Thrifted items to Beautiful Decor!

Hey guys, it's Lisa and welcome to my channel. Today we're going to make over some items and we're going to start with this birdhouse. And this is one that I buy wholesale and I really like the way it looks but you've heard me say if you've watched long that I just don't do very well with galvanized items. I used to but not anymore but they make good items to paint. So I'm going to paint the body of this with the color buttercream and I'll just give it two coats and around the little rim there where the hole is it's more of an aged more of a brownish look I guess and so I'm not going to paint that. I'm going to be careful painting around that that I leave that because I like that contrast there and then I'm going to paint the roof in the color weeping willow and again I have that little rim there at the bottom just that little ridge that I can just work around and leave that that aged look and then also the bird on the top is that same look. So I'm not going to paint either of those and because those areas are raised it's very easy to paint around. Again I'm going to give this two coats of the color buttercream and weeping willow and then once that dries well I'm not even going to worry with distressing this because it has the little raised distressing on it anyway and I think that's enough contrast and then I'm going to spray this with a clear matte finish and I just use the Rust-Oleum clear matte finish and I'll give this two coats that way it can be used outside. Now these little signs are some other items that I bought wholesale actually several years ago and some of the colors that they came in you had to take all the colors and they just didn't sell well and also the words on this one the simplifies just not something that a lot of people decorate with so I got stuck with several of these and I'm painting some of them into signs for summer and so I'm going to use the two colors buttercream and weeping willow on this one and then I'm going to do some stenciling and add a little bit of transfer to this one and just make it a simple little sign to go in this vignette and because this sign is four separate little boards it makes it easier for me to trim this out without having to tape it off so again this will get two coats and and then I'm going to do some pretty heavy distressing on this one with my orbital sander and then I'll finish it off once I get the stenciling and the transfers on I will finish this off with a clear matte finish as well now it's recommended that you clear coat before that you seal your item before you put the transfers on but a lot of times I just take a chance and do it without doing that and don't have any problem getting it to stick and I didn't with this one and then I just did my clear coating at the end now these are some IOD transfers that I got from my friend I think Paula gave me these and so I'm just kind of cutting pieces of these that I think will work with the colors that I'm using and and then I'm just going to add just a touch of these on both sides of the board and I will include this transfer set in the description again it's an IOD set I'll have to look up the name of it I forgot to show that here but I will add that in the description and I'll also add the stencil that I used on this one or something that is comparable to it now the next item that I'm going to make over is a little wall bucket and you've seen me make these over if you've watched me long long and I'm down to the last of them but this one I just painted in the same color buttercream and now I'm going to add a transfer to the top of this one and if I can find this one I'll also link it in the description but then the bottom of it I'm gonna paint in a Dixie Bell color called aubergine and that is a really pretty purple that once you add that white wax to will look almost identical to the color that's in these a pretty color at all so I spray painted this one in just an off-white color and that's all that I did to this one and now I can use it as a cloche to put some decor in that will go with the vignette that I'm working on and then I got this little bird given to me and it was almost the same color the birdcage was to begin with and just not something that I could make work in this vignette so I wanted this to be yellow but I wanted it to be a richer yellow so I first painted one coat of the color pine cone and then while that was still wet I went over it with one coat of the color kernel mustard now these are both or actually all these are Dixie Bell colors and then when that was almost dry I went over it with just a little bit of dry brushing the buttercream color on and that just kind of gave it a richer yellow look but not really yellow I just needed that color in my vignette so uh when I got finished with this I don't know that I was the happiest with the color that I ended up with but it went into the vignette it worked with it and it may be something that I make over later but for now I'm gonna leave it the way it turned out and then once this dried well then I went over it with some clear wax and uh and then just a little bit of brown wax uh down in the detail just so that the detail would pop but not uh dull this too much and I think that that might be where I made a mistake is once I finished it with the clear wax uh it was I was okay with it but then when I put the brown wax on it it seemed like it grabbed more brown in places that I didn't want it to and so it maybe dulled it more than I would have had it to do but sometimes that happens and and I just try it and see if it sells like that and then if it doesn't then I know that since I wasn't very happy with it maybe I've had at the store for a while I've not even put it out because this is just not something that I feel like would sell in my store in this color so I just gave this uh one coat um of a green spray paint it is Krylon Matte Sea Green and so I sprayed it with that I needed a spray paint on it because of all the nooks and crannies I knew there was no way that I could get that on but that's not the color exactly that I wanted so it was just a color that would go well as a base color and as you can see all I'm doing now is just brush uh just dry brushing the Weeping Willow over the top of that I still want a lot of the lighter green to show and I still want a lot of the the warmer tone from the wood so that's what I did to the whole thing and then once that dried then I sprayed it with a clear matte sealer and I just love the look that this has now and again I didn't have to uh really really cover it with the paint and I still got a good look with a lot of dimension in the color and I've passed up these in the past because um I just didn't think that they would sell but I really never thought about until this one I'm not sure how I ended up with this one but I really hadn't thought much about it until now to um to do this effect on it and I think it just made a really neat little plant stand now this next item is a little silver plate compote and I guess that's what this is but I'm using a little riser foot there and gluing right in the center with some gorilla glue and once that dries well then I'm going to paint the compote with two coats of the color Weeping Willow and and also this little foot is I'm also going to paint it that color and then uh and then I'll finish that off with a white wax and then the little bird is black that I'm gluing on it but I'm going to dry brush some yellow over the top of that and then finish that off with a white wax now I like the bird the color that it is but it's not going to go with this particular vignette I wanted to work some more yellow into it so I have a good dark color here to just dry brush over the top and give it more dimension now the next item that I'm going to make over is this little wooden coffee container I guess it's to put some items on a coffee bar and as you can see they lost a foot there and used a pencil eraser for that little foot and it it served the purpose I guess but I don't want to leave it like that obviously so I'm going to take all these off and then I'm going to put some regular little riser feet on it and I'm going to paint this in the color buttercream I'm going to give it two coats of the color buttercream and two coats of the color weeping willow just on the trim around the top and then I'm going to add some more of that same transfer that I used in one of the other projects on this and make it go with that vignette and then I'll finish this off with a clear matte finish I hope you guys enjoyed this video and I hope to see you in the next thank you so much for watching have a great evening and God bless you and your family