My sweet hubby and I were recently in California and we saw sign very similar to this one so we decided to try our hand at making one for a dear friend. Last summer we had gone to a really cute farming area here in Idaho and picked through some barn wood and brought some home for projects.
While Hubby was in his shop putting together the barn wood sign, using a scrap piece of the barn wood I set out to test my whitewash. A word about whitewashing - many recipes and ideas out there on the best way to do this but I belong to the school of "the easier the better, do what works for you." Start out with a clean brush (do not use foam, this is rough wood), dip in water and brush a test area.
Using some diluted craft paint brush paint over the wet wood, you might have to add more water, when you like the look, stop and let it dry.
I was happy with the way it looked so went forward with painting the sign.
I also tried some of this Liming Wax on the other side of the board. If I was not transferring an image to the wood I would have used this as I love the look and nice finish attained with this product.
Straight from Hubby's shop - size is approximately 12x18 and he ripped strips of the barn wood to screw to the back so the sign will be easy to hang.
This is what it looks like after the whitewashing (be sure and do the tops and sides).
After drying - it will lighten up when it dries.
There are many ways to transfer images to wood and I decided with this rough wood and the fact that I wanted the sign to look old and rustic, I used Lesley Riley's TAP. In my resource area below I will list fonts used and size of each font. This photo is before the whitewash - the wording had been cut and placed to make sure that the scale was correct.
Using a hot dry iron you adhere the words (make sure you flip the image) to the whitewashed barn wood. Because the wood is old, dry and rough it will not adhere which was OK with me because I wanted it to look like maybe it had been around since 1963. After the transfer there were areas that I had to take a paint brush to and when that was dry I went back to some areas with whitewash again.
The final step was several coats of this matte, clear finish to protect the finish. Ready to put into the mail.
Resource
Barn Wood, go find a farmer :)
Krylon Low Odor Clear Finish, craft, hobby and hardware stores
Briwax Liming Wax, Briwax Liming Wax, 8 ounce
"The" Font, Mongolian Bati, sz 145
"Cyrus" Font, FrankRuehl, sz 180
"Family" Font, ChopinScript, sz 182
"Est 1963" Font, Century751SeBdBT, sz 99
Lesley Riley's TAP, Lesley Riley's TAP Transfer Artist Paper 5-Sheet Pack: 5 Iron-on Image Transfer Sheets 8.5 x 11![]()
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We have the good and great fortune to live near three of our five grandchildren. Since moving to Idaho, on their birthdays, we like to invite them to spend a "birthday day" or hours with us to celebrate with Grammie & Poppa. So today's post is the most recent birthday invitation for soon to be, eight year old twins, Belle and Mitchie.
I admit I did not have a plan other than I had purchased these little paper-mâché boxes and cones thinking I would find a recent photo for the cones and decorate the boxes. I had thought I would find some antique paper to cover the boxes with but then remembered I had some pink and black sticky back vinyl and took off from there.
Using a couple of simple white pom-pom's I colored them with Pebbles chalk, took just a few minutes and I had white no more! I love these chalks for all kinds of things, I find them useful.
One of the great things about this vinyl is the grid on the back as it makes it very easy to measure and cut out your pieces.
The box is covered, now for the cone.
Covered the cone and using Scotch Quick Dry Adhesive added a recent photo which I cut around to fit on the cone.
To finish off the box I went to my scrapbook embellishments and found these pears and some ric-rac, glued the ric-rac and randomly attached the pearls. Ready for some white sizzle, a wrapped sugar cookie and the invitation.
After the first one, the second one was very easy. Covered the box with vinyl, then added checkered duct tape (I cut for the correct width) and some cute 7Gypsies tape around the bottom.
To finish off the box I cut and folded some black ribbon that had pom-pom edges and glued around the raw edges of the cone.
Now to fill and they will be ready for delivery.
One of Grammie's sugar cookies dipped in glaze and lots of sparkly edible glitter (to be wrapped in Saran wrap).
Ready to go - hope these two like their invitations.
Resource
Cricut vinyl, Walmart and craft stores, online too, comes in many colors
Black & White duct tape, Big Lots
Pebbles chalks, craft stores and online
7Gypsies tape, online and craft stores
Pom-poms, craft stores and online
Pom-pom ribbon, Costco
Paper-mâché boxes and cones, craft stores
Font for invitation, Century 751 No2BT, 11pts.
Invitation created in Corel Draw
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I keep these little square gift boxes around as I think they come in quite handy for lots of projects not just as a gift box. My Valentine gifts are off via Priority Mail today. Please note the heart does not look foggy in person (or pink) - it is the glare off of the lamination on the photo.
Simple project - while the box is still flat cut out your felt pieces (easier to make the pieces with the box flat). I had some red felt fabric by the yard on hand but you could use felt squares. The Scotch Adhesive is great because it dries very fast, ribbon for a top bow, sizzle for filler and some Felties which are felt alphabet stickers and some twist ties and of course CHOCOLATE.
While the box is still flat cut out your felt and then glue onto the box. We are not upholstering furniture here so if you have some white spots showing you can always go over them with a red sharpie.
Next I added a heart I laminated from The Graphic's Fairy and then using either a punch or a ice pick punch two holes more towards the back of the lid.
Now you can string a twist tie into the two holes, add some sizzle to the box...
Filled with a big foil chocolate heart (also tucked inside an iTunes Gift Card) and other yummy Valentine candies.
Now you see why the punch needs to go towards the back - you need enough of ribbon length for the name - Ryan just happens to be my first born grandson. Decided after I took this photos to turn the letters the other way, much better.
The last thing to do is to add the little filligree heart sticker to cover the twist tie - ready for the mail. One down and four more to go!
All five, ready to be delivered and to go into the mail.
Resource
Square boxes, craft store
Ribbon, Costco
Felt, craft or fabric store
Glue, hardware, craft, notions store
Laminated with a lami-label, Kinko's Fed-Ex Store
Heart, The Graphic's Fairy, Link
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