Helloooooo Hawt Hybriders!!

 Sorry to be posting this so late! I was good and had my project done early on sunday and even took my pictures early, but then I forgot I was out on inspections all day today. So I’m just now catching a breath to post, I hope you’ll forgive me

So, I picked up this cute wood and metal sign for maybe $2 at Walmart recently. I was going to do something else with it, but my fiancee requested that I make a cute hanging to put at the door, where we could hang our keys (he didn’t ask for cute, I assumed it was implied ). It doesn’t have the hooks on it yet, but as soon as I get a chance, I’ll be stopping by Home Depot to get some

Here are your supplies:

Wooden sign, acrylic paint, printed digi papers (from Traci’s *new* Preppy Autumn), embellies of choice (I ended up using flowers and brads instead), and chipboard alpha (mine is Basic Grey’s Dark Chocolate Chip – Dahlia).

Go ahead and paint your sign. I painted the outside edge and one side completely (the back side), and then just made sure the outer edges on the front side were painted. Since we’re covering the front with papers, there’s no need to paint the whole thing. I made my printed digi papers slightly bigger than the width and the tallest height of the scroll. Leaves extra on the sides since it’s curved, but I don’t have a scanner to make a custom template. So I just deal with it So once your sign is all painted and ready to go, lay your paper printed side down on your work surface and trace the shape of the sign. Then cut it out. (I forgot to take a lot of pictures this time, sorry folks.) Then glue it down with whatever adhesive you like (I used my Xyron Cheetah and it worked well, no problems getting the sticky to stick to the painted parts). I then took a nail file, and filed all around the edges to get rid of the excess paper, and also give it a slightly distressed look (I love a good distressing!).

Now, I loved the curled mat that Traci included in the kit, but I couldn’t get it to fit on the sign properly, so I decided to try and replicate it IRL instead. So I printed my striped paper, and then I folded one of the long edges. I folded it back and forth to get it nice and folded. Then, I wet the edge of the fold (think licking a letter to seal it) on both sides. This makes the paper tear a little differently that it would if it was just dry. It gives it a little bit of a torn look, which is what I liked. I put the edge about where I wanted it on my sign, and then estimated how wide I wanted the strip to be, and repeated with the other side of the striped paper. In my excitement, I forgot to go back to each side and curl the torn parts inward more (oops), and just glued it right down where I wanted.

After that, I added my chipboard message, threw some cute flowers on it, and said”Wha-la!!” (yes, I really did say that.) As I said before, I’ll be adding some small hooks to it so we can hang our keys on it.

I hope you enjoyed my project and are inspired to try something yourself! Have a great week everyone!

~Col