How to use your vinyl cutter to create farmhouse wood signs

Wooden farmhouse signs are everywhere these days. They’re available in a number of colors, fonts and sizes, and with a number of words, quotes and themes.  I absolutely love typographical art, and I’d dare say you can find something typographical in every room of our home.

And now it’s easier than ever to make your own. Did you know that both Walmart and Hobby Lobby are selling a plethora of blank wood signs and materials?

I knew I wanted to incorporate the Bible verse Ruth 1:16-17 into our room somehow. We used this verse in our wedding ceremony, and we have it engraved in our wedding bands. It only seemed right to make signs with this verse for our room.

I have read about how you can create stencils using contact paper, so I decided to give it a try. I hopped on my computer and created a design.

I then sent it to the Silhouette machine and created a stencil, but I printed it backwards. #oops

This is an easy problem to fix, though. You can either flip your design around in Design Space, or you can simply flip your contact paper over so that the writing is face down. That’s what I did.

This is my contact paper face down, with the stencil already cut. You can’t tell, though, so just take my word for it. Promise!

I finally cut out my stencil and popped my letters out. I affixed them to the boards, and filled in the stencils with white chalk paint.

I then allowed the paint to dry and then peeled the stencils off.

I absolutely love how these turned out. They also ended up being absolutely perfect for the space.

What farmhouse sign projects are hiding up your sleeve?