that succulents have because you can't get it with toilet paper, you certainly can't get it with coffee filters.

It has a unique look with the leaves, so at least some of the leaves, I mean the succulents have different styles and shapes. and the sizes, some of them are so thick, I think you probably have to use the bead recipe that I make beads with, you could probably try to do that, but for these types of succulents these leaves turn out absolutely perfect, so I go ahead and I cut them out and then use this color. If you watch my previous video to see the look for less, I'm talking about a color that's like root beer, it's like a purple root beer color, but I knew it would be perfect in this green.

It imitates that reddish color that the succulent has on the edge of its leaves and then here is that brush again that is full of mod podge. It dried up, I was never able to get it out but I love this brush for this technique because if you put white paint on it and then try to remove the white paint, it's super hard and when you rub really hard it leaves a cloudy thing behind, I don't know if you can see that because real succulents have that white cloud like I don't know if you guys know what I'm talking about, like that cloudy look on them, they are not bright green and if you put too much paint on them, if you try this craft, don't panic, you can see me just using my fingers to rub it in. put it in and rub it and it has the same cloudy look and it comes out perfect, I mean this is a great technique and this jar is a jar of minced garlic guys oh it's hard to get the smell out I admit it but here's the trick with the one I finished.

I sprayed bleach and left it in the sun and that worked, it just smelled like glass after that so I thought it was such a cute shape for a little mini pot. I've been saving that jar for a while and here I am using the bottom of the egg cup again, I'm going to call it an egg cup because I don't know what it's called, but there's the formation that you'll need to have at the end, so if you need to pause the video so that you can check it. It'll show you how many you need, roughly the sizes, you know the cascading sizes and you'll start by gluing the first set of leaves to the inside of the mug, you can see what I'm doing there.

You're going to use six of them and you're going to start on the inside. Now you'll end up doing the outside at the end, but to start, do the inside and these leaves also curl very easily, the only thing you need to be careful with when you curl them, wrap them around your big finger like they're not at all thin like a pencil because you will crack the paint. You know, in some places I noticed the paint was cracking and I just flipped it over and used the other side and then repainted it, but they curve and then hold their shape, which was also really surprising, so I was very satisfied with them.

I never really thought about egg cartons, but they are really excellent. petals and they look because they are a little thick and juicy, they make it look alive and it was like that anyway, you see and just like with the petals ofaluminum can that we made, you will want to glue those petals between the other petals. every time, now you'll see I start putting the ones on the outside edge, at the bottom where I talked about, you know at the beginning I was going to save that until the end, maybe you guys can do it differently, but for me, I just found that I could get a better idea of ​​where they are supposed to be to make it look like an identical knockoff if I save this step for last and just grab some jute twine from Walmart and wrap this around. to cover it you know I don't want people to know it's a jar it's a good lid and I like it it's a little thicker oh my gosh guys this is a great deal you get like 100 feet for a little more of four. dollars from Walmart and I also like the fine jute thread from the dollar tree, but this is good for different reasons and then I use a flame to get rid of the threads and there it is and oh my gosh guys I have a high camera definition.

So if I filmed your face, you could count every one of your pores, but you can't see the texture of the egg carton. These leaves look juicy, thick and real. You can make them in all different colors. Those purple ones. and everything beautiful you would save a fortune. I love this craft, so today we are making this super cute windmill from Wayfair for 46.99. I bought my windmill at Dollar Tree. Now I have it. I saw quite a few YouTubers making dollar tree windmill crafts. They bring it out every year around spring with the summer

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Crafters, these cute girls tell me that they just fold the welcome sign back and forth and it comes off very easily and that way they can save the welcome sign for another DIY, so this is what I'm doing. I'm just folding it right. I filmed this to show you how easy it is to remove the welcome sign. This could have been part of this comedy but anyway I won't be using that welcome sign for any DIY but I took it down and hey at least the windmill works and I tell all you lovely people if you had been in the room with me while I was filming, you would have heard me laughing hysterically.

I'll tell you the struggle was real anyway. I'm drinking chocolate sprinkled from an apple barrel. paint here in black and white and I'm going to start painting the bottom piece of wood to match it or the closest thing to now I got my windmill about three months ago, but don't worry if you don't have a windmill because there are Tons of YouTube videos to show you how to make them with cardstock and they look great so I'm going to start with the black one first for those of you who watch my videos. You know I love black as a background tone.

It really is great. It comes off when you're doing any type of old weathered wood or if you're trying to make something fake look like wood at least 99.9% of the time and that's my opinion. I've seen people achieve it using white but it just seems like they do a lot more paint and a lot more work to achieve it but they can do it too so there it is and most of the whites on the left side of dry brushing so I'm going to try to keep the white mainly. the left side too now, although I think the dollar tree windmill is actually pretty nice as it comes.

I was so impressed when I saw them, I really thought, oh my gosh, they're really upping their game, but the windmill I'm trying to copy. It's galvanized and I don't know if you noticed, but it has very distinct edges with straight lines, so it sped up about eight times, but I'm going really slow because I want those lines to be perfectly straight, now I have to make this little guy combine the best I can with the walker, so I'm using this iridescent color normally, I don't think it matters, but especially with iridescent paints, when you paint a shiny surface like this, like metal, it runs everywhere. place, so I have another trick for you, blow dry, blow dry, it takes a few seconds to do it.

I know a lot of people will talk about mod podge and that, and that's a good trick to make things stick, but mod podge. it has its own problems, sometimes it also rivets on shiny surfaces and leaves little streaks so you run the risk of having a bumpy surface on an otherwise smooth surface so I still prefer the dryer and it's cheaper and once you apply the first layer, you can apply the next one. coats on no problem I'm going to make three coats that's my cat again I'm so sorry I think this will be part of the program you from time to time will hear my cat talking in the background and meowing if I put him outside the room he meows very loud, you can still hear him if I let him come into the room with me, he meows, I think he's stressed because I've been talking to myself lately and he doesn't understand why I've been making videos.

He's talking back, but I'm sorry anyway, it's super cute. I'm galvanizing now. The first thing I do is make those little amoeba shapes, but now the Wayfair original really combines that, so it's barely visible, so that's what I do. I'm doing there, so that's what I'm going to try to do too. The amoeba shapes are there, but they're super soft and super muted, so that's what I'm going to do too. I should probably explain what. I did, I just covered it with more iridescent and then at some point I use a baby wipe and move around to blend the iridescent and spread the gray before it dries completely.

He was wearing pewter gray next to the apple barrel. long before it dries completely so that everything blends more into a cloudy look and it works great, so here I'm removing the paint and I have to add those little streaks at the end, I don't know. If you noticed that the original windmill also has stripes, the reason I'm zooming in here is because I wanted to show you how easy it is to fix this. If you make a mistake, if the line is too thick, you can literally do it. If you see I just take my finger and wipe the edge and it becomes a thin line so if they get these dollar tree windmills and like I said I'm pretty sure they eventually will because they come out every year because They are a really great success, if you want to change it a little bit, it's not difficult to do, you can make corrections really very easy.

I also go back and add some black because in some areas of the previous design it looks silver and it doesn't. enough contrast and here I am using hot glue to place it on the wood now look what I found in my arsenal you guys I was cleaning out my craft supplies and I found the super glue gel. I was very happy, so I have stairs. coming out of my ears guys, I made this one for less than five dollars with lumber from Home Depot and this one was free on my bunk bed for my kids and it was great for hanging things on, but I saw this one online and it looks completely different. totally rustic and I always wanted one where the rungs are twisted like an outdoor farmhouse staircase and I'll do it with that free wood here we go now if you miss how to get free wood it's in my first video and This is called dunnage blocks, this it's what they left that plywood with and pretty much when you go get fruit you mainly get these and you get plywood so it's great for making things and we're going to do tons of crafts.

I have so many ideas, so call them and see why they throw that stuff away. You might have better luck with the private loggers, you know, the privately owned sawmills because I don't think they have that big of an operation going. to get rid of their wood so most of the time at least where I live they throw it away but definitely call to see if anyone leaves it out for you to pick up so here I'm going to use wood glue first and then my trusty gun It's all Ryobi stuff guys I bought a whole package, the circular saw, the gun, the drill and the sander, it was a great deal, it's changed my life if you make a lot of things, try it, save your money. or asking everyone to chip in for Christmas gifts or just a birthday gift, but it's really life-changing if you make a lot of stuff, so I deliberately made the wrong curve.

I want this staircase like something you see at Knott's Berry Farm. I mean, I want a farmhouse staircase and I'm using my favorite color, black, to get it dirty and make it look dirty and you see me there, I have a piece of wood, I'm very smart, you guys put paint on it and I really don't ever you need to wet the brush and paint again if you are just dry brushing, somehow control the dry brushing so you don't have any smudges or big ones, you know you can make a mistake and it ruins the whole effect, and I'm wearing goggles there, I don't wear glasses, but I've learned the hard way, guys, I've had so many things fly into my eyes, from paint to sawdust, so when you're crafting, if you're doing heavy crafts like this, please protect your eyes, so so here's my inspiration online, that grass sign, I love the look, it's all that ink look again that I talked about in previous videos and here's my free plywood.

Now the thing about free plywood, they give it to you because it's really too cracked, dry, bent or has too many knots anyway, it can't be sold, that's why they give it to you, but it's perfect for crafts, oh my. mine, that's exactly what we look for when we do farmhouse decor because come on. a lot of work to make our wood look worn but if it's already worn it's all good and yes I cut my stool guys that was actually one of my kitchen stools. I was going to finish it. It's very disappointing, but I'm going to have to look for it when I can and just look, you know, you always find stools in thrift stores, but at least it wasn't my finger, so here I am, sanding it and with these plywood you know, the free pot, the free cape.

It would be that I got it from you know, mine came all from Home Depot, one piece came from Lowe's. I'm just focusing on the edges because that's where I tend to get chips and then I'm just using a nice light gray here that has a little bit. of blue, it's an apple barrel paint, I don't remember the color but it's not really important because you can use any light gray you want, you can even use white, in fact I think in the inspiration image they use white and then al just like a dry brush, a very dry black brush, like the brush is quite dry, they just go over it with black and that's how they get their color, but I choose gray because I think it will turn out pretty.

I'm kind. of later colors, whether from the sky or the trees or just the earth, because it's summer and those colors make me feel happy when I look at them, so we give each of these a quick coat and notice that I'm not doing the edges. That's on purpose because I'm going to try to copy the sign I saw and I'm using my favorite color, black, to make everything look dirty, old and sharp. I used to live in the woods where the four seasons were and I was. I always got mad about that because I would paint every year and then everything would literally look black.

I mean, it's probably a super dark charcoal color, but craft black easily goes through that color and really makes the dirt look authentic. dirty, it makes the wood look really dirty, just like it would be outside if it had snow and stuff, you just don't make it too heavy, it's dry brushed very smoothly and another really nice advantage of having wood that's already cracked and already You know. What most people would consider junk and wouldn't want to use for building, but it's perfect for farmhouse crafts, is because you usually know that when you have those dollar tree signs or whatever in your painting, you have to do that brushing dry with white on top.

It's to make it look like the paint is wearing off or hasn't set in the cracks because the wood is getting old and peeling. Look at that, you can see he does it. It looks like I painted white on the top and I didn't. it just doesn't sit in those deep cracks because the wood is so worn and that's the font I used so if you want to get it it's free online just google free farmhouse fonts they have a lot to choose from and I'm using carbon paper to transfer my letters, it's still one of my favorite ways to transfer, in fact I've even considered coloring my letters with the carbon paper on there and you could certainly do that and that would mimic an ink stamp from days ago.

It's gone, which is a great look for vintage crafts. Now my kids gave me an inkjet printer as a Christmas gift last year, so I'm currently doing some experiments with the inkjet printer to see if that's another option for transferring fonts. put it in and get that beautiful ink where we want it if you have a laser printer I think they use laser toner there's always that trick with the mod podge where you put it in the mod podge and then you wet it and you know afterfor it to dry. you rub the paper, that's also a great way to transfer letters that look like ink, so in the next few crafts I'll see if we can show other tricks besides carbon paper, but the carbon paper I'm using is from amazon it's 10 sheets you can using each sheet 20 times, I think it was about four dollars, a great deal.

The painter's pen I showed you is also from Amazon, it cost about 3.75. I used it about 15 times and that's it. in December 2019 and it's still super full, it hasn't dried out, so I'm also very happy with that marker because this wood is so grooved that I don't know if the camera picks it up, but when I try to put the paint in those grooves, the nib is too thick and I can't get down into the grooves so the paint already looks worn and oh there it is you can see it has streaks so everything looks like in real life it looks great and it's a great time saving, so when they give you that wood for free, if you're looking at one that's really dry and shiny, you think oh no, that's terrible, that's the best kind, so make sure you get everything and there are the garden seeds , the flowers and the weeds, and I'm going to modify it because now it's going to be outside, although I brought this one, I really love it, so I guess I'm baking it a little bit.

I really don't want it to fade or change or do anything, it's worn to the level I like and it looks really good and I want to keep it there as best as possible so I'm going to put a coat of mod podge on it. so a last minute change here I grabbed some wire, some wire cutters and drilled some holes because I have an idea of ​​where these little guys will look best. I'm so sorry I lost the initial footage. Everything you see there is. Me checking if the paints dry. I just filmed myself painting these cubes.

They were second-hand finds. Each one cost one dollar ninety-nine. I got them for half price fifty percent off today, so a dollar each and this bucket here has frogs in it. My goal is to get those you know to camouflage them and make them disappear because you know frogs are cute, but I don't really want frogs for this particular decor piece, so I go ahead and grab some sandpaper just to wear these down. two small buckets that I was going to galvanize, but I only have one. There are a lot of galvanized things in my house right now, so I thought it was time to put in some farmhouse white.

I know everyone says I always see white, white, white, but for me, I actually don't have enough white, so let's make these white cubes and This is my solution for the frog. I just take a hammer and start hitting it. All the little shapes on the outside and inside really work. You know, I imagine I have a farm-themed house. It's all rustic, so you'll like a dented bucket. Totally go ahead, it will do better than the frog so I have nothing to lose and everything to gain here, anyway it works brilliantly and I am very happy with the way it turned out and with that lovely lady in the swimsuit and that cute The man sitting next to his jaguar in 1946 is my mother and his father in England, so she poses there in 1948 and he poses in 1946 and you know it's a great craft.

I was going to go online and find a stranger. Do you know? just an old vintage free download image and I thought, you know what happens if you have a family member or a photo of a mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, just someone you love the photo of? I always remember this photo and how good my mom looked. like a movie star and it was perfect for this craft you should use them you didn't even know when I thought about it I thought oh my gosh I don't know why I didn't think about that before because it's a way to enjoy my mom all the time and you know I still have a piece of

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decor so I don't know if you noticed that I used my fingers to rub the mod podge in, which is a great way to do it because I really dented the cube that I needed. to make sure the photo sticks in all the little grooves and doesn't ruin the finish as long as you do it while the mod podge is still wet and you finish it with a brush stroke and here I am.

I just took the Peter gray from the apple barrel paint and went around the edge here to soften the edges. I don't want those really hard edges and I didn't want to tear up the photo either, so I use my finger. to rub it and cloud it and generally age the photo and the entire cube, I end up completely aging both. I never got to meet my grandfather, or he actually passed away before I was born. He had emphysema when he went into surgery, they accidentally gave him too much anesthesia and it's funny in those days they just said, "Oh my God, you know that was a terrible accident," the doctor felt terrible, everyone felt terrible, there were no lawsuits here, it would be a lawsuit or today.

It would be a demand, but everyone agreed. You know there was some risk when you went in those days, but I never got to meet him, so this little cube is very, very special to me, for that reason I can also enjoy these people. Mom is still with me, but now I get to enjoy them every day and one of my lovely subscribers asked me if I prefer Walmart flowers or the dollar tree. I mean, look at the flowers at Walmart. Guys, they cost 47 cents more. They are fuller. I'm more beautiful, I prefer those, I think it's a better deal for the money you get, but some of the dollar tree ones are pretty, but here's the final craft, guys, there she is, she's in my living room, she's so Linda and he is in the kitchen. on the farmhouse sideboard near the washboard totally cute and the washboard I have is actually real a real washboard she used in 1952 in Canada when my parents first immigrated here it's so cute anyway I love this craft and if you have any old pictures I recommend you do it it's a lot of fun so I found two inspirations online, this one costs 120 smackaroos and the other one I don't know how much it costs but I love them both however there is something about I don't like them, so I end up combining the two to make my own.

You will need two mop heads from wherever, a stick from outside, a mod podge and some cardboard. Now I have to cover my stick because I'm allergic to the tree I'm using liquid amber if you have allergies and you're sensitive I suggest you include your wood too and here I am measuring it because I'm going to cut the cardboard that way now I'm just showing you how easy it is remove the threads from the mop. I love using natural sticks, but if you have allergies, here the mop thread separates into four separate strands. For those of you who watched my previous Easter video, I explained that the strands are fragile but there is a lot there and of course I'm trying to stretch it like most crafters on YouTube do now because we can't go to the tent, so I start wrapping on the left side and then I realize I need to do this part first.

Because some of those threads are going to cover the cardboard, which means I won't have to use as much thread, which I wasn't sure if I was going to have enough of, I actually end up using a pack and a half, so you'll have some left. to make another craft and of course you can get mops from anywhere you don't have to get them from the dollar tree it's just mine they were from the dollar tree and here I'm gluing as you can see first in the middle to get a nice center and then I'm always going to each side because that helps me judge where I want the ones between that, this is what it's going to look like at that point and you're going to start braiding loosely and I want to emphasize loosely, make those braids nice and loose because this is a wall tapestry of fake macrame, so part of the illusion, I guess, because I can't do macrame.

I know Martica Mark is amazing. She made a macrame video and it's amazing. I'll look. Do it soon and learn how to do it because I think it would be fun, but right now I'm showing you a beautiful faux, cheap, easy and very realistic macrame wall hanging for a boho farmhouse, so you're going to braid all five. I'll keep it nice and loose so the braids look nice and thick in this video. I'm only doing two crafts this time because a lot of the bohemian crafts I made are actually very time consuming and I don't think it's very honest. making three or four crafts there when I know this one took me about eight hours, you know it's beautiful, it's so fun, but it's detailed and I know for a fact that there will be quite a few of you who will want to do it. reproduce this and I couldn't trim it any more or shorten it any more without it being too confusing for you and you can't duplicate it here, you can see I'm just gluing those braids together. down to secure them to the cardboard and I'm working again from the outside edges and then I go to the middle and then again I can better judge where the two go between the middle and the outside edges because sometimes my measurements aren't perfect and obviously you want it to fit perfect and straight when it is hung, the next step is to undo the braids to the point where you glued the edge of the cardboard there and you are going to twist the macrame hanging, I guess that is a word for hanging macrame and you are going to use just one of those threads the What you separate is four, remember that you are going to use one, you are going to stick it on the back and then you are going to turn it over.

Turn it over again and you are going to start wrapping it. The purpose of this is to create a good connection between the braid and the threads that are going to hang in real macrame, obviously you would have, I don't know if the correct word is weaving because I'm not sure what they call the technique, but you would have done your special little loops and that would have created that without even cutting or breaking a thread and here you know you're obviously creating an illusion of By doing that, you're going to wrap it four times and glue it to the back to secure it and I'm just pointing out four times so that you can see four different threads there and you will continue doing exactly the same thing.

Same with the five strands, you just saw me glue them to the front as well, so when necessary you'll have to use your judgment on that, but you might want to secure it to the front as well if the strands aren't for whatever reason. , hug and hold each other very tight, I don't need to do that on every thread, but I did need to do it on a couple, if you notice it, go ahead and do it too, you have to play. By ear, remember that hot glue seeps through things, so when you put a little dot on the top, if you press it down and don't press with your finger, I have a little spatula there.

That spatula, someone asked me about it in the comments that it's from the dollar tree it's in the makeup section it's amazing I took it on a whim it wasn't for crafts and then I discovered that the glue didn't stick and I realized it was silicone and it's better than those big craft spatulas they sell because they are so small they give you a lot of control. You can see that when I work with them I have a lot of control, almost like a second finger, or maybe it would be an eleventh finger. I guess because I have 10 fingers, but you use them, you know, when you put that little bit of glue underneath, you use something to press the string down and then the glue oozes out and gets into all the threads, so you don't really need to put much .

Don't be generous with it, you just need enough to secure the threads and now of course you can see what I'm doing, I'm just taking those little threads, I'm going to go ahead and cover the whole cardboard and you. You'll need to secure those little strands and tuck them under the larger braided strands as you get closer to make sure no cardboard shows through because that would ruin the beautiful illusion and I'm slowing this down here. also so you can see how I start there's my cat again you can start by gluing it on the back and most of my threads were glued on the back unless they ended on the front so I was forced to glue and again it was I don't have too much glue because I didn't want it to show.

Notice here how I use the spatula to gather the rope very tightly under the braid, almost that's to make sure again that the cardboard doesn't show and I'm going to slow it down again here as well so you can see how I finish the ends. I twist it and then I guess it's spiral shaped, which would be a good explanation. I spiral it around and around and around. so that it covers the end of the cardboard and here I'm just going to take this thread and cover the rest of the cardboard. Now this step is optional, you don't have to do this and I wish I didn't because I was running out of thread and didn't think about it because I was creating as I went along.

I wasn't sure what my next step was going to be. I knew the style I wanted, but because of the way it ended. Sticking thread on the back anyway, that would have been covered, but that's the extra detail work to make it look good from the back too, so you can do that if you want, but here's a look at how I'm going to start attaching the threads and I'm going to cover that section anyway now maybe for uniformity so that place doesn't have a notch where the thread can hang differently, it might be a good idea, especially if because you have Actually, it's a good idea that if If you buy two mop heads, you will have more than enough thread.

You need to fill in those areas so that you have a level surface. I did it.You know it again because I didn't know it. what I was doing, you should do it because you know what you're doing and it creates a nice, even surface for the thread to lay on as well when you can finally do this when we're allowed out. I'm going to have two mop heads, so you can go ahead, it's safe to go strand by strand, but look how I suddenly had this brilliant idea because I'm worried I'm running out of thread to put it in ahead of time to make sure.

I have enough if for some reason you're working with less than a mop head, maybe you're going to do another craft with a mop head, put it on first and attach everything before you start using hot glue, which is much better. idea and look you can glue all three at once and it goes much faster so there's a great tip and here I am just trimming the back of the little strands that hang over the edge so it's nice and neat. and here's something I needed to do and I suggest you do this at first if you modify the surface it's slippery put some duct tape it could be duct tape it could be anything the tape looks great that way when you put it on a surface and you hit it with hot glue, it actually melts and molds with the glue and whatever it melts, so it helps almost like soldering and helps things stick to shiny surfaces that otherwise wouldn't stick.

They would hit now that I have used masking. tape in the past that works just as well but I wanted to use the masking tape because it was black so here I'm putting some cardboard out taking out those short strands that are part of that braided part that I showed you in the Start and measure it because I want to cut them into a good V angle. I don't know if you just saw the fluff flying behind the camera. They have a lot of lint, there's a lot of lint and stuff when you work with the mop head. so just so you're aware of that, don't use black, I recommend that now those five strands are forming a nice V formation.

I took some foam board and cut it into five and a half lengths, that's all that's left. important here is the length of the tassels, it doesn't matter how wide they are and you can certainly use cardboard, you don't have to use foam cardboard and I turn it around about 30 times. At first I made the tassels too thick, in fact this is the thick one. one when I'm done right, when I figure it out and make the rest of the tassels I only twirl them 30 times, I said 60 times and they are too thick and overpower the macrame hanging on the wall, I guess I only use 30 wrap it oh more incoming with the fluff and there's your beautiful tassel so just 30 times you can start here are the colors you can choose from.

I'm going for a grayish blue. I didn't have the right color in my craft supplies. so I have to add a little bit and make it and mix it and those are the colors that I used to get it. I only have like a baby blue and I didn't want you to know the energy of being a child's nursery, so I had and the color that ends up being, you know, the sweet spot is mostly black, so you get a really blue-gray. beautiful. In fact, my entire boho theme for the next three videos is going to be this pretty grayish blue with a natural earthy tone. sand like light mocha and black, white and gray, real earth colors, really pretty, I love them, so I'm going to pull out those five strands again and I'm putting wax paper underneath them because I'm getting ready to dye them and that blue paint. that I just mixed is diluted with a little bit of water so I'm just sponging it on to get the color you're just touching the paint and you're doing the front and the back so I flip them over and do the bottom part also because you never know when they dry, how they will hang or how they will move with the breeze or people walking through the air currents and there is some free wood, it is pallet wood that is inked there next to the way and if you don't know how to get free wood for crafts, you can always watch my first video, don't go in person, just call them and ask if they can leave the wood they are going to throw outside, like this Here I am making a tassel and I think the wood is about six and a half inches, so I'm just turning it around and placing it on the edge of the wood.

There you can see what I'm doing. tie it and then, very important, I put a little glue on it to secure it so it doesn't fall off and now I'm going to wrap that thread over and over and take advantage of this opportunity, it's a great opportunity every time you make any type of tassel to tighten it , so when you wrap it try to make it go up more towards the top or pull it, but it's a great opportunity, like I said, a great opportunity to tighten it up and I'm just trimming them so they're even and I'm using the same color that I use for the first set of tassels and the front threads, and when you thin it out a little bit, it helps a lot and now I'm using granite gray.

Now it turns out that granite gray is actually a pretty pretty baby blue that doesn't look like a child's room. This works really well because when the paint dries it leaves a line that's a little harder than I want and my goal is to get that ombre effect or tie dye effect where there's a gradual darkening to lightening, so that's the color I use and here is the illusion of the tassel that I take. I actually have all my tassels in bookmarks to keep them open, that hole open and then I take them off a little bit. of glue in there and I use some tweezers to push the ends of each of those three mop strands that were left over from the braid and then as you can see I put a little bit of glue for the middle one and glued it to the back and that . they all hold the tassels beautifully, they hang beautifully.

I'm using a thread to make a hanger on top, but honestly, if I had felt confident about having enough thread on the mop head or the white thread, I would have preferred to use it, but you. I know I'm making do with what I have now and for those of you who saw how to make free wooden beads in one of my other videos, also in the description box you'll remember this little wooden trinket I made, the crescent moon. I decide this is perfect for my boho craft and I paint it white and edge it with that light gray.

You will need a small bottle, some small craft sticks, and a dowel. I'm using masking tape to stick it on the bottle and make. the surface is a little more sticky for hot glue, but if you have a bottle that already has a sticky surface, you can skip the tape completely and I'm just cutting these craft sticks right where they start to curve and now that they're all cut out, I'm going to start applying strips of hot glue to the bottom to attach it to the bottle and I'm going to attach them all around the bottle and there's a little trick that I left in this video on purpose and I don't remember which youtuber gave me that trick but he said in his video that he got it from one of the comments so I'm trying to give credit but I'm not sure who originally gave it but if you put a little bit of hot glue on the end of your stick your new glue stick before you put it in your glue gun it doesn't fall out that way that's a great tip I can't take credit for it but I wanted to pass it on so there you see me gluing all the craft sticks around the bottle and I took a chance and hoped they all fit in there , it was a little tight at the end, you might want to measure ahead of time, but that's just how I do it, I make it up as I go, so we're making a little old fashioned butter dish.

I saw one on eBay and am copying it by making a miniature version. It needs a small cap, so I'm just using a little. cardboard so my bottle is a little low and I decide to go ahead and roll up some cardboard and cut it out and glue it into a ring and then place it inside and that will keep our lid higher and of course the lid. It also has to be covered with wood because we want it to look very authentic, so you don't have to be too picky about the wood sizes here, as you can see, I have some very long, some very short, you just want to make sure I cover everything the cardboard and now I'm just taking my little scissors and I'm cutting it out to make a perfect circle testing the size, making sure it goes in there nice and easy, cutting the dowel and I'm going to test it out as well. to make sure it's not too long or too short before I commit and glue it on and this is a dollar tree cookie tray.

These disposable foil cookie sheets are great for farmhouse crafts, so always try to pick up a few of those and me. I don't want all the lumps left there. An easy way to get rid of all the little bumps is to just take the tip of my scissors like you saw me do and just rub it until everything is really flat. You can use anything hard you have. scrubbing it doesn't require scissors, but it works brilliantly to remove lumps, so now we have those cute little metal straps for our butter churn. The real antique butter churns have these metal straps, I guess they helped keep it together and I'm just going to have something called apple barrel golden sunset, it looks yellow but it's actually what it is yellow but it's more gold in real life and you know how some real woods, especially antique ones, have that yellow, butter dish tint. that I saw has an almost orangey yellow tone I guess, but I didn't really like the orange look because I thought once I put the burnt umber color on it, it would be orange enough, so this is a diluted burnt umber color and I.

I'm just going to put that over the yellow to give it a tint, and here I'm using my favorite color, black, for those of you who watch my channel, you know I love black because it's distressing and it makes things look really old. , aged and worn. here like I've spent a lot of time outside, I've tried other colors but I still have better luck with black and I end up dry applying black on this little butter dish, here I go and we're going to do the same thing. As for the metal straps, I'm going to start with Apple Barrel black, but you can use any black and then Apple Barrel pewter gray again.

You can use any gray and burnt umber just to give it a bit of a rusty look. I know I'm just trying to make them ungalvanized, but I'm trying to make the metal look like what I saw on eBay where it looks very rusty and old, and I just used hot glue for this part to glue the two bands together and it worked alright, you can use a stronger industrial glue if you need to, but it's not necessary and here you are, it's so cute, this is one of my favorites. I was smiling from ear to ear when I finished. this perfect solution to the dilemma of a narrow three tier tray and I really hope you try it, it was super fun to make it super cute, you will need a cutting board pattern, a picture of your choice and three pieces of cardboard and some caulk paste or joint compound you can now get the caulk at the dollar tree.

I ordered mine in bulk, but you know the dollar tree works well and you're going to go ahead and cut the pattern there now. I have this pattern in my description box as a free printable, just click on that link and it will take you there and you can print the one that I used, but you're just going to trace it, cut it out, three of them, glue them all together. together like you can see me doing here because obviously a cutting board has to be a decent thickness, it's not going to be wafer thin, so we'll start with that, you stick it nice and tight and now, you know, nice.

Well cutting things for you who watch my videos, see me use my circular saw. I have a lot of power tools, so you know I'm getting better, but even with my new skills I'm not ready to cut. a little cutting board so I made it out of cardboard so it's really easy to use so everyone can do this craft and here I'm just taking some sharp pliers and I'm making a hole in the middle and then I'm just going to cover it with a little putty, you can use dollar tree putty. It works very, very well.

This is just what I had on hand and I'm just using a spare piece of cardboard to spread my putty and I'm going to dry it out a little bit. A little bit until it's a little tacky and then I dip my finger in a little bit of water and smooth the edges and this will save you in the end when you go to sand, you won't have to sand as much now that it's dry enough as I can. hold it gently without leaving any indentations and that allows me to finish the handle of my little cutting board, so here, while it's still wet, I'm grabbing an old brush stick that fell off.

In fact, I use this tool a lot. to everything, you never know when you're going to need it, making the hole now, this is the next day, the next day I sand and sand very gently and quickly to round all the edges and get rid of any bumps or lumps or too little grooves, I want I mean, you're just perfecting it to look like a wooden board because the next thing you're going to do is stain it, so we're going to use a stain that in previous videos where it was totally warm and I remove it.

I'll tell you that I took this on a whim because I thought yes, I wantdye this cutting board, yeah, we're going to slap the dye on it, if it doesn't work, we're just going to do it. Do it all over again because that's who I am. I am very impulsive when I do crafts. I discovered many interesting things. That way, this product sits on a smooth surface and it's kind of a matte surface, even though you know it's slippery. smooth, it's matte, there it is, I'm showing you that it produces the most beautiful faux wood grain in one step, guys, I was surprised, so now I'm interested in these things.

It's a water-based acrylic, so you can wash it and clean it. it's very easy it's not wax wax does the same trick so if you have wax do that but I guess you could paint over this because it's water based acrylic which means you could change your crafts on one side to another. do it white paint and wood then white paint instead of wood you can go back and forth there are a lot of possibilities there so it was super slippery it was a big help a little bit so if you're interested I'm not sponsored. I am not sponsored by anyone, the link is below in my description box.

This is a photo of my friend's house that I miniaturized and I'm just modifying it on top of my little cutting board and it's absolutely beautiful here. I enter. very close here so you can see how beautiful the wood grain is and even the little nicks that when you don't sand it look, it looks like little knife marks, like a real cutting board, this is my second favorite craft, I love it . I hope you can make it perfect for a three tier pan, so here you're going to need more dollar tree foil cookie sheets and now I'm going to show you in more detail how to erase those lumps now if you have any lumps left for this craft. , okay it will look good but that's all you need to do and then you need cardstock or poster board just something a little thicker so it doesn't bend cut out the little shape of a blade let's make a little windmill miniature here now also called sail, they are called windmill sails or windmill blades, I think it's very cute, so today I'm going to call it blade and these little cookie trays are actually duplicated here, so for For each sheet I cut, I will get two and you will need a total of eight double-sided sheets.

You'll also need a wine cork and some toothpicks later, but you're going to cut back. three quart slices total, two will be the same size and the third piece should be half the size of the other two pieces and you will need eight toothpicks, cut them to the size you want, depending on how do you know how long you want them to be? Do the blades of your windmill last? Just be careful not to cut the small side because that's what you know, I mean don't cut it on both sides because you need one side to have that sharp end so you can stick it in the wine cork.

I just used a little hot glue. It worked very well. A thin strip, but very important. Don't forget to do this part. Place them next to each other and make sure they all match. line it up evenly so you don't have an uneven circle for your windmill when you're done making it, go ahead and glue the second top piece of aluminum foil on top and since the glue is drying, not when it's really hot but when it's very hot. cool enough to touch, bring those sides together to seal them nice and tight and this is what they will look like when you're done and if there's any little overlap or part of the foil is missing, you'll know you made it.

Don't stick it completely even so you have a little edge of the back foil or front foil hanging off, just trim it off and then it'll be fine. You will need four skewer sticks. Mine are from the dollar tree. Now cut the pokey. end up on those because the factory cut flat ends will be better for the legs on the bottom, they'll look more, you know, store bought, and take the largest slice of cork and glue the two legs together like you see me doing here and then take the thinnest slice of cork and stick it on top.

Next, you'll glue what will be the back of your windmill on top of the thinner slice, and while it's drying, make sure to keep the legs at an angle because it's going to dry. I need to stand on my own. I'm going to pull it up in a minute so you have that view and you can see exactly what you're looking for now. I ended up cutting another thin piece to put on top of the back. there so you can't see where they're stuck and you can do that too and you take the second thickest slice and you're going to stab the blades of your little windmill just like you see me doing there so you have your little windmill I'm using a some burnt umber apple wash barrel paint to stain it, but you can use any brown color, it's no big deal and I'm staining the corks, no need, this will be your baby.

Yes they do so you guys will always make your crafts the way that brings joy to your heart, but I went ahead and dyed the corks brown. I thought it turned out really pretty and I even dyed the little sticks and then I'm going to take some of the pewter gray and apple barrel and I'm just rubbing it with a sponge so the leaves look nice and old and aged and I'm also going to edge them with the color burnt shade, so I'm totally in love with this guy. and I'm using e6000 to make sure it stays together with a small dot of hot glue.

I have the window open, the fan is holding its breath, guys, everything is fine if you just want to use hot glue, that's fine or whatever. strong adhesive, but I am delighted with the result of this windmill, it is very cute, so today we are going to create one of my favorite things to do with cinnamon sticks. I love them, they have a natural rustic look that is perfect for home decor, they are easy to cut and easy to work with and you get two for the price of one, you get a beautiful home decor piece and you also get a natural air freshener.

They have done many studies on cinnamon. and has so many health benefits, so it's natural to breathe in your home and perfect for fall. For this craft, you'll need three of the towering dollar tree blocks and some cinnamon sticks you can find. Pick them up at Dollar Tree, but I think they tend to be a little seasonal, but you can also get them really cheap at grocery stores, and if you live in a general dollar store or 99 cent store, they're usually there all around too. year. round, so they are going to glue it like you see me doing here.

I cut four short pieces and two longer pieces because today, friends, we are going to make a little mini farmhouse chair. Now I used wood glue for my towering blocks because raw wood, the best glue you can use is wood glue, if you don't have it there are other good glues available but I don't recommend e6000. I haven't had good luck with it, it tends to get soggy. wood but I've seen people use super glue and I've seen them use a loctite and someone in my comments mentioned that gorilla glue is really wonderful for wood too so I just wanted to pass that on and you can see what I'm doing. here, I'm just cutting everything down to the right size and then gluing it with hot glue and it turns out that hot glue works very, very well on cinnamon sticks, it's stuck and it still stays and stays very well so you can use just hot glue and here I'm just using apple barrel watered down burnt shadow to darken the seed a little bit and make it match the cinnamon sticks to cover that hot glue and make the craft look expensive that I'm using. my favorite black and I'm just taking a tiny little brush, everything is small in this video and I'm just painting over the hot glue where it meets at the seam to give it a worn look, but that's also where the chairs naturally get dirty.

You know when they're really old they always get dirty in the seams because that's where I guess people can't get the dust off when we clean, so it builds up there and stains everything and ends up looking really nice. and works perfect for covering hot glue. Now, this next DIY is definitely a trash to treasure. I'm using those two containers that somehow made it home from restaurants and to carry boxes where my kids would eat out and a prescription bottle, but any bottle will do. I think I had something to do with heartburn on this one?

I'm using hot glue because I need a very strong hold for this. It's those two little mini plastic bowls or whatever they are, they're actually quite heavy so I need a strong adhesive. and I bet you can guess what we're going to do and if you guessed a milk can, you're right and here I show you another option in case some of you want to scale it down a little bit and make it really small and miniature. It's a bottle of antihistamine and the plastic cough medicine cups that come on top like cough syrups, but I'm showing you that you're going to have to cut two of them in half and then glue them together and it would have to be cut very nice and carefully. . and directly or you know you could say it, but if you want to get really small, fill that container with some rocks and you can make it really super small for these three tiered trays, so here's the dollar tree cookie or baking tray. aluminum foil pan that they have great for farmhouse decor and I'm just cutting it and folding it, I'm folding it to make it thicker and bulkier because these are going to be the handles for my milk and I continue I need strong adhesives so I make a mix of e6000 and hot glue to put them on the bottle and then I go around the bottom edge and secure it with more hot glue, take it outside and I'm spraying it with that wonderful aluminum color. of krylon and of course I'm going to start the process now to make this metal look old and rusty.

I'm not really going for a galvanized look, I'm just going to look again for something that looks like it's been around for a long time. outside on a farm and it has rusted from the weather, the three colors I am using are pewter gray from apple barrel paint, black and an iridescent silver and I am just taking a combination of a brush that is older and somewhat So. Spread out those really good jobs to make things look rusty or galvanized and a Kleenex (I'm drying it here) or a paper towel and a sponge and I'm just working on it until I get the look I want.

I start with the pewter gray first, then I do a little bit of black, then I go back to the pewter gray and now I'm layering it with the iridescent silver all over, covering everything until I have a look that I'm happy with. If you want a really detailed tutorial on how to make aged metal, I'll go into a lot of depth in my video called farmhouse, serious DIY, free, it's the first in the series, look for the little miniature that has a water can, that's where I come in. it, but I'm doing something similar here, I'm just doing it, you know, on a smaller scale and lastly, I'm going to use some burnt umber to put a little bit of fake rust around this just to make it look , You know? older and more distressed and I also have these little mini pearls there are the dollar tree pearl adhesive wrapper.

They also sell pearl buttons whenever you see these on the dollar tree. Please be sure to pick them up if you love making faux metal. as well as melted cans or any other type of farm stuff because they are very easy to apply and add a lot of realism to the fake metal, they imitate the little bolts, I think that's what they use to weld metal and they work very well. I ended up wanting words on this little milk can and I choose local and fresh. Now I made and designed this myself and there is a free printable in my description box.

I forgot to mention that I also have a free printable for the little mini books. So if you want to download exactly what I made, can you try to do it whenever you can or when I design it so you can duplicate it if you want and if you don't know where that description box is? I give a detailed explanation and instructions on the first part of this series, so watch the first video and you will find out how to find the description box and thanks to those who also thanked me for doing so. Really excited about this next craft, I was going to throw out that empty spool of ribbon and it occurred to me that it's a great shape for farmhouse decor and I'm sure you guys can probably guess what we're going to do here.

I'm going to make a wooden spool, that's right, those little old wooden spools, oh my gosh, I was so excited about this idea, so I took a foam board, laid it down, traced each end and now I'm just cutting out circles. you can use cardboard if you want, that's fine, but you're going to need two circles and then I'm going to glue them on each side because we need it to be a little bit thicker than the thin cardboard, which is what you already know. Normally it is at the end of the reel and now some specks.

You can see what I'm doing here. I'm just taking a small piece of cardboard and I'm painting or spreading,I guess, the top on each side and around the sides to cover where the foam board meets the small thin cardboard or if you use cardboard where the cardboard needs cardboard but you just want it to look nice and thick on the edge so that It looks like a big thick piece of wood and here's an apple bottle of barrel paint and I just balance it on there to dry overnight. This was a great little trick because both sides are wet and you'll just sand it lightly with some sandpaper so it doesn't have any weird looks.

I may see it there, I can see it, but I'm looking for it, but sometimes there are little jagged edges that are a little more jagged than natural wood would be and you just want to smooth those areas out and I'm using jute twine. to get a measurement, so I just keep trying and trying until I get a good measurement for the middle because I'm going to use that measurement thread to cut out the little craft sticks. Now these craft sticks are from Dollar Tree. use whatever craft sticks you want, but stick with the small ones because if you try to make them bigger you can't go around the circle in the center because we are going to glue these craft sticks all the way around. middle part and so on, you're looking for it to fit like a little squeeze, so using hot glue for this craft, you just glue the sticks all over the place, the hot glue worked very, very well, it's not necessary.

Any other type of glue would stick very well, I don't know why sometimes hot glue, you know, doesn't stick to wood, but for this particular craft with the cardboard it worked very well, so here I am using the stain to use. to be a little lukewarm and then I'm totally in love with it now that it's from Amazon, the link for that is below in my description box and if you don't know where a description box is on youtube, I give a detailed explanation on how to find it on the first part of this series, but here I am dyeing the craft sticks and of course they look great because they are wooden, but as we know, if you look at the first part anyway, this dye looks amazing in putty, so both parts.

They match perfectly and end up looking amazing and when it's all done I end up using Apple Barrel khaki just to wear it down a bit and make it look old because it's too new and scratchy looking and you just know it's necessary. it has all these different dimensions like it looks worn and old because we want this to look old and end up working very, very well. I love the color khaki for this craft. You will need six towering dollar tree blocks, one medium. craft stick and if you don't have a little piece of ruler that you can cut or I'm using lava ribbon, you get eight feet for over a dollar at Lowe's or Home Depot, it's a great deal, but if you don't have that. for that little piece of wood that you see right there, I'm going to glue that sign on, just use two taller blocks, that would be fine and the sign will also be in my description box as a free printable and if you have it.

You didn't guess what we're going to do. We are making, of course, a washboard. What would farmhouse decor be like without the washboard? You have to have the washboard. So I'm just cutting out the sign here. I'm going to go ahead and paste it. Those would be your two blocks of wood. If you make the towering blocks, I use strong bond wood glue, which I love. Someone told me there is wood. grain in the wood glue they came in last week and said that and that's what makes it work so well but shout out to Tara because last week I mentioned gorilla glue and I forgot to say sure so it was clear that she swears and here is a chart that reviews the best wood glues.

I thought it was very useful. Rate them and you know if you want to pause the video that gives you a lot of information if you work with wood a lot and you need to paste it here. I'm gluing the three blocks together and I'm going to use putty to try to hide the seams as best I can so we can't see them and here's some faux galvanized metal scraps made out of cardstock, it was black cardstock. I sprayed it with krylon in aluminum color and dried it with a paper towel and then I also added some dark gray amoeba shapes in there when I went in with a sponge and it's going to be perfect for this craft that I had a little There was one piece left and I was saving it for this because I thought it would be perfect and I measured approximately the width of my washboard and now I'm folding it into an accordion shape because this will be the metal part that we will scrub. clothes on if neither of us use washboards I probably don't know, but if we weren't using a washboard, that will be this part.

I forgot to mention that you'll need a dollar tree doll, I mean. I guess you could substitute a toothpick or something smaller, but I wanted something on the bottom area, we have to have like a little wooden thing on the bottom and I'm using one of the dollar tree pegs and here. I'm just sanding the putty. I'm sure you can see what I'm doing, but just to make it as smooth as possible and we're going to give it a coat of white acrylic paint that I didn't actually use. chalk paint here I just used regular old white acrylic paint because I wanted some of the wood to show through on purpose because I'm going to leave some of the raw wood behind, it's going to be kind of a mix of, you know, white with wood that's peeking out and then some intact wood too because I thought it looked more rustic and cute.

I just didn't want a solid white and I'm going to do the back as well because I mentioned I have a tear tray. that needs you to know that there are 360 ​​degrees around the corner of my counter so everything has to be right on both the front and the back because you can see it from all directions so here I am gluing the top to the bottom of the medium craft stick that I glued to the bottom and it's coming together look how cute and then I'm going to go ahead and glue the sides together with the e6000 and hot glue mixture.

Now this is painted wood, so e6000 works great. with painted wood, it's just raw wood, it tends to get soggy, but I have really good luck using it with painted wood, and I'm just gluing these two together for this part. I'm just using hot glue and it holds. I was really glad because I wasn't sure that would be the case, so there's not a lot of pressure on it, it's not very heavy, so feel free, keep it nice and light at the bottom and you'll definitely go. wanting to put a thin strip of hot glue on the back just to secure this extra because otherwise it wobbles just using one of my favorite burnt umber shades to age and distress the sign a bit, a quick coat of mod podge and you're done , you will need a cylinder shaped item, any cylinder shape will work.

I'm just showing you a few examples here, they sell them at the dollar tree and next up will be Quaker Oatmeal if you're in the mood. To make a large piece of birch wood you could use that, even the glasses on the side shown with oats would work. Anything that's shaped like a cylinder today I'm using a can and some tape, so the first thing I do. What I'm going to do is take the duct tape and wrap it around my can and this is probably one of the few times in life where you can be as careless as you want with the tape and not worry about it, in fact, the goal is To be a little sloppy here just make sure you get all the way to the edge of the can at the bottom and top or whatever you choose to use as a cylinder shape so we're actually creating the bark of the wood and I'm moving a little fast and rough without worrying about it creasing I just press those wrinkles down as I go and go at an angle just to cover the whole can and you want to get rid of all the little bumps because cans have little bumps those little ones I don't know what they're called those little lines I guess ridges ridges maybe go around the can and you can see me smoothing it out there and I end up putting about three layers on the bottom and top so it's like you know the middle sticks out a little bit so you're trying to do make the surface as smooth as possible so it doesn't have indentations and I'm showing If you get closer, all those crazy lines almost look like veins running through them and you keep applying the tape.

Look how on the right side it's a little more transparent. You can see the can through. I'm going to add a little more tape there and Make sure everything is covered and evenly colored and pretty level, so that when you lay the can on its side, the sides are pretty even. You can see here, that's what I'm trying to do, that's why I put more layers on the top and bottom because we have that thick middle and of course real wood isn't perfect so don't stress about this, do your best and now you want to take the back of your scissors or just something hard like that. and rub those lines to make them as flat as possible, then go ahead and apply a coat of white paint and you can be sloppy with this, it doesn't have to be perfect, you can see I'm using an old brush and just put it on there, the important thing between each layer we're going to do is dry it, so I'm showing you the dryer to remind you to make sure it's really dry before you start the In the next part, you're going to use a small sharp utility knife or an X-acto knife or a craft knife like you see me doing here and you'll just randomly choose different razor veins so you can Looking for the ones that stick out too much, you know how the tape can bunch up and form almost like a flap.

You don't want it flapping there, so just turn it to the side, check it out and you'll see me point to it too. down with the tip and scrape the little vein, so you'll see it here and I'm scraping it to make it flatter, but it also tears the tape a little bit and makes it have that. Messy appearance like birch wood. If you ever see birch wood in real life the bark is usually a little beat up and cracked, it's not perfect so this gives it more authenticity and texture and just adds to the whole look so you won't go back to have it. to make each one and sporadically pick a few here and there where you think it looks good.

All of today's paints in this video are from Apple Barrel and the first color we're going to use is territorial beige, you're just dry brushing. That's the only technique we're going to use in this video is dry brushing and for those of you who don't know what it is, it just means using a small amount of paint on the tip of your brush and painting it on. very gently on your surface so that you have a look like what you see here now. The important thing is that you are going to dry between each step, that is why I showed you the dryer.

The next color is pewter gray. The same technique we use. We're going to dry brush very lightly around the entire can, the third color is white and we're going to dry brush white across this to blend and mute the colors gently and create a veil effect over them. which look really blurry and softened and you don't need to apply the same amount of white paint to each area, so some areas will have a little more, others will have a little less, which gives it a nice dimension and makes it look more realistic the fourth color we are going to use is burnt umber now this color goes on super light so that you only hit the raised surfaces like the little grains of the wood here and that is covered again with a little bit of white to mute and soften that, that's the last step now to make the fake knots in the wood.

Now this is super simple, just dip your finger in some of that pewter gray and apply some little gray dots wherever you want. be and then take the shadow bird and draw a frame over them like an eyeball you're basically making an eyeball you can see it right there they're that simple to make and lastly you're going to take the old parchment color and going over those little ones knots to create a nice softening veil over them too. Now the reason we're using the antique parchment is because at this point the white has so many layers of paint that it's no longer white, it's more like a cream color, so you can't use white anymore or it would be too bright and it would create too much contrast and lastly you're just going to take a regular old pencil and start drawing those little lines all over the birch wood, just cover the whole can with them and that's it and there you have it, doesn't it look amazing ?

I love this craft. The next step I like to do is finish the top with some twine to give it a rustic touch, but you can certainly skip this. In this step, you can also add layers of foam board on top and make it taller, as long as you place the tape on top and cover the sides of the foam board. You can change the height of these cans to make them less recognizable as a can and the really cool thing about this craft that I love is that you don't have to make just birch wood, this technique would work for any type of wood depending on the paint colors you choose, so if you want to make a nice littlecraft with yule logs or simply place some fake wood in a fake fireplace.

It's really impossible to limit yourself with this craft, so I thought it was really fun and a great way to recycle cans. Now I like to leave one end open. because I actually turn them over and use them for super pretty vases and wow, they make absolutely stunning flower vases. Now I wanted this size for a craft I'm doing in my next video. I didn't worry about it looking like a drag because when it goes along with all the art it's definitely not recognizable like it can be if you had fun watching this video today and enjoyed it please give me a big thumbs up it really helps YouTube notice my channel and help my channel grow and of course, Of course, as always guys, until the next video, take a deep breath, don't worry and do things that make you happy.