Hand-Painted Sign + Silhouette Cameo

When I had my yard sale back in the Spring, I took my proceeds and bought myself a Silhouette Cameo. I’d been wanting one for a while, but didn’t want to spend the money. Money in my pocket = the perfect opportunity. 🙂

I wanted the Silhouette Cameo mainly to help me create signs for my house. I know it can create a ton of different things, but having typography in my decor is one of my favorites. {Before I remembered that it was called typography, I called it words on my walls. Ha! Sad for a journalism major.} And I want to be able to make my own meaningful typography.

I broke out the machine yesterday afternoon, was able to figure out how to use it and finish this sign before I went to bed. The longest part was just waiting for the stain and paint to dry. It was so fun to finally do a little, quick creative project again. With redoing the living room, laundry room and patio, and those last two are going slowly, it’s been a while since I’ve done a small creative project. I’ve officially missed it.

I started by figuring out exactly what I wanted my sign to say. I have been inspired by signs I’ve seen at various markets around town. They always say something cute like “Farmer’s Market” or “Grocery” or “Produce” – something perfect for the kitchen. I thought “Puckett’s Grocery” would be perfect since it’s a local restaurant in my home town.

I started by staining the sign with some leftover English Chestnut, a Minwax stain. I knew I wanted to distress the sign and have some of this dark stain come through.

Everything I used for this project I already had on hand. Yay for free! {Except for purchasing the Silhouette Cameo of course.}

I created my letters in the Silhouette software and cut them out with the double adhesive paper that came with my machine. I’m sure there’s probably a better way to do this, but it’s what I had on hand. I did accidentally cut through my cutting mat not once, but twice! I finally figured out what I was doing wrong and fixed it. As Miss A says, “oopsie daisy!”

Starting to look pretty good. I think I fell in love when I pulled back the adhesive letters. I’ve never been able to make such crisp and clean lettering! The adhesive did bleed through a little bit, but it was good enough for me!

And then I started painting the letters in a fun mustardy yellow color from Lowe’s. It’s called Redstone Dining Room Gold and I got it for free with a coupon back in the winter sometime.

I thought it would be a good idea to use the adhesive outlines of the letters to help me go faster, but when I pulled them up it pulled up a bunch of the white paint too. I didn’t like the look, so I free handed the rest of the letters.

This little cutie wanted her picture taken, too. Two-and-a-half is a fun and challenging age. We’ll just say that. 🙂 I think I’m overdue for a Miss A update … definitely need to write one soon! Otherwise I’ll forget all of the fun and challenging aspect of this age.

Once I painted all of the letters, I let it dry and then roughed it up a bit with some fine grit sandpaper. I absolutely love how it turned out. I originally planned to put it over my windows in my eat-in kitchen, but it’s too small. I think I’ll do another larger one for the windows and I’ll hang this one over the stove.

What do you think of my first Silhouette project?
Do you like typography in decorating?
Have you made signs for your home?

 

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