 We just made these two Holiday front porch decorations using a jigsaw and a cricket and our glow forge and we'll show you how we did it What is up a welcome back do you like to do a builder to make it we do too and we have a new video Each week this week. We're getting into the the mood of the season. It's getting chilly out We know Christmas is coming. I see my neighbors have some lights up and this neighbor has got their tree up So we're gonna start with some festive fall front porch decor We're gonna do two leaners. Yeah, so I know that you've seen some of our other We just did a Merry Christmas sign not too long ago But we were marching around in the old hobby lobby looking for supplies the other day and saw this really cute leaning snowman so we've added that to our list of projects for this holiday season and Garrett was browsing online. He was actually on Pinterest Looking for something I think and came across these cute little it's a stacked presents But it's 2d, but looks 3d. So it's a really cool fake 3d because I wanted to redo the topiary that we did last year Well a couple of years ago, I think Which was really cute, but it wasn't Easy to store. Yeah at all. It was a practical. Yeah to store. So This one should be much easier to store It's only three feet tall should be able to lay in there on top of all of our Christmas boxes But it'll look 3d. Yeah, I think so we hope we hope it looks 3d. Yeah Do some shading use a little bit of wax a little bit of light wax a little bit of dark wax popping Project number one our leaning snowman Step one, we're gonna gather all of our supplies We really just needed a half-inch piece of plywood well half-inch thick Two foot by four foot little section. We picked up some ribbon some paint some vinyl. I'm gonna add his Nose and eyes at a vinyl a snowflake for his hat And then the front of him is going to say welcome and I'm gonna add that in this permanent oracle 651 Matt black vinyl here Step two, we're gonna make all of our cuts. We're gonna use a jigsaw and Cut out a little shape that we drew on. It's about what a snowman looks like Right need to be perfect. I will tell you that I when we talked about this project I said well, how are we gonna transfer the image of the snowman onto the board? He said we're gonna draw it and I was like we don't draw But he said how do you draw a snowman and even ask the girls how do you draw a snowman? It was like it's three circles chem and we can do it. So I'm here to tell you that he drew it. You can do it We just we kind of kept him a little bit skinny because I don't want him to be a fat leaning sign post I'm trying to still keep him in in the theme of a vertical welcome sign. So he's got some Larger bottom, but narrow and the midsection in the top and so it's like a Sphilt snowman sticking the bottom He's he's he's just tall not thick get that skinny at the bottom He's packed with snow down there. I don't know I figure any shape of snowman is fine You've never seen a perfect snowman. Yeah, that's my point here So I think this is a relatively easy one to just freehand out and and draw it's all about the accents on this one Yes, it's all about the accents And we got a lot of questions. Does Kim ever use the tools? Yes, she does and she's using it today Again, I don't know how many times I have to tell you guys this I only don't use the tools because I have to keep care busy He I don't know if you've seen that he's a bit ADD and so if you could give him the power tools He stays busy stays focused on the project. Who knows what it'll be up to while I'm Sawing this snowman to show you that I can use the power tools to know nothing Yeah, that's what happened he'll wander over there something will catch his attention over there Yeah, right there. Yeah, you see what I'm talking about This is a little pointy. I think we can either maybe we can just stand that fix that. Yeah, get a little sand right look at that Looking like a genuine snowman Not even cold pretty simple I notice the inside is because I'm gonna sand it a little bit. Thank you So we decided to go with like a little one by two to make his hat pop a little bit make it stand out Make it look like he's actually wearing a hat I don't know what you think I think what you got is pretty good Step three Now we paint first try first tea We're gonna use some crinoline for the body and our country chic paint and licorice For the hat for the hat for the win Step four now. We're gonna cut our vinyl. We're not gonna karate chop our vinyl. We're gonna use the cricket. I Went into design space. I found a little snowman face And now I'm just cutting each color of vinyl hit the flashing little cricket button here It's doing this thing Step five and now we assemble it We're just gonna use some gorilla glue to put the hat on the top And then lay the vinyl down. That's That's it Easy as pie. It is a quick easy project Looks like it's more more than it is, but that's pretty simple Hitting it with an inch and a quarter brad The nail not the guy All right, I cut out some really cute little snowman eyes So I'm just using this or cal 651 permanent vinyl put it right on here This is the same stuff. They make decals on decals out of for your car windows So should be with a coat of polyurethane what I would advise But we don't have time to do that right now is to put your coat of polyacrylic on first and then add your permanent vinyl on top But because we're filming this all in one night We're gonna go ahead and add this and then add the polyacrylic over top I think it'll still last it'll last the winter It'll last the winter and maybe a trip in the closet What's his name shoot Scott no Scott the snowman no no no no the snowman from frozen Randolph rutabaga. All right, there's little eyes There's three layers to these eyes. So I'm gonna do it one layer of time Olaf no Olaf. Is it Olaf? Is that the snowman's name? Yeah, Olaf, right? The snowman in frozen Olaf Doing a little vinyl layering Look how easy Just putting stickers on stickers on stickers Those those eyes definitely look like Scott the snowman Scott the snowman eyes. I Don't know cuz I've never met a snowman named Scott They're always frosty Or Olaf, but can't you just have like a regular? Snowman name. It's like a dog. You've never heard. Have you ever met a dog named Scott? Have you ever met a dog named Scott? Are you focused here? Is that where his mouth goes? Can you stand back? Yeah, no. All right. Let me get in my chair. You don't have to get all the way up in here Looks good from here. Are you sure? Yeah, you want to come climb up here? No, see late down now He definitely looks like he's looking towards the heavens. He is so cute I'm loving it. Did my particles fall from up there and then I was formed into this beautiful My allergies to kick it in. I was giving him backstory. Sorry the interrupted Scott's backstory Is he Scott Bacula the snowman? Does he do quantum leaps? All right Scott, that's it sparkly snowflake. They'll be great on his little hat. I'll have to figure that out We'll try it again. All right. Oh Nope, let me I got one more little accent. Oh, it's scarf. He's gonna get cold without his scarf Give him a little something Yeah, stay warm Scott Stay warm I'll figure out maybe a little something more to do with that Look it. Isn't that cute? Isn't that so cute? Yeah, let's throw it over his shoulder Scott the snowman. It's a little sassy Should I do it in a full-on tie? Yeah, give him a full Windsor looking good Pop him. Yeah, he fixes the collar Yeah, that's so cute There you go Project number two. So this project we're going to make the 3d stacked presents and We're gonna use our glow forge to make this one and we're gonna offer it in our store K and G make it calm. I got it right this time Just in case you can't cut it at home right, so if you feel like this little snowman is too much to cut out we can All for you this one It's already cut out for you and all you have to do is paint it But I will say if you're looking for something to add to your little Christmas shopping list This little jigsaw here is not that much. It's relatively cheap and you can do a lot with it A lot of our projects just with the jigsaw. You don't necessarily have to have the pocket saw. Yeah pocket saw He's just handy or the nailer You could do a lot of cutting well cutting wise you can do a lot of cutting just with the jigsaw Yeah, you can do almost all of our projects with a jigsaw You probably do this one if you're able to draw the packages out on the on the board and cut it out with the jigsaw We're gonna go ahead and cut it out on the glow forge Score it give us our paint lines and paint it up and this is project number two Step a one that we're gonna gather all of our materials We just needed some quarter-inch MDF. I have this a piece of long MDF 18 inches by 48 inches and then we need some paints And some paints. That's really it, right? That's it. MDF and paint Step two, we're gonna make all of our cuts Kim found this cool little it look 3d, but it's not 3d Stand thing on some website and she said I want to make this so I copied it Yeah, he made it himself. He didn't copy their file. He actually took the picture that I saw And made the SVG for me because he's that good I can't imagine I told him I was very impressed with what he was able to pull off But I said if we can make this I think it will look really cool. It'll look 3d Yeah, but it'll only be 2d. Now anybody can do this It's just drawing some lines and illustrator and coloring the lines different colors You can use a pen tool or the line tool You can make your own SVG. It's not that hard Let me know in a comment if you want me to do a video on how to make SVG is how to create your own SVGs from scratch or how to take a a picture and make it an SVG Yeah, I we've talked about it lots of times But I'm not sure if that's something you guys would want to see or not But if you do like you said leave us a comment Let us know give a little vote and we could always make a how to make your own SVG video Yep, so we're gonna go get the glow forge and cut this thing out Now we paint again again, so we got all of our little pieces cut out. Let's see our ribbons Ribbons are like 3d Popping And we got all of our packages stacked So I don't know if you can see from there. I'm not sure if you can really see the cutouts, but see they already look 3d That's so cool. Now. We just need to paint them. Yep. Now we're gonna paint them Then we'll use a little white wax a little dark wax Kind of give it some dimension We're gonna use our country chic paints again The reds will be in devotion the green is a really this is the darker green This is fireworks, and then we'll have black and licorice and the white is Crinoline crinoline Now we're gonna throw some wax down to try to make it look a little 3d make it pop We finished our painting and it looks great We did a great job if I do say so myself pat myself on the back We worked really hard to make sure we had all these lines painted perfectly little tip If you didn't see it in the fast-forwarding Painters tape helped us get nice clean crisp lines, and then the other thing are these little round. I hope you can see it Let's see see it across here. No, there's no way This is a round foam brush. It just has a little round in on it. It's nice and flat that helped us do the circles So that's also a little tip Here's where it gets fancy So it still looks flat looks nice, but looks flat doesn't look 3d. It doesn't pop So we're gonna use a little bit of light wax and a little bit of dark wax To try to make it look 3d. Yes, we haven't had an opportunity to show you our country chic wax here This is the pearl wax and This is the dark wax. Well, it doesn't say dark. You tell them it's antiquing wax And this one I have a smaller version of the white wax So we're gonna use the three of these to add some dimension to This 3d pre stacked presents look we've got here Gert's our artist remember so I'm gonna let him do this part and I'll help out where I can but Basically everything on this side of the package is gonna get some dark wax and everything About right here is gonna get a little white wax. That's it I'm gonna use my fingers Step five and now we're gonna glue it all down With this little tiny remnants of gorilla contact I'm gonna put it in the base. We're in everything's still on All right Great. I'll put this other piece back here We'll just use the gorilla tape What do you guys think does it look 3d? I Think so well, I Don't know. I'm not looking at it on the screen. What do you think does it look 3d? Does it come across on film? Looks pretty 3d to me. Yeah, I'd like to know what your perspective is when you watch the video I mean, of course, we'll watch it, too. I'd like but from here. It looks great I mean it really does look 3d, which is exactly what I saw from my Inspiration photo and you pulled it off perfectly. I'm super impressed. Oh, thanks, babe Huh, and then this little guy how cute is he right? cute little snowman face and the perfect ribbon to make a scarf I mean, that's all this is is some fabric ribbon. Yeah, but it looks perfectly like a scarf And you really prove that you are the sawsman Yeah, I told you It's easy Yeah, so Remember what we said about that jigsaw if you need a tool that things what like a hundred bucks less than a hundred Oh, it's like 50 bucks. I think I don't know and no numbers. Oh look at the time time to go Yeah, time to go so well, we'll see you guys next week where we'll do it building and make it again and really like This scouts the only option so upside down Yeah upside down Upside it's like a snow cone whoa