hello youtube friends 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 love to have you
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great diy content last week i did a tutorial on my best selling item i did a step-by-step tutorial of
how you can create cutting boards or breadboards and they sell like hotcakes as soon as i make them
they're gone and you can just stain them put a little hanger on them and they sell really really
well but i also like to add graphics on them do different painting techniques so today's tutorial
i took a whole bunch of those cutting boards that i made and did a whole bunch of different
techniques so i could show you and you can maybe get inspired to try some of these yourself
so we got all kinds of work let's get started if you haven't seen the last video they did on how to
make these cutting boards i'll put the link down below in the description and you check it out it's
really easy to do and like i said they sell really well so the first one i'm going to do i'm going to
paint with my homemade black chalk paint i'm going to give it a really good coat and then let it dry
now i'm going to add some of this beautiful yellow chalk paint i just want it as a contrast color
because i'm going to do a crackling technique and i want that yellow and the black to peek through
we're going to do the hairspray method if you haven't tried this you need to try it gives it
a real kind of light crackling it's not like the elmer's glue where you have a really thick crackle
this is more of a natural fine crackle and it's really easy you spray on the hair spray let it
dry and then you paint acrylic paint on top of it and as you dry it those crackles will appear
i have a full tutorial on that too again it'll be down in the description now this is completely dry
and as you can see all those little crackles it leaves a really fantastic surface for you to do
your signs on or any of your diy projects i have this fabulous farmhouse theme graphic that i'm
going to put on using my mod podge reverse graphic transfer method using my mod podge mat i'm going
to put a light coat over that whole paper and then put it on my project and let it sit for 24 hours
until it's completely dry this is just done on regular computer paper on my laserjet printer
all the graphics that i'm using today on all my projects are available in my etsy store
if you want to use any make sure you use the code save 50 and one of the files is already
reversed so you're ready to go and then i'm going to seal it up with my poly acrylic sealer
now i am a collector of bits and pieces never throw anything away this was in my
stash i actually have no idea even what it is but i thought it looked really pretty on the sign so
i'm gonna glue it down with some e6000 finish this cutting board off beautifully i love it now let's
get started on the next cutting board another coat of that black homemade chalk paint as my base coat
whenever i'm doing projects like this i always like a darker base coat i think it peeks through
nice when you're distressing it gonna use some candle wax this is just a pillar candle from the
dollar store anywhere where you put wax that paint is not going to adhere very well and stick so when
you sand it down it will leave that rustic look this one i'm going to put a ticking stripe on it
just kind of creating a stencil with some painters tape and put a nice stripe down the middle of this
cutting board this is a really easy technique anybody can do it just with some painters tape
and some black chalk paint and create a really fun farmhouse cutting board
just make sure you have your tape on straight and you've measured it and it'll turn out perfect
and i love peeling off that tape after it's all dried and leaving a nice crisp
line on your project we're going to seal it up with some water-based polyacrylic sealer
and such a simple technique but it creates a really pretty cutting board
on to the next one this is a longer one and i love making them a little bit longer again we're
putting on that black chalk paint as our base and i had some spindles in my shed i cut them down and
turned them into feet and i'm going to turn this into a center piece for a table
i'm going to paint all those legs with that black homemade chalk paint so it'll match the
cutting board and then i'm going to glue them on to the back of the board using some e6000 i'm also
going to add a little bit of hot glue so i can keep them in place and they won't move around
because this is going to be on a kitchen table i'm going to seal it really well with a couple
coats of that polyacrylic sealer and love the way that it turned out and those little legs
from the spindles just finished it off perfectly so many ideas you can do with these cutting boards
next one again we're putting on that base of that black homemade chalk paint and i'm going to
print on fabric if you haven't seen that tutorial make sure you check that out i'll put the link
down below in the description it's a really fun tutorial where you can take a piece of fabric
and put it through your printer and actually print right on the fabric and then use it
for any of your diy projects i'm going to create a little pocket for this cutting board
that we can put some flowers in and it's going to look adorable i'm going to use some fabric
glue to glue the sides in and the bottom and fold over the top so we can create that pocket and then
i'm going to hot glue it onto the cutting board this was just a piece of a old pillowcase that
i had thrifted quite a while ago from the thrift store that i'm using to create this little pocket
and i'm just going to use my hot glue gun and glue that fabric onto that cutting board
and there we have an adorable cutting board with a little fabric pocket that you can put
some faux flowers or some dried flowers in i love it so hang in there with me i have
so many different ideas of what you can do with these cutting boards the next one i've mixed up
some of my homemade stain i have a full tutorial on how to make that i'll list it down below in
the description but i just kind of want to give this a little bit of an aged wood look i love this
coffee coffeehouse uh graphic and i'm going to use the polyacrylic sealer to do the transfer
method with this works good if you want to use raw wood or you want to have that wood color
underneath i find when you use the mod podge on raw wood you can kind of see the outline with
of it and the poly acrylic you don't see that as much it doesn't transfer as well sometimes so
we're going to see how it works out but i want to keep that wood look underneath that graphic
i'm just applying the polyacrylic sealer it's the water-based right onto that graphic we're going
to center it onto our project make sure it's right where we want it and then set it aside and let it
dry completely now that it's all dry it works the exact same as the mod podge transfer just take a
little bit of water dampen it until you can start to see the graphics and then rub the paper off
now this thing started to give me a little bit of a headache and the graphics were starting to
rub off that's what i said sometimes it can be a little bit fussy but once i got it done i actually
loved it i think it turned out really rustic and really chippy looking i'm gonna seal it up
and keep it as is i love this one i think this one's gonna stay in my house in my kitchen
even for turning out really rustic and chippy and some of the graphics rubbing off love the effect
of it this is one of the cutting boards that i stained in my first video just with that dark
black color and i'm just gonna put a stencil in the corner of it this looks really pretty
when you have a stencil just kind of offset on the cutting boards and i'm just using my white chalk
paint on this stencil and peeling it off and look how pretty that is kind of has a boho vibe to it
seal it up with my poly acrylic sealer i love it i'm trying to decide how i can
keep all of these because how many cutting boards do you actually need in your house
next one i painted with this rust color and really distressed it and then i took one of my wooden
bowls that i had and i cut it in half and now i'm going to glue it onto that cutting board and once
it's dry you can fill it up with a full flower you can put some utensils in it you can fill it up
with all kinds of different things and display it anywhere in your home and it looks really pretty
so we're gonna hot glue these with and some e6000 set it aside and let it dry completely
i cut this bowl on my chop saw but you could also do it on your table saw and it would work perfect
to cut them in half i put a few of my dried hydrangeas in it and i think it looks beautiful
okay so this board i had already painted and i used the candle wax method to make it nice
and chippy and rustic i have this beautiful flower market graphic that i'm gonna put on
the top of it we've let it dry completely gonna rub the paper off we're gonna be left
with a really pretty graphic and then i am going to put the polycrylic sealer on
and i'd like to hang a little glass jar from the bottom but i had this little i'm not even sure
what it was in my stash once again i never throw anything out and i thought it would be a good
hanger for this instant coffee glass jar cleaned it all off taken the labels off and i'm going to
attach it onto that little metal embellishment and hang the jar from it i'm gonna hot glue the little
hanger onto the rim of the glass jar and then wrap some twine around it so it looks nice and pretty
and i had some full flowers that i picked up at the thrift store not that long ago and i thought
that would be perfect for this cutting board i put a little bit of moss in the bottom of that
glass jar so it looks like it's a vase full of flowers next cutting board i just wanted to kind
of fool around with some different colored stains i tried this green and then i thought once i got
it on the board it was a little bit too bright so i mixed up some brown to incorporate in with it
and then i really liked the color of that i can't kind of gave it a rustic really old looking
wood wiped off the extra and then i have these graphics i'm going to put a full length graphic
down the whole length of this board these are in my etsy store i'm going to stack the three of them
on top of each other they're all the same font so it's going to blend in
really well mod podge reverse graphic transfer let them dry gonna rub it off and
they should all line up and look really pretty down the length of this cutting board
seal it up with some polyacrylic sealer and this is another one that i really love i just
i'm really not sure how many of these i'm going to be able to keep this might be another one
now if you don't want these to be all cutting boards you can just do a long plank and do those
three graphics stacked up on each other and they would look beautiful the next one we're going to
do is a crackle paint with the elmer's glue i want some really big cracks in this one so i'm
going to put on quite a thick coat of that elmer's glue we're going to venture away from that white
and black and i'm going to do some black and red i think this has a real farmhouse feel that red
color so i'm going to paint that on top of the elmer's glue and then we're going to let it
set aside and dry and it's going to crackle beautifully i printed off this really bold
antiques and that's what we're going to mod podge onto this one and then we're going to rub off the
paper and we're going to be left with a beautiful antique sign now this technique on the colored
paint and with the crackle paint underneath is a little bit of an advanced project if you put too
much water on the graphic when you're rubbing it off it'll reactivate the glue and it'll rub off
and with the color it's a little bit trickier to rub all that paper off so you have to really
take your time and do small sections but love the way that it turned out and there
you have all kinds of ideas and inspiration that you can do with these cutting boards
and like i said before these are my best sellers right now and they're so easy to create
and you can just do a little bit of a twist on different styles and different designs
and create some beautiful home decor so i hope you've enjoyed today's tutorial and you've seen
some ideas that you'd like to try out i would love to know down in the comments which one
was your favorite thanks for watching have a great day and we'll see you in the next video