hello youtube friends welcome to my channel my name is deidre from our recycled life
i do lots of thrifting upcycling repurposing diy content and i love new crafting friends so
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content i am still trying to clean my shed out it's got really chilly here
i can't work out in my workshop anymore so i'm bringing stuff into my craft room and i have
over the summer collected way too many wooden antique and vintage frames so today i'm gonna
take these three frames and i'm gonna turn them into some beautiful farmhouse kitchen signs i've
designed some beautiful graphics that i love and i think you guys are going to love them too so
turning these into signs and for the inside of the side of the frames i cut out some mdf board
to make the signs on and i've cut them all to size they fit into some into the frames first
thing on the agenda to do i'm going to give these some real chippy kind of layered paint colors so
let's get started because we've got lots of work these are the three frames that i'm going to work
on they're quite ornate and i'm going to try to bring some of that out with some different colors
and some different painting techniques and they're kind of dirty i've had them stored in my shed
since the summer time so i'm going to take a wipe and wipe them down really nice and clean and then
get started painting them this is the first frame that i'm going to work on i think all of these
frames i picked up at a yard sale i don't think i paid over a dollar for any of them um but what i'm
going to do with this one first is i'm going to put a coat of my black chalk paint all over the
frame and all over my piece of ndf board that fits in the frame so i'm going to work away on that
my coat of black chalk paint has completely dried and now i'm going to put a coat of white
chalk paint as the top base before i put my graphics on it so i'll probably put two coats
of the white on there now the reason i put the black on is when i distress it and sand
it a little bit before i finish it i like the bat the black to kind of peek through
and give it that antique old feel that's just my preference you don't have to put that layer
of black on when you're making signs i just think it makes it look a little bit extra old
and i'm just going to work away and put two coats of the white chalk paint on top of this
i'm going to use the candle wax method on this frame i love this method this is just a pillar
candle from the dollar store that i've cut a piece off of and you just want to take it
and i like to be really aggressive just kind of rub it all along the frame wherever you think it
would naturally wear um and wherever you put the wax your paint is not gonna adhere in those spots
so it's gonna make it look rustic and chippy so i'm just gonna put a whole bunch on here
i want it all in that ornate part so that will all show through and you can see i didn't put the
black paint everywhere i kind of left some of the gold peeking through
because i want that to show when i sand it all down also so now that i've got
the candle wax on i'm gonna put a coat of my white chalk paint over the whole frame
okay my layer of white chalk paint has completely dried and i kind of like the look of it it kind of
had the stain leech through it a little bit it's got a really rustic look now i'm going to um my
trick when i'm doing the candle wax technique is to use the heat gun now and what i'm going to do
is i'm going to heat up that wax that's underneath that white chalk paint and then i'm going to
take a scraper and i'm going to scrape away and wherever there's wax it's going to lift off that
paint on the top and leave it nice and chippy and rustic looking so i'm going to work away on that
now you can see when i'm scraping i don't scrape this way i scrape away and just very
lightly and as you're doing it you can see that it pulls up all those different colors underneath
it doesn't there's not really any right or wrong
way you just keep kind of doing it until you like the look of it
and
put your picture in it
okay this frame is all done and that's how easy you can create a plain wooden frame into something
farmhouse chippy and rustic i'm going to seal this now with a satin based polyacrylic sealer
make sure you're using water-based if you're not using water-based using an oil base it will yellow
on you very quickly over time so i'm gonna put a nice coat over all of it seal it up this part's
finished and now i'm gonna work away on putting my graphic on the mdf board for the middle
this is the graphics that i have designed and these are available in my etsy store if you want
to purchase these after i'll have the link to all three of the graphics in the description and you
can grab them make sure you use the code save 50 because you can get 50 off all the graphics
in all of my etsy store so i've done this on my laserjet printer i've made sure to reverse the
text if you're buying them out of my etsy store they're already reversed you don't need to worry
about it and i'm going to use my mod podge mat to do the mod podge reverse graphic transfer um
on this sign i love the way that it turns out and it's so easy to do once you get the hang of it
when you're doing this technique you just need to put a light coat on you don't need very much you
just need just enough to cover all of the graphics and make sure you go right out to the edge of the
paper that will give you the best results and just cover your whole piece of paper i've got
this completely coated i'm going to flip it over make sure it's centered exactly where i want it
and then i'm just going to rub out any bubbles or wrinkles and then you're just
going to set it aside and i'm going to let it sit until tomorrow before i take the paper off
this one has sat overnight i just have a little dish of warm water with a little rag
in it and you just want to dampen it just so you can start to see the graphics come through
and then you're going to rub off all of the paper
i've got all the paper rubbed off this graphic and now i'm just going to put a coat
of my poly acrylic sealer on the top to seal it up really nice
i love the way this frame turned out with the candle wax distressing
and then scraping it off it looks perfect and a perfect graphic to add into it
next frame that we're going to work on is this one i think i am going to just
leave this one gold and black i'm not going to put any white on top of it
and i'm going to do the candle wax technique again i'm going to put
the candle wax right on this frame right now and then put the black on top of it
the black's all dry what i'm going to do next creates an amazing finish and it's done
with packing tape you just take a piece of packing tape
and you press it right into that frame into all of those grooves
press it down really well and then when you peel away you're going to peel away
little bits of paint here and there so it looks like it's kind of worn off
and i love that look so i'm going to do that over the whole frame i'm going to do a little spot here
to show you on the ends what it looks like you're just going to really press it right in there
and then just find the end peel it off and that's what you're left with
this technique is so easy to do no mess anywhere where there was a little bit of wax
the tape will peel it off and anywhere where there's little bits of paint that haven't adhered
very well the tape will peel it off and you can use the tape more than once you can kind of
use it a couple times and then it'll take less off when it's less sticky and more off when
it's more sticky you just kind of play around with it but i love the effect that it gives
this one's all done i'm going to seal it up with some polyacrylic sealer
and then i'm going to work on the middle piece of mdf board to put the sign on next
i'm now going to do the center board for this frame i've pulled a lot of gold
out in it so i had some gold acrylic i think that's what i'm gonna do as my base
um on this one do some maybe gold some black and then finish it off with a light coat of white
okay i changed my mind i had thought maybe i was going to put some black some gold and some white
and then once i finished the gold and i put the frame up with it i love it so i'm gonna do my
graphics right on top of this gold and do the mod podge reverse transfer method so i'm gonna get my
graphics printed off right now and get them on this board i've got the next graphic printed off
this is got a lot of farmhouse feel i love this one um also available in my etsy store if you're
interested i've had to print it out on two sheets of paper i have a video on how you can size your
graphics if they're bigger than a sheet of paper i'll put a link down below in the description
um for how to do that and it's really simple and really easy to do so now i'm just going
to cut this out place it where i want it and put on the mod podge for the reverse transfer method
i've got it all on if all the bubbles and wrinkles are pushed out
and i'm gonna set it aside till tomorrow and then we'll finish it off okay now this one is set
for 24 hours this is the one that i did with the gold background i'm just gonna take my damp cloth
and just put the water on it until you can start to see the graphics and then we're gonna rub away
okay i've got all the paper rubbed off on this sometimes when you're doing this technique you can
find that you might get a little bit of a white haze especially if you're doing it
on a darker background i usually when i'm doing this technique i like to do it on
a white background but i kind of liked the gold with this frame so what i do if i have
a little bit of a white haze that i can't rub off i will just take the paint that i was using
and a little paint brush and just kind of paint over those little areas and it'll all blend in
and look really nice so i'm just going to go ahead and do that
i've taken all that little white bits of cloudiness away and if you still see a
little tiny bit you don't have to worry when you put a coat of the poly acrylic sealer on
it will seal everything all up and a lot of that will go away
so i'm just going to put a really good coat of poly acrylic sealer on this
i'm so happy i chose the gold background on this it looks fantastic with the gold
accents in the frame i just love the way that it turned out and i love this graphic
on to the next one third frame i think i kind of want to keep it the wooden color and it looks like
it's had maybe some plaster or something that has been kind of pushed in to these grooves i'm
going to give it a light sanding bring that all up get rid of some of this reddish color um just
basically clean it up and then i'm gonna coat it with some polyacrylic sealer to seal it all up
i'm just using a 80 grit sanding block and i've got some finer i think this might be 120
and i'm just kind of working away on it and you can see how this is really red and it's got like a
gold tinge to it um what i've done is i've sanded this right down and it's got rid of all of that
gold which i like much better and i'm sanding down some of that reddish tinge and i'm really liking
it a little bit of work but it's gonna be worth it i got it all done i got a coat of the poly acrylic
sealer on it it's not perfect i didn't get a lot of the red out but it certainly looks better from
when i started and now i'm going to paint the inside mdf i've just squirted on some
of my acrylic paint in burnt umber i'm going to do that as a base coat and then i'm going
to put a couple coats of the white chalk paint on top of it so when i kind of sand it down
a little bit this brown will peek through and then i'll have the white uh top so we're gonna get busy
okay i've been struggling to try to get a nice color that i like on this mdf board that's gonna
go in this frame and i didn't like this dark white i tried to do some kind of dabbing of
different colors and i wasn't really feeling it and then i thought the color of the frame
is almost like a cinnamon color and that's when i'm trying to get a light cinnamon color
i grab my cinnamon and i'm just going to rub it into that mdf board
and see what that looks like as a base before i put my graphics on
sometimes you just have to play around with different techniques and different um just try
different things and sometimes you're surprised with how it turns out and i kind of really like
the color that this is turning i'm just rubbing it into the paint isn't quite quite dry it's still
a little bit damp so that gives the cinnamon something to kind of stick to i'm just kind of
just rubbing it all over and then i'll brush off the extra cinnamon that's not staying on and uh
we'll be ready to put a graphic on it and i think that will give me the color that i'm gonna like
okay i really like it it gives it a really kind of aged antique look perfect base for my graphics
and you can put your graphics right on top of this there's hardly any cinnamon left on this
paint it's just kind of worn right into it so when we're doing the transfer technique um it
won't rub off the cinnamon it'll work perfect so next step graphics i printed my graphics all off
the same as all the other times on my laserjet printer this is the graphic that i'm going to
use but we have to reverse it so i've sized it because this is bigger than a sheet of paper
i have the tutorial i'll put that down below so you can figure out how to
make your graphics bigger and we're going to use the mod podge mat and put it on the mdf board
okay now we're going to work on the last one where i did the background with a little bit
of that cinnamon color i'm just going to take my damp rag and just dampen it until i
can start to see the graphics show through and then we're going to rub off all of that paper
i've got all the paper rubbed off of this i'm gonna put a nice coat
of polyacrylic sealer on the top and then we're ready to put it in the frame
adding the cinnamon into that paint gave it that extra special touch that it needed
and i love that i just kept the frame kind of natural and just sanded it down a little bit
i love it i'm really happy with the way all three of these frames turned out and like i said before
i've probably paid a dollar for each frame and i had some scrap mdf that i cut to size to fit the
frames so they are really affordable to make sometimes i get the best results just trial
and error trying out different things and they turn out in the end exactly how i want them to
who would have thought that cinnamon would take this picture to the next
level i think it looks fantastic so if you like this video i'm sure you'll probably
really love the next one thanks for watching we'll see you in the next video and have a great day