all about turning scrap wood into cash i'm going to show you some diy projects that you can do that
are really simple and really easy and you can flip them and put a little bit of money in your pocket
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started i never throw out any little bits of wood almost anything can be turned into
a sign or a little ornament or something that you can turn into cash
i always have a little pile that i can always go to to make lots of projects the first project that
i'm going to show you is made from pallet wood you can always find pallet wood free
i had this it was already painted black so it was going to work out perfect for this project
and i cut them into squares these are going to turn into coasters i took them out i aggressively
sanded them and now we're going to just seal them up with some an engine enamel now that's the trick
the engine enamel is really really durable so you can put a wet hot cold drink on it turns into
beautiful coasters you can tie them up really pretty and they sell really well this one i've
added a little tag that i made they're perfect for craft fairs and they're so easy to make
next project is this scrap piece of wood that had a little bit of a live edge on it i had friends
that were building a home i had them save all kinds of little bits and pieces for me and this
came from that now i wanted to stress it and make it look a little bit older took my hammer really
banged it up took a chain put lots of nicks and chunks in it and now i'm gonna stain it
now i found the stain in the whoop section it was like three dollars make sure you always check that
section when you're at the hardware store because they always have something there that you can pick
up really cheap so now i've stained this and then i sanded it down a little bit i'm just adding some
coat hooks to it this is a really easy diy to flip make a little bit of money on and it doesn't take
very long to put together and a lot of times when i'm at the thrift store i'll buy things
that have hooks already on them just to take the hooks off because they can get pricey
and i put this together really affordable and it sells really well on craft affairs at your
booth or on marketplace 24 7. and this was just a useless piece of wood that was going to get burnt
now these were just some little pieces of press board i actually got them from home depot they
have a little box at the back of their store where they cut wood that they put scrap pieces
of wood in that you can grab and take for free always check there at your lumber store and ask
if they have little scrap pieces of wood that you can use these turn into beautiful gift tags
i had some vintage gift wrap paper that i found at the thrift store i'm gonna use this to decoupage
onto the tags and they turn into beautiful gift tags that sell fantastic and they're at
a really good price point that people can afford and they'll spend the five to seven dollars on a
little gift tag that's custom made i find when people come to craft shows they always have
twenty dollars in their pocket or in their purse to spend so if you can keep your smalls under that
price point you'll sell things a lot easier i decoupage these on let them dry now i'm sealing
them up with a little bit of polyacrylic sealer and the possibilities are endless with these you
can use custom napkins you can just use napkins you can put quotes on them so many ideas and if
you can do all the different seasons and all the different holidays or milestones in these tags
you'll definitely be able to have a good seller and these are super popular at christmas time
now this project is going to prove that i never throw anything out these are actually from an
old shutter that was broken i took the slots out we're going to turn them again into little
ornaments or gift tags so many possibilities with these but they would have been thrown in
the dump and i saved them deconstructed that shutter and there's a lot of these in shutters
so you can make a lot of tags and i sell these for four or five dollars a piece so when you consider
how many of these are in a shutter and you can turn them into four or five dollars a piece
puts a lot of money in your pocket i painted just the one side with some homemade white chalk
paint and we're going to do our mod podge reverse graphic transfer method on these i've printed off
these quotes they're all on one sheet so you can do a whole bunch of these tags all at once this is
available in my etsy store if you have a project that you want to use these on you can grab them
afterwards i let the graphics sit for 24 hours rub the paper off we're left with a fantastic graphic
on those little shutter slots drilled a hole in the top and then we're just going to add a
bead and a little bit of twine and you've put together some really adorable little ornaments
that sell really well and these don't have to be made with little wooden slats these can be made on
any type of little small piece of wood scrap that was probably going to get it thrown out
you can turn into beautiful ornaments and again these are fantastic sellers at christmas because
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next project is just some scrap wood again squares that make really great
shelf sitters another really easy diy to make that sell really well i've just kind of rounded
the edges a little bit with my hammer just to make it a little bit rustic looking and we're
going to paint it with some black homemade chalk paint when that's all dry i'm going to paint some
white homemade chalk paint on top of that and let it completely dry and then i took my 80 grit
sander and went all around the edges to make it look nice and rustic i'm going to do my mod podge
reverse graphic transfer method with this again i love the how this is so versatile and you can do
so many different themes and it doesn't cost a lot of money you don't need your cricut you don't need
a stencil you can do so many different designs now one thing that you should always keep in mind
is to keep a neutral palette white and black you can never go wrong with
and it sells better than using funky colors because everybody has black and white in
their home and it can match now i have done a couple little yellow ones for a pop of color
because they're fun just to add in with the neutral colors here and there
next diy is one of my most popular sellers i've actually done a video that is completely all about
these breadboards because if you can make these you can put cash in your pocket this was a piece
of scrap tongue and groove i cut the groove off with my jigsaw and i've got this old cutting board
that i use as a template and we're just going to put the cutting board on top of that piece of wood
and then trace out the handle it doesn't have to be the exact same width you can make cutting
boards from all different sizes of scrap wood and they always always sell really well they're so
easy and so fast to make all you need is a jigsaw and a scrap piece of wood and you can put these
together now this scrap piece of pine is going to turn into two cutting boards i'm just going to
take my jigsaw and cut out a round where i traced with the pencil and we'll finish it up i have
a lot of people ask me about pricing and what i like to do is i like to go to etsy find something
comparable and then adjust my pricing from there of course every area is going to be different
whether you live in the city or in the country so you have to take that into consideration
but that's a good place to start i just drilled a hole in the top stained it with a little bit
of my homemade stain which is really easy to make i'll put a link below in the description
for that and created these beautiful cutting boards so this is just a few ideas of some diy
projects that you can make from scrap wood that sell really well and you can make some money on
i hope it was helpful and you got some inspiration thanks for watching have a great day and we'll see
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