 We just made this reversible spring Easter front porch welcome sign Using our Cricut and our Glowforge and you could tell us who did it better right now What is up a welcome back do you like to do a builder make it so do we and we have a new video each week this week Spring is in the air. So you know what that means. It's front porch welcome sign battle Yeah, yes, it's kind of a versus challenge. Well, what you want to do is we're gonna make two spring vertical signs I'm gonna make mine with the Cricut for my OG's and I'm gonna make mine with the Glowforge For all my Glowforge peeps. So at the end of this you can vote and tell us which side you like better The Glowforge side and Garrett's design because he designed his and then the Cricut side and my design I designed mine Step one know we're gonna gather all of our supplies really just needed a two six foot fence pickets They're five and a half inches wide. These are the premium fixed fence pickets So they have a nice smooth finish and they're dog-eared. No sanding needed. We need a smaller picket That's about three and a half inches wide It's gonna be our cross braces that we needed some glue and some one and a quarter inch brad nails and of course We're gonna use our country chic paints and I'm not sure if you can see it from there But I basically have every spring color in the rainbow here quite an array And we'll have to decide which ones of these will use and we'll share it with you the colors And then for my side, I will be stenciling mine So I'm gonna use the Cricut maker 3 and our smart vinyl in the super long Yes in the removable vinyl so that we can do one full 58 inch stencil So I'm excited to see how that goes on and for mine. I'm gonna use some quarter inch MDF man is it That's it. That's it so easy Step two we're gonna make all of our cuts. It's really just two cuts We're gonna cut this small picket down to 11 and a quarter inches two of them I think we should make all of these cuts with my buddy pocket saw Now if you don't have a pocket saw or you're intimidated by the saw you can easily make these cuts with a miter box and A handsaw and if you don't even have the miter box, you can make these cuts right there in Home Depot I know Home Depot has it. I think those does to raise those those two in the trim section in the trim section They have a miter box over there Just measure it down to 11 and go ahead and make your cuts right there before you leave the store That's really the only cuts you need to make for a vertical sign Give it's using a pencil that has no That is not sharp and has a broken tip, but he's Dragging it across there trying to make a mark push hard enough you get a mark These match your hair. Oh, yeah, he totally matched my safety first Kim whoa Three yeah now we're gonna assemble the pickets we have these two 11 and a quarter inch pieces now We're gonna space them from the bottom This wide and from the top this wide I'm gonna use this as my little guide to my little spacer They were just gonna hit it with a little bit of this gorilla glue Bloop bloop and then nail it with a one and a quarter inch brad The nail not the guy and if you don't have a brad nailer You don't necessarily need to use a brad nailer with this gorilla glue It will hold these pickets on and hold them together You'll just need to glue it and clamp it and then let it set for a bit But don't get crazy with the glue because original gorilla glue does foam up and spread out Looking good now if your pickets are a little bit warped sometimes these aren't sometimes these aren't these are pretty good This one's a little bit higher. You can always put another brace in the back third piece Yep, right in the back just to keep these things square, but I think we're good for this time I think we're good. I don't think they're too bad Sometimes they get really warped and you have to have it Step four We're gonna paint the pickets. We're just gonna use some of this Country chic stuff my one coat wonder you could do it right on the picket Oh, I guess I could have done it right on the picket for this because you're just trying to coat the picket You can paint right on there He usually it's not me, but usually he'll just pour it right on the picket Yeah, I would do the same with with what we're doing today. We're using simplicity We have a big jar of this it goes really far though. You saw how much he put on the plate probably Quarter of a cup. Yeah, like a palm full Now since these are two spring signs one's Easter one spring. We're gonna keep the whole thing white We're gonna paint the front and back in this white Step four, we're gonna cut out our designs. I'm gonna take this quarter-inch MDF over to Goldforge I'm gonna use the thick draft board settings to cut out my design and then like I said I'm gonna use this removable vinyl the smart vinyl so that I can make one long 58 inch stencil with vine And I'll do that on our Cricut Maker 3 Now we're gonna paint our design well Kim's gonna lay her design down on the board and we'll paint it and then I'm gonna paint All my little pieces. I got a bunch of little pieces and parts a lot of pieces and parts So because I'm using the stencil We're gonna put the stencil on the front and then he'll put the glow forge pieces on the back because he'll have the room Space them out. Yeah, let's spread them out because the stencil will have to stay between the braces on the back There are no braces so he can use the whole link to the board You don't want to pull up on this You want to pull back like we're doing right here because if you pull up you'll stretch the vinyl and if you stretch the vinyl It won't make a good seal for a stencil and Then some of these places where it actually crosses the two pickets ours isn't completely flat So we're gonna go ahead and cut the vinyl there. So I will get a nice seal on either side We're just gonna add a little matte Mod Podge create a little barrier around the Like the stencil outer edge so the paint won't leak under no bleed no bleed No bleed just a thin coat just creating a little barrier Mod Podge is down Next we can start painting the letters are all the same color. Yes. I'm gonna do them all in whipped edu whoop-de-doo and then hello, it's going to be in rustic charm In this green make sense. All right. So you want to start down there? Yeah, I'll do the letters. I'll start up here We're gonna use our little makeup sponges and we're just gonna dab this paint on You don't want to swipe because it'll get up under the stencil. So Dabbing seems to be the best technique Now I'm gonna use vintage cupcake to paint my flowers for my little bird at the top here I want to make him purple But opulence which is a beautiful color It's just a little too dark for the spring sign and then mermaids tail Which is a light purple is a little too light for this spring sign I just feel like it's gonna lose its color So I mixed a little mermaid's tail and a little opulence together and I've got a like a medium color purple for our little Bees we're gonna add the stripes using these sharpie paint markers Just gonna add it right on the edges of the stencil You might have to help me make sure this looks right Time for the reveal Pull against the green to try to pull up as little paint as possible 6b Oh, I'm gonna paint all of my little pieces. I got a bunch of little pieces. My letters are ready I'm still cutting out my my Easter eggs, but I have all my little pieces So we're gonna start painting well, I'm still cutting You're feeling it. Yeah, get a bit 7 now we're gonna glue it down. I have all my little pieces and parts painted See them all look at my eggs looking tight now. We're gonna lay it out and glue it down We're just gonna use this star bond thick thick stuff sets in seconds Step 8 and now we have the accents My side is looking so hot. I don't need any accents but my side needs this cute spring ribbon and Since I'm not gonna wrap it all the way around because his sign goes all the way to the top I'm just gonna add it right here and we're gonna staple it Plan B hot glue gun It's brand new staple gun. I don't know how to use it up my side Look at this poppin Kimside or my side very colorful, but yes No, well, I mean it is stenciled, but look how cute it is and look at this little bird singing That's a cute little bird and little bow on top that that's cute sign that is a cute sign, but I just feel like mine is like Just elegance. This is Easter elegance Eglance, that doesn't work. Eglance. Eglance All right, we are about out of time So if you're not gonna join us for the patron after show, we will see you and next week We'll do it build it and make it again. I Don't know it's tall enough. I'm gonna have to squat and get low get low This is harder on the thighs than it is on How those thighs feel in who had a shape that's how they're feeling