Easy DIY Beachy Pallet Art ~Home Expert Series

 Welcome back my Beauties!
Its time for another edition of 

Furniture.com's Home Expert Series.

Today I will be showing you how to take a pile of  FREE Pallets...

And turn them into some Easy DIY Beachy Pallet art!

So come on over and see how to create some of your own! 

See you there!

Tide Pool Green Beachy Dresser Makeover

Good Morning my Beauties!
I have a fun Makeover for you guys this morning;

One that I did so long ago that I almost FORGOT about it.

 This was how it started.

An Older dark pine with a laminate top. 

I started on it as soon as we got from Spring Break......Yeah that's right; 

You heard me.......SPRING break...

On Friday my kids go on SUMMER break.

I told you I almost forgot about it.

ANYWHOOOOOO.....being inspired by our spring break vacation and 

the beach, I decided to go with a beachy feel.

I custom mixed up some green and green blue that I named Tide Pool Greens.

I painted it on the dresser and wet blended the drawers and the top with the lighter

green.

Once it was dried I waxed and buffed the whole thing.

 

For the handles I simply pulled off the back plates on the old hardware to give

it a little more updated modern feel. 

It went perfect with the Original Acrylic Painting I had painted

when we got home from vacation. 

The colors and theme of it all went together.

My painting "looking down or out" sat perched 

perfectly on top of the Tide Pool Green Beachy dresser.

While I kept the painting for myself (I couldn't let her go yet)

The dresser sold right away.

So someone besides me was feeling a bit beachy too.!

I hope you enjoyed the latest makeover.

Make sure you link up at our Something To Talk about Link Party that goes up 

Every Monday Morning.

Until Next time,

Go Make someones day BEAUTIFUL! 

Graphics Fairy Sea Horse "life is better" Magazine Rack Makeover

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Since its THURSDAY, I thought I would THROW BACK with this OLD post~!


Good Morning my Beauties...I hope you all had a fun, safe and relaxing
Holiday Weekend.
We had lots and lots of family time and finally by Sunday
we had a day to do NOTHING!
Well I guess I shouldn't say nothing since I did work on a project
but NOTHING in the sense that there was NOTHING on the schedule so
I could work..LOL

I worked on this cute little table. I have NO before pics of this cute Magazine Rack table
because honestly I had just planned on painting it and selling it without too much todo..
but once I got it to this point I decided with the color and the top having a weathered wood look
that it needed just a little more....ART-IS-BEAUTY-FYING if you know what I mean..:)

So I was trying to decide on something beachy and fun with the colors.
I had recently seen on the GRAPHICS FAIRY this cute little Sea Horse.
I Imported him into my Silhouette program and traced and cut it out and just duplicated it and flipped it to create a mirror image. I then added another "life is better at the beach" file I already had in my
Library.

Using my contact paper I cut out the stencil with my silhouette and placed
the stencil on the table top.

Painted on my graphic....

and VOILA!!! Life is better at the beach Magazine rack Makeover.
I am pretty thrilled with how this turned out. I
hope you enjoyed this Monday Makeover!
Have a BEAUTIFUL day!

Beachy Summer Handmade Signs made from free Pallet wood.

(hitting REPLAY today in the hopes that these posts will INSPIRE mother nature
to give us some warm weather.) :)

Good Morning my Beauties.
I hope this morning finds you well.
I have been a happy gal.
It was finally nice enough for me to be outside
and dismantle some pallets......
and you know what that means!
PALLET SIGNS!!

I cut up a bunch of boards and just used 2 boards behind to hold them together and screwed the
2 supports to the boards.
Then I slapped on some paint..

Now the fun part of deciding what to paint.
While our weather has been less than pleasant
I am JONESING for some beach time.
So I thought I would kick out some fun beach themed pallet art.

First my boat. I used chalk to draw it on the sign and just started painting.

Next the "Crab Shack"
I used my silhouette for this one.
I cut out a crab shape and then the words CRAB SHACK
and used it as a stencil.

The last sign I HAND PAINTED free hand...
Just to give it that authentic look, like it was made by
some lucky sun of a gun who lives at the beach..:)

I painted them all up and used JUTE tied to the back for hanging.

I still can't decide which one is my favorite.

They are suppose to go to my booth but I don't know..I may
have to make a couple for myself.

The best part...I had everything on hand,
so it cost me NADA, ZERO, ZILTCH...
I love it when a plan comes together!

I hope you guys enjoyed this tutorial
and hope YOU are getting some BEACHY Weather.
I think we are not going to get ours till Autumn.  :)
Have a BEAUTIFUL day!!

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Sea Horse Silhouette Pallet Art

Hello my Beauties~! I hope you are doing well!
I have been working on lots of SMALL projects
since this is the slow season right now for selling
big pieces of furniture.
I am loving making Pallet signs because it costs me almost nothing to make
besides my time and SANITY..LOL!

I have been wanting to BEACH up my mantle and so I started by cutting some pallet boards. I cut them the same length and using two boards on the back screwed into them to hold it together.
(while I am at it...since the summer only gets busier..if you want to follow me on INSTAGRAM...
you can get a sneak preview of my projects before they even make it to a blog post...
You can follow me at ..http://instagram.com/arttisbeauty )

I then white washed (and blue washed) the boards to give them an old beachy feel.

I then went to my SILHOUETTE program and picked the sea horse graphic. I blew it up to the size I wanted and cut my vinyl stencil. I laid the stencil on the pallet board and voila..
I had my sea horses!

and here it sits on my mantle; With the Coral I bought at Goodwill. (didn't want anyone thinking I stole it from some reef or something)  

A quick and easy way to SUMMER up a mantle!
I hope you have a BEAUTIFUL day!

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