23 COASTAL DECOR DIYS | HIGH-END HOME DECOR ON A BUDGET MADE WITH DOLLAR TREE & OTHER ITEMS

[Music] hi everybody and welcome back to crafted by cory if you are new i'm corey thank you so much for being here to my subscribers you know you mean the world to me i appreciate you so much so thank you today this is a compilation of 23 coastal diys it's everything i've done coastal since the start of my channel almost one year ago i can't believe it let's go ahead and get right into it diy number one so this was my inspiration for this first project it's something i saw on pinterest and i'm starting out with this box from michaels it was originally 99 cents and my sister had picked it up for me when it was i think 20 off so really great deal and then i've got some scrapbook paper that you can see i had measured to fit and i'm putting it on the bottom of the box with some mod podge my friends at plaid sent me that mod podge and a whole bunch of paints that i'll be using today so very excited about that so now i have a piece of foam core um that i'm going to be measuring down or cutting down i should say but first i have a little decal that i created on my silhouette cameo and i am just weeding that out and of course it just says beach just a fun color and yeah just happy colors so i am using my artisa self-healing mat and my little dollar tree uh square to trim down the foam core board this scrap piece of foam core board that i had from another project and just cutting it down to the size that i want i believe that box is four by six and so i had cut the um foam core down to i wanna say it was about three by two and a half i could be off there a little bit but essentially you just wanna make sure that you are giving yourself the amount of border that you want and it's pleasing to your eye so i had applied my beach decal and now i'm using some more mod podge to secure this down on top of the scrapbook paper and i did not paint the foam core board i just left it as is i liked that nice bright white and so i'm attaching this here and then i am going to come in with my jute cord from walmart and just apply that around the edge of the foam core board so it's got a nice finished edge and then when i get back around to the bottom where i started i'm going to trim that off and seal that down with my hot glue then i'm going to take a little piece i'm just going to tie a knot i decided i didn't want a bow here i just want like a little knot so cut that down and i'm going to secure that right at that seam and there you are such a simple fun project i have a lot more simple fun fast projects for you today let me know what you think of this diy number two all right this also was on birch lane this is my inspiration for the next project for this we are going to be using eight toilet brush wand cleaner scrubber thingies um a wreath form we're going to be using foam core i only had black but you can use white using nautical rope some um of the twine the jute twine cord waverly chalk paint and agave again hot glue and a shell so first we're going to take our wreath form and we are going to trace the outline of it on the foam core and then we are going to cut that out and we're going to do that twice so we're going to end up essentially with two kind of funny looking donut shapes really skinny donuts with the foam core [Music] so i started to try and use my scissors for this i do not recommend it that was kind of a fail so you're going to want to use your x-acto knife or your [Music] craft knife i'm actually using one from the dollar tree so cut out the outer edge and then cut out the middle and then you've got your thing and then we've got two of them again we're gonna want one for the top and one for the bottom so i'm gonna set those aside for now and i'm taking my toilet brushes and gonna unscrew them i just really liked the shape of these i thought at first to maybe use the dollar tree plungers but they were just too big so i saw these and i was like oh my gosh and i love the shape so that's what i decided to do and what's neat about the wreath form is it has eight of those little connectors for the wreath form to hold the three loops together or hoops together so i'm going to leverage those to make sure that i've got all of my toilet brush handles evenly spaced so i get those all around and i'm going to use the chinese food container as my center now i'm going to use my soldering iron tool to actually melt holes into that that i will then be able to screw all of these brush handles into so i'm going to use my little brush at first just to measure out the size of the hole that i need i'm going to mark that off with a pen and then i'll come in and i will melt the holes with my soldering iron [Music] this was pretty satisfying you guys i don't know something about the melting plastic it just it was melting like butter it was making me very happy [Music] so then i just went through and checked each time to make sure that i had the hole the right size i was just using one of the the brush handles to make sure that i had it right so i went ahead and did that all the way around for eight holes [Music] and there you have it and it was helpful that the chinese food container had little markings on it too so i was able to evenly space that out with the holes this project just everything seemed to work together i was really happy and you can see me screwing in the brush handles i'm going to do that all the way around and you can see i did tuck those brush handles in between the hoops to just provide it with some added support [Music] so can you see it starting to come together [Music] there we go so the next thing we are going to do is tie down each of our little toilet scrubber handles um to the wreath form i'm just using juke cord for this if you have um oh my gosh what are those zip ties yeah so if you have zip ties they would be perfect for this i actually looked for my zip ties i have no idea where i stashed them um i've got organizing my craft room on my list of things to do but i haven't quite gotten there yet so the duke cord worked just fine just wanted to make sure that it was all secure so then i went back in and gave it a little bit of hot glue just to reinforce it make sure nothing slipped around and reinforced it at the little place where they were all screwed in as well just so i made sure that everything was going to stay solid added a little bit more hot glue and then started putting on my little donut if you will so these are the foam core boards and then i flipped it over and gave a little bit more glue on this side because i noticed when i was trying to flip it over it wanted to pop off so made sure that that was all secure and then came back in and added on the other ones so everything is kind of sandwiched together i'm doing a lot of sandwiching with my projects today it seems so ran a bead of glue all along the frame of the wreath form it's hard to see here but that is the wire that is on top of all of the brush sticks so i've got that on nice and solid and then i'm going to be taking it outside to spray paint and i thought about using the chalk paint but then i decided i would use spray paint instead and i apologize i missed the video footage or i lost the video footage of me starting with the nautical rope around so i had started with dollar tree nautical rope and ran out and i was not able to get any more i went to a whole bunch of dollar trees and none of them had it in so i ended up ordering that giant spool i think it's like 100 feet so it'll last me for a little while of manila rope i keep wanting to call it milan rope but it's manila rope and it's got a similar look it's a little bit darker than the nautical rope but i think it worked out just fine so i am essentially using this to hide the gap between the two pieces of foam core so i went around the circle here and then for the inside i actually did end up cutting smaller sections of rope to go in between the spokes of our wheel and then on the flip side once the spokes were out of the way i went ahead and was able to just wrap it around and around again and there you have it so there it is so then what i'm going to do is take some actually i'm showing you that i do have a couple of gaps in there so i did go back in and um reinforce it with some more hot glue and get that all secure so it's nice and even then i used my lighter to burn off all the little strings and i'm going back in with some white chalk paint just to give it that distressed look just like the photo i did end up using a little bit too much white in the middle there that i fixed later on so there we have it like that and not only did i fix that white later but i went in and added some white to the not milan manila cord i added in my little seashell in the middle and there we have it diy number three for this project i am using dollar tree placemats and some polyfill that i had picked up from the hobby lobby it was three dollars for the package i'm going to be using two packages and then four of these placemats and i just split the seam open on the side these are sewn all the way around so i just split the seam and i am going to stuff it with a poly fill you guys this is probably one of the easiest projects for the biggest reveal if you will and biggest impact i love this now at some point i will actually get my sewing machine fixed and you will all be in shock and amazement when i actually sew something with my sewing machine but for now i am using hot glue because it is quick it is easy you can't even tell that it hasn't been sewn i just sealed it right back up and fluffed it up and there you go i've got pillows for my outdoor furniture i love these so much let me know what you think diy number four so i have another one of those little wood cutouts and i've got a bunch of my paint colors from plaid and i am starting out with this really beautiful blue color and it was just making me so happy i love this color so i then came in and painted my sails white and i am doing both sides of these because i am just going to be having this lean up on my little tear tray and so i just want to make sure both sides are equally pretty so once i had my sail painted and completely dry i am coming in with another shade i think this is like a seafoam green color it's so pretty and i am painting for i don't know do you call these racing stripes for a boat i don't really know what you would call these on a sail if you happen to be a sailor and know what these stripes might be called if anything let me know in the comments but i just went ahead and painted on a wide band and i made sure to take it up around the other side of the sail because the sail is two-sided and you would see the stripes on either side of the sail and then i did come in and create another smaller stripe just to make it a little bit more interesting so i've got my wide stripe and my narrow stripe and then i went ahead and carried those stripes across the other sail [Music] so once i had that all nice and dry i'm just checking that it's dry there i'm coming in with my sander sanding block from the dollar tree just because i did want it to be a little bit aged it looked too bright and too new and too shiny penny you know so i'm just coming in and distressing it with my sanding block and there you have it let me know what you think diy number five for this project i have this piece that i picked up from the habitat for humanity restore and i'm also using my jute twine and i had given it a good cleaning i got this for i think it was 12.99 and i was so excited when i saw it it's a nice heavy glass piece and i knew exactly what i wanted to do with it so i'm cutting a whole bunch of lengths of my juke cord and as you saw i created like a little loop at the bottom i've got this flipped upside down and so i've got a loop and i'm going to be attaching my lengths of twine around this loop so i'm essentially folding them in half and then looping them through each other and i'm going to do this all around the loop and i'm just going to tape that down so it kind of helps keep it in place for me but i'm going to make sure that these are spaced out all the way around i ended up doing six total and i didn't really measure them per se i made sure that they were at least twice as long as my jug these jar whatever you want to call this is tall and then i added a little bit extra just to be safe so and that was once they were doubled over also so i want to make sure they were nice and long so now as you can see i am taking one strand from the right side one strand from the left side and bringing them together and i am creating another knot and i'm just going to keep doing that all the way around and so i'm gonna go in rose hopefully you're kind of figuring out what i'm doing here by watching what i'm doing because it's kind of hard to explain without the the video so once i have that done i'm gonna go down to the next row and i'm just going to keep doing that around and i'm trying to leave them a little bit loose the knots in case i need to adjust them and then i will end up pulling them tight later so once i got about halfway down i decided i wanted to flip it right side up and continue that way because i felt like i just needed to make sure everything was as tight as possible around this vessel because of the way that it was shaped so i did go ahead and start doing it that way and as you can see i just kept pulling up my uh twine lengths to make sure that everything was gonna fit snug around the vessel hopefully that's making sense so i just kept doing that all the way around until i worked my way all the way up to the top and that last row i was trying to get those knots right underneath the lip of the container so i wanted them all the way to the top and as i did those last knots you can see me taping down my um jute and just dropping the lengths into the vessel to kind of keep them out of my way as i continued to work [Music] so just continuing on getting it all taped down and once i had that all done i was trying to decide what i was going to do with these lengths i knew i wanted it wrapped around and eventually i decided i was just going to wrap everything in opposite directions so every other strand i wrapped to the right and then the every other one i wrapped to the left so hopefully you can kind of see what i'm doing here i'm kind of alternating them and then eventually bringing everything together in the middle from opposite sides hopefully that makes sense so now i decided i want to do a fancy knot so i looked up how to do a carrick bend on my phone and i'm following the instructions for that i could try to explain to you what i did here it's basically over under over under over under it i think for me is hard to explain i'm kind of trying to show you here how i did it um but i'm going to leave a link for the carrick bend instructions in the description box so that someone um other than me can explain this because i feel like i would fail i tried to explain to you what i did but i'm going to show you here again so i've got my loop that i'm creating [Music] i crossed it over made my loop and then i'm going to bring my other one over under and then over and tucking it in through and it was hard at this point because my strands were getting really short but it's going under that one it's coming back in and over and then i'm just going to pull it tight so hopefully that makes sense but if you're interested in learning how to do this knot definitely check out the link in my description box so now i'm just tucking in some of the ends because i wanted to bring together all of these ends um in one place and not have anything sticking out really and i just gave it a little bit of a haircut and then i unraveled all of the ends because i wanted it to look a little bit frayed and used and worn so i undid that kind of rubbed it on my hand to try and get it a little bit frayed so once i had that all set and i'm loving it but i decided i really wanted to add a little something else so i had this pack of starfish that i had picked up last year from home goods and i hadn't had an opportunity to do anything with them yet so i just pulled out one of my little starfish and then i'm gonna grab one of my leftover little lengths of chew twine and i decided i only wanted one of the three plies there and i took one of those plies and i wrapped it around my little starfish and tied it off and then used another one to connect my starfish to my my piece here so i'm just trimming off the ends from the knots i had tied and then i'm going to tuck this in and just tie it onto the piece where i want it just a nice little finishing touch i love this so much let me know what you think diy number six so for this project i have some napkin rings from the dollar tree they're just um plain silver and then i have a bunch of shells also from the dollar tree i pulled out four that i thought were really pretty that i wanted to use for this and then i am going to be using my jute twine again and so i'm starting out with all of my little scrap pieces and using my hot glue i'm just going to attach it to the napkin ring and i'm just going to wrap and wrap and wrap and this will definitely be cleaner if you just use a solid piece of jute i am kind of like waste not want not and i wanted to use up my scraps so i did use a lot more hot glue on this than would otherwise be necessary and then i just made sure that the ends were completely covered as well so you couldn't see any of the silver so once i got to the end just made sure again that i had that all tucked away and secured well and so here i'm doing this is the fourth one you can see the others are already done and just showing you again so once i'm using the full strand if you will i had already finished up all my scraps so now with the full strand i just needed to make sure that i secured those first two rows and then i was able to just wrap and wrap and wrap and no hot glue needed until i got down to the end and then at the end it just made sure that i secured it with some hot glue so that it wasn't gonna go anywhere and i was all set with that part of it so now i had pulled out some raffia from an old project that i didn't need anymore and i was trying to just hide little bows i wanted little bows that i could put on my pieces but the raffia was just old or dried out or something i don't know what was going on it was just wasn't working and it yeah so so plan b was this pretty ribbon that i got from the dollar tree it's just an ivory ribbon with some gold thread running down the middle of it it's really super pretty and so i figured you know what it's got those neutral tones i thought it would look really nice with these uh napkin rings and just kind of kick it up a notch so i cut off four lengths that were just long enough to go around my napkin ring and then some because i want to make sure that i can um tuck under the end and create a nice edge on it so as you can see i just use a little bit of hot glue i'm making sure that it's nice and tight tucked under that end and then i am securing that down as well so once that's done i'm just going to decide how i want to put my shell on here so i'm looking at it in different ways and finally i decided i wanted it um with the little opening facing up and kind of at an angle so i went ahead and i secured that with some hot glue i did that for all four of them and aren't these sweet i absolutely love them let me know what you think of these in the comments diy number seven so this is an inspiration photo i didn't have the starfish but i'm gonna use shells so for this we're gonna use a couple of eight by ten canvases from the dollar tree as well as an 8x10 piece of glass from one of their frames we're going to be using e6000 hot glue some shells some nautical rope we're also going to be using the nantucket blue chalk paint by plaid as well as some more of that stain that i made before for the relax sign so that we can stain our wood frames here so the first thing we're going to do is remove the canvases from the frames and i want to apologize in advance because i lost some of the most important footage for this project so fortunately i'm going to show you right here what i plan to do later which is to sandwich the glass between those two frames so you can see how i do that so we're going to be using the canvas i'm showing you the two different sides there because obviously there's a front and a back i actually like the back side of the canvas for this project because it has kind of a sandy tone to it as opposed to like of solid white so i'm gonna use that as my backdrop for my shells i'm cutting it down here going to reapply it to the frame in a little bit after we get it stained the way that we want it just trimming it down so that it doesn't overlap anywhere so going to go ahead and stain the pieces now and once they are all stained nice i'll reattach the canvas and then i will hot glue the shells as well as the inner frame or fake mat if you will that i create out of foam core and then paint with that nantucket blue again i lost all that footage so i'm just trying to give you a heads up on what's coming because there will be a what here it is i was able to capture a one second clip of part of this so here it is next okay so that's right after i put the glass on and right before i sandwich the rest of it that was all i was able to recover from my corrupted video so i'm sorry but one thing i would mention when you select your shells for this make sure that they do not sit higher than the thickness of that frame because otherwise when you go to try and put your glass on it's not going to work you got to make sure that the glass isn't going to hit those shelves when you go to sandwich it together so just something to be aware of because the shells i picked out first i realized they weren't going to work so i had to go with these but i actually am really happy with them they turned out really well then i'm just using nautical rope to seal up that seam where everything came together in the middle [Music] so there you go isn't it cute diy number eight so for this diy i am using my milan rope so um it's like a big fat thick twine hopefully this counts for our challenge um so i added some hot glue to the end of it just to make sure that it wasn't gonna start unraveling and i am just going to start rolling it on itself if that makes sense and this project takes a whole lot of hot glue so make sure you got your hot glue sticks ready to go and i am just wrapping and wrapping and wrapping around itself and at one point i decided i wanted to give it a little bit more interest than just being a solid piece so i started creating little bumps if you will and so just kind of i don't know how else describe it i just made little bumps and secured them with hot glue once i got back around i made sure that i cut it at a really sharp angle so that i'd be able to secure it in a way that made it look seamless so i'm just going to add some more hot glue there and laying down that little piece and so it blends really nicely now the side that we're looking at right here and then i took the opposite end and used that to start again at the top of one of the bumps right and i'm gonna just start wrapping this around and around um but as i was starting to say this um what we're looking at right now is actually going to be the bottom so i was pretty generous with the hot glue on this side of it knowing that i was going to be flipping it over and having the other side show so i went ahead and continued to wrap around i think i went another six times but you can really do whatever makes your heart happy now you can make a mat with something like this um i chose to do something for my table cutting it off at a sharp angle again so that i can just get it to lay relatively flat or as flat as possible here and this is at the same spot that i had started at i'm just using my little lighter to try and burn off some of the extra little hairs diy number nine so this is from birch lane i found it online and thought it was super cute we are going to be recreating it with some scrap wood that i had out in the garage from a palette you know i love my palettes a hammer nails um a couple of different colors of chalk paint and i have some navy vinyl there but i did find some black so i'll actually be using black um so i've got the chalk paints from waverly and crystal and agave and then a rust-oleum chalk plate and charcoal that we're going to be using for a stain and we'll show you how that happens in a little bit but um first we are going to be putting our boards together i'm going to be nailing these together with some other little pieces of scrap wood i'm using the one-inch nails and you'll notice that my boards are not all the same length and that's okay because once i have everything put together i'm going to be taking it out to the garage and using my circular saw to trim it all up that's all that's available to me right now because my table saw is in the shop and my fiance had borrowed the miter saw back in his place so i am marking these off at 18 inches between the two lines i'm gonna take it out and trim that so there they all all trimmed up and it's looking good so next step we are going to create the stain that i mentioned and just adding some water to this charcoal rust-oleum chalk paint getting it to the right consistency and then i'm going to be coating the board [Music] so after i have a good code on here i'm going to go back through with a rag as you can see you can see the wood grain coming through i just love that and my goal here is just to help make the wood look aged and weathered as it can't talk as if it's been out in the sun and the rain and the salty air okay and you'll want to make sure you get all the edges and you don't have to do the back of it but i want to do the back of it just in case anybody happens to flip it over it looks like it's all cohesive [Music] so there we go so it's all nice and dry and we can start working with it and i'm going to start by taping it off in the different sections if you remember from the picture from birch lane there were blocks of color on it so i'm going to tape this off so that i can at least have clean lines within my blocks that being said you don't need to go crazy with the paint on this because we do want some of that uh wood color that aged wood to come through so the sign looks like it's weathered so starting with the chalk paint in nantucket blue i absolutely love this color there are three sections that we're going to be doing in this shade but um the third section will have to wait for a little bit using my heat gun in between just to help dry the paint because i like to work a little faster than the paint allows me to if i let it dry normally so you'll see my heat gun here and there as i try to speed up the project a little bit so now coming in with the agave waverly chalk paint this is also a really pretty color and you can see how i'm leaving some of the wood tone i actually wish i had left more of it than i had that one little section is almost perfect right there but in other places on the board i feel like i even use too much paint so don't be afraid to leave some of the wood green showing for this type of an effect [Music] some more of the agave that's the third block for that color [Music] now i'm coming in with the crystal this is also a waverly chalk paint in crystal and it looks white on the camera but it's actually a really pale uh crisp blue tone and i decided to go with that instead of the white because i felt like the white might be a little bit too stark so i thought that this was going to be a good option [Music] i mean with my fat paint brushes that's like too big for the container but it did the job so here's where i'll go back in after i get this dried up a little bit and do that last block with the nantucket [Music] i was so excited to do that last color that i forgot to uh tape it off but i realized momentarily and i'm like oh yeah i better take that off too so i don't uh mess up my paint job already so there we go and i did actually end up going back in with some white chalk paint because i decided that these colors really were a little bit too dark so you can see me dry brushing i took a little bit of paint on my brush wiped off most of it onto my covered surface there and then went back through with with white chalk paint just to distress it a little bit and and brighten it up a little bit i felt like these colors were a little deep for the black uh vinyl that i'm going to be using on it later i decided to try to sand it a little bit with my dollar tree sanding block but it wasn't really giving me the effect that i wanted so i kind of just left well enough alone at that point and here we are cutting our vinyl with the silhouette cameo so figured i would show you this at work a little bit because i don't know it just makes me happy i think it's such a neat machine i have no idea how they programmed it to do that but i just think it's really cool and there is our relax you'll notice that i did that in two parts because um my uh mat for my silhouette cameo is only a 12 inch mat you can get a 24 inch mat i have not invested in one yet so i just pieced it together and then you'll notice that i do have tails on this my font did not come with tails like that but i found an awesome video on youtube showing you how to actually add tails to any font that you want and i'll make sure that i put a link to that in the description box below so you can check that out if you have interest now you don't have to use a vinyl cutter if you have a silhouette or a cricut that's great but if you don't you can use a stencil for this you could hand letter it whatever works for you you could use a printable and transfer it there are a lot of different options here but wendy from white sparrow living had mentioned at one point that if you use your heat gun over the vinyl it helps to kind of help it suction to the wood so that's what i was doing there and there you have it what do you think here's a side-by-side comparison let me know in the comments box if you like it give me a big thumbs up hey everybody thank you so much for watching i hope that you're enjoying the projects so far i really do appreciate every single one of you if you have not already subscribed if you don't know who i am i'm corey welcome to my channel i am thrilled to have the opportunity to share all kinds of diys with you all crafts usually on a budget lots of dollar tree trash to treasure thrift flips things of that sort so a little bit of everything and i hope that you will subscribe if you haven't already and hit that bell so that you get notified every time i upload a new video my subscribers mean the world to me you all are so super special and i appreciate you so much so without further ado let's get right back to the projects diy number 10. for this project i am using my let's see if i can remember milan no manila rope i always want to call it milan it's manila rope and i had gotten this in a big spool off of amazon i believe i have a link for it in my description box and this is something that's called a monkey fist it's a special knot that you can tie and the instructions that i had and said to wrap it three times and so it's three times around and then three times the opposite way around those loops then three times through the original loops around the second set of loops hopefully you're understanding by watching what i'm doing so and then they recommend putting a ball inside of there and pulling it tight now when i used the three loop method if you will i found that i was able to still see a lot of that tennis ball in there so um as i was tightening it um and this is not a difficult knot to do i would say it just takes a little patience when it comes time to tighten it especially if you're using a rope like this that kind of catches on itself it doesn't slide real easily but you can see as i'm getting it tight i'm like there's not enough coverage here so i took it all apart and i decided i was going to do five loops instead so you can see i'm wrapping around my hand five times and this is loosely around my hand i'm making sure i'm keeping it loose now i'm going to take it around the middle so wrapping it five times around and i'm trying to keep all of the rope lined up as i do this so now once i have my five i'm going to take the end of it and loop it through the bottom loop and then up through the top loop but around the second set of loops that i had created i hope this is making sense and i hope you can tell from what i'm doing here but i will leave a link to the instructions that i used in the description box so if this is something you'd like to create yourself it's basically pictures with arrows and directions on how to do it and hopefully between that and what you can see me doing here you'll get it pretty easily i hope if i can do it you can do it so i went ahead and kept on keeping on getting my loops all set hopefully you can see now a little bit easier what i'm talking about about going in through those loops and around the other so hopefully this is making a little bit more sense now that it's starting to take shape a little bit so once you get it there you're gonna pop your ball in and it doesn't have to be a tennis ball i just happen to have a lot of tennis balls around because my pup sammy just loves to play catch and so my dad sent me all of his old tennis balls so i had an extra one that i could pop in there and so then i went to work at just tightening it up and i was just continuing to pull those ropes around or push them through and it's kind of a push and pull and just following the whole line of rope to get it tightened again if you have a smoother rope that you're working with this probably would tighten up a little bit easier now as i was doing it i pulled one loop free and i decided i kind of liked the way that looked having a little handle on it that wasn't tied in a knot so i went with that so you can see that loop sticking out there and then i trimmed off the ends and just tucked them in so that you can't even really see where it starts and where it ends and this is my monkey knot and or my monkey fist and i love this i was so happy with myself but leave me a comment and let me know what you think diy number eleven for this project i have a wine bottle this was a grapefruit rose bottle and i kept it because i thought it had a really cool texture to it and i am just going to take some of my folk art paint and i'm adding it in here and i'm adding some water so my acrylic paint was rather thick and i unfortunately added a little bit too much water so i was hoping to just try to coat the inside of the jar and we always talk about happy accidents right i'm like shaking away it was just too watery so i ended up adding a bunch of baking soda thinking i don't know i had it in my stash because i recently had done a bunch of bath bombs and bath salts and things so i was like you know what why not and it ended up just giving the inside a bit of a sandy kind of look to it so i actually thought that the effect was pretty cool considering that this is supposed to be a coastal diy right so now i am taking my twine that i picked up from the habitat for humanity restore i got this spool for 50 cents you guys they had a ton of it and i think i'm gonna have to go back and get some more of it hopefully they still have it in stock because i only picked up two spools um i only just now with um the projects today finished the first spool of it i've gotten so much use out of it if you guys didn't see my other video where i did the coasters i was able to make coasters out of this with some of the dollar tree cork adhesive cork paper so there's just so much you can do with this and it really lasted me quite a bit so i highly recommend it i'm loving it um so at any rate i went ahead and as you can see i wrapped the whole top of the bottle i actually did create um like a closed top with the twine as well and now i'm just knotting it a bunch of times down at the bottom and gonna go ahead and just create as like a simple knot but i knotted it over itself a few times just to make sure that it was going to be secure and it was not going to be able to go anywhere once i had that knot the way i wanted it i trimmed it off and then i frayed the end of that twine just to give it a little bit more interest and now i'm going to go ahead and wrap the bottom of the bottle as well and so just using my hot glue only at the top and bottom parts if you will so where i was starting the twine and then where i changed directions otherwise i did not use hot glue in between i just wrapped it and wrapped it and wrapped it and just the fact that the twine had already been secured it just holds it all in place so now i am taking my dollar tree shells and i'm just looking for a few shells that i can add to the bottom of this to give it some more interest using my hot glue and securing them right to the base on top of the twine and you can do this in whatever pattern you wish whatever types of shells you wish whatever colors if you don't like the blue bottle you can make another color if you want to write something on the outside of the bottle you can do that too just let your imagination take you wherever your heart desires so just added a bunch of seashells to the outside of this and that was it a little bit of hot glue secured everything down and we were good to go let me know what you think of this [Music] diy number 12. so this is my inspiration for the next project it's from kirklands and they had these three little bud vases that i thought were super cute and i've had these sitting on my shelf i actually have three of them but they're all the same shape so i figured i would just do one so i cleaned it off real well with my uh baby wipe and then i dried it off with a paper towel and i'm coming in with some mod podge because one of my actually more than one of my sweet subscribers um had shared with me that if you apply some mod podge or a clear coat of spray paint or something first to a shiny surface like this or to glass your chalk paint or whatever type of paint you're using will adhere a little bit better so i figured i would go for it so once that mod podge was dry i went ahead and gave it a coat of plaster chalk paint this is by waverly which is a plaid product um and i don't know what was going on but i kept losing the little hairs out of my paintbrush my paintbrush was like falling apart on me as i was trying to paint this so i went for another paintbrush and problem was soft but um so i went ahead and gave this a couple of coats i did use my heat gun in between and so i did start getting that crackle effect a little bit here and there but i was really okay with that because it made it look aged and i actually liked the effect so now i'm coming in with a little foam dauber i think that's what it's called just a round foam i don't want to say brush it's not a brush but hopefully you know what i mean and i am just dabbing on my nantucket blue chalk paint i love it this color it always makes me think of the beach and new england and that's it you guys so simple and so cute give me a thumbs up if you like this project diy number 13. this was my inspiration this was from pinterest again for this next project and so i am using from the dollar tree this little cutout from last year i had a pack it was like six in the pack and i had only used a few of them so i had that little ship wheel and then my little i don't think that's a palette what would you call that but that's a little dollar tree thingy i also have some wood beads and i have my antique wax that i am going to apply now with a baby wipe so it's my waverly antique wax using the baby wipe to just smear it on and remove the excess and once i had the whole thing covered as best as i could i did grab a little brush and got in between the spaces where i wasn't able to get with the baby wipe so once that was all set i took my twine and i don't remember where i got this twine from it might have been from walmart or the dollar tree i'm not really sure it's been on my stash for a while but i tied just a simple knot around one of those little braces i'll call it and i am threading on one of my wood beads and i'm gonna make sure both ends of my twine are through the bead and then i'm just going to create a knot there that is large enough to keep the bead from moving so i did go through and knotted a couple of times and just made sure that my bead was secure and then i'm going to thread on another bead and tie the other end to the other side of that brace if you will i don't know what else to call it other than a brace it's the piece of wood that is keeping the rest of the little slats together at the back so then i threaded the twine back up through the bead and i am knotting all of that off on that side as well just to make sure everything is nice and secure and then i'll go ahead and trim off my ends and i'll do the same exact thing with the other side so the bottom part if you will so tying that off and i'm just going to speed right through this so once i had all that set i am ready to apply my little ship's wheel i'm trying to decide how i want to have it arranged on here and then i figured out exactly where the glue would need to go and i did just use my hot glue for this if you want a better long-term bond the wood glue would work really well or even like 6 000 i think works on glue as well now i'm coming in with mineral chalk paint and i was loving how this turned out it's really hard i think to see on camera but it really gave it that nice weathered aged look and i just loved it so here i am admiring it and yes so let me know what you think of this cute little piece [Music] diy number 14. for this project i have a foam wreath form and then i have um the cotton nautical rope from the dollar tree i'm actually going to be using four packs of that so just opening it up and getting it ready to go i'm going to be using some hot glue to attach it to my wreath form i'm just going to hold that in place until the glue is cool enough so that i can start tugging away on it so holding that in place as i start to go ahead and wrap it and i'm just going to wrap the entire wreath form with the nautical rope until i get it all the way around and i just want to say thank you so much to my subscribers for your constant love and support i appreciate you all more than you know if this is your first time here thank you so much for being here i hope you'll consider subscribing and hitting that notification bell and coming and visiting me again sometime soon because i really do absolutely adore this community so once i got this completely wrapped with the nautical rope i went ahead and tied it off and then i tucked that little loop in under on the back side and i'm going to secure it with some hot glue and that's going to serve as my hanger and if you notice i was careful to make sure that all my seams are on the back of the wreath here and i did that just by continuing to twist the rope around and rolling it over the form until it was where i needed it to be so now i have these really cool armored starfish that i picked up from the hobby lobby and i've got some watered-down paint here that i am mixing so i had started out with a little bit of a tinge of blue in there i'm adding some light green i'm going to come back in with this really pretty aqua color um or like a turquoise until i get it to the color that i want and once i have it to the shade that i'm looking for i'm gonna go ahead i'm gonna paint our armored starfish and they absorbed the paint really pretty quick so um i was glad that i kind of mixed up quite a bit of paint here i probably could have even watered it down more than i did and it still would have been really really pretty but i just loved making these um kind of that sea color that you might find in like mexico or the caribbean so now i have this fisher fisher's men's net fishnet yeah that i got from the dollar tree and i was struggling with this you guys it was um wider net than i would have expected i don't know how to explain it like all the knots in the netting were further apart than i would have anticipated and so i don't know eventually i just kind of draped it over the wreath form i didn't want it going all the way around you certainly could i wanted mine to just be covering half of it so i kind of draped it around and it's pretty messy but i figured you know tangled fish net i don't i just kind of went with it so hopefully you are understanding what i'm saying and uh are sticking with me here so now i have at these really beautiful larger shells that i picked up from the hobby lobby you can get a bunch of shells at dollar tree and i do have shelves from the dollar tree that um i've been using for other projects in fact one of these i think might be for the dollar tree that orange one up top i can't remember but um the ones that i picked up from the hobby lobby were just a little bit bigger um and a little bit more substantial so i am just coming in with all of them and hot gluing them down once i decided where i wanted them and that's it you guys so pretty i love this let me know what you think diy number 15. so for this project i have this other little cut out from the dollar tree it came in that same pack as my little ship's wheel and i've given it a coat of the mineral chalk paint as well and now i'm coming in with some of my apple barrel colors that plaid has sent me i have a red and then i have this brushed metal color that i came across in my little stash that they had sent me and what i really wanted to do is try to come up with a rust color and i don't have so i know a holly from hot humble pie is always talking about um burnt umber and i do not have the burnt umber so i figured i was gonna just try and figure out another way for this to look like metal so i had started with a mineral i'm now adding on the brushed metal and i'm kind of mixing it with the mineral because the mineral wasn't entirely dry at this point so now i'm taking some my red and trying to mix it in with the brushed metal and it was turning more pink on me so i went ahead and grabbed out my black and i'm going to add a teeny tiny bit of black and trying to see if that might tone down the pink and bring it more to a rust color it still wasn't doing what i wanted so i went ahead and i grabbed some orange that they had also sent me and i'm gonna add a little bit of orange to that and eventually i do get it to what i think of as a nice kind of rusty brownish color and so i'm going to go ahead and i'm going to focus mainly on the edges of our little anchor here but really pretty much putting this rusty color anywhere i think you might see rust on an anchor and you know anchors spend a lot of time in the salt water or in the regular water i guess if you have a fresh water boat and they get rusty so i'm just kind of hitting it up pretty liberally i'm sorry my hand is right in the way i'm going to show you a little bit better in just a second but just going over it until i get it to a place that is pleasing to my eye as i always say so this is a just a way for you to be creative and make something your own and yeah so do it the way that you like and now i am going to go ahead and take some twine and i'm going to go ahead and knot this up at the top and then i continued to knot the shorter strand around the long strand if you will because i just wanted to kind of make like a chain type of look i guess to it so here i'm just figuring out my initial knot the way that i wanted it secured on there and then i'm just going to tie a few more knots up that length of of twine if you will and while i'm doing that i just want to say thank you to all of my wonderful subscribers and all of the love and support you guys have continued to bestow upon me all of the comments and i am so sorry that i have been behind on responding to all of you but i do want to assure you that i appreciate every single comment and i do read them i've just been so busy lately um with everything in good that's going on in my world and so um thank you for your patience with me as i get through the comments and um i hope you'll forgive my tardiness but thank you again so much for the support i really do appreciate you but let me know what you think of this cute little anchor diy number 16. this one is super easy we're going to use a vase from the dollar tree we're using white chalk paint from waverly nantucket blue chalk paint from um home decor plaid um and a couple of paint brushes right now i am using my hot um my heat gun excuse me to go ahead and get that label off some of them cut off so easily and others just do not so taking that off and then i'm using a wet wipe i was really amazed at how well this took all the residue off so recommend wet wipes if you need to take off that residue and then i'm just going to pour some of that white chalk paint right on there and slather it on i end up giving this two coats of paint um and also want to make sure that i use the paintbrush in the same direction sorry some of this is out of frame but you'll see i'm use trying to use the paintbrush going in the same direction here to just make sure all the brush strokes look uniform so there you can see i'm just kind of slowing down a little bit this is like four times the speed you guys so um i actually am going pretty slow doing that right there once that's dry with its two coats i'm going to tape off a stripe area with my painters tape and then i'm going to be coming back in with the nantucket blue chalk paint again and just painting that stripe on my vase so again this is such a simple and quick project so if you're just looking for something really striking that's easy and quick relatively speaking i mean the longest part of this is waiting for the paint to dry really this is a great project all right and the reveal isn't that sharp i love the blue against the white i think that's so pretty so now i'm just going to use some hydrangeas also from the dollar tree i've got 10 stems there five white and five blue i'm just gonna set them up in my little these and that's that what do you think give me a comment and give me a big thumbs up and let me know diy number 17. so this is my inspiration this is also from kirklands i thought it was so pretty now i don't have a clear glass vase or not vase um candle holder that is that type of shape but i did have this kind of bumpy one from the dollar tree so again another really quick cute project using my hot glue i am going to attach some of my jute twine to the top of this on either side and then once i have both sides secured and i'm using my awesome finger protectors that my subscribers sent me i'm gonna go ahead and apply some thinner twine around the whole top of this votive holder and so i'm just securing it with some more hot glue and then i'm going to just wrap and wrap and wrap and wrap until i get it to where i want it to be i did go down wrapping from the lip down for probably about a half an inch and then i came back up again and wrapped it back around so it had two layers of the twine but you can do it again do it however you like it and just using a tiny little bit of the hot glue so that it wouldn't be perceptible and there's our little candle holder let me know what you think in the comments diy number 18. so this is my inspiration photo this is from birch lane obviously it's out of stock but i'm going to be using dollar tree supplies so i have that little metallic blue marker that i showed you i also have these extra large ornaments that i had picked up during christmas time and i'm also going to be using dollar tree's watercolor paint but i didn't think to show that to you at the beginning here so apologies for that but i'm just cutting off the little nub and then i am using my sander just to sand it down so i have a nice smooth surface and then i did try to go in and sand down the little seam that these all have because i wanted that ridge to be as hidden as possible when i come back in and paint these so and i also did buff up that glossy one because i figured my chalk paint was going to stick better this is another instance where if you spray paint it you might have better luck although i have to say that the watercolors worked really well with the chalk paint in a little bit so i did fill in those little holes also with some hot glue and then just came back in and sanded that down to make it all nice and smooth again so now i'm going to give everything i wiped everything down made sure that i didn't have any of that residue left from all the sanding so all that little sanding dust and i came in and i gave everything actually two good coats of my adirondack white chalk paint so now i've got my dollar tree watercolors and my water is like off camera so sorry about that you'll see it in a little bit but um i am just going to come in and this is just the paintbrush that came with the watercolor set too so i'm coming in and just making like a little fat squiggly line around the top of my sphere and that's what i was going to do to get started and i honestly wasn't sure how things were gonna go with the watercolor i don't do stuff with watercolors i haven't used watercolor since well i guess i did do it a little bit when i was doing shades a number of years ago that was like back in high school in college so i haven't worked with watercolor since then and so i don't have a lot of experience with it but and that was just for some very basic stuff so long story short i wasn't sure how this was going to work out but i just kind of figured i would go with it and you know worst case scenario i'd paint over it and do something else so i started with these lines and then i figured you know what i'm gonna come in with just water on my brush now obviously it's still got the blue in that's loaded into my brush and i'm going over the blue that's already on my sphere but i'm just coming in with water and helping it to kind of bleed if you will it you know i was amazed at how little the paint moved when it was on here i was really concerned that because i was working with you know water and this very thin paint that it might start rolling all over the the ornament ball right it and it did not i was really surprised and that was why i said before that if you spray painted these with a glossier spray paint i don't know if it would work the same way so maybe you're better off using the chalk paint for this and then giving it a gloss coat afterwards when you're all done i left my mat i didn't come in with a sealer but um it wouldn't be a bad idea especially if you're gonna have them out on a table where they might get splashed with something you know when people are eating or drinking because these are watercolors obviously so water soluble if it gets wet later on it could be damaged so i just kept coming back in with more and more water and i found that the longer that the paint had had to dry so the drier that the paint was when i came back in with the water the more interesting the design ended up being because it had more lines so here i'm just coming in with my my blue water basically and i thought you know what i wanted to see what would happen if i put down water first and then came in with some of the paint um it really didn't make any difference from what i could tell so you probably could just do it either way but i don't know i was experimenting right so just doing this last bit of my sphere coming in with some of the blue and then i'll keep coming back in with more water to kind of help it uh smudge for lack of a better term smudge bleed but i thought this was so cool the way this is turning out you can see some of the parts that are a little bit drier there and the effect that it's giving i just thought it was really cool so now i'm ready for the second sphere and i'm coming in with just dabs of the dark blue and then my intention is that i'm going to come back and using water make little rectangles out of them and i'm doing this all over the sphere so you can see i'm starting to try to spread them out a little bit here i wasn't sure if i wanted to try and cover the whole sphere with the little dots first and then come back in and and smudge them so i kind of did it half and half so you can see here i'm coming back in and smudging them and this is all i did all over the sphere and it's really not difficult especially since the paint really does stay put [Music] and then as i finished up the one side you see how cool that is i really like this i think i might actually make more of these because i was really happy with them and you can make them all different patterns any color you know you don't need to use blue i've been really inspired by as i mentioned before um new england and coastal recently and so that was why i decided to come in with the blue and someone had actually asked if i might do some french country and so that was inspiring this a little bit as well so for this third sphere i'm now using that metallic blue marker you can see and this worked so nicely on the chalk paint as well highly recommend this it's from the dollar tree i also found one in pink so if you see those definitely pick them up but i'm just coming through and drawing little flowers they do not need to be perfect they're all different sizes some have five petals some have seven some have six it was just really whatever worked for that particular flower and just connecting them and by the way don't use your hot um heat gun on these i don't know if you saw that like bulge on one side of my sphere i like end up trying to camouflage it but um but yeah don't use the hot gun uh hot air gun what is that heat gun don't use that on these because it will deform them learn the hard way so once i had my pattern on there the way i wanted it you can now you could have left it like that right but i decided that i did want to come back in with the watercolor again and i am just using um depositing some of the darker color and then coming back in with the water again and some of them are lighter and some of them are darker just depending on how much water i ended up adding to the color that i had deposited so again i just was really happy with the effect for this and yeah pretty pretty proud of this project aside from that bulge on the side from using the heat gun but isn't that neat so now for this one i had thought that i was gonna maybe try and use this pen to um emphasize these little rectangles on here and then i decided that i was too afraid to mess it all up because i really did like the way that it looked already so i just kind of rubbed it off and here's a side by side comparison diy number 19. so this was my inspiration for this next project you'll have to tell me if this one is actually a fail because i'm still not sure how i feel about this one but i am using one of these um vases from the dollar tree and i am also using from the dollar tree the faux leather ribbon and i'm securing it with hot glue i'm starting out with my bands that are going around the um circumference is that what you would say around the perimeter you can see what i'm doing i am attaching them around the um the vase and the i guess about a third of the way down and then about two thirds of the way down and just securing them a couple of times um in a couple of spots around the v's so now i'm coming in and going to do an angled crisscross kind of dealie with the same faux leather ribbon and again just using my hot glue to secure everything in place and eventually i actually ran out of this chocolate faux leather ribbon this took more ribbon than i had anticipated and i wasn't sure honestly how much i had left on the roll if you do want to attempt this i probably used the equivalent of two full rolls of the ribbon and i think they are nine foot spools if i'm not mistaken so when i ran out of the chocolate i went and grabbed the other color that i had and i was like you know what i'm just gonna go for it we'll see how it looks um at least it was symmetrical with what i already had on there so i just went for it so we have a two-toned piece here um so going ahead and continuing on and just putting everything in at an angle starting at the top and working my way around to the bottom and just having everything crisscross so it's got kind of a cool pattern once i had all of that done i went ahead and started adding a piece around the top and i'm just securing the bottom half of the ribbon hopefully you can see what i'm doing here and i'm pulling it tight because i'm going to end up folding it around the lip to give a finished edge at the top so hopefully that makes sense so i'm just pulling it tight as tight as i can without having it slide up off of the vase and then once i got to the end i went ahead and started securing it inside the vase so taking whoop needed some more hot glue so taking my hot glue and adding that to the inside and just wrapping that around the lip of the vase all the way around so then i wanted to just add one more piece of ribbon at the base of that just to cover up that edge and just make it a little bit more substantial because it was just a really small edge right there hopefully you can kind of see it there and see what i mean so i just wanted to just add one more layer and have it be a little bit thicker um at the top there hopefully that makes sense so once i had all of that secured at the top i did go in and i added a band to the bottom as well just more hot glue and just making sure that everything is nice and secured along the bottom there to finish off that edge trying my best to get as close to the inspiration piece as i can so now i have this one last piece of the faux leather ribbon that i am trimming down to make for that little faux handle if you will and i just curved the edges on either side and now i am figuring out where i want to place them and i'm going to secure those with some hot glue as well just a little tiny dab on either side to make sure that they are nice and secure and once i have that done i am grabbing these little brass thumbtacks from the dollar tree and i'm going to clip off the little pokey part and i am going to then use these as little brads on either side of the lantern and they still had a little bit of a pokey thingy there so they kind of stuck right into the faux leather ribbon but i did use some hot glue there just to make sure everything was nice and secure and not going to be going anywhere and just a reminder this is metal so it does get hot with the hot glue so make sure you use your finger protector so you don't burn yourself in there and there it is so like i said jury's out on this one but let me know what you think in the comments diy number 20. so for this we're going to use two more of the vases from the dollar store waverly chalk paint in agave some shells some nautical rope e6000 hot glue painters tape some gloves a paintbrush and armor etch armor etch is going to help make our glass look frosted it's not going to help it it's actually going to frost the glass so just a side note here that the container states that it should not be used by anyone under the age of 18 so just a reminder that this is not a project for little kids and if you have little ones you might want to make sure that you're not using this in a place where they can reach up and grab my impression is that armor etch is some sort of an acid it literally eats away at the glass somehow and etches it permanently so you can actually put this in the dishwasher not that we would put candle holders in the dishwasher but if you wanted to use it on glassware you certainly could and it is dishwasher safe it is permanent so i went ahead and taped off a section because i was planning on just um etching the top half of the vases and then of course i totally space and i painted the bottom half which i realized about halfway through so that's all right i just went ahead and went back and etched the rest of it so you may notice that i've been using a lot of these vases in my projects it's because i've got about 30 plus of them in my basement right now so i'm slowly working through them my fiance and i had planned to get married this october but with things crazy the way they are with you know everything that's happening in the world right now we've decided to just postpone it which is fine um but i had started gathering all kinds of things and um had started looking into projects it's actually what got me started on my youtube journey i started looking for ideas and i came across some videos on youtube and i was hooked i started binge watching youtube videos and i've been a crafter actually all my life since the time i can remember i've always loved crafting and uh i can remember back in high school my mom suggesting that i should teach crafting classes but i never really had an outlet for it so anyway here is the project all frosted now i'm gonna come back in with some of the waverly chalk paint in agave and i'm just gonna paint a rough stripe on each of the vases or what we will have as candlestick holders or candle pillar holders and i'm not really being all that careful with it it is just kind of messy if you will as far as coverage goes because i just wanted it to um be a little more rustic looking so now using e6000 a little hot glue to get it started but then using e6000 all over the bottom part of the vase and we're going to be wrapping this with nautical rope [Music] and i really only used the hot glue to get it started to hold it for that immediate secure hold and then at the very end when i needed to make sure that it wasn't going to come loose until the e6000 dried there's really no sense in using the hot glue anywhere else it's really important to use the e6000 or another type of glue that would be a permanent bond that will not be impacted by heat because if you're going to use real candles in here it'll heat up if you're just using hot glue you risk melting the hot glue and having the whole thing unravel on you so i was really focused on the e6000 again with just using the hot glue beginning and end so there that is all wrapped up so now we're just going to add a little shell to give it a little bit more interest make it pretty i'm just gonna hot glue that on there should be enough of an insulator between the the glass and the shell with all of that nautical rope that we shouldn't worry about that coming off i shouldn't think and there we go and we're going to do the same thing to the other one so there we are with the second one and now i've decided i want to give it a little bit of a riser so i'm using some jenga tumbling blocks from dollar tree i know i didn't mention those at the beginning sorry about that it was a last-minute ad that i decided to uh to do once i had the project finished so just adding those with some e6000 again i'm sorry i'm a little bit out of frame here but hopefully you can get the gist of what i'm doing and that just lifted it up a little bit and then i did the same thing to the second one [Music] wiping off the glue so i don't bond it to my table surface and there you have it diy number 21. so this is my inspiration if you've been watching me lately you know i've kind of gone a little garland crazy but i found these beads already painted on amazon and i fell in love with them and i had to have them and here i don't know why i am counting them i'm like how many beads are in each of these it's 40. if i looked at the box it's a 160 piece set there are 40 of each yeah four is that right no 100 oh my goodness i can't do math 40 times 4 yes 160 i was right so i'm starting out with my beads i always like to start with three of one color on either end of my garland i don't know why i just kind of like to have it start and stop that way so that was what i did and then i started with a pattern so the pattern that i was doing is obviously i was trying to go light to a little bit darker to the darkest and then back again and i just was looking at this and i really wasn't thrilled with the way that it was looking it wasn't what i had in mind so i'm looking at it i'm like yeah i'm not i'm not liking this so i took it apart and i started over and realized i probably could have left those first three beads on there but i just went ahead and started again so now i'm alternating the colors with the white and the uh natural tones and i was much happier with this version of the pattern um so again you know this sort of thing you can create it however you'd like and however is pleasing to your eye so now i am looking for a shell i didn't have a sand dollar like the inspiration picture i thought about using a starfish but the ones that i have are much too large and so i really loved this seashell and there was little um kind of a edge to it that i thought maybe i could catch with my twine it wasn't having it so eventually i settled for one of these i think they're scallop shells and once i settled on the scallop shell that i was going to use i went ahead and wrapped my twine around the base of it and yeah i wasn't gonna settle for that one apparently so i went through and i dug out a bunch of them and i finally settled on one that was a little bit larger and a little bit more neutral so i went ahead and wrapped all my twine around the little base of the shell and then i tied it off so that it was nice and secure and then i was able to just slide my beads down to the base of the little shell and slid all of my beads all the way down so that everything was nice and tight on my garland then i went ahead and i left a little bit of a trail a trail a tail and now i am trying to figure out how to do my tassel and here i am with my little sweethearts box so hey whatever works right it was about the right size i did have um a continuation in that twine there was like a knot where the twine like ended and then started again so i just cut that out at a spot that i knew i was going to be clipping anyway on my tassel hopefully that makes sense so then i just started it again i do not know how many times i went around i think it was probably about 30 but then i took another piece of twine slid it in underneath all of the strands and tied it nice and tight at the top took it off my box and now i am lining it all up so that i can um go ahead and finish my tassel now i forgot to tuck in those little strands at the top here and then i remembered after i started so i'm like oops i need to do that so i tucked them down that way i don't have anything sticking up and out on my tassel just wrap that around probably eight or ten times and i'm using that little method that i've done in the past where i had left a loop so i'm tucking my end through the loop and then i'm able to pull it tight now if you are not familiar with tassels and this method that i learned from um anika at craft eat repeat i will leave the link to the video where i go through it in my description box so i am just using my embroidery needle to help thread the tassel onto the end of my garland and tying that off and then i'm going to take my needle and run it up through the first four or so beads so that i can tuck that away in there and that nobody will see the end that was tied and that's it i love this garland let me know what you think [Music] diy number 22. for this project i have a canvas from the dollar tree and then i'm also going to be using some of my folk art chalk paint in a bunch of different colors this first one is um like a light beige it's almost got a little bit of a peach to it but it's uh like a sand color if you will and so i just put down a few little um dots of the paint i came in with a couple of other colors in some blues and turquoise and that one big blob of paint that was not intentional the paint just came out a lot faster than i expected i had intended to be a little bit more judicious with it as it went across the canvas but you know we we do what we can and we make do with what we've got so it all worked out the end so i am taking a makeup sponge and i am just dabbing dabbing dabbing i started from the bottom and i'm working my way up so i've got my sand color and now i am working in this light turquoise or aqua i'm not really sure what color you would call this and then i'm going to go ahead and work in my darker turquoise color there in just a moment and then i'm going to work in some of that white as well and i literally am just dabbing and dabbing and using the same makeup sponge all the way through and then i'm going to go ahead and bring that paint back down and just try to get it to blend a little bit now as you can see along my horizon there i am just trying to keep a relatively straight line and i'm going to set that makeup sponge aside grab a new one and start with the colors for my sky so i've got that deeper blue color and then i also have some white there so i'm working in the blue and then i'm going to start working in some of the white my wispy little clouds now i always talk about not really being a painter and listen you guys if i can do this you can do this i think i've done maybe two other paintings ever both of which have been on my channel in the last year i'm coming up on almost a year you guys can believe it mid-june will be a year for my channel so coming up on my one year anniversary and i as you know if you've been following me from the beginning am not a trained painter i do not have a lot of experience with paint so again if i can do this you can do this here i have just balled up a piece of parchment paper and i am just dabbing it all over and this is to try to help blend the paint and also soften up the lines that the makeup sponge sometimes creates you can see it kind of turned it inside out because i want to keep my sky colors a little bit separate from my watercolors and i guess you would think of this as more like i don't know is this an impressionist kind of painting it's definitely not i i don't know like i said i'm not a painter i am just dabbling in it because i think it's fun and interesting and i am doing the best i can with it here and again if you like what you've seen trust me it is pretty much as easy as i'm making it look here it really is not a difficult thing so i really encourage you to give it a shot if you have interest in trying to attempt it um because yeah it really is it's not very difficult to do it the way that i'm doing it here so i decided i wanted to try and create a little sailboat on the horizon of my water and so i'm coming in with my white paint i was finding originally that my paint was a little too wet so you do want to make sure that it dries a little bit if you want to start painting on top of it you just want to make sure that you have a surface where you're not going to start pulling the um the base colors into your design that you're trying to apply to the top so just a quick little hint there i decided i wanted to give it a little red flag on top of the mast i don't know i just thought that that might be cute and then i'm coming in with some blue to create a base for my boat again i am not a fine artist i am just doing what makes my heart happy um definitely not a professional painter but you know what i was really pretty pleased with the way that it all turned out and i'm leaving a lot of this content in whereas with a lot of my other projects i tend to edit them down quite a bit only because i want you to be able to see exactly what i did and see that it really is not difficult what i'm doing so i decided i wanted to create a couple of little seabirds so i'm just using some white paint here with a fine brush and i am just kind of dotting it just gently and delicately in here so that i'm not making them too large i'm just adding a few little sea birds here [Music] now i decided i want to come back in with some more white and you can certainly continue to layer on the paint and get it to the way that you want it the great thing about paint is if you don't like what you got you can paint right over it right so my thought here was i was going to try to create a wave coming in on the beach so i've got the white foam and then i was adding that darker color to try to create shadow underneath the wave where it might be breaking so i don't know that i really was successful in achieving what i was looking to do but in the end i felt like it still looked pretty so even if my complete vision wasn't realized i was happy with the end results so and as you can see i'm just continuing to come in here with the parchment paper and dabbing dabbing dabbing and you're going to want to stick with me a little bit longer because i had that fun thing that i promised in just a couple of minutes so i'm just admiring my work here and let me know what you think [Music] diy number 23. so for this project i am using the twine that i had picked up from the habitat for humanity restore i got that spool for 50 cents you guys i'm just using one of these wood rounds from the hobby lobby as a measure because i needed a nice circle and then i've got my dollar tree cork sheets now these are self-adhesive so once i cut out my rounds i am just peeling away the paper backing and now i'm going to take advantage of the adhesive to apply my twine and i'm just going around and around and around and i wasn't sure at first how well this was gonna work but that adhesive is super sticky and it worked like a dream so i just cut that off in the middle and i'm tucking in that little end so that it is invisible now you could start in the center i chose to serve the outside because i wanted to make sure that i ended up in the middle hopefully that makes sense so i couldn't find my masking tape i had my scotch tape right there with me so i figured i was going to use this to create some lines um i was wishing at first that i had stencils of shells or starfish or anchors or something nautical but i didn't so i figured you know what i'm just going to make some stripes so i have this fabric arteza paint and it's a nice deep blue tone and i'm just coming in with my makeup sponge and dabbing on the paint in the areas that i created for my stripes so this worked out actually so well i was really super pleased with it i'm showing you right here you can see i didn't even wait for it to dry i'm taking my tape right off and showing you the results and i love these but you can do any sort of shape that you want what do you think let me know so here they are all four of them here we are with the final reveal [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] okay everybody that's it for today i hope that you enjoyed the projects if you did please give me a big thumbs up it really does help support my channel leave me a comment and let me know what your favorite project is because again it really does help my channel to grow and i sincerely appreciate you doing that because it allows me to continue doing what i love to do so until the next time be well be kind and make it a great day thank you so much for watching take good care [Music] bye [Music] you

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Id: 40EFpmvMQzQ

Length: 103min 39sec (6219 seconds)

Published: Tue May 18 2021