Chewie and I recently (if you consider February recent?!) announced to our families that we're expecting a baby! And I wanted to do it in a super special way - so, of course, I scoured Pinterest for hours when we found out, looking for the perfect way to tell everyone. I eventually found this:
I absolutely fell in love with the concept and wanted to create one for our moms that excluded the great grand children portion, but couldn't find a great tutorial for it anywhere. The only thing I found mentioned using chipboard and doing your own woodwork. NOT. MY. KIND. OF. CRAFT.
I brainstormed ways to tweak this into something that would work for me and was relatively simple. And I think the outcome turned out pretty fantastic!
To make yours, you'll need:
- A base of some sort - I bought these wooden pretties at Michael's for $8.99
- Chalkboard paint - I got mine (Folk Art brand) at Walmart for $4.99
- Paintbrushes
- Pen
- Paint pen in whichever color you choose - mine was silver
- Chalk
The first thing I did was measure the size of the space I could actually use for the words. It was about 10x14.
Next, paint! And paint some more. All in all, we painted 3-4 coats of chalkboard paint on each wooden sign. We followed the instructions, which said to paint a coat and let it dry for an hour.
Once the paint is dry and cured, I printed out the words in the font I wanted to use. I created a document scaled to size to do this, which you should be able to do with any word processing file (I used powerpoint).
I cut out the words and placed them on the sign in the way I wanted them arranged and traced over all of the letters with a ball point pen, pressing firmly to leave an indent in the wood that I then traced with the silver paint pen (tutorial I used here).
Once it was dry, I added the numbers in chalk at the bottom, and voila! I love love love how they turned out and that the chalkboard aspect allows for changes to be made later on to the numbers on the board! Plus, it was a super easy and quick craft to do. I hope you enjoy making one yourself!
(Funny story related to this bottom picture - our young niece thought that the crossed out 7 was a mistake and 'helped' grandma and grandpa by erasing it! After a laugh, the 7 was added back for the full effect. :)
Happy crafting!
PS - We gave these to our moms back in February, and we were SO pleased with their responses - to the baby as well as the project. :)
I cut out the words and placed them on the sign in the way I wanted them arranged and traced over all of the letters with a ball point pen, pressing firmly to leave an indent in the wood that I then traced with the silver paint pen (tutorial I used here).
Once it was dry, I added the numbers in chalk at the bottom, and voila! I love love love how they turned out and that the chalkboard aspect allows for changes to be made later on to the numbers on the board! Plus, it was a super easy and quick craft to do. I hope you enjoy making one yourself!
(Funny story related to this bottom picture - our young niece thought that the crossed out 7 was a mistake and 'helped' grandma and grandpa by erasing it! After a laugh, the 7 was added back for the full effect. :)
Happy crafting!
PS - We gave these to our moms back in February, and we were SO pleased with their responses - to the baby as well as the project. :)
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