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hello everyone it's cindy here again

with monarch mom diy

thanks so much for joining me today on

my channel where i love to bring you the

best tips and tools for creating

beautiful home decor

on a budget today i am back with four

more projects dollar tree diys that i'm

making for my craft show

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for this first project we are making

some faux book stacks

using some 2x6 wood some chalk paint

some ribbon and florals

and these stencils from a maker studio

so to make my book stacks i had a

two inch thick by six inch wide piece of

wood cut into seven

inch pieces i'm giving them each a coat

of this

kills chalk paint in white and i'm using

this stencil

your story right well

edit often so what you do with these

maker studio stencils is they are

slightly adhesive they are a triple mesh

stencil and for this medium

on wood i'm using chalk art so it uses a

very small amount

with this little spreader you just press

it

into the stencil and then

scrape away the excess and when you peel

it up

you see a nice crisp image

so if i had four books i would have done

that your story

also but i thought this would be great

to just use these three lines to make

my book stack so your story write well

and then the bottom one will be edit

often

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now i did seal those words in with a

matte finish

once those are completely dry i am going

to go ahead

and glue my fake books together

just so they don't all slide apart when

i put the ribbon on so

just starting on the bottom some hot

glue and then

to put the top one on now i'm using some

of this burlap ribbon

from dollar tree and it is wire edge so

i'm kind of forming it around my book

stack

and i'm going to hot glue it in place i

will do

one strip there to the left of the words

and then

you'll see in a moment i will do another

stripe of the ribbon going around the

long ways

of our book stack

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so here you can see it going to the left

of the words there

and then again like i said we'll do

another one going

down the center of the long way there

across the top and

down the sides

and there you can see both pieces of

ribbon kind of looks like a gift

then at the top there i'm just hot

gluing a little bit of greenery

and then i'm going to tie two bows

using my black and white gingham ribbon

from hobby lobby and just adding that

to the center of the florals just to

finish off

this book stack i am making four

different ones of these

for my craft show so we'll see how they

do

the wood costs maybe a

dollar 25.50 and then with the ribbon

about two dollars into this not counting

my stencils

so i will probably actually sell these

for ten dollars

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my second project for today will also be

using a maker studio stencil

an embroidery hoop three of the five

gallon paint stir sticks

some florals some paint and ribbon so

what i did with one package of three

five gallon paint sticks is i did

cut them on a saw so that the handle

part was gone and just gave me three

nice long pieces here you can see on the

back

i'm hot gluing some pieces of craft

stick to hold those together

to make like a little palette sign and

i'm going to give this one coat of

my black chalk paint called ink once

that's dry

i'm taking a different stencil from a

maker studio but the same

idea as the book stack i'm going to

stick that down where i want and this

time i'm using

some white chalk art

now i've made a couple of these wreaths

using embroidery hoops

i find these all the time at thrift

stores if you don't find them you can

always use

a hula hoop from dollar tree here i'm

using these three different colors of

lavender and just cutting the individual

stems off

and then now i am centering my hoop

and drawing lines where i need to put

glue and then

gluing the hoop to the front

of my little wood sign here once that's

dry

i can start adding my florals again i'm

just using

little bits of hot glue this does take a

little bit of time because you want to

hold each

floral piece until the glue is dry i

just think

this lavender from dollar tree right now

is so

pretty

once i have all the florals down that

i'm going to use i'm taking some of this

black and white gingham ribbon from

dollar tree and i'm going to

make a fold over bow you can see i

folded two layers

the back one is a little bit longer and

i'm just going to tie this in the center

with a piece of jute twine and then

fluff out the parts of my bow

i also took one long piece of the ribbon

and folded it in half

and then dovetailed it there i'm going

to glue that first

to the embroidery hoop and then i will

glue my bow on top of that

and once i had my bow in place i did

decide to add just a few more

little pieces of the lavender kind of

tucked

underneath the back of the bow there

just to finish off

this whole beautiful wreath

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and here's the finished look of this one

i'd love to know what you guys think

this is different from

the one i made before where i just did

greenery

on the left hand side

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for today's third project i'm using 29

jenga blocks

a pair of the foam dice some of these

month

stickers and either some sticker numbers

or painting them on but here i've got

two sets of four

and two sets of six and i'm going to use

my wood glue from dollar tree

to glue these sets together these are

going to be used

to build my box for this perpetual

calendar

now taking the two foam dice i am going

to

paint these with my mineral chalk paint

it does take about three coats just to

make sure you don't see

the dots anymore from the dice

but they do dry pretty quickly so three

coats didn't take

too long i'm also going to use that

mineral chalk paint

to paint six of my jingle blocks these

are going to be used

for the months on my calendar

now that my sets of four and sets of six

are

dry i am going to build this rectangle

and like i said this is going to be the

box that's going to hold our calendar

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now coming back to the six blocks we

painted gray

i'm using these month stickers that

actually came

in a happy planner sticker book but i

know you can get

sheets like this at hobby lobby and so

what i'm going to do

is each block is going to have two

months on it so

there you can see they are two-sided and

then coming back to my dice i did some

great this set i

also painted black i for these

i'm using my cricut joy i did

cut out some numbers but in the past

i have stenciled numbers on

you could also use number stickers from

dollar tree so on one of the cubes

you're going to do 0 1 2 3 4

5 and then on the other cube you're

going to do it

well here we go 0 1 2 3

4 5 and then the other cube is 0

1 2 7 8

and 9 which can also be six that is how

you need to make your cubes so you can

make

all the dates one to 31 now here's my

box all dry

i am taping off just these two

blocks on the top so i can paint over

the word jenga

just so it's not so visible

i'm also going to do that to my last

three blocks

i'm just painting over the one

top side that says jenga and you'll see

where i will put these blocks

in just a minute to finish out the frame

of our calendar box

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while that black paint is drying i'm

coming back to my month blocks

and i am putting a light layer of our

matte finish mod podge over the stickers

just to make sure they don't peel

off now i'm showing you where i'm going

to glue those last

three blocks this one is going to go

across the back there in the middle

and you'll see this top is going to hold

our month blocks then i'm going to do

one here

and then one also on the right just a

little bit of space

between the side blocks and the one in

the back

and to finish off our box here i'm going

to take the black and white checked

ribbon from hobby lobby and i'm just

going to go all the way

around the bottom of the box

and then also around the top edge of the

box as well

this project is completely customizable

this one is obviously very neutral

but you could personalize these make

them any color

you wanted as well as the dice

and the month blocks just make it fit

your color scheme

so here it's showing you how you put the

blocks in the bottom there

and then at the top you just have the

current month

facing out at the front

and you can see how the rest of the

month blocks just

fit up there on the top as well

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my last project for today is super easy

but i think it's really cute

i found some of these house-shaped

frames at dollar tree i have some of

these

wreath rub ons and some scrabble letters

and i'm also using some of this wood

looking

scrapbook paper from hobby lobby these

are scraps that i had in my stash

i'm just taking the backing out from the

frame and tracing it

on the back of my scrapbook paper and

then once i have that

traced and cut out i'm just going to fit

that back

into the frame and put the backing back

on

everything else we do we will be doing

to the front

of the glass

now i was able to find some of these

greenery rub on transfers at dollar tree

but if you can't find them you could

easily use some of the

hobby lobby um papery

leaf garland to make a little wreath

and that would work just as well here

you can see i took the scrabble letters

to spell

family and just using that jenga block

at the bottom

to make a nice space there and also

keep our word straight i'm just going to

use e6000 glue

to glue those to the front of the glass

then taking the rub on transfer off the

backing

and sticking it down where i want it on

the little house frame

you're going to just take a popsicle

stick and just rub it down

until it easily comes off of the backing

there

and for that last little farmhouse touch

i'm again taking my black and white

gingham ribbon

from hobby lobby and tying a small

little bow

that i will then glue to the front of my

little greenery

wreath

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and here's how all three of them turned

out that i made with the gray and the

brown

wood paper i think these were so so cute

and simple

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