We have a huge wall over one of our couches in the living room that needed some sort of statement piece. I had seen lots of uses for pallets all over Pinterest, so that is what inspired this next craft.
-Materials:
8 pieces of 1” x 2” x 10’ slats
nails
glue
wood stain
sand paper
white paint
“ABC” stencils
paint brush
We made our pallet 3 ft tall and 4 ft wide, so we cut 3 3ft. pieces and the rest of the slats to 4 ft pieces. Use the 3ft. pieces and 2 4ft. pieces to frame the pallet. The 2 4ft. pieces are the top and bottom of the frame, the 3 3ft. pieces are the sides and middle - nail and glue these together. Use the rest of the 4ft pieces to create the flat slats across the front of the frame. We used 1 inch gaps between each slat.
*Builder Ben says to avoid the shape of your pallet warping, make sure you nail each slat alternating from top to bottom and work your way to the middle. You can also measure the distance of your top right corner to your bottom left corner and make sure it consistently matches the opposite corner to corner measurement.
Next, stain and sand your pallet and decide what you want to write on it!
We chose one of our favorite Bible verses. I used individual letter stencils for this and a teeny tiny paint brush. It took forever but we loved how it turned out!
After letting the paint dry, we lightly distressed the letters by hand. We're so happy we chose to make this ourselves, I think we'll love it forever!...sorry for the blurry pic, I'll get a better one ASAP!
No comments:
Post a Comment