DIY Man Cave Decor: “Mopar or No Car”

Is your dad a auto guy? Would he know what Mopar means? Do you know what Mopar means?! I definitely had no clue until I met my husband. For those of yous that don’t know, its a reference to Dodge/Chrysler/Plymouth cars – commonly the fast ones! My hubby is hence into Mopars that my two-year-old has already memorized the phrase “Mopar or No Car!”. Seriously. So I knew I had a bully Father’s Day gift idea: novel DIY Man Cave Decor! 

This sign was genuinely pretty tardily to make! I genuinely gave this to my hubby every bit a surprise birthday gift. The hardest operate was sneaking inwards the garage in addition to working without him knowing I had been there!

Materials:

1×6″ board (at to the lowest degree 42″ of it)

Vinyl

Cricut Explore

White Paint

Scrap forest (for backing)

Wood Glue

Clamps

(or staple gun)

Hanging hardware

Saw

Wood Stain

Varnish (optional)

My Cricut Explore is honestly the best tool I have. I usage it ALL the time. For this project, I used their “upload an image” feature, in addition to uploaded an icon I flora inwards google search (there are a ton of Mopar images there!). Once your icon is uploaded, yous precisely click on the areas that yous don’t desire cutting (all the checkered parts inwards my pic).

Next, yous pick out how yous desire the icon saved. For this projection nosotros genuinely precisely desire to create a novel stencil, hence I chose “Save every bit a Cut File”.

I chose to brand my icon 11.5″ wide. The Cricut Explore tin sack cutting upwardly to 12″ yesteryear 24″ at once. When I had it sized the way I wanted it, I chose cut, in addition to laid my dial to “Vinyl” to cutting the vinyl.

The side yesteryear side stride is to cutting out your forest pieces for the sign. I used the mitre saw to cutting my pieces 14″ long, in addition to hence the tabular array saw to cutting them downward to 4.5″ side. This made my entire sign 14″ yesteryear 13.5″ (4.5″ x three boards). When I was done I applied my black stain in addition to allow the sign dry out overnight (and had to shroud it from hubby!).

Use your combat forest to attach the dorsum pieces together. In the photograph above, I glued the pieces amongst forest glue, in addition to also used the staple gun to staple the combat forest to the boards.

On this sign, I but used forest gum to attach the dorsum pieces. Either method volition work.

Now, yous desire to get got the vinyl stencil yous cutting out in addition to pare the outline off to stick it to the boards. You tin sack pare in addition to unpeel a chip until the placement is perfect. Make certain the edges are firmly down. Then catch your pigment in addition to pigment over the stencil.

[for a to a greater extent than inwards depth illustration of how to usage the stencil, see this post]

Remove your stencil in addition to yous are left amongst an awesome manful sign. You tin sack varnish over the pigment if yous similar at the end. This volition protect the forest from vesture in addition to tear.

Go twine it up! He’ll dearest it!

For approximately other bully Father’s Day DIY, endeavour these Leather Coasters!