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Designing a DIY Wood Sign

February 9, 2016 By stylishrevamp 1 Comment

First, let’s start off with… Way to go Denver!  Umm, really I don’t follow football…at all.  I just really like the Super Bowl party that we’ve been going to every year and seeing my friends, and I like half time, and let’s not forget about the Super Bowl food! Yep, that just about sums up my interest in football!

So, what I really do like at the moment is making and designing DIY wood signs.  This past Christmas I made the Believe sign. The year before that I made the Christmas Countdown Sign. (Still my favorite) I am already thinking about the sign I want to make for next Christmas!

I wanted to design a wood sign with our house number on it.  I have seen a few of these floating around on Pinterest but I wanted mine to look similar to a chalkboard.  So, this is what I came up with over the weekend.

Designing a DIY Wood Sign

Making these signs are so easy and inexpensive.  I used left over wood in the garage.  However, I did pick up more stain and an extra trim piece at Home Depot.

DIY Wood Home Sign

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The first thing I did was trim my wood to the size I wanted.  I needed mine to be kind of small so it would fit within my shelves. Once I got set up and went to start the circular saw, it wouldn’t start.  Talk about being frustrated!  It was freezing cold outside, I got everything ready, plugged the saw in and nothing! I knew at this point to just put everything away and start again another day because I tend to get sloppy when I am frustrated. I ended up buying the Ryobi battery Circular Saw.  I really like it.  For one, it is so much lighter than the saw we had, plus the Ryobi battery pack it uses is the same one that I have for my Ryobi brad nailer. I find all of their products very easy to use.

So once the cut was made, on the board for the actual sign, I found a can of white paint left over from previous projects.  I painted the board with two quick coats and let it dry overnight. The next day I used my Cricut cutter and cut the letters and numbers needed.  I used the chalkboard font for the letters.  I am not crazy about the font but I let Gman pick it out and he loves it so, I am fine with it. It is actually beginning to grow on me a bit.  The numbers were already loaded onto the Cricut so I used those rather than the chalkboard font. I wanted the numbers to be a bit more precise if that makes sense. Again, if you do not have a Cricut, you can used vinyl stickers from Michaels, stencils or free hand.

Once the letters and numbers were added to my board, I painted over the entire board with a flat black paint. While that was drying, I made the cuts to my frame pieces.  My husband tells me to measure twice and cut once.  I measure about 10 times and cut twice as much as that.  Sometimes I can make the simplest things the hardest! When I finally got the correct cuts, I stained the wood pieces with MinWax in Jacobean.

When everything was dry, I peeled the vinyl letters off the board. I gave it a light sanding to make the black paint look like a chalkboard.  Some of the white paint is popping through which helps give it the look of a wiped off chalkboard. Lastly, I attached the stained wood trim with my ryobi brad nailer

Making a DIY Wood Sign

DIY Chalkboard type Sign

DIY Wood Painted Sign

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you enjoyed this quick DIY Wood Sign tutorial.

Until Next Time,

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