Grandparents Day Plaque {Tales of the Scotts}

Hi!  My name is Eva and I blog over at Tales of the Scotts.

I’m a stay-at-home momma to two very busy little people.  I’m a pastor’s wife.  I love creating and blogging.  Over at my blog, you’ll find crafts of all sorts, scrapbooking, sewing, a few recipes and funny stories of my kiddos.  I love seeing everything that Ashley comes up with.  Her daughter’s Pink Lemonade birthday party was inspiration for my daughter’s Pink Lemonade birthday party!  I also love all of her projects involving die cuts!Today I’m here to share with you what I made for Grandparents Day.

I’ve known for a while that this is the phrase I wanted to use for Grandparents Day.  You know that kids are usually allowed to get away with more and eat extra junk food at their grandparents’ house.  :-)

Want to make one of your own?  Or something similar?  Here’s what I did.  Grab a piece of wood.  My husband nor I are handy with the saw so I bought mine from a craft store and used a coupon.  I wanted my letters to be white so I spray painted the wood piece white.  You can use any color you like though.

Instead of using up my vinyl, I just grabbed some random contact paper I bought years ago from Wal-Mart.  I slipped it into my Cameo and cut it out.  Then I pealed away the “extra” vinyl.  Right before I attached the letters to the piece of wood, I sprayed the wood with some spray adhesive.  I’ve had problems in the past getting vinyl to stick to the wood and someone suggested some adhesive.  I did that and it worked great!

I tried my best to line everything up using a ruler and taping as I went.  But try as hard as I did, I still messed up a bit.  You can see that “stays at” isn’t lined up with everything else.  After the letters were in place, I spray painted it.  I let it dry just a bit, maybe an hour or so, before removing the letters.  I didn’t want them to get stuck there!

When it was completely dry, I measured and put a sawtooth hanger in place so that it can be hung easily.

And here’s the one I made for Nana & Papa.

 

I love how they turned out.  And this was such an easy project that can be done for anything or any holiday!  Your imagination is the limit!