A Scrap Wood Valentine's Day Letter

Here's our next stash-busting scrap wood project. It's an easy craft, and you don't even need a laser if you buy the hearts instead of making them.

First, we found two similar pieces of wood, and then we put two coats of white craft paint on them, back and front.

  

When the paint was totally dry, we added an X from corner to corner with a black paint pen.

Next, we spray painted a piece of 3mm scrap plywood red and cut two hearts out of it with initials burned in. You could just write the initials on if you buy the hearts at a store.

All you have to do then is glue the hearts to the center of the X and give your envelope to your favorite valentine! If you do have a laser, or nice handwriting, you can also engrave the other side of the wood with a Valentine's message, and maybe a stamp.

 Good luck making awesome things with your scraps. Post a comment and let us know what you made.

Scrap Wood Sign Project

We've been working on busting our wood stash. Here's this week's project from the scrap pile.

We started with some lath scraps and an old art project. The paint couldn't be sanded off easily, so we created a new surface for a sign by wood gluing the lath to the painted side of the wood. We weighted the glued parts down well for a few hours to make sure they stuck.

We ended up with this nice, rustic blank to work with. 

After sanding and measuring the board, we put a light coat of white spray paint on it  and let it dry before designing our sign in LightBurn.

It only took about an hour to burn it in our X-Tool laser. The effect was interesting since the lath boards weren't exactly the same height, but we liked the look of it.

After that, we used a band saw to cut off any extra lath edges that were hanging over and sanded the sign.

And voila! More scrap wood projects will be coming up! Leave a comment if you have a question or email us at bisonandbobcat.gmail.com.