Paint a Front Porch Sign
We’ve had lots of front porch painting signs in the store and they are so much fun! My favorite thing is to have people in our workshops that say they aren’t creative or artistic, and then make something really amazing! I wanted to share the workshop with you and how to paint your own porch sign for any season in this step by step tutorial.
Supplies to Paint A Holiday Porch Sign:
-12″ wide pine common board from the home improvement store between 4ft and 6 ft tall
-Outdoor primer
-Outdoor paint
-Large format stencils or 8 inch wide letters printed on paper in choice of font
-Pencil for light color base coat, or chalk for a dark color base coat
-Paint brush and/or paint roller
Paint a Base Coat of Outdoor Paint on the Front and Back Side and Let Dry
It’s important to base coat both the front and back of the board to make it weather tolerant to be outside and keep from year to year. Once that it dry, you are ready to add your lettering.
Add Your Lettering to Your Porch Sign
Print out your lettering or gather your stencils. Once the sign is dry, either transfer the lettering onto the painted board using this method, or trace the inside of your stencil lettering using either chalk (if your board is painted a dark color) or a pencil (if your board is painted a light color).
Paint the Inside of Your Lettering on the Board Using Outdoor/ All Weather Paint
Use smaller paint brushes to paint the inside of your lettering. It helps to outline your lettering first with a liner brush and then fill in the outlined area.
The two house class we had went really fast! And the front porch signs turned out really nice!
You can see a technique for creating front porch signs here.
In the store we are putting out our Christmas decor. The theme this year is “Camp Christmas” and it was so much fun to create the displays. it’s so pretty at night with the lights out.
When everyone left late last night, I snapped a few pictures of “Camp Christmas” with the lights off, and the holiday music was still playing. It was a really pretty and serene, and a nice way to end the day. I built a “tent” out of birch logs and some fun buffalo check fabric. That is right next to our ornament bar.
If you’re in the area, stop in to take a creative workshop or shop some of our fun and amazing holiday decor.
If you missed my Seasons of Home kitchen tour, you can check it out here.
This is so so so fabulous!
Thank you Ivory!