 We just turned this regular piece of MDF into a BAM! This antique vintage rusty sign using a little bit of Mod Podge, some sawdust and paint and we'll show you how we did it right now. What is up? Welcome back! Do you like to do a builder to make it? Great! That's what we do on this channel every week. This week it's Technique Tuesday. Except on a Friday. But you can watch it on a Tuesday. Kim saw this sign on Pinterest. It was metal and rusty and it looked repurposed and I'm not a metal worker so I said I can redo that out of some MDF, Mod Podge and sawdust. So that's what we're doing today. We're gonna do some fake rust sign upcycle thing. Step one, we're gonna gather all of our stuff. This was an easy shopping list again. I say it all the time. We just needed a two foot by two foot MDF board. I think it's quarter inch thick. Some paint, some Mod Podge and our secret sauce. The sawdust. Step two, now we're gonna lay down a base coat on our MDF. We're using this cascade. It's teal. It's teal. And that's so as we distress it, it's just peeking through from the bottom. So we're just starting with the foundation of this teal color. Who paints this way? And it's done! Step three, now we're gonna add our texture. We're gonna use some Mod Podge and some sawdust and we're gonna make a big, a galopy mess and spread it on the board. Maybe. I'll put you one right there. It's like a lot of sawdust. Yeah. Yeah, that looks like a good feeling. Maybe you think the consistency is like baby food? Some sugar, egg mixture, but you don't want to do that. Yeah, it's just like baby food. I got it all mixed up. It's like paste, baby food, like thick applesauce. Soupy ice cream. Soupy ice cream. Yeah. Now we're just gonna dab it all over the board like in a random pattern so that it doesn't look like we dabbed it all over the board. The corners, the corners will be rusty. Looking good, huh? I can't even tell you that. It's already looking rusty. If you don't have sawdust, you can always use sand, dirt, some kind of powder. Just to give it a little texture. You're just trying to give it some texture. Something to give that paint something to grab onto. Step four. Now we're gonna make it look all rusty. We're gonna use some dark brown acrylic paint, some orange acrylic paint, some silver, a little bit of copper, and some yellow and just layer them. We're gonna start with a dark brown and just layer it in there. Stip it in with the brush. You can use the junkiest brushes you have. This is the brush leftover from the sawdust and stuff. Now the base. That looks good already. So you're just going over the sandy areas. Alright, without letting it dry and without changing my brush, I'm just gonna move on to orange and kind of do the same thing. Try to keep it a little dry, a little speckly. Same brush, still not dry. Coming in with a little bit of this copper. Just the little little smooches of copper. I think that's where the copper works. You can't do it. You just have to dab it and you can't stuff it. Wash it. We're gonna whitewash all over the teal. Everywhere where there's teal we're gonna use this wood tint whitewash stuff. What's this gonna say about excess wood with a clean cloth with a designer repeat of one second coat. Wait 30 seconds to absorb. Yeah, I think you're supposed to then wipe it off. Yeah, that's okay. I think that'll look fine. We'll at least start with that. So that whitewash tint really wasn't what I was going for. It stayed soupy for a long time. I had to wipe it off. I like what it looks like on the rust. But now I'm gonna come back in with some chalk paint over all the teal and cover it up. You should like flick it in there. Like, whisper it into the rust. Yeah, I'm gonna get a paint down. Hurry up, into the sides. Just about dry. Now we're gonna hit it with some high heat and some spots to try to crack and bubble the paint a little bit. Mainly around where the rust is. So we do this a lot when we're trying to get the paint to dry quickly. But you don't want to put the heat in one spot for too long because it crackles and bubbles the paint. But that's kind of what we're doing here is allowing it to crackle and bubble to give it that textured finish like the rust is eating away the paint. I'm gonna add some more paint to chip it. See what chip it's doing. Step, I'm gonna add the stencil. We're gonna make it a sign now. We got a big old stencil. It is a 24. Well, this design ends up being like 24 by 23 or something. Next step, we're gonna add a coat of Mod Podge over top of the stencil. So if you've watched us at any time before, you'll know that our number one tip for stenciling is put this coat of Mod Podge to keep it from bleeding. Now this one, because there's so much texture on this board, I'm a little nervous about the bleeding. But that's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna add the Mod Podge to see if I can get it to help and help prevent bleeding. Add that seal around the edges of the stencil. Alright Mod Podge is dry. Now we're gonna come in with some more ink paint. I guess it's chalk paint, but it's ink color. Yeah, ink color. We're just gonna dab it on. Dab it. Dab it, dab it. Gonna use these little square dabbers this time. I'm all out of sponge brushes. I'm out of so many things. That's thick. Looks good. What you guys think? Looks pretty authentic, right? Real metal sign. It does. It looks really good. It does. What you guys think? Does it look real? Do you guys like this technique? Do you have any other techniques to make things look rusted and worn? Well, what do you think of the stencil? I was thinking about offering the stencil in our store and maybe letting you customize the initials and the established date. What do you think of that? You think I should somebody interested in that? Let us know in a comment down below. 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