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Southern State of Mind Blog by Heather

DIY American Flag Pallet

in Easy DIY on 06/20/18

Thanks for stopping by to see our summer front porch yesterday. As promised, I’m sharing the simple tutorial for the American flag pallet art today.

It’s no secret that I love turning “trash” into “treasure” and this DIY pallet flag is a perfect example. I think by now pallets are probably old news. They made a splash on Pinterest back in the day when it was all pallet, chevron and #MASONJAREVERYTHING. 

But if loving pallets is wrong, I don’t want to be right! šŸ™‚

The first time I painted this pallet, I gave it a nautical feel with coral and aqua paint and a starfish as the stars. But after being outside for awhile, it had seen better days and needed a refresh. I was also looking to hang a flag on our front porch for the summer months. So this was the perfect reason to give this old pallet a new and improved patriotic flag refresh! 

I enlisted Sweet B to help and spent all of 15 minutes painting and hanging. 

For this project, I used DecoArt Outdoor Living paint in Ladybug  for the red and Picket Fence for the white. Shown in this image is the Poolside color but I actually ended up going with DecoArt Americana Decor Curb Appeal paint in Navy Blue that I had on hand. This  paint is a great choice for outdoor items and worked perfect on the pallet. 

Since I had already painted this pallet as a flag, it was easy to tape off to paint again. But if not, you can just eyeball where the blue would go.  For the stripes I just taped off the blue side and made the red and white stripes on each panel. Easy since very little taping was required. 

Once it was navy, red and white, I free-handed a few white stars on the navy section with the white paint.

Is it perfect? Not even close!

But that is part of the beauty! I reused an old pallet. The porch is festive. And no one cares about perfection. šŸ™‚

xoxo-

Heather

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  1. Linda says

    Jun. 21, 2018 at 10:42 am

    My grandson and I made similar flags for our homes and as a gift for his school teacher. She loved it! We built ours with old fence pickets!

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  2. Nita says

    Jun. 22, 2018 at 7:43 pm

    I love this pallet flag! I’m so patriotic that I try and put flags out on my deck and I always fly a large one at home. Not just the 4th of July but everyday!

    Reply
  3. Ivory says

    Jul. 9, 2018 at 11:49 pm

    I love these, very pretty. Thanks!

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