 We just tried a new paint technique to make these two spring front porch signs and we'll show you how we did it right now. What is up? Welcome back. Do you like to do a builder make it? We do to them. We have a new video each week. This week spring is in the air so we're taking it back outside to do some things front porch spring signs as a popular comment definitely by popular demand and actually spring is not in the air yet it is still icy and snowy out there it was hopeful and wishing yeah but we're getting ready and and that's our most requested project right now is a spring welcome sign so as we began to talk about the spring welcome sign Garrett was like you know it be a lot easier if you could just put some ideas down because I was drawing it and drawing it I cannot draw he's like she's like do you know what this is a dragon I don't know it was a duck it was a duck I cannot I cannot draw I am crafty not artistic dragon duck return of the dragon duck so he was like it would be a lot easier if you could just throw some images you know tag team it yeah put some images you know a word document or a PowerPoint or something and she was flabbergasted that I insulted her I was offended yeah I was offended because rudimentary tools I'm pretty technically savvy and I was like I can use the graphics design tools I just haven't used them that much so you're gonna have to show me and I was like why don't you get your laptop I'll get mine we'll we'll do this together we'll design this together do we'll design it yeah so we did we had our laptop side by side and I was working on the spring sign because I had some ideas in my head we are doing the spring sign this week and as I go to design it design it I was like oh how I bring this image in to Illustrator and make it my own SVG and then he said don't you watch our videos I said it more like don't you watch our videos did not say it like that and so I was like yeah you you did you showed us how to do it let me try so I made him watch me watch the video and import the image and I would go to say something should they let me see let me see in the video yeah let me see if the video tells so long story short I was actually able to do it I followed the instructions I hit pause I hit rewind just like you guys would do and I was able to bring in the image to do exactly what I wanted to do so it wasn't a laptop no video version that was a laptop he couldn't help that's right so I did design this actually and he designed our summer version and now we're ready for our spring welcome sign for this week's video and we're gonna do two versions of the spring welcome sign we're gonna do one with a glow forge with the 3d letters because we really like those I like 3d-ness pops and then of course we have to do a cricket version because we have the SVG so I want to show you how you can easily take and make it two different ways we'll make one with a stencil and one with a little forge and BF step one we're gonna gather all of our supplies I'm gonna be Garrett here we really just needed he says that for every single project list we just needed 22 by 4s or 72 anchor wall anchors whatever it is we just needed a few things just need a couple of things so for this project for my project I just needed a 1 by 12 by 6 I'm gonna do mine without the fence pickets this is definitely a more expensive way to go but I can just purchase this board and I don't really have to trim it down or if I did want it a little bit shorter I could have the hardware store cut it down for me looks good flip it yeah I'm gonna need some of our country chic paint paints we're gonna do these in the spring colors here when I go to paint I'll tell you what colors they are but before I forget if you're interested in purchasing country chic paints you can purchase them at country chic paint calm with our code make 10 because I forget to say it every single time every time and I'm gonna use some vinyl this happens to be something this vinyl is added on eBay yeah something Garrett found on eBay at a bulk buy so we use it to make stencils and things like that like $4 well and it's the weirdest skin color it's just like the weirdest color yes beige oh yeah I am that's okay really that's all I needed I just needed two six-foot fence pickets dog-eared dog year now you want to get the smooth ones not the rough ones at our home improvement store we had two versions we had some rough ones that were really cheap and then we had some that were still cheap but they're smooth and you don't have to sand them yeah and then I needed a three-foot tall picket it's skinny I'm gonna use it as the braces it's also smooth some MDF some quarter inch MDF and I'm gonna steal some of her paints and that is it nails and glue oh yeah nails glue you know hold it together step two now we're gonna make all of our cuts well some of our cuts two of our cuts just cutting across brace I'm gonna make all my cuts with my pocket saw maybe we should measure the boards first just check just double check they're gonna be 11 inches these boards are five and a half inches wide two of them is 11 inches let's see how right I am oh 11 and a quarter in a quarter boy now we stain we're using these little stain pads yeah and we're only gonna use one of them I think so we don't waste them whoa it went in deep I didn't know I've really done that thing I actually made the dunk noise dunk now I know why they call it don't try not to get this on us so we're gonna stain these boards even though we're gonna put a white finish over them I'm gonna try a new paint technique I'm gonna show you guys we'll see if it works we'll try it together but if you stain it first I can really show the dark stain through otherwise when I distress the white paint it's going to look like just a raw wood underneath so I really want that dark wood to give it that good distress look multi-layer give it dimensions yeah let's give it some dimension but look how fast this stain pad works you see how quickly I can get through this thing it is just fantastic trying the same technique on both sides yeah first tee actual first tee okay I'm gonna try something new and different I happen to see online somewhere so I'm gonna use the back of my board and give it a go it's a new way to do distressing and antiquing at least I think so using this putty knife yeah so we're just gonna use our Country Chic paints here in vanilla frosting and I'm not really gonna paint the whole thing I really just want to add like marks of paint why don't you do the let's just see if it's gonna work okay test yeah let's so then I'm gonna paint it yeah and then we're just gonna drag it yeah cool did you get your other camera because I want you guys to really see I mean I love the way I'm not sure if it's gonna have enough white you know to give it enough of a contrast frosting oh it is been like vanilla frosting and then with those pastel paint colors yeah it should give it a little contrast a little pop I feel like it's saving a lot of paint right because we put a paint of this whole board and then distressed it down to this look spring and a sun second set same as the first it's like screen printing oh well let's do the sides first yeah we learned that note do the sides first keep it at a 45 moderate pressure one big stroke seems trying to put everything he had into it yeah we're gonna give these a few minutes to dry step our designs looks it's the same design same SVG yes I'm gonna cut mine using the cricket and I'm gonna cut mine using the glue forge and we have a video to show you how to use the cricket and create your own stencil brush sponge things it's got them all his fingers he's so goofy so we've had some differing opinions on paint colors yeah Garrett Garrett's I'm gonna let him use his paint colors that he's chosen and his idea of spring paint colors is different than my idea of spring paint colors so my sense will be using something that actually looks like spring and his will be using something that he interprets his spring mine's early spring just coming out of hibernation okay just like later spring heading into summer mine's really spring mine's like March I forgot so wait a minute was that other one each hand let's just say one of his colors is this burgundy this maroon that's not even maroon it's called cheers cheers yeah yeah like cheers spring yeah yep yeah my mbf pieces are cut out I'm gonna use these little sponges to paint we have our letters all painted we did we're gonna let you look and we changed the P up so it was cheers which is this dark purple but we changed it to mermaids tail which is this lighter purple which I think is a little better for spring I like the dark really spring he did he did six more weeks of winter but I think this just brightens it up maybe a little bit so I'm gonna run through the colors in case you're interested this is the pink is cherry blossom the purple is mermaids tail the green is a rustic charm the yellow is luminous this light blue is called icicle and this pinkish what is this pinkish peachish color is called full bloom and full bloom I guess you had to use that one yeah I did that's why we did our little butterflies in the icicle and the grass is also in rustic charm rustic charming grass all right let's set the other side to dry yes let's do it yeah we're your fingers they won't even know what's going on if you don't have all your fingers on me step six this is too big that's too big for my pinky don't with your hands around anyway we're gonna add our stencil to our board we're using the flat board with the stencil now this board typically our fence pickets when we have our little cross braces yes cross braces thank you at the top and the bottom are 58 inches in between this is a full six-foot board so it's a full 72 but I think it's going to work we did a little dry fit here full 72 all right we're just gonna add our stencil and add our paint right this is where it's going this is yeah where it's going I guess because we're adding the sun it has to go up at the top and this one's gonna be two layers so I'm gonna add the sun and then come back and add happy okay so we're gonna add some Mod Podge a coat of this matte Mod Podge over our stencil to give it a good seal so you have those nice crisp edges when you paint your stencil think that we're very lucky that we decided to go with a distressed look yeah because it did pull a lot of the paint off stick with your aura mask your stencil vinyl it was don't do what we did grab bin and it was a lot more sticky than I thought it was I think it was permanent vinyl yeah yeah something like that so I think there's a little more space than I think I wanted it looks fine I'm not displeased but for the other one I'll definitely put the cross braces and put the stencil the letters in between yeah yeah let's do it step seven and now we assemble up my pickets we're just gonna use that 11 inch cross brace at the top three inches from the bottom three and a half right three and a half inches from the bottom and three and a half inches from the top I'm just gonna hit it with a one and a quarter inch bread the nail not the guy with this clear gorilla glue it's contact cement so we have two minutes to wait right I think so too so we'll make the SVG and this MDF kit available in our store but I definitely think mine pops a little more than Kim does yeah he really does have the contrasting colors so what do I know this is the because we use such a distressed background I think this looks nice just doesn't have yeah just really pop pop it's got that oh that's nice very easter risk I like it it's about that time so we have to head out and if you're not gonna join us for the patron after show we will see you next week where we'll do it better to make it again