Three Thrift Flips Using IOD and 10,000 SUB Giveaway

Hi everybody. Hope you're doing well today. Thank you. Thank you. I hit the 10,000 subscriber mark yesterday. Thanks to all of you. I appreciate it so, so much. That was a big milestone for me. And I know I have a lot of people that followed me over from my other channel that I have 8,000 subscribers on. And I appreciate all of you. And I'll be doing a video on that channel next week. So stay tuned for that. Anyway, I wanted to say thank you. And we are having a giveaway. I had a March until 10,000 giveaway going on. And I'm giving away everything in this suitcase. And I will be announcing two winners per video. And every video until everything's gone in my suitcase. So anyway, we're going to be doing that during this video. But what this video really is all about is not just my hitting 10,000 and not just the giveaways. But I have three flips that are all with the new holiday IOD 2025 release. So stay tuned for that. And I'll be talking about all the other stuff during the video. So sit back and enjoy. And thank you. All right. Let's get right into it. Project number one. I have an antique sewing machine drawer box. And I am putting these little feet on them. They're really wooden knobs that I bought off of Amazon. I use them a lot when I make risers. Anyway, I am gluing them on with some CA glue. It's just a super glue gel that has a spray. And I'm putting a lot of glue on there. This stuff holds extremely well. It bonds to anything. Normally I would use tight bond and let it set overnight. But I am trying to get all this done in one night. Okay. So now what I'm doing is I am going over these feet with Amber Honey Glaze by Pain Couture. And the reason I'm doing that is I'm trying to match the color, you know, reasonably close to what the box already is. At this particular time, I'm not sure if I'm going to leave them dark or if I'm going to paint them. But if I distress them back, I do want it to be the same color brown. So now what I'm doing is I put some alcohol on this. It had a sticker on it. I bought this at an antique store for $10. And it had a sticker on it. So alcohol does a great job of getting stickers right off and all the residue with it. I'm cleaning it out really good with alcohol. I clean a lot of things with alcohol. It does a good job. So now what I'm going to be doing is I'm mixing up some milk paint. And I am going to mix my own little custom color. This is Cheshire by Sweet Pickens. It is one of the bespoke Jamie Ray colors. But it's a little bit too light for what I want. So I am going to be also adding another color to this. It is In A Pickle. It is a little bit darker and brighter green. And what I'm going to do with that is I'm just going to go ahead and mix that up pretty good. I decide I need my little whisk later because it kind of mixes it up a little bit better. And then I mix it and I let it sit for about 10 minutes. So I start painting this and I am doing the tops. I'm not doing the inside of the box. I'm going to Whenever I have an antique piece, I like to leave portions of it natural just so that people can really tell that it was an antique. You know, I'll clean it up and maybe add a wax or something to it. But I usually just try and leave inside of drawers or the bottom of a table or whatever. So I put one whole coat on and then I use my heat gun and try and get some cracking on this. And I'm going to get a lot because I did not treat this wood at all. And I am assuming it has a stain on it. A lot of antiques will have stains and what that will do is it'll it'll cause the paint to not adhere really well. Although honestly this is doing better than I thought it was going to. I'm expecting a lot of chipping and cracking and I will get some later. I kind of caused it intentionally. I do decide to go ahead and do the bottom and do the feet. I just I kind of looked at it and you're not going to really be able to see the inside. So I don't know that if I left it dark that you would really get you know the two-tone effect from it. So I go ahead and paint the whole thing and of course I use my heat gun and I put a second coat on as well. After both coats are dry I take my sandpaper and start sanding off all of the rough pieces that are going to flake off and there's going to be a lot. There's a lot of loose paint on there. Like I said because I did not treat this that stain or usually it's an oil-based stain. It's the same as if you were to put wax on something and you know how it acts as a resist. Well that's what will happen a lot of times on a piece if you don't treat it with like shellac or some sort of a base coat primer but I knew it was going to do that. I just sprayed it with my 50% clear coat and water and I let it dry and now I'm going to sand off any residual pieces that are chipping. That clear coat and water will reactivate the milk paint again but at the same time it will seal it to when it dries no more the chipping will stop because basically you you glued it together and it's going to not it's not going to chip off anymore. But it will cause more cracking and crazing because it's a water-based product and then when it dries you just sand it off and then it kind of stops the chipping and cracking. And now what I did is I took in a pickle and I put some cheshire in it. So this batch of paint is going to have more in a pickle and less cheshire. What I usually do when I'm trying to make a piece look authentically old is I don't just put one color of milk paint on. I will usually put a couple because I want it to have layers. If you ever look at a really old piece it's not going to have just one color usually it's going to have layers of paint. So I try and pick paint that is similar in color but not the same and have enough of a difference that you will be able to see it when it's dry. So I'm going over the whole piece again but I am not looking for perfect coverage. I am covering most of it but it's okay if I don't get every spot and then I will take my heat gun and go over it and it will crack and chip but not nearly as much as it did before because that clear coat that I put on will act as a barrier and it will keep it from cracking nearly as much. I go ahead and do the bottom as well. Here you can really see the difference in the color. It's not a huge difference but there's enough of a difference that when this dries you'll see different shades and when it's completely dry I go over it again and completely just sand the whole thing down and I will go over this one more time with my clear coat and water mixture let it dry and sand it before we go on to putting the inlay on that we're going to be doing and as you can see it's not nearly as chippy as it was before and you can definitely see in this picture the two different colors together and how authentically old that makes that piece look. It definitely has just different shades of green so now what I'm doing is I'm cutting pieces of the new inlay set from the holiday 2025 release and it's La Follie or La Follet I'm not sure how you pronounce it and I'm cutting out pieces that can fit on this. I am going to take this little swag and put this on there. This definitely does not look overly Christmassy at all. It has a very cottagecore grannycore look to it to me that's why I chose this green color. I thought it would work well with it so I am spritzing the piece that I cut out with water on the paint side and I am going to be dropping this into clear coat and I am using Pinkator's Extreme Guard in a satin as my clear coat so I put my clear coat down and then I wet my inlay on the paint side and I drop it in then I will usually re-wet it with water and then I will press down with like a paper towel or wet wipe make sure that that inlay is making contact with that clear coat or paint or whatever you're putting in so now I'm cutting out some more pieces and I'm going to be putting that on this side so now I'm taking my Extreme Guard satin by Pinkator and I put a healthy amount on you do not want to put it on like you would just normally put clear coat you want to put a little bit extra and I wet the paint side of my inlay and then I drop it down where I want it you do have some time to maneuver if you haven't pressed it down you definitely can move things around a little bit because that paint's not activated yet and then of course I put my other little pieces that I'm going to put on the side and of course I wet them on the paint side I put them down and then I take a paper towel and kind of smush them in there and make sure that they are you know making good contact with whatever you're transferring it to so I go over it one more time and make sure everything is making good contact with the clear coat I've got this one piece left in the front where the handle was I didn't show you the handle earlier I'm going to actually put two different pieces on that because the handle goes in the middle and I want you to be able to see a little bit of it this is actually a very beautiful inlay set it I mean it has some Christmas pieces to it definitely look at my last video and I did a flip through of all the pages but it has a lot of these pieces with this gorgeous these beautiful flowers and definitely kind of even has a fall vibe when everything is dry I go over it with my mister with water you want to make sure it's completely dry and I'm misting this whole thing and remember milk paint is activated with water so I did put that clear coat on prior to putting the inlay on and it it otherwise all my paint would probably chip off and so what I'm doing now is I am lifting the inlays off and of course they are going to be a little chippy and they are going to be not perfect because we are using milk paint but that's kind of the point it would look kind of funny if we had this chippy piece and everything was perfect I just think inlays and this milk paint chippy look work so well together I just I really really love the combination of the two white that you see is just the clear coat not being dry all the way and also what's going on here is I am just taking some of that milk paint and you'll have a halo around your inlay sometimes and what that will do is that'll get rid of that halo so now I took a mixture of sweet pickens dark oil wax and it's clear wax because I didn't want it as dark and I'm going over the piece with the dark oil wax all over and I'm going to let it sit for about 10 minutes and then wipe it back and I use kind of a swirling motion because I'm trying to get that oil wax into where all the cracks are and the crazing so that it will really show up I also do the inside of the box as well and then I take a dry rag and I wipe it all back and just it will change the color of the green and make it look a little bit more vintage but because I put a clear coat on it it's not going to change it dramatically and I did put that clear coat on I didn't show you when the inlay was dry I sprayed it with some rust-oleum just one clear coat one spray with it you do have to do that on your inlays or all of this stuff would be smearing them right now so now what I'm doing is I am just taking some foam that I got from the dollar tree and filling this up I'm not gluing it in because uh you know I may not use this as a planter I may use it just to put things in I may you know I'm not sure I'm going to keep this for myself I definitely love the colors in this and I'm kind of going into a granny chic kind of vibe thing going on in some of the rooms in my house so I just have some florals that I got from different places some from dollar tree some from Hobby Lobby some from Walmart and this is it guys I love it I think it turned out really pretty let me know what you think okay now it's time for our first winner of the 10,000 sub giveaway I use random comet picker your name is going to flash up on the screen here and this is what you won gilded tinsel and the two-part crackle fine line crackle by pen art my email will be in the description box all you need to do is email me your address and I will get this out to you as soon as possible all right project number two guys this is a tray that I've had that I made over a long time ago it's actually just a tin tray and I put little feet on it that I bought off Amazon but it's really scratched up and I want to change it it had lover of flowers on it and I am going to go over this with two coats of raw silk by fusion and fusion is an all-in-one paint it adheres very easily and I won't have to worry about putting a top coat or anything on it and I'm going to go over the front and the back and I went over all the green also there you can see those little feet you could buy those on Amazon and now what I'm doing is I am going over all of that little edging that was green before I'm going to make it green again but I'm using conservatory by fusion again it's another all-in-one paint and this is actually a lot easier than you think I go in as close as I can with the bigger brush and then I take a small artist brush and I go right up to the edge and it really is not that hard to do and it takes really just one coat and some touch up and I think it really sets off this tray really well and it's going to work super well for a project and I paint those little feet with that same conservatory also and now what I've done is I have picked out part of the new clementine transfer set this is probably the most popular one well I don't know they they're all pretty popular but this is probably the most popular it has these gorgeous foliage and things in it and birds and butterflies it doesn't seem very christmasy so you just put your transfer down this comes off super super easy because I use fusion paint and now what I'm doing is I'm going over it after I burnished it with a clear coat and I used extreme guard satin by paint couture and then I took some of that extreme guard satin and I mixed it with amber honey glaze by paint couture and I made kind of a top coat that has a little bit of glaze mixed in I want to vintage this up a little I don't want it overly grungy so I put a lot of it on and then I wipe a lot of it off and I just try and make it look a little bit you know vintage and antique but not grungy so I'll wipe back quite a bit of it and what this is going to do is this is going to give me a second layer of top coat but it's also going to vintage this up a little bit at the same time and I just kind of pounce to make sure on the end that I don't have a bunch of lines everywhere and just try and make it look naturally old and not overly grungy and I'm going to do the back as well because obviously the back would look the same right and go through the same process so now I'm taking some antique gold wax by pint art and I'm going to go ahead and go over all of the raised portions of this also those little feet those little green feet on the bottom and that's it guys and I absolutely love this I love that it looks so transitional it does not look Christmas you could use this year round and the colors in it are beautiful okay here is winner number two and this is which you won you have won the Chanteclair mold by IOD and all of that decoupage paper just drop me your address in my email all right project number three this is a breadboard obviously I do a lot of these I sell a lot of these and they're always fun to make so I am mixing up some milk paint so it can set aside because we're going to be using that in a minute and this is called a truffle by sweet pickens and I mixed it up a little watery so I end up adding a little bit more to it later so what I'm going to be doing to this breadboard is I am going over this with my paint couture's amber honey glaze this is a great glaze if you want to you know you don't want to get a bunch of different ones and you want to start out with one because it's not too dark and it's not too light and I'm going to go over this board because this is a bamboo cutting board which is not very dark in color but it does have the wood graining in it and I'm going to go over this whole thing with this amber honey glaze I'm going to be putting a transfer on one of these sides and I don't want to use a wax because wax and transfers don't mix so this is a transfer that we're going to be using absolutely gorgeous and this is Santa's hollow and we're going to go ahead and paint some milk paint on there that truffle and we're going to go two coats and because I put that amber honey glaze on there it will chip and crack a little bit not a lot if I had put maybe a shellac on it or something it probably would crack more but if you don't put any barrier on wood and use milk paint what happens is the paint soaks into the wood it doesn't really crack um I did put a little bit of a barrier because a glaze is a top coat but if I use something stronger like a you know an extreme guard or a shellac or rust-oleum it would probably chip more but that's okay I don't really really want a lot of chipping so now what I'm doing after I put two coats on I am wet distressing my milk paint and I don't do that very often but I wanted to show you how easily milk paint distresses it is a fantastic paint to get to use if you want it wet distressing and now after I've done that I am spraying this with my 50 50 clear coat and water and then I'm going to go over it with my heat gun that is going to make it easier for my transfer to go on and it'll also probably cause a little bit more chipping and cracking because it does that because it re-wets your milk paint I sanded it off and then I cleaned it with a wet wipe to make sure there's no dust you want to make sure it's nice and and clean before you try and put on your transfer and again remember I put a clear coat on this you don't have to but it does make it easier on milk paint so I am going to put this lovely Santa there see doesn't he look good on that color it's a very vintagey looking kind of taupey color isn't it so I am going to go ahead and go over the transfer and just pull it off and then I put this little bit of holly down there on the bottom to fill in that blank spot and it was really easy to transfer this sometimes it can be hard on milk paint sometimes it goes on just fine I really think it has to do with how much distressing okay so now I've got out the new stamp set and I'm sanding it that preps it and I'm getting all the masks out and this new stamp set is called autumn blessings and what I'm doing with the masks that come with it is I use it to kind of let me kind of look and see what pattern I want it just gives me an idea of how I want to set it up on my my board and it works really well they have kind of stamped the color onto the masks now so it works really really well for that I'm going to go ahead and paint this board with that same truffle and it's going to take two coats again and after each coat I'm going to use my heat gun and it is going to give me a little bit of crackle not a lot I'm really not wanting a lot I purposely did that we will get a little bit but we're not going to get a ton most of the distressing is going to come from either sanding or wet distressing I wanted to definitely show you how well with just a baby wipe how easily this milk paint distresses it's really really great anyway I'm going to put my first stamp down and we're going to be layering this and the way it works is you put the stamps that are in front down first I go ahead and heat set it I'm adding a little ink to my ink pad I put my mask on that stamp that I just stamped and here is my second stamp that I'm going to put down you just push it down and press it with your hand got lift straight up I heat set it I always heat set it before I put another mask on so now I'm going to mask the two that I just stamped and now I'm going to take the bigger pumpkin and I'm going to go ahead and ink that up and this is going to be behind the other two so I go ahead and put that one down and if you ever are confused as the order just do it on paper first but basically whatever's in front you stamp first now there's a little gap there because I didn't press down enough on the bottom so I'm going to relay my stamp down and go down there and just push that ink down in there I didn't even re-ink it because the ink was already there and I'm going to go ahead and heat set this whole thing and now I picked this little wheat piece here and I'm going to put that up toward the top just right in that area right there and also too if you make a mistake if you have your baby wipes next to you you can just wipe it off and start over you have a little bit of leeway in there I did it a little bit too dark so I just kind of dabbed a little bit with my wet wipe and I took up some of that ink and now I'm going to do this whole piece isn't going to fit on there but a good portion of it is so I'm going to put that on the bottom and I ink that up and after everything is all done I am taking my Sweet Pickens oil wax and I this is full strength and I'm going to go over the whole thing and let it sit for 10 minutes and wipe it back I added a little neutral bow and that was it guys I hope you like it and we're going to play that game you guys tell me what I changed from what I did in the video or what I added in the comments I think that's kind of fun anyway let me know what you think about it if you're in need of any IOD products, Fusion, Pentart, Pain Couture, Sweet Pickens Milk Paint, JRV, Decoupage Papers you can get that on my website rehatchdesigns.com the link will be in the description $50 free shipping and under $58 flat rate shipping also guys don't forget that we have another giveaway contest going on and this is our Lift Upper YouTubers I take your suggestions in the comments of YouTubers that are around a thousand subscribers and I go over there and check out their channel pick something out replicate it and once I do that on my channel and do that video you guys go over there and subscribe and comment and then I pick a winner from that so another way to win and another contest to be in so hopefully you'll take part in that and I'll see you again soon everybody take care bye-bye