 We teamed up with Team Cricut to make this giant six foot wide farmhouse sign where we made our own subway tiles. We made the herringbone pattern, we created this chippy paint and we did it all with one long continuous image. And we'll show you how we did it right now. What is up? Welcome back. Do you like to do a build or make it? So do we. And we have a new video each week. This week we partnered with Cricut to make our own subway tile herringbone six foot wide 16 inches tall farmhouse sign. Yes, we are so excited. Cricut sent us the Cricut Maker 3. As you know, it now has the smart vinyl. So we're so looking forward to using that smart vinyl showing you how long you can make your cuts up to 12 feet wide. ours is only six foot, but we really want to showcase some of that functionality. We're really excited about it. And we're making our own tiles out of some shims and doing a herringbone pattern. We have never done any of that. So out of our comfort zone this week. Good luck. Step one, we're going to gather all of our supplies. We needed three six foot long one by twos. We needed some underlayment because that was the cheapest plywood we could find. We got some wooden shims. This is how we're making our tiles. We have some wax paper and glue some finishing paste wax. This is going to be for the chippy paint method some steam and our country chic paint. I'm using crinoline. We also needed some permanent vinyl. This is the smart vinyl so I don't need a mat and we needed some transfer tape. I think that is it. For our tools we needed more than normal so they get their own shout out. We have a miter saw, pocket saw. We needed a router, the Cricut Maker 3, so we don't need our mat, and Brad, our Brad nailer. Step two, we're going to cut our backern. We cheated. We used this underlayment, this 1 eighth inch underlayment, and we asked Home Depot to cut it for us. They did a wonderful job, much better than I could have done. It was pretty affordable so at the time we're filming this, we purchased this full 4x8 sheet of underlayment for $22. That wasn't too bad and I'm only using a third of it, not quite even because I chopped off some of the end, a third of it for our sign backer. So that's doable. We'll use it for something. Oh, we'll be making more signs with it, so those are the farmers market. Step three, we're going to make our tiles. We're going to use these shims. Yeah, so we were looking for, I knew I wanted to do a herringbone pattern. I wanted to make a farmhouse sign with a real rustic farmhouse background. I wanted to do a herringbone pattern with wood, but the trick was finding the wood and then finding it somewhat affordable because right now you've heard us talk about how the prices of wood are so high. So we looked at using these 1x2s, but one they were too thick, it was going to be too heavy. So we went over to the trim section and we were looking at this quarter inch flat piece of trim that essentially looks like this. That was like $12 for 8 foot was the cheapest we can find. So it was pretty expensive too. And then as we were just strolling on down the trim aisle looking for options, we came across these shims and I was like, well, what if we could glue them together and bring them back to a full piece of wood? And we thought, well, we could try it. And we noticed that each shim was just cut in half. It is its other half. So we're just going to glue them back together. Yeah, I think this is going to be, it's going to give this because these are pretty, I don't know, what is it, like roughly trimmed? They're not very neat, which I did, like I said, I wanted that farmhouse look. So this is going to have that rough texture to it. And then I think it's going to be pretty simple to glue them together. And then I think we could, these are 12 inches. I think they have a smaller, a smaller size, but I want six inches. So I think I can just cut this right in half, glue it, cut it in half. And these are going to be our tiles for the farmhouse sign back. And I think it's going to give it that, it's good texture. I'm excited about it. I think it will work because each one is a little bit unique. It is a little bit unique. So we're just going to lay these out slowly. Make sure you keep it with its partner though. Yeah, that's the trick. You don't want to, you don't want to lose its friend. You're going to keep your partners. Everybody stay with your partner. Buddy, buddy system. Just going to brush the glue on each one of these little shims. Whoa. Oh no, my top broke. I didn't have to play the glue over there. Well, because I was just going to get it started and then my top fell off. All right. It's always something. I'm going to spread the glue around on this half. And then I'm going to put that half back over top. We're going to use our wax paper and kind of accordion them together to clamp them. The wax paper will keep them from gluing to each other. We only want them glue into there. They're soulmate. Yes. They're soulmate. Some of them have a little more glue on the insides than others. So when you clamp it, it's going to ooze out a little bit. And this will keep it from sticking to its neighbor. Yeah. The precision here I didn't realize was involved. Yeah. I didn't know it. Look at this. Oh my goodness. The sheet. That was a sniggity snap. Look at that. Yeah. Perfect. Like the perfect size. Somebody knows what they're doing. Say my first rodeo. I'm going to clamp it on the ends now. And just push that up in there. All right. Stay with your buddy. Stay with your buddy. Stay with your buddy. How many field trips do you think Garrett spent on? A lot. I've been on a lot of field trips. How many field trips do you think I've been on? I've had six kids. Leave your answer in the comments below. How many field trips has Garrett been on? Wait. How many field trips has Garrett been on? Or actually chaperoned? Sometimes I was allowed to come along. But it wasn't allowed to chaperone. I'm going to use this plank. This plank. And this hammer. Just to kind of knock them all down. Keep them all even. Hold your ears a bit. It's good and beaten. How long will that have to dry? I don't say like. Let's give it an hour. We'll be back in an hour. Well, we have like three other packs to do. It was dry. I'm slipping out of it. Do you have to cut all of these in half? Not too bad, right? Can't you do multiples at one time? This is just one pack. Oh yeah. I guess we're going to do multiples at one time. I guess we're going to make all of our cuts with pocket saw. He's back. Now to make sure that all of these are exactly the same size at five and three-quarter inches. I'm going to use a stop block at five and three-quarter inches. So everything should be identical. It did not be. How could it not be? I'm just going to know. Look at that pretty dead on. Look at that. Oh, dead eye. I'll just do a couple at a time. Safety first, Fred. Safety first. Just going to start with like five at a time. Try it out. Give her your old test. All of these, I don't even know how many they are. Hundreds. Thousands of these little tiles. Well, 42 times three. Times four. Oh, times four. 84, 168. 168 tiles. Times two. What was the times two? Three hundred and thirty-six. Three thousand, seven hundred. Something like that. First we're going to find center. We're going to find where the eight inches is and run it down the middle of the board. That way we'll be able to line all the tiles up. And while he's doing that, the idea for this video actually came from one of our patrons. Helen, thank you so much for this idea. I'm excited about it because I really did want to showcase what this Cricut Maker 3 can do with a long, a long cut. And so I think this is the perfect project to do that. And Helen showed us the Toasty Flannel. She actually shows how she does the chippy paint technique. So I'm excited to show you guys that here when we get to that step. So those are my shout-outs while you're measuring. I'm measuring shout-outs. Alright, that's about the center. Yeah, that's good. That's good. I mean it doesn't have to be perfect. I just want to make sure that we've done a little test here. And for the herringbone pattern it ends up being what, four? I don't have it right right now. It's four, four. What are these tiles across? So I want to make sure that the center of the four tiles lines up with the center of the board so the pattern looks symmetrical. Now we stain. Well, now Kim's staying. She's going to use this gel stain. It's supposed to stay where you put it. Yeah, in coffee, right? Because there's coffee. The purpose of this is to really put that dark base on this. So with this chippy paint technique I'm going to stain this a really dark color and then I'm going to add wax and put paint over it and then chip the wax off so that you can see the dark through it. So you're going to stain it. Then you're going to wax on. Then you're going to wax off. Oh, you're going to paint, then wax off. But right now you're just going to stain this and the frame. And the frame. I'm going to go ahead and stain the frame at the same time. Alright, I'll stay stain-free. Alright, you just stand back. Step six. We're going to use this router with this flush trim bit and trim up all the edges. Get rid of all the little corners and riff-raff. It's just a lot. I don't know about that. We've never done this before. First time using this kind of bit and a router. Have we used a router yet? No, only for our X-Carve. So routers are new for us. Yeah, new. So if we can pull this off, you can pull this off. So as we continue the pattern, we could see that there were going to be little tiny triangles of the back are showing. So when we trim the edges, we use the little triangle pieces that we trim to fill in the little pieces that we're missing on the other side. So if you were going to make this, maybe sixteen is a little too deep. Maybe go fourteen or something. And I think the shims with the mentions that they are will fit right in between the back are and not leave those little triangles. Step seven. And now we give it some waxing. We have all of our shims glued. All the space is filled, stained. And now we're going to apply some dabs all over this board, all over this backer of this wax. Now I would have used clear wax, but they didn't have any. So we're going to just use this. Now I wouldn't get too chunky. It looks chunky. OK. We're going to use this. What's special dark? So you just want like clump. OK, looks like we smeared fudge brownie over this whole thing. It does. Looks like some kind of chocolate. Yes, it does look like some sort of chocolate. OK, so we're going to give this wax about fifteen minutes to dry. And then we're going to coat it with paint. All right. Now we paint. So the wax is dry. And we're going to put the white crinoline. We're using crinoline. Yes. And we're going to do the same thing now. And I'm going to thin it out a little bit. So we got a little spray bottle. Put a little paint in this. Put a little water in the paint. Yeah, we put some paint in there. Paint tray. Now I'm going to mix it with a little water. We're just doing strokes. Yeah. I would test that brush first. Looks like there's a little paint on it. There is definitely some unicorn spit on it. On the wood. It's definitely pink. It's definitely getting on the wood. I don't know why you would try it on the wood. I thought it... It's definitely won't come off. Thick coat of paint on here. So we need to let this dry. That's going to take maybe an hour. I don't know. I'm going to go get a fan for real. Set it up. See if we can speed this up. All right. Speed it up. Speed it up. Step eight. Now we scraped. I'm not going to throw this thing. So it's been under the two fans for about an hour. There's some dark spots. It looks like the wax is holding some moisture. But Kim's ready to try it. So we're going to... Throw it at me. The paint is dry. The paint is dry. I don't really need the wax to be dry. I just need to... Yeah, let's do it. Preparation for the vinyl. We're going to give this board a coat of the polycrylic. In order to give it some sort of a coating. That will hopefully help that vinyl stick better. Because this is kind of chalky. And waxy. And waxy. So this polycrylic will help. Step nine. We're going to cut our design. And talk about today's sponsor. Cricut and the Maker 3. Yes. I'm really excited. The Maker 3. This machine is the same size as the previous maker. But it does come in this new blue color. And all of these new smart materials. The great thing about the Cricut Maker 3. Is that you can use smart vinyl. And you do not have to use a mat. You can still use a mat. But you don't have to use a mat. I hate using a mat. Because they always become unsticky. Well, ours do. We can't seem to get that figured out. I watched them. I watched YouTube videos. We can't get it figured out. Anyway, some of our smart materials. For the Cricut Maker 3. Would be smart HTV. Which comes in this holographic. Glitter. And your typical vinyl colors. Also. Your smart vinyl comes in longer rolls. So the great thing about this Cricut Maker 3. It now has this tray. Where you can put your roll of vinyl in here. With incident feed. Well, up to 12 feet. It will cut up to 12 feet long. Even point 7 inches wide. So just slightly wider than the previous maker. But it does come in these longer rolls. So you can get rolls up to 75 feet. 75 feet. How heavy is a roll that is 75 feet? We know that. We've had vinyl that's been in those big HT rolls. But this one. What you see in here right now. Is 21 feet. This is what our local craft store had. And then we have. What is this one? 12 feet. Is your typical roll. And the thing about this new smart vinyl. Is it comes in a 13 inch width now. So. They did start creating. Cricut is now making a 13 inch trimmer. And the HTV. Is also 13 inches. And then the other thing. That's another smart material. That we haven't had the opportunity to try yet. But I'm really looking forward to it. Is the smart card stock. Sticker card stock. So you'll cut this. No mat. And you peel it off. And it's already a sticker. Yeah. And it comes in all of these colors. I think there's a different variety packs. That's how we should be making our price tags. This is a good idea. Because it still uses all the same tools. As the previous makers. So there are. Up to 13 different tools. 300 different types of materials. I'm checking all my notes. To make sure I've got it right. This Cricut Maker 3. Does cut 2 times faster. Than the original Cricut Maker. And it is 10 times the force. Of the Cricut Air. Explore Air 2. So you can cut deeper. Or score deeper. Yeah. Deeper. Thicker heavy materials. And your leathers. It's just stronger. And you can make so many passes on leather. Yeah. That's what I'm thinking. Alright. So we're going to cut our vinyl. To put on our farmhouse sign. Hey what's this? Is this a cutter on the thing? Yes. So this tray. I'm going to show you right now. It's a good segue into the next step. So in theory. I could just use this as my cutter right? I don't even need that other cutter. Well. You can't measure it. You don't know how long your piece is. Well. I would just cut my piece. And then cut it. So this little tray has grooves underneath. And it sits right here on the the door of the maker. Your vinyl does slide up under. And right into the grooves. See that? And then when you're done. You just slice it right here. Pretty cool. We're going in right now. Well. You'll hit unload. What will that do? I don't know. We'll have to see. I'll hit unload. I'm afraid unload was going to push it back. Let's see. No. Right here. The vinyl feels still. That's because you don't need a mat. Oh man. We have to weed that thing. Don't you love it when he realizes stuff like that through the project? No. Now you guys get to watch us figure out how to add the transfer tape to an image this long. Well. We'll give you some lessons later. Lesson learned. Don't do it so long. So now I only have one. I don't know. About six inches exposed. And I'm going to lay that down after we center our transfer tape on here. That looks pretty good to me. Looks good. Looks good here too. All right. Well. We're in now. So now going back. Now we'll pull from underneath. I got you. We got you. We're getting squirrely. All right. I'm back in. Oh look at that. It's fashionable. Yep. Look at this. We just went in for the long pull. I am surprised. That went so well. Yeah. Step 10. We're going to lay down our design. Uh. This is where I'm dreading this part. You scared of it? I am scared. We're starting from who's end. I don't think we should do both. Okay. Go for it. Man. Using that heat gun to get the vinyl to stick down. I'm not sure if you can't tell if that's paint or vinyl. It really got in those cracks. Look at that. It looks so good. It looks so good. I'm so excited. Step 11. Now we're going to add the frame. We have these one by twos that we have at six foot. That's great because this is a six foot sign. So we're just going to pin these to the top and bottom. Then we'll measure for the sides. We're going to glue them down and then hit them with a one and a quarter inch brad. The nail. And chippy paint method and our six foot long vinyl piece. I think it looks great. So a little bit of a labor of love. It took some work. It wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. I thought it would be a lot more paint in the butt. Multiple steps. This one had a lot of steps in it. A lot of steps. Man, I think it looks great. It turned out exactly like I wanted it to. Exactly like I envisioned it. Heating up the vinyl really made it hug the board and almost looks painted on. I want to say thank you one more time to Cricut, our sponsor for this week's video. We're loving that Cricut Maker 3 and our vinyl. I love that there's no maps. At a time, so if you're not joining us for the patron after show we will see you next week where we'll do a building and make it again. Don't even think about it. Oh yeah, I'm going in. No, you're not. Ready? Ready? Ready. And move your hand. Just go. And we're in. We're in. We're in. I'm away. I'm away. That was a workout.