hello youtube friends and welcome to my channel if you're new here my name
is deidra from our upcycled life i do lots of thrifting upcycling repurposing and diy content
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so you don't miss any great diy content a couple weeks ago i did a video on my dump finds that i
upcycled and you guys loved it guess what i have more junk from the dump and i'm ready to up cycle
some of it so today i have some projects of stuff that i actually just got out of the metal scrap
bin or out of the wood pile all of it was free all of it is unique and i actually pulled it out of my
shed i'm not even sure what i'm going to do with it yet but i'm going to show you what i've got and
then i'm going to get my brain going and i'm going to upcycle this stuff the first thing that i have
to upcycle is these tins and when we that's really dirty and they're really yucky but there's three
of them they're nesting inside and they're really rusty and then really not that great of shape
the paint anyways the actual metal is in good in good shape so i'm gonna upcycle these
and i found this i'm not 100 sure if anybody knows let me know down in the comments i think
this might have been off of a lantern obviously it's broken it's missing pieces but i just
love the ornate look of it i have an idea of what i'm going to do with this so stay tuned for that
i have some bits and pieces of hardware that i pulled out of the scrap metal i've got some
chain i've got a little hinge and i've got a big hinge
just some scrap things that i'm going to use towards some of the projects
i've got some chain that i've got an idea for and who doesn't love an old frying pan
already know what i'm doing with this actually and it's a really cool idea
and two old drawer pulls these are gorgeous huge and um probably from the 50s or the 60s off of
a dresser so i'm going to upcycle something with those a piece of scrap wood out of the wood pile
that's already been cut i like the shape of it and i'm going to put something together with that
and this looks like it was just an old door maybe taken off of something it's uh
got some slats on the back it's just pine and i have an idea of what i'm gonna do for that too
i got lots of work so let's get started okay first project is an old aluminum i think frying
pan i have a really great idea to use this in the garden i've taken this down to the sink and i've
given it a really good scrub with some soapy water and now i'm going to use some alcohol
and clean the inside of it because we're going to put some cricket graphics on this
i've designed some graphics we're gonna print it off on our explore three
i got my graphics all weeded and the transfer tape on
and i'm just going to peel them off and put them on my frying pan
make sure i have it nice and centered
and we'll get it stuck down
and i've made a fun sign for the garden the handle of the frying pan i've just stuck into the dirt
we have only frozen ground here right now but once i'm ready to put my garden in
this is going to go out there as decor this is going to be a really easy upcycle
i'm just going to take turn this into a hanging uh plant hanger i'm going to use this as the
base find a pot that will fit in here i think it would look beautiful with a nice iv in it
and i am going to use this old chain that i found out of the scrap metal bin to use as the hanger
this was such an easy upcycle and i'm pretty sure that was probably off an
old antique lantern i just love the bottom of it it's so ornate and beautiful i filled it up
with some greenery the chain makes it easy to hang i love the way it up cycled
who doesn't love old canisters i i was i kind of wish i could save these because i love the
retro look of it um i'm going to clean them all up and then see what they look like and see if i can
save it if not i might have to go to plan b and paint them so i'm going to give them all a really
good scrub i really didn't want to upcycle these i kind of wanted to keep the original look on them
but i wasn't really 100 sure so i went to my community tab and i put a post and
i asked all of you guys what you thought overwhelming leave it the way that it is
and that's what i've decided to do i'm not going to do anything to these at all the only thing
that i might do i might clear coat them with a polyacrylic sealer but right now i'm going to
leave them just the way it they are because i know somebody will love these in their primitive home
you guys know i love my farmhouse signs i'm going to make a very rustic farmhouse sign with all of
this stuff put something together with one of my great graphics i'm going to use the chain
and turn it into a hanger on the top when it's all finished so lots of work let's get started
you're all ready to work on our sign i'm going to put a base coat of some black homemade chalk paint
whenever you're wanting to do the mod podge reverse graphic transfer you always want to
make sure that you pick a piece of wood that's really smooth i'm always up for a challenge and
this is not really smooth in this area right here i'm going to take a little bit of wood
filler and just fill it in so it's a little bit smooth because what happens when i go to rub the
paper off it gets all in these little grooves and it makes it really difficult so just to
make my life a little bit easier down the road i'm going to put in a little bit of wood filler
i probably should have done this step on the raw wood but
i always get excited when i'm starting a pr a project but that's okay what i'm going to do is
i'm going to let this completely dry now i'll let all that wood filler dry actually my wood
filler was kind of watery i think it's almost at its end of its day i need to buy a new one
but that's okay because it worked out really well because it smoothed over really good and filled in
all those little creases of wood that i wanted to get covered up gonna let this completely dry
give it a light sanding and then i'll put another coat of black paint over top of it
this is a lot smoother now that i've got the wood filler on there it'll be easier to rub
off my graphic when i need to i want to keep an outside edge that looks like a border of
the black paint so i've got my painters tape and i'm just going to put that all around the outside
i've got it all taped off and i'm just going to take some black and just paint along the
side of that tape so if we have any bleed through the black will show and not the white
i'm just going to put a touch of candle box on this
just to distress it just a little bit and i'm going to rub it all along that whole opening
and now we're ready to put on a coat of white chalk paint
all dry let's see what we have underneath this tape
ah perfect
that's going to be a really great base for my sign
let's make this look a little bit more rustic and chippy i'm gonna take it out
to my shed give it a really good sanding i'm gonna do my mod podge reverse graphics on this
i love this quote it's in my etsy store if you want to grab it make sure you use the code save
50 for 50 off i think it's going to work out really well with all the bits and pieces that
i want to put on also i have sized this on two pieces of paper it's really easy
you just size it up until you get the size of your sign that you want i'm just going to
cut off the little extra paper on the top and the bottom and get putting it on our project
this is that overnight it's all dry i'm gonna take my
damp rag with just a little bit of water and we're going to rub off all of this paper
i've got all the paper rubbed off i'm going to seal it up really well with my polyacrylic sealer
top coats all dry i have all these little bits and pieces of stuff i've collected along the
way and i thought it would be really nice to kind of put them on this sign to display and
just give it a little bit more interest than just a plain sign so i've got some old screws that i've
collected from other projects that i've done i'm going to use those to screw everything on the sign
this is an excellent way to use up all those little bits and pieces of hardware i had collected
along the way and a perfect graphic to add to that sign
love finding beautiful pieces of wood in this scrap wood pile this is really nice and solid
and i am gonna turn it into a serving tray these old handles they've got some paint that's been
splashed on them it actually almost looks like an enamel paint i don't think it's going to come
off very easy so i'm going to spruce these up and do a nice finish on this and turn this into
a serving this is when i put the handles on this already had a handle on it at some point
and the holes are exactly where it needs to be so i'll mount this right here and then i'll measure
on this side to make sure that it's even so this is already done and easy for me i'm going to put
my first coat of paint on i'm going to put a coat of my black homemade chalk paint
first coat's all dry breaking out the candle wax i love using the candle wax to distress and it's
got lots of lines and curves where we can put that wax on to make a fantastic chippy finish
i had a follower mention in one of my comments that i don't use enough color the one reason why
i don't use a lot of color especially in the stuff that i'm making is if you're doing it to resale
white black always sells as soon as you introduce any sort of fancy color it's harder to sell
that being said i'm keeping this for myself and i am feeling colorful today i am going to layer up
all kinds of colors on this and do a real chippy
layered color paint i'm first coat going to use some acrylic yellow paint
all dry some more wax and we're going to put on some peacock blue
we are good and layered i've got my scraper out i'm going to scrape away
at this the first thing that i'm going to do i'm going to heat that wax back up
get it nice and melted and then scrape away
i thought the colors were a bit too bold
i want to tone it down just a little bit so i have some just a little splash of almost like a baby
blue i'm just gonna swipe on a little bit here and there just to tone it down just a little bit
now for the magic potion some elmer's school glue i'm gonna put a crackle layer on the top
and then put some white paint on and we're gonna have all those colors showing through
the more glue you put on the thicker the crackle the thinner that you put it on
the thinner the crackle and i'm just gonna spread it all over the whole piece of wood
it's a little bit messy but it's so worth the end result
and you want to get it right out to the edges
because you want that crackle to be all the way across all of the wood
this is going to be such a fun funky tray i'm excited to see how it's going to turn out
it sat for about a minute now we're going to take our white chalk paint
and the trick with this technique working really well
is to not work the paint into the glue you want to do long strokes up and back no more than twice
so up and back and then up and back and we're going to do that across the whole piece of wood
if you're working that paint into the glue you're not going to have any crackles show up
this is such a fun technique to watch it all come together too as you start
to see all of the paint peek through such a fabulous technique if you haven't tried it
okay we're gonna leave that gonna take a couple hours and let it dry this is completely dried and
crackled and look at the color and the crackles in this it turned out just amazing and i am now
going to give it a really good sanding i'm going to take it out to my shed use an 80 grit sandpaper
and sand all of this and really make it distressed and it'll make the colors pop even more fantastic
i love it i'm going to paint the handles a nice yellow color i think to match this yellow that's
peeking through here i don't do much with a lot of color and i thought that would make this into
a really fun tray if i painted these yellow i'm gonna take them outside and spray paint them
here's a little trick that i like to do when i'm spray painting this is just a takeout food
container i've pressed there's little screws on the bottom of these handles i've pressed them
into the styrofoam it keeps them up and you can spray them really well with spray paint
grab them out of your recycling bin i'm going to seal this up really good i have some poly acrylic
sealer satin based and i'm probably going to put two or three coats of this on this tray
the tray's all finished from that scrap wood i love the way the handles turned out
i kind of distressed them a little bit and the boards distressed beautifully
successful i would love to know what one was your favorite today
thanks for watching have a great day and we'll see you in the next video