Scripture Signs

I love all of the signs with scripture on them but am not crazy about the price tag, so I decided to make some of my own. 

I used two pieces of poster board and drew out a template for my wall. I used various frames around the house to decide which sizes I wanted.

 Then I went to Lowe's, purchased a piece of wood, and had it cut into the different sizes.

I painted the pieces of wood black (the color that I wanted the letters to be.)

After drying, I used scrapbook stickers to create the Bible verses I wanted. Be sure to push the stickers down firmly so the next coat of paint does not bleed underneath. 

Then I painted over those with a tan color (for the background.) Be careful when doing this because it's easy to pull off the stickers when painting.

After this coat of paint dried I peeled up the stickers and had my own scripture signs. 

Laundry room signs

With a new year upon us my goal is to make more posts to my blog. I am constantly doing little projects but am too busy (or too lazy) to post them on here. So let's begin...

This weekend my awesome dad came down and added a new shelf to our laundry room. Afterwards I was inspired to "cuten" it up a little with some simple decor. Here is what I came up with....and the best part was it cost me practically nothing.

I designed the templates for what I wanted to print. (E-mail me or comment and I can send them to you.) Then I printed the templates directly on the burlap. 

 Then I painted three pieces of wood gray.

 Next I attached the burlap with tacks. Because of the wholes in the burlap I hammered them into the wood so the base of the tack is holding the burlap down.

 For the lost socks sign I used a heavy duty stapler and stapled clothes pins to the board. To do so simply slide the top of the pin over, staple, and slide back.

 Then I attached a  sawtooth to the back of each board...this step should have been done first as it was hard to hammer them in with the tacks on the other side already.

 Then I hung in the laundry room to soon be hidden by piles of laundry. :)

Printing on Burlap

I had recently seen on pinterest where people bought a special kind of paper in order to print on burlap. Quite honestly I had no desire to go look for this paper so I figured why not just print directly on the burlap. So I did and it worked! Here's how:

First I cut a piece of burlap slightly smaller than a piece of paper. I attached the burlap to a sheet of cardstock with a glue stick (around the edges only). (I tried using adhesive picture squares but the printer pulled the burlap off of them.) Then I ran it through the printer and immediately peeled the burlap off the cardstock. 

Tip: print in bold font!  Some of the ink runs through onto the paper and can make it difficult to read. Changing your font to bold makes this much easier.