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DIY Botanical Trivets–with Free Scroll Saw Patterns!

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Howdy HEY sweet friends! Just popping in again with another semi-quick/easy tutorial for ya to add to my ScrollSaw Workshop (AKA tons of creative scroll saw tutorials)! You know that plants are close to my heart (#crazyplantlady right here), and so I decided to cut some different leaf shapes out of wood (cutting boards!) with my scroll saw to make BOTANICAL TRIVETS! Are you not overwhelmed with excitement?! And I’ve included free scroll saw patterns for these as well! Come on now…

DIY Botanical Leaf Trivets made out of a cutting board and cut with a scroll saw!! {Reality Daydream}This post is sponsored by Mohawk and contains affiliate links. THANK YOU for supporting the fabulous brands that make Reality Daydream possible!

Supplies for Botanical Leaf Trivets

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Botanical leaf templates for plant trivets... Monstera, Banana Leaf, Bird of Paradise, Palm, Elephant Ear, and Xanadu {Reality Daydream}

Start out by printing out the above Botanical Printables (which ever ones you want to use!), and cutting out the shapes with scissors. Use an Xacto knife for the inner pieces. If you want your trivets to be larger, please feel free to use the template with all the leaves on it and print it onto a transparency and use a projector. That way you can make it any size!

Scroll Saw Patterns for Botanical Leaf Trivets {Reality Daydream}

Lay out your paper stencil onto the cutting board, and trace it out with a pen or pencil.

Make DIY Leaf Trivets from a Cutting Board using a scroll saw! {Reality Daydream}

Make Botanical Leaf Trivets out of a cutting board with a scrollsaw! {Reality Daydream}

Time to cut this sucka out with your scroll saw! I got a new scroll saw recently (this one!) and it is BOMB. It cuts like butter, is almost silent, and has so many features that I’m obsessed with. Here’s another one that’s very good an is in the ‘mid’ price range if you’re starting out. You truly get what you pay for when it comes to scroll saws! The pic below is of me cutting out one of the other botanical leaves, because I was filming the cutting out of the Monstera leaf above. Maybe someday I’ll figure out how to take a screen grab from a video clip.

Cut out botanical plants with your scroll saw to make forgeous leaf trivets out of cutting boards! {Reality Daydream}

For those inner pieces that need to be cut out, drill holes in them that are large enough to string the scroll saw blade through… then cut them out one at a time!

How to make trivets out of cutting board using a scroll saw {Reality Daydream}

Finally, sand it down until the protective finish is completely gone and you just have raw, porous wood! This took me about 10 seconds with my orbital sander. It might take you 2-3 minutes of hand-sanding.

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Wooden Monstera Leaf Trivet made out of a bamboo cutting board (with a scroll saw!) - Reality Daydream

Truthfully, you could just leave these trivets as-is. Because they’re GORGOUS as just raw wood (or in this case, bamboo).

Wooden or Bamboo Leaf Trivets made from a cutting board with a SCROLL SAW! {Reality Daydream}

But I wanted to add a little junglicious COLOR! So I got out my bright dye stains (Behlen Solar Lux Dye) that are fade resistant and dry SUPER fast. I decided to play mixologist and play around with mixing green with a bit of blue and a bit of yellow to get a variety of greens!

Solar Lux Dye Stain for Botanical Leaf Trivets {Reality Daydream}

It goes on super dull and brownish, and quickly dries into a bright and vibrant color!

Staining this leaf trivet with Solar Lux Dye {Reality Daydream}

Botanical Leaf Trivets - Made with a scroll saw! {Reality Daydream}

We used this Salad Bowl Finish to seal them… which is both food safe and heat safe! I love how organic these look… almost like watercolor!

Wooden or bamboo leaf trivets made from cutting boards with a scroll saw {Reality Daydream}

I had way too much fun taking pictures of these. Don’t you feel like you’re having brunch on a tropical island?! Except with zero actual food.

Wooden botanical leaf trivets in the shape of different plants! #scrollsaw {Reality Daydream}

And that one long leaf is big enough to comfortably fit a 9×13 pan or dutch oven!

DIY Botanical Leaf Trivets made out of a cutting board and cut with a scrollsaw! {Reality Daydream}

If you have any questions, leave me a comment below! And as always, if you give one of our tutorials a try, tag us on social media so we can seeeeee! We’re @RealityDaydream on both Instagram and Facebook!

~Bethany

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Make these Botanical Leaf Trivets out of an existing cutting board... using a scroll saw! {Reality Daydream}

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Comments

  1. 9

    Hi! Could you use a different type of wood for these and then seal them? What other types would you recommend? Love the project!!

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  2. 11

    Did you print the templates on regular 81/2 x 11 paper? Also, how did you get the one trivet so big? Love the designs and the ability we have to print them out.

    Thanks again, you two are awesome!!!

    Beverly New

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    • 12

      Hey Beverly! Yes I printed them on 8.5×11 paper. The one that I made larger I printed half on one page and half on the other, then taped them together! But you could also print it onto a transparency and project it onto your cutting board and trace. That way you could make it any size!

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    • 14

      Hi Vicki! US would have worked for this too, but I love playing around with different brands… they’re all good for different reasons! I was a little worried that US would have a strong scent of jasmine when something hot was set on the trivet (jasmine and country fried steak don’t got well together… hehe!). This Beylen alcohol dye is very unique, thin as water, and dries within seconds. It works awesome for this application, but I wouldn’t use it for my shading with stain technique like I would with US 😉

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  4. 16

    Those are great. Love the colors….but I also love the wood one shown in the pictures with the silver bowls on it. Did you make that one too?

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