 We just made this springtime front porch welcome sign with two boards and a big bunny. And we'll show you how we did it right now. What is up? A welcome back. Do you like to do it builder or make it? A great soda week. We do it every week. Megan knows that. Megan's one of her patrons over there on Patreon. This week we're making a springtime front porch welcome sign and we're going to hop it up, jump it up to the next level and try to make a rabbit look like he's giving it a hug from behind. Just like a bunny. Bunny hugs. Bunny hugs, yep. Step one. We're going to gather all of our supplies. We actually have our supplies delivered this time. We did. And they picked the worst ones. So all we needed was a gothic picket. They gave me a chipped one. Two dog ear pickets. These aren't bad. Well, no. This one. Yeah, that one looks like it was the one outside. And then an MDF board. It's also missing a corner. Missing a corner. And then some paints. We didn't have those delivered. We had the paints. Step two. Now we're going to cut our little gothic picket. We're going to make two 11 inch cuts. But this thing. Look at this little guy. Look at this little guy. I picked him up. He's so cute. What is a battery pack? I just pulled him out of my pocket. You saw it. It came right out. I just fouled up my glasses. My favorite guy right there. Take a break. Take a break. Step three. Now we're going to glue these little pieces on our big dog ear pickets. This gothic piece only costs like $1.40. And these pickets here were like $1.90. Yep. Little gorilla glue. A little glue goes a long way. It'll get all foamy and all bonded together. So don't get crazy with it. Kim. Yeah. Crazy with the glue all the time. Always getting it everywhere. Don't get crazy. Now we're going to have to let this glue dry and proceed. It says like two hours, but it really only takes like an hour. Step four. There's stuff in there. A little surprise inside. Now we're going to make our vinyl stencil so that we can put it on our board. I just made it in design space. I wrote out the word hoppy and spring. And hoppy is Magnolia Sky and spring is Times New Roman. Put them vertical, align them on the vertical, and made sure they were 58 inches top to bottom. Step five. It's time to bust out our bunny out of this board right here. This chip board. Right. I'm going to take it down. I'm going to throw it underneath the X-Carve. I mocked up the bunny an illustrator and exported it as an SVG, brought it into easel while I was in my office, touched it up so that I could go out to the garage and just check the thickness, made sure it was secured, checked my bit, did my little probing bit, then I was ready to carve. Turn the spindle on. Step six. Now we're going to paint the boards with some antique aqua. It's going to really bring it out. First, we're going to give it a quick sand. This is just a heavy grit paper. Give it a quick sand so that the stencil will stick better. These are pressure treated. You don't really have to do anything to them, but they're also rough so you get some bleed. So we're going to give it a quick sand. All right. Somebody got a little crazy with the glue. Like I said, it gets puffy. So it puffed out the sides here, but it's pretty easy to get out. You just chip it off. We got this little tiny spatula, seven, and now we're going to paint our bunny. We're going to paint them all white. All right. Well, since our guy is 3D, you see, he's 3D, we've got to glue his eyes and mouth onto his face. Do you want to show him the pieces that are painted? So here's his little mouth. Here's his eyes. That's cute little ears, some paws, feet and paws, some more paws, four of them, that has, you know, you know, all right, we're going to grill the glue down, but we're going to use a little hot glue to hold them in place for now. So we can keep moving here. All right. There we go. Do his eyes look straight? Does he look a little tipsy? Does he look like you had some of that Easter cheer, little leftover, uh, lippercorn juice? All right. Lippercorn juice. Now we're going to add some wax. He looks a little like a flap. So we're going to add a little bit of this dark wax, dark wax, given some dimension. Kim, do you want to say dimension? Yeah. Last video I noticed I said dimension like seven times. We almost made it again. I'm just going to use a rag, rub it around a little bit where I think there should be shadows. A lot of dimension. He's so cute. Stencil on the two boards. We're going to weed it, put the transfer tape on there, a quick coat of Mod Podge to seal the stencil. So we debated on whether to change the color of every letter or just leave them white, but I think it'd be happier if you change it for every color. I feel like you used the bait really loosely. You want to go against the grain. If you go with the grain, it'll peel the wood up. Get the splinters. Yes, splinters. Yeah. All right. There's what we got. Don't, don't look at the P. How'd you make the P yellow? I just noticed that. Do it. That's pretty good. That's pretty good, Kip. So ribbon and rabbit. It's ribbon and rabbit time. That's right. So I've got to put the ribbon on first because the hands are going to kind of hug around the ribbon. I'm going to use this green checkerboard ribbon. Overhead cam on is loop it around from the back and then tie it with a little jute in the corner. Couple of those little dots. A little inch and a quarter brad. The nail, not the guy. Should I just go in? Yeah. You can't see him. He's too tall. That one ear really takes it to the limit. Yeah. What do you think about the colors on this for spring? Sorry. What do you think of the colors? Should I have done them in white or should I have kept them in the colors? I think the white would pop from the street. But I think the colors are playful. I like them. Okay. 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