Six Sister's Stuff: Gallery Wall

Have you checked out Six Sister’s Stuff lately?

They just featured on our new scalloped frames on their website.

Be sure to stop by and see their darling post!

 

 

Tutorial Tuesday: Working With Bead Board

Hey Crafters! Rachel here with another Tutorial Tuesday post for you. I received an email from our reader Rebecca asking how we prep and paint bead board on our projects. She wrote, “I would love a tutorial on how to paint, sand, and stain bead board. It seems like a lot of the projects at The Wood Connection have one color all over the bead board and another color deep in the grooves of the bead board. I have tried painting that bead board and it is hard! I would love some help!”

Bead board is a particle board that doesn’t require too much prep work. Although, with any wood project whether it’s pine or particle board you always want to sand the sides of you wood. We sell sandpaper and sanding blocks at our store. The sanding blocks are really good to use but you can get more out sanding of regular sandpaper. When using sandpaper, I usually cut my sheet into 3 strips. Then take one strip and fold it into thirds. This way while you’re sanding the paper won’t slide.

When staining bead board we use Wood Sheen Rubbing Stain & Finish. (We sell it for $10.95 a bottle) This is what gives the grooves of the bead board a darker shade.

We’ve used Wood Sheen on projects like the pumpkin door hang, sunflowers, watermelons, beehive door hang  and many other projects. You can still use a regular stain but you won't get the contrast in colors like you will from the Wood Sheen. As well as the darker colors in the grooves of the bead board. Here you can see the difference.

 

  

For all Wood Connection projects we start by painting the bead board. After your paint is dry, add the Wood Sheen Stain over the paint and brush it over the entire surface. Once it's covered, wipe off the stain with a rag and let dry. When you're done you'll have a nice mix of colors on your bead board. This is from my pumpkin door hang using this technique.

 

 

You can also experiment by staining your bead board first and letting it dry approximately 1 hour. (Stain dries much faster on bead board than it does on pine. When staining pine, it take 24 hours for fully dry.) After your stain is dry you can add paint and sand to distress. Here is a photo of what this technique will look like.

 

Do you have a tutorial that you'd like to see for my next post?
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Pinterest Inspired Projects Guest Post

Hey guys, this is Bethia from Pinterest Inspired Projects here. Since posting last, my life has had some huge changes. The biggest being that I am pregnant, yay! I am currently 5 months along, and am waiting to find out the gender. This means that my nursery will need to be done gender neutral.

A few weeks ago I finally chose my color palette, and bought my first nursery project, curtains. Then I was wandering around The Wood Connection, and saw some really cute frames there. I have stenciled a frame in the past, and thought it would be darling to do a repeat performance, in my nursery colors.

 

 

Materials
Oval Frame from The Wood Connection
Stencil (I used Arabesque from Martha Stewart)
Paint
Brushes
Sponge Roller (I bought that at Michael's in the same area as the stencil)
Mirror (anything bigger than 12 x 12 needs to be purchased at a glass shop)

Before you paint anything, make sure that you know which colors you want where, and how you have to paint it. With the stencil I am using the color that the 'lines' will be is the color I have to paint first. My lines will be white, which makes everything easy. If I wanted to switch my colors I would have to make sure that my white would cover the orange underneath. After painting the front of my frame white, I started on my stencil.

I stenciled a frame in the past, and my design ended up being slightly tilted. To ensure I didnt do that this time, I took a piece of colored chalk and a level, and drew a line at the bottom of my frame. This allowed me to align my stencil perfectly straight.

There is my stencil framed mirror. I plan on putting the crib right below the frame.
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Bethia Wright

Friday Freebie: Glitter

 Hey guys, Natalie here! I excited to introduce our new Friday Freebie tips. Every Friday I will post a tip to explain how we use our embellishments.

Today I will give you a tip on how to use glitter! I love glitter! I can’t help but get a huge grin on my face when I use glitter on my projects! Glitter is such a great way to bling/jazz up your projects. Here we go… Ready. Set. Glitter.

*Remember to match the paint color to the glitter color the best you can! This will allow the glitter to pop and sparkle the way it’s intended.

*Another helpful tip to remember is to adhere the glitter to the wet paint. Click here to see step by step instructions.

The first five people in Murray and the first five people in American Fork to mention this post will receive one single glitter of their choice for FREE! The rest of the day you can receive one glitter of your choice for 20% off when you mention this post. Better hurry! Look for our next tip and freebie next Friday!

 

 

Jolly!

Have a holly JOLLY Christmas! It’s the best time of the year!

Many of our Christmas items are now in stock

and we’ll be adding more everyday this week!

To celebrate the season we are giving away

THREE Jolly letter sets on our Facebook page.

Visit our page to enter.

 

Pumpkin Porch Hang | KUTV.com

In case you missed our segment on Fresh Living

yesterday we have the link so you can watch.

  Pumpkin Porch Hang | KUTV.com  

 

What Our Crew Would Do- Rachel

Hey everyone, this is Rachel and I’m excited to show you my “What Our Crew Would Do” project. It is so simple and a perfect craft to have up in your home from September through November. I found this project through Better Homes and Garden as I was flipping through their pumpkin decorating ideas and this one really stood out to me.

Here’s your list of supplies:

6 ¾” candlestick

9” candlestick

Two- 4” circle plaques

Wood Glue

Rusty Twisted Wire

Burlap Ribbon

Satin Black Spray Paint

Pumpkins
 

I started by painting my candlesticks and plaques with regular black acrylic paint. After they were dry, I sprayed them with Rust-oleum black crayon satin spray paint. (Michelle B talked about Rust-oleum spray paint in her post and I have to agree with how awesome it is.) Now you’re probably wondering why I didn’t just spray them in the first place. Well here is my confession: I am an annoying perfectionist. I’ve learned from past projects that when I just spray painted the candlestick (which is made from birch) and the circle plaque (which is made from pine) they each a different finish after they were dry. To be honest, it’s not much of a difference but enough for me to notice. So I learned that by painting with the acrylic paint first and then spraying with spray paint that the finish on the two different woods is very similar. The candlestick on the left is painted with acyclic paint and then sprayed with spray paint. The candlestick on the right is painted with just acrylic paint.

 

Okay, so now after my super long perfectionist explanation we can move on. After everything is dry, you simply glue the plaque and the candlestick together and let them dry. You want the routed side of the plaque to face down when it's standing the right way. In the picture they are upside down so that it was easier to glue.

  

While they’re drying I worked on embellishing my pumpkins. I started by using 12” inches of rusty twisted wire per pumpkin.  I made a loop around the stem and wrapped the excess around a pencil. And have you seen how many cute ribbons we have lately? I seriously couldn’t decide… I ended up choosing brown burlap.

 

Then simply stack your pumpkins onto your candlesticks and you’re done. Thanks for stopping by!

Side Note: The Halloween candelabra was purchased from Wal-Mart 2 years ago. The crow is from Dollar Tree last year. And the books are from the thrift store that I painted black and hand wrote on with a silver marker.

All Things Kids Guest Post

Once again, I have the honor of posting for The Wood Connection. I love when I get to be creative and do a fun project from their store, with my own twist of course! ;)

Today I will be sharing how to make a block you will love to have up during the fall or year round for that matter. It all depends on the paper and photo you want to use. This project is also very simple and takes around 30-45 minutes (depending on drying time) from start to finish. Let's get started!

TOOLS YOU WILL NEED: (Keep in mind I got all my supplies from The Wood Connection. Gotta love one stop shopping!)

- An 8"x8" photo block
- A piece of bead board about 7"x7"
- Scrapbook paper
- String, ribbon, yarn or what every you want to use.
- Sand paper
- Wood glue
- Mini clothing line clip (I had one sitting at home)
- Paint and a foam paint brush
- A picture

Now we are ready to create the block!
1. Begin by sanding you block of wood so it's nice and smooth.

2. Paint the block of wood any color you want. I used a dark brown.

 

 

 

 

3. Once the paint dries you can then trace the block of wood onto the piece of scrapbook paper you plan to use.
 

4. Now put some wood glue on the block of wood and smooth it out. Then press the scrapbook paper onto the wood.

5. While that's drying, you can paint the bead board and get that ready. Once again you may choose what ever color you want.

6. Once the bead board is dry, put some wood glue on the back of it and place it in the middle of the wood block that has the scrapbook paper on it.

7. Let that dry for about 10 minutes. In the mean time you can get your mini clothes line pin and and picture ready.

8. Put a little glue on the back of the pin and press it to the bead board, and let dry.

9. Last but not least, add a little ribbon or what ever you want to the frame. I made a bow and glued it to the pin. This is just one way to do it. The ideas are endless! And wa-la... A cute block you can put in your home to display. Fun to make and super affordable! Go get yours today at The Wood Connection. Might I add, they have all their holiday stuff up too. Now's the time to go get your Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas decor and get craftin!

  Thank you to the staff over at The Wood Connection for letting me be a guest post again! I sure love coming in to see you ladies and getting my craft on! ;)

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Sassy Santuary Guest Post- Alphabet Banner

Hey there all you Wood Connection readers!  This is Krystal from Sassy Sanctuary here again today.  I'm so excited to be back and to share my latest creation with you! 

Last time I guest posted I was 22 weeks pregnant and on an organization kick,  now I am 33 weeks and its crunch time getting the baby's room done.  I headed over to The Wood Connection knowing I wanted to make something cute for the nursery.  I was immediately drawn to their cute pennants for banners.  The only problem is that this baby doesn't have a name yet.  (We are having a really hard time in the name department this go around!)  So what else can you have a banner say?  The alphabet!  I collected 26 of their pennants and headed home to get to work.

Wanna see how it turned out?

So much fun!

I am using the cutest fabric line in my baby's room.  It's called Fox Hollow by Monaluna and there is a print in the line that happens to be a woodland themed alphabet.  So that is where the inspiration came from and I shamelessly copied the fabric and painted the alphabet using tole paints.

Source

The process was really easy.   I started by selecting 2 of the fun pennant shapes (13 of each shape) and giving the tops of them a coat of white paint.

Then I took some wood stain and a q-tip and carefully stained the edges.  I think it gave it a neat look.

Then you start painting!  If you have something to look at, like fabric or a picture, its really easy to just break the images down and duplicate them.   Or it would be cute to cover the pennants in scrapbook paper and add vinyl letters if painting isn't your thing.

Once you are all done you'll want to give them a coat of sealer.  Then just string them up and hang!

For my wall it worked out best to hang in four rows. (6, 7, 6, 7)

And now, thanks to The Wood Connection, I have the first corner of the nursery officially done!

Come on over to Sassy Sanctuary and follow along to see how the rest of the room turns out.!  I'll also be giving away a $25 gift certificate to The Wood Connection so be sure to stop on by.

Thanks for reading!

What Our Crew Would Do- Michelle B

Hey there fellow crafters, this is Michelle B. from The Wood Connection! Halloween is by far my favorite holiday, so what better DIY craft to do than a Halloween one? Today I'm going to show you a tutorial for a Halloween Bat Wreath.

First you will need to get all of your supplies:

Wood Connection Supplies:

Tulle- $.50 per yard (I used 2 yds.)

Spider- $.25 each

Bats- $.75 (I used 3)

Black Paint- $1.29

Black Glitter- $4.95

Paint Brush- $.29

Other Supplies:

10” Vine Wreath (Hobby Lobby)- $3.99

Gray spray paint (I used Rust-Oleum Painter's Touch in satin granite)- $3.87

Note: Hobby Lobby always has 40% off coupons on their website! Print one off and save yourself a few extra dollars next time you go there!

Step One: Spray paint your wreath. I put two coats of spray paint on mine. I love Rust-Oleum spray paint! It does 2 times the coverage with one coat and you can even spray upside down with it.  

                            

Step Two: While the wreath was drying I went to work on my bats. I love glitter! It just adds that special sparkle to your project. We have an awesome tutorial for glittering on our blog that you can see here.

 Step Four: Hot glue gun your bats to the wreath.

                            

Step Five: I then tie your tulle onto the wreath and hot glue gunned my spider into the center of the bow where it's knotted.

Step Seven: Hang up your wreath and show off your cute new craft!