 Upcycle showdown. Me versus Kim. I took this old table and tried to breathe some new life into it. Kim took an old sign and tried to make it something new and made it into a tray. Oh, that's right. It's a big old tray. I'll show you how we did them. Right now. What is up? Welcome back. This week we're down to scraps. We're scrapping it. Not exactly, but I did find some things that I could repurpose. Remember this? Christmas time? Do you also remember that it's missing a number? So... A number. Quick, what number? Six. So I thought I could repurpose this board and do something new with it. And I had these leftover one by two frames from another project that went awry that I thought I could use as a frame for this board. Repurposed. And I am going to repurpose this table. It just sits in the corner of our craft room over there with like bills and things I don't want to deal with. Yeah, pretty much. Yeah. And it's all... It's got, I don't know, it's got some stains. It's pretty beat up on the front of it. I don't know if you can see from there. You can see where Alan Wrench was sitting there for like a hundred years. Yeah. So I'm gonna paint it and paint it and throw some decorative something on top. I don't know yet. We're gonna find out. He's got some ideas. It's gonna look pretty cool. They're gonna kind of go together. Mine's a tray. His is a table. It's kind of a versus challenge. Oh, it's a versus challenge. My project, his project. All right, we'll have to see who made the better scrap. What are we doing here? Repurpose. Repurposed. Upsycle. Who upcycled the bestest? Project one, step one. Do you like that? I do. Ambidextrous. We're gonna get all this stuff off this board. This was like heat transfer vinyl. I don't know if it'll come off. I don't know if it'll come off, but guess what? It has a back side, so I could always turn it over if I need to. That comes right off. All right, here you want this. Oh, I can't use this side. It's got a whole bunch of holes in it. It's got a bunch of holes in it. All right, I still want to take the stuff off though. All right, step one, we paint the board. That's right. Sand the back of this thing because it looks a little rough. And give her a paint. Step one, give her a sand. Yep. Step one. Sand it out. Sand it out. One step two. Now we paint. Very good. That was first tea. First tea. Step three. Now we're gonna lay down this big old stencil. We recently purchased a large format stencil cutter, so I'm able to create these 24 inch stencils now. You may have noticed in our store we have 60 inch stencils for welcome to our home now. That's because we have the new cutter over there. So let's see how this works. I'm excited. One full stencil. So what I'm thinking about doing, or what I've decided I'm going to do, is I'm going to do the damas print in this chocolate paint royal. It's like a navy blue, but it's not navy. It's royal. And then I think I'm going to do the center in this folk art home decor paint in Glacier, which is a light blue. So dark blue on the outside, light blue on the inside. Do we get it all? I don't know. I can't even tell on the cross side at this point. So here's what I learned with this stencil. It works great. It cut well and had all the detailed cuts. It went on beautifully. It just was a little pain to peel off. It didn't come off in one solid piece. So it was a little bit challenging to weed. I think that's because it was so intricate. Yes, but it turned out great. It kind of got into the green a little bit, but that's okay because I'm going to sand this. And I want this damas look to be real faded. So this is a kind of a dark, needy blue. I want to fade it out. You probably can't see. I'm going to hold it there for just a second so that you can see that hopefully see that I have sanded it quite a bit. Try to really make it distressed looking. I love the way it looks so far. I'm so excited. All right. Now what I was thinking is that I'm going to put a monogram in the center of my frame here with our last initial. We have these little one by twos that we salvage from some other project. And my pocket saw is a 24 inch board. Where's your mask? You want my mask? Your mask is in paint. Just going to hit it with a one and a quarter inch brad. The nail, not the guy. I'm going to give this tray some handles so you can actually carry Project number two. We're going to upcycle this table. We're just going to paint the legs. This navy color from chopped up. Yep. It's actually navy. I'm going to paint the top. This white chalk paint. Step two of project two. We've got to add the design. I'm going to get some racing stripes. Make it look. Using some more chalk paint. The same paint that I used on the legs. I'm trying to get a little bit out of the jar and do the stripes. Oh jeez. I forgot. They're so slow. Yeah, it's slow. I'm racing stripes. This thing's looking fast already. Look at that. He's zipping down the room. Add our design. Moment of truth. We're going to use this Mod Podge image transfer. And then I use these Avery labels. I pulled all printed with my inkjet printer on the shiny side where the labels were. Now we're going to see if it works. We're going to lay down the Mod Podge thin, thin layer. Then we're going to try to put our image down. Remember, when it's down, it's down. When it's down, it's down. You can't move it. You can't touch it. It's like wet ink. You just got to go in. Let it be. Let it be. Now just distress it. It would be okay. All right. Most of it came off the page. So we got so far. Smudgy. Smudgy. It's all right. I'll give it a quick little distress. So we got that's okay. Good. It looks good. I wanted the transfer to be a little better. It'll do. It'll do. It'll do. Who do you guys think won this showdown? I'm going to vote for Kim. Now your table looks great. I'm liking my transfer came out. Hers looks awesome. What do you guys think? Have you guys done any upcycling, recycling, repurposing? Show us what you got. Show us what you've done. You've been locked up. I'm sure you've done something. Yeah, exactly. Show us what you got. Give us a comment. If you're not yet subscribed, hit that like button. Give us a share. Don't forget to hit that bell to be notified of our new videos each week. And until next week, watch one of these videos over here. It'll keep you entertained for at least 12 minutes or so.