 We just made these two easy farmhouse signs in under an hour using our Cricut and we'll show you how we did it right now. What is up? Welcome back! Dealing to the Duel Builder to make it so do we and we have a new video each week. This week we're going back to the basics with the Cricut. My mom called me this week and said Gary I got one of those Cricut machines you gotta make a video. So that's what we're doing this week. Making a basic Cricut video. Just so you know his mom does not sound like that at all and when she sees this video she's going to kill him. That's what it sounds like in my head so that's what we're going with. Well because this is that time of year it's the beginning of the year we know a lot of you have gotten some new toys we have some new crafters out there so we thought we'd start with a new crafting video for Garrett's mom yes and for those of you that are new to Cricut as well this is the how to make a farmhouse sign with your Cricut. We're going to show you how to make a basic stencil. We're going to take a quick field trip and get some supplies and use a what pre-engineered basic farmhouse frame pre-made and then we will add our stencil to it show you some quick stenciling tips and you'll be a pro in no time. Yeah you'll have some great accents for your home in no time. Step one we're going to gather all of our supplies of course we needed a Cricut and we have some country sheet paints because we're going to do some painting but we have to take field trip to get everything else. So it's off to our local craft supply company. Field trip. All right here's my advice for any new crafter if you've got if you've gotten yourself a Cricut for Christmas number one gift or an accessory to go with it it's this tool set you cannot live without this tool set these little scissors super sharp super great. And a long mat. And yeah there you go so I was going to say on a 24 inch mat gather have a 24 inch mat because you're making t-shirts and you're making farmhouse signs. There's a ton of different kinds of vinyls. Today we're going to be making a stencil and I'm going to use this stencil vinyl here and you can use a Cricut brand or your generic brand at your store. Teaser or Hobby Lobby paper studio they all work. Now we need the sign back. Your local craft store will have lots of different options. This is a palette sign this was a frame sign and I think for this project I would like to use this one it looks like a cabinet door. Yeah it looks like a cabinet. Step two we're going to make all of our cuts. It's really just cutting out our design using this stencil vinyl. So before we do that we need to measure our work surface here so grab our little tape measure here so I know how big to make our stencil so for this one we're doing 19 and a half by seven and three quarters and for this one 17 and a half ten and a half. Alright so now we know what size to make our designs let's head over to dot design space and we'll show you how to create our stencils. Okay now that we have the size of our farmhouse sign we'll move over here to Cricut Design Space. This is the welcome screen you can see here here all of my previous projects. We're going to go up here and select new project and this brings us to a blank canvas and from here we're going to add a text box and write the word home and then I'm going to change my font and we're going to use the Harlington font and select that. Here I'm going to go ahead and resize this so my word home is going to fit on my my board size is seven and three quarters by 19 and a half so I'm going to go ahead and make the height seven and a half and if this is too hard to work with you can always hit this size over here bringing this down to 75 percent. Now you see when I create this word because this is a cursive font sometimes the letters don't come in attached so what you want to do is you can start with decreasing the letter spacing and when I do that right here you can see that the O now connects to the H but the M and E aren't connected if I keep decreasing it they will eventually connect but now the H overlaps the O so what do we do about that you're going to go ahead and bring that O back where we want it to be that looks good I'm going to click under advanced here we're going to say ungroup to letters and now each letter is independent of the word so I can slide I click the left mouse button hold it and slide the M over with the left mouse button hold it slide E over and now they look like they're attached but they're actually four individual letters so if you click make it you'll see here it's going to try and cut four individual letters so here we're going to select the whole word select all and down here we're going to choose weld by welding this word together now it becomes one item and it will cut as one item now when I select select make it you can see here that it automatically keeps it together as one word it has auto-sized it onto the mat and now it has changed our mat size to a 24 inch mat and that's because if I go back over here we select our word we're at 12.25 essentially inches long so that's too wide for a standard 12 by 12 mat the standard cutting area of a 12 by 12 mat is 11 and a half inches so this is automatically going to rotate it to fit on a 12 by 24 mat so that looks good we're also going to add some additional text here it's good to be there we go so that text box I'm gonna fit that work with that over here that's also in the Carlington font but we're going to change that font to the typewriter font typewriter standard click on it there we go and here we can move that to right here let's see how this looks select all that looks pretty good that puts our link that 15.148 inches which is shorter than the 19 and a half we had to work with and our height is still seven and a half inches I think we can go with that now I'm going to go ahead and weld all of this together so it cuts just as we're seeing it if I hit make it now we're welded together as one image it's good to be home it's telling me up here that because it's longer than 11 and a half inches it's auto-selected a larger mat for us the 24-inch mat so we could just say okay it continue it's looking for my cricket right here I'm going to go ahead it's telling me to load my fine point blade it'll auto detect which blade you need for the materials that are fine point blade is the blade that comes with the cricket so don't have to make a change there I'm going to load my mat and hit the flashing go breath step is to weed our stencil we're just going to use our little picker tool here and pull up the vinyl that we want to put paint on so the section of the stencil that we where we want to add paint here I'm filling up the word home here you want to hold down those pieces you want to stay a little extra support is to add transfer tape we do a lot of stencils so we buy our transfer tape and bulk it is just a clear plastic tape that's going to go over to help you transfer so I'm going to measure mine out and from here we're going to peel off the paper backing and I can add the transfer tape right over my stencil in this case I'm just going to add the stencil right on top of the transfer tape and I'm going to go ahead and cut this down it's too too wide to work with ready to be transferred step three now we paint but I don't have to paint I was smart I got a pre-painted board craft store yes and if you recall I decided at the last minute I don't even know if I was on camera when I chose the last second to to get this one this one looks like a cabinet door and I think it's really cool look out let me make sure I've got the right way and I think I'm going to be adventurous with our paint scheme for this one yeah well normally I mean I love this white wash look with the wood frame and we do that a lot so this time I'm going to mix it up and I'm going to paint my board in this and I haven't used this color yet this beautiful navy blue it's called Peacote Peacote that's funny maybe blue Peacote I get it I get it that's funny so oh looks like I have opened it but I know I've never used it I think I've used it I was adventurous one day so I'm going to go ahead and paint my board he's ready to go ahead and take a break yeah that's the great thing about if you're a newbie you don't have to go in and make something from a complete scratch which you've got lots of videos to show you how to do that you can start with a beginner sign just like this it makes it super simple for my first farmhouse I'm this is like a beginner class here this is not an advanced level tutorial now anybody can do my version definitely anybody can do this version it's half di by yeah whoa whoa I need to be more aggressive what you're paying well now I've got to flip it over and do the back but I'm gonna have to do that once this dries I'm intended there's a quick tip for you he can always speeds up this drying process here's the great thing about this country sheet paint one coat well yes yeah so that's what I was basically going to say is you can't get it wrong I mean you should see I hope that we can show you up close it dries super flat looking there's no real brush marks and one coat one coat if you watched any of our previous videos you know that I hate paint that is Garrett's motto can you hold that little tag again and I'm gonna hit it with the heat gun not burn your partner's face off he's very focused on what I was doing desert heat happening now my lips are dried out step four and now we're gonna put the design on the board we're just gonna take our stencil peel the backing off yes but before we do I need to show you how beautiful that blue is can you see it I love this peacocked peacoat peacoat peacoat Roscoe peacoat right all right there are three parts to the stencil there is the clear transfer tape which we added to the top there is the blue vinyl stencil film which we cut and then there's this paper backing now we're gonna peel the paper backing off keep it tight keep it tight yes our number one back number one tip with this is to peel this back at what 180 degrees basically back on top of itself go slow if it peels up your stencil just lay it back down with the paper and keep pulling nice and slow I'm missing my piece of my W piece whoops I need a tool use your little picker tool to put it no no it's not gonna slide back in business yes my number one tip with this is be patient all right line it up and lay down yes so now we have our top transfer tape and we have our vinyl that we've cut sticky side goes down sometimes you have to eyeball this thing I lay it down all the way I'm gonna just check my measurements over here all right I'm laying mom down show me your little tool my little squeegee squeegee it down nice and tight I have another version but same kind of thing now we're just gonna peel up the transfer tape again lay it back against itself like a 180 yes just like you pulled the paper back you're gonna now take the clear transfer tape and you're gonna peel that off again keep it see how we just lay ours flat just keep it nice and taut pull straight back straight back we're going towards each other we're gonna rendezvous in the middle oh sorry I got you I was trying to do a quick swipe up and out of the way lost in me lost in me snazzy I might just leave it like that yeah cool his is sealed down nice and tight but I have this chalky paint so my seal isn't quite as tight as his so now I'm gonna just go back over it very gently with this scraper tool just to make sure I've got a good seal each letter I'm mostly concerned I'm not worried about up here I'm just concerned about adhesion around where we're going to paint next step is to paint our stencil but before we add paint our number one tip what is it Garrett mod podge what do we got here Matt tip we get a lot of complaints we get a lot of questions about how do we get it to a not bleed mod podge super tip Matt sometimes that gloss will stick together so well and when you pull your stencil up the paint will come with it you don't want that but you do want to add that coat of Mod Podge to seal the edges then Matt seems to not pull up the paint after the fact you just want a little little thin layer just creating a little barrier around the edge of the stencil you're just gonna yeah we'll just share that yeah yeah it's dry it's dry mine's a little tacky you can hear it I'm going in with the paint I'm coming in with that pico I like it I like what it looks like there so I'm gonna put it on mine yeah switching it up need help yes please on this we use this paint a lot it's that clay so it kind of makes a pottery around the top all right we're using our country I'm using the country chic paint in crinoline and I am back in with the pico the easiest way to paint makeup sponges give me a little coat of makeup this keeps it on thin so it doesn't bleed under your stencil even though you've got the Mod Podge you still want to do everything you can to make sure it doesn't bleed dab it you can use a foam brush too yeah the foam brush is okay but it seems to hold a lot more you have to push harder to get it out this isn't a hundred percent dry yet I would suggest you don't let it dry a hundred percent so while it's still a little damp it looks pretty dry I'm gonna go ahead and start peeling out my stencil you want to be a little careful because you don't want the stencil to end up on your wood and getting paint on the wood but nice and easy we're gonna use our picker tool to pull the insides of our letters out throw a tip for pulling a stencil if you don't want to come in the inside of the letter you don't want to pull from the edge of the inside of your oh or whatever letter it might be you want to kind of put the poker kind of in the middle and pull up because if you come in from the edge it'll scratch your paint you don't want that you're gonna be so impressed look at these stencils and look at that look at those crisp lines now how easy was that no bleeding love it see those crisp lines so crisp so clean my lips are still dried out from the heat gun look at professional you feeling professional you should you pull this off you'd be looking professional yeah these things look great you can sell these at the farmers market any day if you've watched some of our videos you know we're big farmer farmers market fans I was gonna say if you love in this blue paint as much as we are this beautiful pea coat it's popping pea coat yes we're gonna need like 10 more uses for this color blue I love it I want a piece of furniture in that blue I think oh yeah you did a blue table but I think we do we I don't think it was this blue hmm you can get yourself this pop and pea coat it's really just called pea coat don't look for popping in front of it from country chic paints calm you can use our coupon code make a 10 for 10% off your first order it's about that time we got to go get ourselves some black eyed peas it's New Year's Day it's what we do and we will see you next week where we'll do it build it make it again oh the same time you do yours and you balance yours I'll balance mine I'm gonna switch 2 seconds is about all I had there I can't do it like you can