DIY Fall and Holiday Custom Wood Signs

Want to exercise your ain custom woods signs for the holidays? Follow these steps to exercise your own, reversible autumn woods signs too vacation woods signs.

Want to exercise your ain custom woods signs for the holidays DIY Fall too Holiday Custom Wood Signs

You know when yous choose those awkward spots inwards your domicile that yous simply can’t seem to abide by the correct decorations for? My fireplace is ane of those awkward spots that I was struggling to manner nicely. There is a fairly sparse infinite of brick on either side, too a window on either side of that. I was struggling amongst how to decorate therefore that I would choose visual involvement to the base of operations of my fireplace during the holidays too nil I had inwards my decor stash that worked. I scoured stores too, but nil seemed to check the space. So I decided that I would brand my ain custom woods signs. Since I made these Autumn woods signs final year, I choose had countless e-mails quest me to portion the tutorial— the 24-hour interval has come upward at last! Lol.

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The existent genius of these DIY autumn signs are that they are reversible. We made the frame inwards such a agency that yous tin decorate either side of the sign without either side looking similar a “back”. Most of the time, when yous brand signs similar these, you’re solely showing ane side at a fourth dimension anyway, too straightaway yous solely choose to shop ane seasonal sign instead of two!

How to brand your ain Custom Wood Signs?

If yous choose some basic woodworking skills too a Cricut auto of whatever type yous tin easily brand these signs! You don’t fifty-fifty need a Cricut machine, if yous are expert amongst a pigment brush or choose the correct stencils!

Here’s everything yous demand to brand your ain reversible autumn woods signs:

Materials

Paint (I used Fusion Mineral Paint)
1/4″ Plywood
3/4″ Pine board
Wood glue
Wood stain
Vinyl
Cricut Machine

Tools

Saw
Router Table or Table Saw (if yous desire a reversible frame)
Nail gun

Dimensions

The overall dimensions for the plywood board are 14″ past times 30″, amongst the frame on, it was 15.5″ past times 31.5″.

If yous desire to brand your frame reversible, yous demand a tabular array saw or a router table. For ours, nosotros used our router table, which is easier, too what nosotros would recommend if yous choose that option. You demand to purpose your saw to cutting your frame pieces into the proper length too width for your sign. Ours were 1.5″ broad x 3/4″ thick.

Once yous choose your frame pieces cut, purpose your router tabular array to cutting a 1/4″ groove inwards the centre of the frame, leaving a 1/4″ of woods frame on either side.

[Note: depending on how yous are joining your frame, yous may non desire to router through the ends or the seams could exhibit when yous attach them! We mitered our corners therefore it was fine for us to become all the agency through]

Your plywood should slide snuggly into the novel frame you’ve made.

If yous choose mitered all of your edges similar nosotros did (meaning nosotros cutting all 45 flat cuts inwards the corners), too therefore yous should live able to check your plywood board correct within of the frame.

Once yous know that everything is aligned too fits well, purpose woods mucilage to attach your frame, too a boom gun to boom all of your frame pieces together.

Paint your background too stain your woods inwards whatever color yous chose. I used Fusion Mineral Paint on my plywood. I painted ane side inwards Casement too ane side inwards Raw Silk.

Adding the Custom Lettering

The side past times side touchstone is to pigment your letters on! You tin impress too cutting your ain letters, or yous tin purpose your Cricut Cutting Machine to cutting your stencils onto vinyl, amongst my FREE cutting file hither (you are also agreeing to our Privacy Policy):

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Once yous choose your letters cutting out of vinyl, purpose a touchstone record or a ruler to abide by the centre points too guess where yous desire your letters to sit.

I was pretty obsessive virtually getting my pieces inwards the correct places, therefore it took me a petty piece to business everything upward properly! I wanted equal spacing betwixt every letter, too wrote out some math equations on the vinyl piece I was working to brand certain I was getting it right, but it was totally worth the extra effort.

Once the vinyl is inwards place, purpose a foam brush amongst a modest sum of pigment on it to fill upward inwards the letters. Make certain to dab some the vinyl edges origin therefore that the pigment doesn’t seep nether the vinyl, too to help secure the vinyl to the woods earlier yous pigment the remainder of the letters. You volition probable demand a twain of coats. That beautiful soft pinkish I used? It was called Damask past times Fusion Mineral Paint.

Our Finished Autumn Wood Signs

I was so happy amongst the woods signs when they were done! Doesn’t the sign await amazing when surrounded past times all of the beautiful autumn decor? I dearest the acme that it brings!

I’m also extremely glad that I decided to become amongst the soft pinkish color for fall. It’s such an odd alternative for autumn, but it looks perfect side past times side to our brick fireplace.

And the Reversible Holiday Wood Signs

But I didn’t halt there! Since I made my sign reversible, on the flip side I used Bayberry greenish to pigment the give-and-take JOYFUL. Which happened to live the perfect add-on to my Christmas fireplace equally well.

I want I had had a beautiful front end porch to photograph these inwards front end of, because I’m almost positive they would await amazing amongst some seasonal blossom pots beside the door!