I love anything I can save a buck on and DIY myself so as I started to decorate our new house for Christmas I realized I had a lot more space to decorate and not as many decorations so I decided to get creative. Luckily I (like everyone else) has Pinterest for inspiration along with lots of fun shops locally that I can window shop for ideas.
So I started with some pallet boards we have had in our garage for forever and some white paint that the painters left when we moved into our house.
I took an older brissely paint brush and lightly brushed the un sanded pallet boards with the white paint to give it a distressed look.
Then I had my husband cut down the boards to the size I wanted and decided on the phrase for it.
Once that was done I took a stencil I have had in my craft room and after trying acrylic paint and getting beyond frustrated I got advice from a friends in a moms group I go to (Shout out to Amy Langhans) and she suggested a sharpie.
Turns out sharpie was the way to go! After stenciling and coloring in everything I took some sandpaper and rubbed it over the letters to distress them a bit too.
My husband attached the boards with a couple of small strips of wood we had on hand and voila.... I had this
I love love love the way it all came together
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