 We just made this no tools DIY front porch welcome sign That's fall themed and we'll show you how we did it right now What is up a welcome back do it to do a little bit of make it so do we and we have a new video each week This week. We're heading back gnome with some new fall front porch decor designs Yes, we've been working on our fall designs and we have this new Gnome fall front porch leaner and I'm really excited about it now We have to make a bunch of these to take to the craft shows or think it's gonna be a good seller, but Brad is injured. He's on the disabled list One of the kids borrowed the nail gun and brought it back broken. He Doesn't shoot his shot anymore So we're gonna try this with liquid nails instead. Yes, we've done a no tools before But we're excited to show you how we can build these with no tools Well, none of your tools right none of your tools and only three cuts. Yeah, only three cuts Step one we're gonna gather all of our supplies We needed two six foot tall dog-eared fence pickets We went to our local home improvement store where I creep it we followed Kim with the camera You could find these pickets in the garden center You think they're over by lumber, but they're not they're out here at the garden center And there's two types of pickets here So I thought I would show you because we get lots of questions There's one that's a little cheaper with a much rougher surface. Do you see how grainy this is? You would need to sand it this or plane it in order to paint it, but then there are these others that are a little bit More pricey, but they're the premium pickets and they're much smoother finish And we don't sand or prep them in any way. We just go ahead and paint or sand them Yeah, they're like a baby's bottom You can see that a lot of them are warped and you could tell they're warped a lot of them are still wet So we like to lay them out in the aisle and find which ones are actually flat and not warped or bowed You can definitely see them And these are the gothic pickets we use these this is where the three cuts come in we cut these into three 11-inch sections These are the braces that go on the bottom top and in the middle try to keep it from warping And then I found this gorilla construction adhesive It says it holds in 30 seconds. It's all weather paintable and it holds something like 50 pounds or something. So I totally think this will work. I think we need more so I grabbed a bigger tube We had to lay the pickets out in the warehouse so they dry up I didn't want to try painting them or gluing them while they were still so moist And we wanted to keep them flat so they don't warp while drying And you're gonna need the little vertical gnome kit so little It's not little it is well It is huge this happens to be our biggest kit ever. There are three stacked gnomes And this is just one of them, right It's gonna look like three gnomes in a coat But they're big easy pieces to paint and assemble we all for the optional paint kit to go with it You can find it in our store at kngmakeit.com. We'll leave the link down below Step two We're gonna make all of our cuts. We're gonna cut this gothic picket into three 11 inch pieces You can cut your gothic picket right at the home improvement store You can take it over the trim section and use the hand saw to cut the three pieces Or or you can do it like this employee right here who was very insistent That he does it all the time on the panel saw So we let him do it and it worked and they cut it for us. Yeah Step three Time to assemble we're going to use that gorilla glue construction adhesive Say that three times fast and we're going to glue these pickets down to the other pickets So this first picket is just a spacer We're going to add the construction adhesive on the back of the second picket You want to add this in a zigzag motion? And we're just going to flip it and press it We're going to take that spacing picket and put it down the other end We're going to do the same thing down here. We're going to space it one picket from the bottom We'll come in with a zigzag motion. I really want to do spirals, but Kim insisted that we stick with zigzags That's what it said on the package I'm just going to press it in a place squeeze it pretty tight I will move on to do in the middle spacer the middle spacer I'm just going to kind of eye up what I think is the middle or where it's bowed the most and attach those two there Yes, if your pickets have any bow to it You'll want to put this brace the center brace near that bow section to kind of keep that thing from bowing any further And straighten them out a little bit. I'm going to use a little bit extra adhesive here on this one Only because it's concave and I hope this will fill the gaps We're going to set some heavy paint jars on here after about 30 minutes I really couldn't move the pickets with my hand They're pretty pretty stuck and full cure time is 24 hours Step four Time to stain we're going to stain our pickets you can paint or stain them We're going to be using this verithane's briar smoke to stain ours. It's my favorite stain color That is for go to you and if you haven't heard me say it before I'm just going to say one more time How great these stain pads are this is a terry cloth stain pad Over foam I guess I'm not really sure what's inside But it really does hold the stain and I can do a whole picket with just one Little dab like a couple of tablespoons Once the sponge is fully soaked. Yes, and then I can put this sponge back in a baggie and save it For next time so I can do lots of sets of pickets with this one sponge Also, you see I am using some Gloves here. So we typically use rubber gloves, but A while back we got these one of these dipped gloves And so the bottom half where my hands are holding the staining pad Is waterproof so we're not Yeah, so the stain isn't coming through and I can reuse these because once I finish staining with the stain pad I'll come back. We just use paper towels to wipe them down And it also wipes the stain off the gloves. I can take the gloves off set them aside and reuse them for the next set as well Those disposable gloves got really expensive really quick Yeah, well, we do so many and we do it so often because we also stain rounds It's great to be able to use these little a little extra saving the environment. They don't make your hands as sweaty True. They do breathe on top Time to paint and decorate and I hate painting if you know what I'm saying I don't want painting especially these pieces because they're so large. They're easy to paint I mean, that's like a full-size beard I would win beard contest if I actually had this beard Here's the full kit. You want to make sure you have all of your pieces We're gonna group our pieces and paint them one gnome and one gnome at a time. Yes One gnome at a time. You see here. We're using blue painters tape Uh, the pieces in the middle here are flipped upside down So they're sticky side up and you see I have them taped at the top and the bottom This will hold our pieces while we roll them so that they don't move as you roll over them We're using all of our fun fall colors our oranges our greens our browns Here we're mixing colors for skin tones. We got asked about this earlier this week. How did we do this? This is how we do it. It makes a little yellow a little white And now we have a good skin tone color for his nose a little bit of this little bit of that Kind of just mix it until it looks right And this is our second gnome. He's holding an acorn Here you can see we're using those foam rollers and the small four inch Roller handles by using the foam rollers here. We can reuse them for our next project In this case for our next set because we'll be painting a bunch of these The trick here with the foam rollers is to make sure you only have a little bit of paint on the roller You can see I use the paper plate and then I I dip it in the paint And then roll the roller on the plate to make sure I get even coverage across the roller And then I use a really light hand as I paint the pieces You don't want to push too hard because the paint will lose out of the foam roller The highlight to squeeze the paint directly on like the beard And kind of just use the roller But you have to be a professional which garret is not for this because he tends to use too much paint And then your roller is soaked full of paint one coat kim one coat No, no light multiple light coats are best I'd say Go big or go gnome And here's our third gnome our top gnome. He's got a full hat and he's holding the leaf Again, we're using our foam rollers Garrett's putting too much paint on this beard and I'm putting a light coats on each of our pieces Again, they'll dry quickly. They'll dry in just a few minutes And then you can come right back with the second coat Now mine might take a little longer to dry, but I can do other things while it's dry Well, then it leaves. It's a little bit streaky. So And here you can see when I picked up the white roller. It was so full of paint. It was actually heavy So you'll see I roll off in the plate. I'm not actually dipping this in any paint It has so much paint on the roller that I'm actually Taking off paint by rolling it onto the plate So that I'm putting a light coat On the letters First coat you can see I just laid the roller down in the baggie because I'm coming back to do a second coat To think about it like cost-cutting. It was like it was pretty painted roller for you Yeah, it definitely was Step six It's time to assemble all the gnomes. We're gonna bring it on gnome by gluing all the little bases down to the pickets Using this gorilla construction adhesive Okay, we always start with what we call our dry fit. We lay all the pieces out We make sure we know where they're going. We have the proper placement and the proper spacing and it actually fits on the board She's a big one and like Garrett said he's using the construction adhesive And we're gonna assemble from the bottom up. You see we just moved them up a little bit And we use almost all of our kits we glue bottom up Yep, we're gonna start with the big beard with his little feet. We're gonna attach his hat Then the next beard for gnome number two Then we'll try to slide in his little feet Then we'll get the gnome number two's hat glued down We'll glue down the beard of gnome number three We'll slide in his little shoes his little feet Finally we'll glue his hat down and i'm not using any zigzag patterns here I am just drawing shapes with the glue. Kim is furious But I did find that with the letters it was easier to just put a little dab of glue about every half inch or so Then to try to run a bead of this glue around each letter And that's a good tip for all of our kits whether you're using the construction adhesive or the store bond Little glue dots work great And then with this because the construction adhesive is this thicker white color It does dry white So you'll want to keep it thin and inside the actual mdf so it does it ooze out That's right. Watch the ills Now we're coming back and we're going to add all of the top pieces his hands What he's holding his nose and for these pieces We know that star bond our star bond thick works the best It definitely holds mdf to mdf for a very long time For the star bond thick I'll run it around the frame like i'm doing here on the pumpkin And then i'll quickly flip it over gotta be quick though because if it drips and if it dripped on the beard It's over and then we'll just add all of the insert pieces into the frames The great thing about having a frame around some of these pieces you don't have to worry about how If you got any paint on the edges Those edges can They can stay sloppy. Yeah, those edges Garrett can paint Here we're doing this again on the acorn Um, the great thing about this again is that you have this frame here And you want to flip that over quickly Add your glue on the insides and then you just slide your pieces in like a puzzle For the hands, we're just going to glue them to the actual like little acorn Or pumpkin or the leaf I don't think he actually needs arms nobody will see them Some of our other kits we have interchangeable accents But this is actually a fall kit so his hands can be glued right directly to the accent pieces And then the accent piece it gets glued directly to the beard We know malabama that thing is looking hot It definitely feels fall But these gnomes are gigantic They're they're big because this is a six foot picket, but I think it looks great I think it's so cute. It's one of the cutest kits we've ever made It is definitely the biggest kit we've ever made But yeah, I like it. I definitely think it's cute And I definitely give a big thanks to all of our patrons We love you guys love the interactive with you guys and I love sharing all of our files with you I'll put this little gem up there On patreon and a little bit and then you can take this sucker right on gnome with you All right, we are about at a time So if you're not going to join us for the patron after show We will see you next week where we'll do it building and make it again. Oh, and don't forget uh for Oh, and don't forget about test cut Tuesdays where we try out new files and we paint them live every Tuesday We have a new file. We'll see how it goes And we'll see how this one goes. I got a squat Gotta get my squats in at the same time. I mean seriously Great job