 We just made this Christmas topiary, and we'll show you how we did it right now. What is up? Welcome back! So this week, Kim gives me these plans. These plans. It says, I need these shapes cut out of wood. The biggest one is 18 inches wide. So I found some wood, and I cut the shapes out. Some plywood I found around the garage, and I painted them white. That's as far as I know right now. That is because I have these cute little planters for the front porch that need some holiday decorations. As I was searching on Pinterest, I saw this cute little idea of these stacked presents, and it was super cute. But I couldn't quite figure out how to make those work, so I combined two ideas into one idea. So this is what we're going to do. Idea combiner! So we're going to take these plywood shapes and make them look like presents. And then we're going to attach three stacked presents on... Can you hand me that little... no the fence post thing. Fence picket thing. When we get done, we're going to put this down into the planter. You following me? I'm following you. And we're going to attach these presents to this fence picket. I gotcha. Now, they're not shaped like... can you take this please? Thanks. They're not shaped like your average presents, because I want them to be whimsical. So this one's going to be curved this way. They're going to be kind of cartoony shaped, so... I got it. All right. Here are my very technical plans. From here, we're just winging it. We're doing this all on film. We're winging it. So for this one, I'm thinking red and white stripes with a green ribbon on the side with white polka dots. Lime green with white thin stripe. White with red dots and a red bow ribbon in the center. It's a lot of painting, right? It's just a lot of painting. Step one, we got to paint these things. All right. So for the ribbons for the insides of these presents, we're going to use some stencils. Or for this one, I am. For that one, I'm not. So I've got a stripe stencil here that I'm going to put on an angle and we'll see how it goes. Ooh, that's a lot of stripe. Yeah. You think I need to use the... Ooh, ooh. Wait, I got an idea. I got an idea. I saw something. Screens. Oh. I got these screens. Got these screens on the internet. There's some screens. On the internet. The interwebs. I got it on the interwebs. So I saw this stuff. Chalk couture. Chalk couture. Couture. Chalk couture. They were like reusable stencils, the vinyl ones. So I was like, hey, I want to try to make my own. So I grabbed some silk screens and I just put it in the paint. So instead of wasting it, we're going to try to make a reusable stripe stencil. Then you're going to have to put transfer tape on it first. Yeah. Then transfer it to here. But how are you going to make this? So I... Yeah. But you have to pull this thing really taut. Okay. Yeah. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. We'll do it. Uh-huh. We got it. Yeah. I think you need something to make it taut. All right. You transfer tape. Yeah. Just do the transfer tape. I will cut this. I feel like someone's been cutting metal with these scissors. Yeah. Well, wait a minute. It's not taut. It will be. Calm down. It's not taut because you keep pulling at it. Inappropriate. Inappropriate. We're going to get hate comments. It was a joke. All right. Now it's taut. Taut. I mean, I'm down. This is where it lives. This is where it lives now. All right. See how it paints. Which one are we doing this one? Yes. All right. Now just laying it across like this. Yep. Because it's not sticky on the back. This was sticky somehow. So we try again and add some adhesive to the back. We try again. Not bad. Not perfect, but we can reuse the stencil. We'll figure out how to make it stick later. And for this one, we're going to use another stencil. We're going to use a polka dot stencil. And we're going to put red and green polka dots on here. Balls. Maybe they're like Christmas balls. So screen stencil again. This time we put some spray adhesive on the back. We'll see how that works. And what do you think? All right. I think it looks pretty good. I have high hopes. Fingers crossed. Let's see if this worked. I kind of stuck to the paper. That's what we got. I tried to use a dry brush. It's okay. It's a... I kind of like the look. All right. We have our presents painted. Next step is to attach them to our fence picket. Which I don't know how we're going to do that. I think we're going to have... Let me put this down here. So I'm just going to set this on the inside. And the big present goes on the bottom. I think it goes that way. I think it goes like that. Her whole face is white. Look at that thing. Yeah. You should get up there close to show them your massive blister. Yeah. That thing goes quick. Hot glue. It's no joke. It's no joke. Those were those gorilla glue sticks. Man. No thanks. You finished without me? Are we done? I think we're done. All right. It looks pretty good. You guys want to see? Don't bend it. It's reaching the ceiling. All right. Our ceilings aren't that tall. So... We'll show you the photo montage. Yeah. We'll get you in the montage. Yet again. Good job. You like to do it yourself. Build it yourself. Make it yourself. So do we. So if you want to see more projects and you're not yet subscribed, go ahead and hit that subscribe button down below. And remember to hit that bell to be notified of our new videos each week. Before you go, check out one of these other videos over here, over on this side. Here's a subscribe button. Other videos to watch. Subscribe button.