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DIY Winter Decor Sign

Making a DIY Winter decor sign is the perfect craft for beginners and seasoned crafters! It will bring so much joy to your home even in the winter months! Follow along step by step as I show you how to make your new favorite winter decor sign for your own home! Let’s be honest. Winter is hard. It is cold, dark, filled with short days and long nights. Sometimes winter can be extra hard on us that love sunshine and warmth. Being cold, y’all is not my favorite. Can you tell? But this little sign really helps bring out the big smiles. While making it and decorating my home with it, I am nothing but joyful. Winter Joy Sign DIY Even though I may not be a fan of cold winter days I think that this little sign can bring joy to just about anyone who sees it. Its simplicity in design and reminder to find joy in all things are perfect for any DIY winter home decor. So, are you ready to get started on this adorable DIY sign? Are you feeling the joy yet? I know I am. This little or big sign can find a special place on your living room mantle, front entryway, or even your guest bathroom. It is a transitional piece that will look good anywhere you choose to decorate with it. You can keep it neutral in colors like mine or bright and festive for this holiday season. It doesn’t matter. Either way, this sign is a great new addition to your decor. Just like my Winter sign we made together! Scrap lumber, paints, and stencils are the way to warm my heart. On the coldest of days, working on projects like this brings me so much joy. This craft is great because you determine the size and colors to make it all your own! Be creative in your color choices or neutral to stick with your home palette. It doesn’t matter, and it will turn out fantastic either way! Supplies needed for your Winter Decor Sign: Large Scrap wood – scrap lumber any size Black and tan acrylic paint – or your choice based on your personal home decor Stencils – J, Y, and Snowflake Paintbrush Heat Gun/dryer Snowflake Stencils  Finger daubers Sanding block Fast Drying Acrylic Spray Seal Step by step instructions to make your sign: Grab your desired size scrap lumber. Depending on the size stencils you have will determine which size scrap lumber you want to use.  With some tan* paint, give a base coat to your 1 wooden block. Cover completely. Don’t forget to do the sides.  Let your paint dry or use a heat gun to speed up the drying process. Touch up any spots that you may have missed. Beginning at the bottom on your board, place your Y stencil down first. Play with placement on your wooden board. You can measure it out if you are extra precise, or eyeball it like me.  With your black acrylic paint, begin stamping out your letter Y with black paint. Use finger daubers to stencil best. Hold stencil in place as you work. You could use white paint if you prefer, but I wanted my letters to stand out.  Next move to the top of the wood block, and stencil in your letter J.  Use a snowflake stencil to form your letter O to complete the word, JOY. Be as creative, or as natural as you want.  Let dry or use a heat gun to speed up the drying process once again. To distress your JOY sign, grab your sanding block and rub along the edges. Distress as much as you like.  Carefully wipe your blocks of any debris, paying attention not to smear your paint.  Once dry, you can spray seal your painted wooden blocks with a clear poly. You could skip this step entirely.   Last but not least, enjoy your DIY Winter Joy Sign. So simple and so cute.  Step back and look at your beautiful work! Now that wasn’t too hard, was it? I think it turned out pretty awesome and it wasn’t time-consuming. Nor was it stress-inducing. It turned out just as cute as you had hoped it would. Would you dare to say that you are feeling the JOY I promised you would? I knew it! Smiles all around. So glad you stopped by to craft with me today. Keep spreading that joy! We all need it to deal with the cold of winter days and nights.  Just pin this DIY Winter Decor Sign tutorial below to find the instructions later!

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Easy DIY Winter Sign

Are you ready to start decorating for the winter months? Today I am showing you how to make your own DIY winter sign in less than 20 minutes. It’s an easy and simple project that you can make as gifts to friends, loved ones, or just add it to your shop! I love the distressed look and the paint colors this sign brings to my holiday decor. This year, I was wondering what would be a cute sign that I could have up in my home through all the winter holiday months. After some brainstorming, I decided to paint a wood sign with the word SNOW on it. It is the perfect way to have cute decor that can stay up all winter long and not be to a specific holiday. It reminds me of the AMERICA wood sign I made for my entryway for the 4th of July this year! Using a piece of wood, stencils, paint, and a sander you too can make your own DIY winter sign by following along with me in this tutorial video. This DIY wood sign makes for the perfect “Christmas in July” project! Easy DIY Winter Sign To start this easy DIY wood sign craft you first need to think about where you would like to display this sign. Once you know where it will likely go this will help you determine the size of your wood blank you need to cut or which one to grab from your pile of scarps. Also, my individual stencil letters are rather large depending on the size of yours will also help determine the size your board will need to be. Keep watching and you will see how my little accident turned into a masterpiece if I do say so myself! Winter Sign Supplies Wood blank Paintbrush Black Paint Daubers Clear coat Hand sander White Paint Turquoise Paint Make Your Own Winter Snow Sign with these Instructions Step 1: To start you will want to find the right size board for your project. Once you have decided on your size you will want to give it a good sanding with your hand sander if your board is rough. Step 2: Once you prepped your board start by giving it a base color. I choose back for mine. Using a paintbrush cover your board with the paint of your choice. Step 3: After that base paint is dry you can start stenciling on your letters. If you want to speed up the drying process us a heat gun. Step 4: I was going to paint my letters white but accidentally mixed the white into some paint I already had on my plate but it turned out fabulous. If you would like the same look I did you will just need to mix white and turquoise paint together. I used my pouncer to fill in the letters of each stencil. I started at the top with the letter “S”. Step 5: Next, continue adding your letters vertically on your sign. The next letter will be “N”. Step 6: Now add the letter “O” by stenciling it on. You may have to mix more white and turquoise together and it is ok if it is not exactly the same.  Step 7: Finishing your sign off with your last letter “W” daubing the paint inside your stencil filling in your letter “W” stencil.  Step 8: To add so fun features to your sign you can take a tiny paintbrush and make little small white snowflakes all around the letters that spelled out “SNOW”. Step 9: Allow time for your letters to dry before continuing on to the next steps. Step 10: Take a hand sander and go around the edges and distress the sides of your sign. You can even go over the letters a bit to distress them but be very careful.  Step 11: Once it is all dry paint a clear coat over your sign. I prefer to use the Dixie Belle Paint brand for my clear coat. This DIY winter sign is so easy that you can make multiples to gift to friends as gifts or make to give to a secret Santa at work. You will love how it looks and even better they are such a joy to make! Just pin this Easy DIY Winter Sign tutorial below to find the instructions later!

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