Pocket Full of Pink: Barn wood sign redo

Thursday, March 17, 2011

SPRING barn wood sign Tutorial

I have been so excited to show you this! The other day I went to the Salvation Army's 1/2 off sale. I LOVE when they have their sale!! It makes me sooo happy:)

So I went shopping and found all of these treasures:

See the sign? It's really not THAT ugly, but I wanted to make something different from it, so I took my palm sander to it! All of these goodies cost me about .50-$1.00! Love a good deal, right??

After I sanded the heck out of it, I spray painted it with heirloom white.
Then I picked out my paint colors:

Folk Art- Sweetheart Pink

Americana- Spa Blue

Americana- Lilac

Delta- Custard

Americana- Tangerine

Next, I cut out the letters with my Cricut machine. I used white contact paper and it worked great! That saves a ton of money!!

After the machine cut out the letters, I made sure I kept the inside of the R, P, and G. Then I stippled using the contact paper cut letters as stencils. It went really fast! I only had to redo the I. The first one was too light, so I changed to Sweetheart pink. It worked perfectly!

When the paint was dry, I sanded over the letters just a little and over the rest of the sign. Then I glued some large ric rac on the top and bottom with my glue gun.

Next, I added 3 little ribbon rosette's on each side to fill up some blank space. The sign already had some wire attached to hang, but I decided to replace it with new 19 gauge wire.

How do you think it looks?? I would love to hear your comments!