 Welcome to Christmas in July we just made this Santa stops here personalized signposts for your front porch Using two pickets some MDF in our glow forge. I will show you how we did it right now What is up a welcome back do you like to do a builder to make it so do we and we have a new video each week this week? Christmas is in the air. Not really. It's 95 degrees and it's the middle of July Christmas is right around the corner It is right around the corner if you're a crafter or if you make products to sell This is about that time where you start thinking about your fall and Christmas at lineup inventory things that you're going to be making So we're going to kick off our Christmas in July projects this week and get frosty. So what are we making this week this week? We're making a Santa stop here personalized front porch signposts. Oh, that was a mouthful Yes, so we have made signposts before but we've used these four by fours this week with the price of wood the way It is we found what we think is a relatively affordable way to make a signpost We didn't need to take our person alone for these. No, we didn't I'm telling you four by four Yeah, yeah, it would be pretty expensive So we're going to be using these 48 inch dog-eared fence pickets two of them And I think we're gonna make a cute little post with that Kind of cheap. We'll be able to be able to bring back our friends' pockets on brad since we furloughed them They'll be glad to get back to work And we're also making a second project this week if you could join us on Sunday We're doing our make it live on Sunday where we're making our gingerbread houses door around So this was the tiny birdhouse bird houses door around that we made a couple of weeks ago Garrett turned them into gingerbread houses through some snow through some candy on there Delicious so we'll be making this live on Sunday at 6 p.m. If you guys want to join us pop in say hello Yeah pop in ask what's up? How's it going? We'll let you know And the files for this week's kit will be in our store kngmakeit.com We will have the digital file. So if you wanted to do some sort of layered Vinyl version you could do that with a cricket or those of you with your glow forge You can make this yourself. We are doing this as a personalized sign kit or post Actually, we're doing two. We're doing one of these is a post topper And then we're also going to offer a door round for the front door Personalization comes down below in our signpost But for those of you that have a glow forge you can do offer a personalization option Which we're excited to do because we have not done that very often I think we've done it one other time So we're looking forward to doing that this week and and offering that in our store You're so special you're lucky We are also doing another adobe illustrator tip I'm going to show you how to make a font cuttable in under 30 seconds Yeah, we've had a lot of great feedback from my adobe illustrator tips and tricks So Garrett's going to add one more in this week and I'm excited to show you guys that This one will help out with that personalization So go get your kits or whatever you need so you can follow along download the file And let's get started Step one we're going to gather all of our supplies Super short shopping list. We just needed two pickets like you said Then I needed some quarter inch mdf Quarter inch mdf a little bit of glue Some brad nails Some paint And then I think that's it. Yeah That is it Step two, we're going to make all of our cuts One of our pickets is the post so we're not going to mess with them The other picket is going to be the feet and we're going to make two cuts at 10 inches and two cuts at 12 inches and um It's really good to see that he's back We're going to make all these cuts with pocket saw he's back It's feeling rested. He's ready to go He's don't have to be perfect Look at that Played the lottery in one got a sharpened pencil That doesn't happen very often All right, we'll go 12 inches 24 inches 34 inches And 44 inches Almost perfect almost All right safety first camera safety first Now we're going to take the quarter inch mdf over to the glow forge and we're going to cut out our design The design is 16 inches so I have to use the pass-through slap On the way there we're going to stop at adobe illustrator and I'll show you how to make those fonts cuttable real fast Here we are in adobe illustrator. This is the file that kim mocked up I'm just going to prep it to make it a cut file first thing I'm going to do is select all of the fonts all of the text I'm going to hold shift and select each of the words Then I'm going to go up to type Create outlines you can also use shift control Oh There second thing I'm going to do. I'm going to go to window Pathfinder then we're going to unite them all bam done. They're ready. Oops did I miss these? Oh, these are all separate All right type Create outlines Unite done Some of these have a stroke around them Right. So we're going to do Oh, these are grouped ungroup Select select Select Uh-oh, I wasn't expecting this. Are we still going to make 30 seconds? Okay, we're going to go to object path outline stroke Back to the pathfinder and unite bam There everything's ready to be cut. I'm just going to finish prepping this. I'll meet you guys back at the table step three Now we paint we're going to paint all of our little feet pieces and our post White, right? Yes, we're going to use our country chic paint in cringelin And then I'm going to paint my backer in white. I'm going to use simplicity It's just a little bit brighter white But I have a smaller container of this so I'm going to do the backer in this And since we have a large container of the cringelin, he's going to do the post in that Two-tone white didn't even know and then the other colors I'll be using for santa stop here I'm going to alternate red and green. I'll be using devotion for the red and then rustic charm for our green Rustic Rustic charm Now we're going to assemble it. We're going to glue down the backers and then hit them with a three-quarter inch brad The nail and not the guy We're just going to glue them in place Do you want to throw the glue on the? I guess we'll put it on the on the post. Yeah, where's it going to sit? It's going to sit I'm going to I'm envisioning like halfway Three quarters like right there. Yeah, okay. Good call. Good call So we're gonna put these down Hit them with the brads and then glue the letters on so we'll hide the So we'll be able to hide the what you called The brads so we'll be able to hide That's so smooth. Yeah. Yeah You know I am I found the littlest The tiniest sleeve of three-quarter inch eight nails there brads that I could Not the guy So now we're going to go ahead and glue our frames onto our little Name plates. I guess we're just gluing everything down, right? Yes Glue it all down and we'll glue our letters down and we're going to use this star bond medium With this crazy little tip on it. What's this tip? Yeah, so I was going to share that so Thank you for the segue In the it's a tiny little Like precision tip and I know you probably can't even see it but these come in Uh, the package when you get the glue and I hadn't used them until now But they've done a great job making sure I put just enough glue Like a lot of times when you're gluing down tiny pieces, especially like this gingerbread house thing Uh, you want this little precision tip to give you just that right amount of glue so it doesn't ooze out the sides and Dry is shiny. So you will see it. So you're trying to keep it really hidden behind the letters Oh, the other thing about this kit is we did score the The base so that you can know exactly where to put your letters Yeah, super easy. Yeah, so you have a guide to put your letters I mean instantly So personal personalization comes in right here. So we just need the make it family, but you're part of the make it family And this is our post. Look how cute that is. Oh my gosh. Oh, now let's stand it up. Yeah All right, we're gonna Stand this jam up All right, is this still part of assembly? Yeah, still part of assembly Now we're gonna put the feet on it We have the 12 inches We'll go with this side So it looks the coolest, right? What do you think? Yeah. All right. One 12-incher goes that way Other 12-incher goes on the back side That side looks better We're gonna glue it. We'll glue We'll glue We'll glue this side We're gonna swap out these tiny little screws Tiny little nails I always call it screws Tiny little brads and we'll go for a bigger brad. This is an inch and a quarter brad The nail not the guy Line it up with the edge right over there. Do you want me to lay it down? Nope Coming in. Are you sure that's good idea? I am positive All right Pretty good. Yeah, we'll stand. Look it stands Let's make it a little more sturdy though. Yeah when gusts wind in it will not be standing So we're gonna use the sides of these two To kind of catch that leg and do the same in the back All right, let's add some glue Great thing about these pickets are they're already pressure treated So that helps a lot. You'll still want to spray this whole thing with poly acrylic or paint it with poly acrylic Because it is done with chalk paint You know that chalk paint loves moisture just soaks it right up Like a sponge Can you guys even see the top? No Sure can't And bring it on down Now we know There's a good possibility Santa will stop here You can all you can see most of it. I think well you can see up to stop There you go. Yeah, perfect That's brought to my attention that we could have totally used unicorn spit For the post How poppin would have that been Would have that have been would have that have been what did I say? It doesn't matter. Um, I was frustrated Yes, he is. That was like, are you kidding me? You can mention this now Well, I was telling him there was a user comment that said you guys have any inspiration For unicorn spit or any projects coming up with unicorn spit. I want some inspiration And he was like, are you kidding me? I gotta know their picket I think I'm gonna I think I'm gonna do it again With the unicorn spit I'm doing it again. All right. What'd you guys think two pickets some mdf? Not not bad at all. Uh painting was pretty super quick. Uh, which I really enjoy I think the post took me longer than it took him to paint all the stuff Yeah, it was really quick. Yeah, I had to wait for my paint to try Yes, we did have to wait for his paint to dry And just a little reminder. We do a monthly make it live youtube video or youtube What show what do you call it a live just a live event live event On so this month is this sunday. So this month smackdown We're gonna finish up our christmas in july and make our door round. Yeah, that's right I can't wait to talk to all you guys. We'll uh, yeah, it's very chit chat We really like we really want to make it family All right, I think we're bad at a time cam. So If you're not joining us for the patron after show, we will see you next week. We'll do it build it make it again You're gonna balance the whole thing. Yeah Oh, wow, look at you. Wow Okay, okay