A few of us ladies have been working on a project for a little while. They are all over Pinterest these days. People doing crazy, cool things with old wooden pallets. So, we decided we would give it a shot.
Denise got a hold of a few old pallets, which we promptly tore a part and reassembled to look something like this...
I had a hard time decided what exactly I wanted to do with my pallet. There are lots of people that put fun sayings or verses on them, but I couldn't settle on a saying or verse that I really wanted to put on there. And then one day I was on Pinterest and I saw this...
Link
And I knew that's what I wanted to do, especially since my husband loves maps. So I found a vintage map poster on amazon for really cheap. I had to remake my pallet to fit the size specifications of the poster, and then I sanded and stained the pallet. The poster fit perfectly.
I first started by tearing the sides of the poster to make them look more worn.
Then I laid the poster on the pallet and used an little knife to slice the poster into pieces that fit each board of the pallet.
Carefully, I created some wrinkles and small tears in each piece so that it would have the worn look I was looking for. Using
Tacky Glue, I glued each panel of the poster to each panel of the pallet making sure the glue went all the way to each edge.
There were a few knots in the wood that I cut out from the poster.
For the last touch, I took matte
Mod Podge (I used matte so that it wouldn't have any shine on it when completed) and sealed then entire surface.
This finished product looks awesome. It's obviously different from that picture I originally found, but I am very happy with the outcome (and my husband also loves it).
