START BEING AWESOME.
0My cute husband made me this sign for the chevron bathroom we painted together. He gave this to me for Mothers Day this year (no I am not pregnant, my husband is just that awesome). If you know us you know this is one of our favorite sayings at our house. I was so excited to hang it up and thought it matched the bathroom perfectly!
First, remove the 1×4’s from the pallet. I pried one board off but that took too long so I used a sawsall and cut through the nails. Way better than prying.
First, remove the 1×4’s from the pallet. I pried one board off but that took too long so I used a sawsall and cut through the nails. Way better than prying.
After all the boards were removed, I ran them through the table saw. I did this to get clean edges and different board widths.
Once the boards were off, I painted all the boards white. I used Rustoleum (satin white) that I picked up at Home Depot.
Once the boards were all white, I nailed them together. I used two pieces across the back for support and nailed the pallet boards to them. I then created the text/stencil in photoshop and printed it out on a large printer at work.
Painted and assembled, I covered the entire surface with painters tape.
I made the printout/stencil the same size as the sign. I taped the printout/stencil on top then used a sheetrock knife to cut the words out. After I was done cutting all the words, I peeled all the tape off except the letters. With just the letters taped, I then painted over the whole sign. I’m not too good at waiting to peel off the letters, so after the first coat I peeled them off.
I let it dry for a couple hours then sanded the whole sign with 220 grit sand paper. Then applied some Antiquing Glaze, I picked it up at Lowe’s. I rubbed the glaze over the sign, let it try for a bit, and then wiped most of it off.
And that’s how to make a “legen, wait for it, dary” sign. (Both of these sayings are from How I met you Mother)
If you would like to purchase a sign, please email me at dani AT lovemedanimarie DOT com and I will give you more information. You can chose your saying and colors.
Ginny.mossman@doane.edu says
May 28, 2013 at 5:30 AMVery cool, this is so fun!
Ginny
Dani (Love Me, Dani Marie) says
May 28, 2013 at 6:00 AMthanks! it is a fun sign. it makes me smile everytime i walk past it.
Rachel Hubbard says
May 28, 2013 at 9:52 AMThis is so awesome (pun intended)! Thanks for sharing!
Bre @ Peacoats and Plaid says
May 28, 2013 at 10:02 AMAgain, I just LOVE this sign! And the saying 🙂 And you lol P.S. I’m loving the fresh look of your blog.
Amanda Schroeder says
May 28, 2013 at 3:02 PMCute!
Kristin Swenson says
May 29, 2013 at 8:09 AMI can’t believe you made that! It turned out awesome!
Dani (Love Me, Dani Marie) says
May 29, 2013 at 2:25 PMThanks girl!
Dani (Love Me, Dani Marie) says
May 29, 2013 at 2:25 PMIt was mostly my husband, I can’t take much credit! Thanks!!
Kristin Swenson says
May 29, 2013 at 2:38 PMWell, you helped right? Haha!
Katelyn Shaw says
May 29, 2013 at 9:47 PMWay to go bro! Who knew you had such mad skills when you use to avoid working with dad. LOL!
Cara Howard says
May 30, 2013 at 12:13 PMWOW!!!! SO AWESOME!!! <3
Dani (Love Me, Dani Marie) says
May 30, 2013 at 2:50 PMAH! THanks so much! It was a fun project to help with lol.
AMBER anders says
February 9, 2014 at 2:46 PMWhat does the glaze do?
dani says
February 10, 2014 at 12:00 AMHi! It gives it more of a distressed look 🙂 Let me know if you have any other questions!
XO