hello youtube friends and welcome to my channel if you're new here my name is deidra from recycled
life i do lots of thrifting upcycling repurposing and diy content and i love new crafting friends
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content i am in my shed which means it's getting warmer and spring it's on its way i don't have
any heat in here so it's really difficult in the winter to do any projects out here without
freezing your fingers and your toes so today's a gorgeous day the snow's melting really quickly
and i am going to do a wrap up today out here with all the stuff that i've made the last little bit
and show you hopefully you'll find something that you'll get inspired by and you can create
it yourself i have all kinds of stuff lots of different techniques and i'm excited to put it all
together so lots of work let's get started first up is this frying pan pulled it out of the dump
i knew i could make it into something perfect for the garden i got my cricket out i made a permanent
vinyl quote for the inside of it and it's going to stick right into my garden in the spring as decor
always find colanders at the thrift store and i always grab them because they make beautiful
accent bowls this is a candlestick holder and then i just e6000 glue the colander on top it
can be filled with fruit vegetables flowers it uh it is so easy i did a video on upcycling packing
paper i put a whole bunch of projects together it was a really fun video and i had some great ideas
a few things that i made was i made a little booklet for notes and stuff all with packing paper
this is just a mason jar covered in some packing paper i added one of my homemade paper tags if
you didn't see that video on how to make homemade paper really easy that's a great one to check out
and you can put your flowers in there or full flowers makes a great little gift
also or how about wrapping up a bottle of wine and taking it to a dinner party
you're using up your packing paper and it looks beautiful i did a video on how to print on fabric
i there's so many things that you can do with this technique and um it was really easy i had
this embroidery hoop in my stash for forever i printed on a piece of fabric put it in the
middle and it made a cute little wall hanging have you ever tried the mirror effect spray paint
i've been using it quite a bit lately i love the effect that it gives it kind of makes glass turn
into an antique looking mirror this was just a picture frame that i had i did some distressing
on the frame painted the glass with that spray paint and it's gorgeous i also did another project
with an antique frame and i did some napkin decoupage in the middle and i love the way that
it turned out too if you haven't used this mirror effect spray paint i'll put the link down below in
the description grab some because it's fantastic these are some upcycles that i did for my last
thrift store shopping trip and i found this just a wooden board with some legs on it turned it into
a beautiful centerpiece for a table you can put a flower on it salt and pepper and i did some
striping on it and i love the way that it turned out this one i made sure i sealed with some engine
enamel because if it's gonna be in the kitchen you're gonna have to wipe it down a lot you need
to have a surface that's really durable and so that's what i put on for a top coat for that
graters we see these all the time in the thrift store i put this
mounted on a piece of wood that i also found had some legs on it at the thrift store you can put
some flowers on the top i hang a tea towel from the bottom makes a gorgeous piece for your kitchen
and a cutting board and a little wooden box i glued the two together i put a graphic on the
front using my mod podge reverse graphic transfer method did some crackle painting techniques and
it turned out gorgeous this crackle technique i used hairspray got a full tutorial on that
if you've missed that one that's a must watch you can crackle paint with hairspray and it creates an
amazing texture in your paint and it's so easy to do and it's not as messy as using the elmer's glue
technique so watch that if you haven't seen it i did a tutorial on how to age paper really quickly
with instant coffee and the paper turns out really vintage and antique and is really great to use on
all of your diy projects this is what i did with one of them i aged the paper and then decoupaged
it on one of my glass bottles that i picked up at the thrift store the glass bottle i tinted
using food coloring and uh elmer's glue and i have a full tutorial on how to tint glass too
that one's fantastic for making these um amber looking bottles and they look great in the kitchen
or on a cabinet really easy to put together i love doing vintage jewelry boxes always see them
at the thrift store i always pick them up i always have two or three on the side for when i have time
because they're a lot of work and it takes a lot of patience but it's so worth it after
you've finished them always like to do a really rustic paint job on them with some chalk paint
and i've added a quote on the top of this using my mod podge reverse graphic transfer method
and i like to take all of the insides out of them all that velvet it's always kind of yucky
and stained i pull it all out and then i line the drawers with scrapbooking paper with mod podge
them in and seal everything up these make fantastic gifts
or you can i have a hard time getting rid of them keep them for yourself they're perfect for storage
i never throw out tin can lids look at this wind chime
and it makes the most awesome noise when the wind comes through i painted it with some chalk paint
added a graphic on the front using my mod podge reverse graphic all of these are lids that i've
painted i've sealed this really well with a uh engine enamel because it's going to be outside
hanging and you want it hanging to stand up in the elements but i love the whimsical colors of
all of this and this was all free right out of my recycling bin i have a full tutorial of a whole
bunch of projects that i did with uh lids off of glass jars and cans check that out if you haven't
seen it because there's some fantastic upcycling ideas there signs signs and more signs i hope
you guys don't get tired of me always showing all of my signs it's my favorite thing to make
always revert back to my mod podge reverse graphic transfer method works the best for me looks the
most authentic i find and i just love making them so i always have lots of them the first one that
i did this was a scrap piece of wood that i got out of the dump and i always was little bits and
pieces that i had laying around and i put it all together into this beautiful sign some hardware
painted around the outside with the black this is all chalk paint and isn't this hinge fantastic
i love the way that this turned out a frame from the thrift store an old horseshoe that i
found in the dump put it all together and created this beautiful sign i did the hairspray crackle
technique on the frame and layered a bunch of different colors i think it turned out really
great love the graphic all the graphics that you see in any of my projects i have them in my etsy
store if you want to grab them make sure you use the code say 50. you get 50 off all of my graphics
over there they're ready to craft with they're already reversed if you want to do this technique
and all kinds for every season you can check that out i'll put the link down below in the
description but beautiful thrift store find upcycled this also was a piece of wood i think
came from the dump also and i put it together with a really aggressive crackle paint technique
full tutorial and i really aged it and did some water spraying with some paint to
achieve this effect and then put my mod podge reverse graphic transfer on top
and it doesn't get much more rustic and antique looking than this love the way that it turned out
scrap piece of wood from the wood pile a fish i found at the thrift store and this is what i
created what fishermen wouldn't love a sign like this my last pile of signs my coffee graphic that
i love i did a really rustic paint technique with the hairspray on this one and you can
see in the corners how chippy it made it i love that one and then i did an arrow with the same
graphic as you can see you can mix and match these graphics and get a completely different looking
sign just by fooling around with the graphics and putting them on different places on the wood
also did a technique that makes wood look like tie dye with cling wrap
and imagine all the colors that you can put together and create some really pretty signs
i thought these would be great for the summer full tutorial on how to achieve this painting look
a link down below in the description i had fun with some swirl painting
this is great to do with kids and again it's kind of like that tie-dye cling wrap method
but it's a little bit more bold and i did a little shelf sitter be silly and an arrow
that says be wild stay wild be wild style stay wild and i just love how all the colors all
melt together i saved my favorite for last this is my favorite sign that i've made out of all
of these i use the hairspray crackling technique on this and i just love the way the edges kind of
turned out and i love the quote always find time for things that make you smile and i left the bla
i haven't painted the back yet because i wanted to show you this was just a plain piece of pine
and i turned it into this all these techniques that i showed you today are really simple to
do some might just take a little bit of practice but you don't need any fancy tools you don't need
any fancy materials it it's just basic stuff that you probably already have in your home to create
fantastic diys so if you see something that you like today uh i'll put down in my playlist all
of the videos so you can go back and you can check and learn how to do them because that's what we're
here for we're here to learn new techniques and i'm here to help you and guide you along and make
these projects easier for you giving you little tips and tricks along the way so that's everything
that i've been working on i hope you enjoyed i'd love to know down in the comments which one
was your favorite and as always thanks so much for following along and supporting my channel
i really appreciate it thanks for watching have a great day and we'll see you in the next video