Die Cuttin Divas - Thanksgiving or Thanks

Happy Tuesday everyone!  Welcome to a brand new challenge over at Die Cuttin Divas!  Today's challenge is THANKSGIVING or THANKS.  I can't wait to show you what I created.

I am LOVING this sign!  I love the sentiment, and what it means to me.  I bought this file from the Silhouette Store.  Cut it out with some 651 Orcal and applied it to a sign that I stained.  This is now hanging in my dining room!

Be sure to pop over to the Die Cuttin Divas blog, to see what my fellow Divas created, and please play along with us!  I can't wait to see what you created!


A la prochaine,

Porch Rules - wood sign

Happy Thursday everyone!!  I am popping on to share a quick sign that I made a few weeks ago.  We redid our deck area this summer, and I LOVE spending time out there.  This is going to be put up next spring.

     
I bought the saying at the Silhouette Store.  I stained the wood with Espresso Minwax.  Cut out some 651 Orcal Vinyl, and just like that, a beautiful sign for my new oasis!

I hope you all have a creative day!

A la prochaine...

Wise Men Still Seek Him

Happy Wednesday everyone!  It is my day to share a project over on the PPPR blog.  I am so excited to show you the project I created with Lisa's cute files!!

I decided to make a wooden Christmas sign with one of Lisa's fun titles.  I used the PVPP (paint, vinyl, paint, peel) method where you adhere the vinyl to a painted board and paint the negative space.  I don't own a lot of vinyl, and this is a way to get different colors without buying a bunch of vinyl.

This sentiment, is one of my FAVORITE Christmas quotes.  For our, Christmas is all about the birth of Jesus, and this sentiment brings it all together for me.  

I love how this turned out!!  You can still see a bit of the wood grain underneath.  I was so pleased that the letters were crisp - the only other time I made a project like this, my paint bled a bit under the vinyl.  I learned the hard way, that I could avoid that by painting one coat of my base color over the vinyl before painting the colors.  It helps seal the edges of the vinyl so no paint can find its way underneath.

Here is the cut file I used, which you can find in the PPPR store.

Be sure to pop by the PPPR blog every day for some cute inspiration from all my fellow Design Team Divas!

A la prochaine...