Have you ever seen a really pretty sign made of wood, or plywood in a giant frame or a huge canvas?
via: this blog
via: a beautiful mess
I saw this one day via Pinterest:
via: etsy shop
Love it. Only.....$55 is a little out of my next-to-nothing home decor budget. So I turned to the supplies I had on hand.
- cardboard
- aqua, white, yellow& orange paint
- gold push pins
- ribbon
I used a foam brush to cover it in aqua, let it dry. Then in white. *be sure to get your sides!*
(You could totally do silver paint, but this is just what I had on hand!)
Then you could either use vinyl, or cut & trace letters. I simply took a pencil, and with one eye on the picture, eyeballed the whole thing. It turned out perfectly imperfect. To get the color (that just so happened to match our bedroom) I mixed a little bit of orange into yellow.
Finishing touches: I simply poked two holes through the top with a pencil to tie the ribbon through. Then went around the edges and put in the gold push pins.
And THAT is how you fake it to make it!
