 It's that time of year again. It's time to sit under a dead tree and eat candy out of socks. I hope they're clean. We made a sign to celebrate. Merry Christmas. And we use the dry brush technique. We'll show you how we did it right now. What is up? Welcome back. Do you like to do a build that'll make it great? That's what we do on this channel every week. Christmas is in the air. And so is the flu. So wash your hands. But this week we're making a Merry Christmas front porch welcome sign. It's going to have two layers of paint, some vinyl, very few cuts, two cuts. And we're gluing it together. Yes. It's going to be like a reverse stencil this time. So we are going to use letters, but we're going to actually use them to reveal the paint underneath. We're going to peel them up and they'll be paint underneath. So yeah, it'll be pretty cool. It'll be cool. Step one. Make it cut. We're going to cut this little picket that we picked up this. What is it? Gregorian? I think it's Gothic. I think it's called Gothic fan. They're like a dollar. It's like a dollar. Yeah. We're going to turn this into this. Two 11 inch pieces. We also picked up a dog ear piece, two pieces. A dog ear, right? Yes. Dog eared fence pickets. And they're already pressure treated. So they're already treated for outdoors. And so is this little, the Gothic eared one or Gothic tipped one is also pressure treated for outdoors. And we get a lot of questions around, do we see in these? No, they're already pressure treated. We don't bother to send them. It's supposed to be kind of that country rustic look. So we just paint right over them just as they are. And once you put the red down and then we're going to distress the white a little bit, that roughness actually helps it peek through and make it look even cooler. Yeah. Step two. We're going to gorilla glue them together. We're not going to use any nails. Brad is safe this week. Brad, take the week off. We're just going to gorilla glue them together. This is the original gorilla glue, not the wood gorilla glue. This stuff foams up and gets in those crevices. So if there's a gap in your board, it'll fill it in and keep it nice and tight together. And we're going to go ahead and glue them before we paint so that you're gluing wood to wood. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Right on. Right on. So I cut my stencil at 57 and I think I'm going to leave about 58 in between the top board, the top attached board, and the bottom attached board. So yes, leave it like this and then take me down there. Take me down. You're going to do a little guns and roses. Oh. Paradise. Take me down to the welcome sign city. I'm just going to clamp it. Clamp them if you got on. Kim likes to overclamp. She really gets in like she hawks snapping boards. Crack, crack. There's no one to go anywhere. We want to make sure that glue is tight. Rotating around. Come around. Come around. We might want to double check yours. That was a lot of motion. A lot of motion. Maybe I should clamp this one this way. Now we can see how they do once we clamp them. We'll give this one, one full hour to do its magic to cure to glue. This is one to two hours, but in one hour it's stuck. You can unclamp it and continue painting. Continue. All right. One hour. Let's do that. Paint it red. But before we paint it red, we have to clean up some glue globs. You got some gooey, gluey puffer pieces that we're going to clean up. Puffer pieces. Puffer pieces. So our little puffer pieces. Man down. Sorry, Brad. Brad wasn't safe this week. The puffer pieces are easy to get off. They are easiest to get off when the glue is completely dry. Ours is only about an hour dry. So it's still a little tacky. Yeah, they're a little bit soft still. But after like two hours, it's like hard foam, like styrofoam. Chip it right off. Yeah, chips right off. We're going to use some chalk paint. Are we going to go until we run out? Is that what we're thinking? Yeah, this one's like a, whichever one. These are both ones of deco art chalk paint. And the other is foam folk art. Yeah, folk art. This one's cameo. This one's pioneer red. Pioneer red. I think. Let me see this cameo. It's a little bit darker. Ew. Ew, no, never mind. Looks a little clumpy in there. Looks like we'll be going with this one. Well, that's drying. We're going to go cut out our vinyl and get our letters ready. Kind of like using our Cricut. It's just this Oracal 651. And then we weeded it. We reverse weeded it. Added the transfer tape. And now we're going to transfer it to the board. Well, I think this is like regular weeding. But we're going to reverse the image with the paint. It's weeding. Whatever it is. Whatever it is. We left the letters. The letters are going down. We got soap. It's pretty cool with the black letters. I don't want to leave it with the black letters. I know. It looks good. I think you could add a bow on here and it would look great. But I want to go with that technique that we talked about. Because I think it will look even better. All right. We're going to try to do a dry brush. Did I just swipe this over the lid? Look. Yeah. Making a mess. Oh my gosh. This one too. Oh my gosh. Hold on. I got paint everywhere. Paint everywhere. I got just a little bit on the brush. Just a teeny bit. Just gently gliding over it. Slightly painting it. Just barely getting it wet. This is not sped up. It's real time. Step six. We're going to pull up the vinyl. See if we can actually see these letters. Moment of truth, babe. Moment of truth. Christmas. Step seven. Now we add the accents. I started making my bow. I finished making my bow. I've got like six or seven little loops here. It's just a bigger bow. We're going to put that at the top. And how much of this? All of it. Now I think I'm going to use it to wrap around and tie it to the back. That way I can change the bow. Which I will never. Quick change. Which I will never do. Because it's Christmas. Buffalo plaid might be out in a couple of years. But Merry Christmas is always in. It is always in. You know what I would like? A finger back here. Can you help me with this? Ow. Finger. Yeah. These pine cones. Yes. And so I bought these little pine. Which I thought we could hot glue. Cracker that thing looks hot. If you like this video, leave us a comment. Tell us if you liked how the lettering came out. Tell us if you do something different. Show us if you went ahead and made one of your own. Oh, check it out. Check it out. Until next week. You guys can watch something over here. Over this way. And hit that subscribe button. And that bell. Because we do this.