With Thanksgiving In My Heart Sign

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With thanksgiving in my heart, what a beautiful sentiment. And perfect sign for Thanksgiving too!

Hello beautiful friends! I’m sharing a little repurposed makeover today.

Remember my old kitchen? Before the second remodel?? Well the island, specifically, here, go look… DIY Kitchen Island Makeover

Well, I saved a bunch of those drawer fronts to make stuff with.

Here is a couple I’ve done already:

• Repurposed Drawer Front Sign
• Hot Cocoa and Cookies Christmas Sign

Today I’m giving this small one a new look. 

With Thanksgiving In My Heart Sign

 

I began by sanding the top well. All the way down to the wood.

I filled in the holes with wood putty and let it dry, then sanded it smooth.
Unfortunately, the old black paint was still showing a bit. (the color I painted it before I painted it aqua)

No worries. I figured I would try to use the lettering of my graphic to cover it up.

I created this graphic on my computer…

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I uploaded it to my Silhouette Cameo and cut it out.

Don’t know how to do that?? I wrote an entire post on how to upload your own designs into Silhouette here.

I’m going to be using this vinyl as a stencil so I removed the lettering.

Then applied the transfer tape over top…

Be sure to line everything up before attaching it to your project.

I actually cut it out close to the lettering so I could better see to line it up.
I left the backing on while I did this so it would not prematurely attach to the wood. Then once I had it all lined up, I simply lifted up one side at a time to remove the back and attach the vinyl cutout to the wood.

Then I removed the transfer tape and added my fave FrogTape around the edges to protect when I roll the black paint on.

Simple!

Except…I wasn’t sure if I wanted to paint the letters white or black. Or if I wanted the edge to be white or black. Or if I wanted the word “thanksgiving” to be one color and the small words a different color.
So you know what I did??
I hopped back on my computer and made mockups with the wood in the photo to see which I liked best.
Below is a white frame with black lettering.

And this one is a black frame with black lettering.

And this one with small white lettering.

Which I didn’t think would show up well enough on the light wood.

If you noticed, I also couldn’t decide whether to do a capital “T” or lowercase “t” for the word thanksgiving. I even forgot that I had switched it to lowercase when I went back to do these mockups. Oops!
I actually like the way that looks better, I think, but I wasn’t really saying “Thanksgiving” as in the holiday, but more of a sentence with the word “thanksgiving”, so did the lowercase instead. Does that make sense??

And…the all-black lettering and black frame won out!

So I rolled it on. Two coats, drying in between.

So good! But those darn black-edged circles where the hardware was is showing.
Boo…but no worries, I’ll fix that. Keep scrolling. :)

Next, I taped up the top, covering the freshly painted lettering with the backing of the vinyl to protect it.

Then taped the edges tightly and straight so I could paint the frame black too.

And done!

I haven’t sealed the wood yet and not sure I will. I kind of like the natural look.

Can you see the holes (and the black-edged circle) where the hardware was next to the “k” and the “i”??

Not so much, huh?

I used Cobblestone and Rose Water and a tiny, fine-tipped artist’s paintbrush to camouflage them.

The wood had a pinkish hue so I used both of those colors which worked pretty well!

Virtually indistinguishable from the rest of the wood now, yippee!

So happy I could use and showcase the pretty wood without having those two holes ruin it for me!

I love how you first just see the word “thanksgiving”…and then you see the rest.

I hope you like this fun update and repurpose using an old drawer front!
With thanksgiving in my heart…yes.

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Have a blessed weekend, friends!

xoxo