As for me and my house

A friend I went to school with texted me a while ago and asked if I would maker her a sign with the scripture Joshua 24:14 on it and to make it out of pallet wood.  She sent me a picture of one she liked and I altered it a little bit to fit what we were looking for.

I wanted the sign to have a different length board for each line.  Who knew it would be so hard to find 2 pallets with the same kind of wood?  I built the base and coated it with Polyurethane so the grain would stand out.

This is the finished sign!  What do you think?

This was the base before I put the letters on.  I'm always amazed at how much of a difference a coat of Poly makes.

This was another base I made out of stained pine.  Now I just need to decide what I want to do with it.

Glittered Deer Head

This craft is all over Pinterest and I decided it would be a cute addition to the Collage for Evelyn's room

This isn't where it will be I just needed to put it somewhere to take pictures of it

I used my Silhouette Cameo to cut out the deer head.  It was a shape that was a mounted deer head and I just deleted the plaque from the background and cut out the design on some card stock.

The items I used for this project were

Gold Glitter

Super Hold Hairspray

Mod Podge

Canvas

DIY Hand Painted Sign

After my Pocket Change Signs I wanted to find another way that you could paint signs with it being even more crisp and clean.

I searched and searched and finally decided to give transfer paper a try.

I don't know if I just don't know where to look or what but geeze it took me forever to find it!

I finally went to Hobby Lobby and asked one of the employee's if they had any and she found me this.

Not exactly what I was expecting to find but it worked.

I printed off what the saying that I wanted and put the transfer paper in-between the wood and my printed paper.  I traced around the letters barely having to press down.  Use a pressure you would if you were just writing.

Then with Acrylic Paint I filled in the lines.  It would be better to use a transfer paper that is the same color you plan to paint but in my case I could only find white transfer paper and I had black paint on hand. Oops.  Oh well, I'll figure out how to plan one day!

Love String Art

I am so excited to post this project.

I've seen string art a lot on Pinterest and decided to give it a try.

With the pallet I took apart in my last post I made the sign using my Kreg Jig to hold it together.

I've seen Kreg Jigs on a lot of DIY blogs and decided to give in and buy the Jr. version.

Let me tell ya,

BEST INVESTMENT EVER!!

I love it.  I had to do some convincing while we were in Lowes to get Jefferson to let me buy it but once we got home and I showed him how it worked he kept saying how amazing it was!

 Ok, the first step is to print or free hand draw the lettering that you want onto the wood.  I printed and then nailed to nails to the paper and then ripped it off. I didn't really like the font I used so I free handed some of the nailing. 

I used embroidery thread and outlined the letters first before I got going with all of the zig zagging.

This project is super time consuming.  I think I spent between 3 and 4 hours on it (enter surprised emoji) (hint hint blogger)

It is just so cool! I love it so much!

Voila!  

If you would like to purchase this sign please visit my etsy shop! 

The Project Garage

Keep The Change

I am in the works of a big project so for my first "real project" post I will post a sign I just made for my Etsy shop!

I keep a jar in my laundry room for coins and random bills that Jefferson leaves in his pockets.

Random bills don't last in my pockets because I always find something to spend them on!

Some days Jefferson forgets to empty his pockets so I figured this would be a friendly reminder.

Here is the AWESOME finished product!

I had a scrap piece of wood in my garage and it measured 14x7.

I painted the wood with some Grey Valspar paint I picked up at Lowes today.

 The first one I did I printed off a piece of paper with a saying I want and traced around the letters with a Ballpoint pen.

You want to press hard enough that you leave an indent in the wood.

I then took a small paint brush and painted within the indentations in the wood.   

After I finished this sign I realized I didn't like  how unclean the lines were so I went and found another piece of wood and started a new sign. :(

Luckily I had a cute little helper

I headed to my computer made a new saying and with my Silhouette created a stencil so I could just paint over the stencil.  Much easier but if you don't have a silhouette or have a steadier hand than I do go for the pen and paper method!

I love how this turned out and hope a lucky buyer finds my Etsy shop and decides they HAVE TO HAVE IT!

I know this shop only has 2 items for sale right now but I promise it will grow! :)

https://www.etsy.com/shop/TheProjectGarage