If you are like me and aren’t a chalkboard artist, then the method I use may help you to do prettier lettering on your chalkboards. I know a lot of people just print their lettering on paper, chalk the back of the paper and trace it on the sign, then fill in the lines with chalk, but I like this method a little better because the background and letters don’t get as smudged as they can with the other method.
I brought this huge antique window into my workshop from my barn a few months ago, and I’ve been tripping around it ever since. It finally occurred to me that it would be really smart to just do something with it and get it out of the way, so I picked up some MDF at Lowes and had them cut it to the size I needed (I love that they’ll do that for you for free).
I select fonts and cut the words I want on vinyl with my Silhouette, then just color in the letters with chalk.
Do these hands need a manicure, or what? Anyway, I use my fingertip to smudge the chalk around.
I love that I can get “fancy” letters on my chalkboards that I could never freehand draw.
Blessings,
Angie
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Favoloso!!! Buona estate!
Love this Angie. Doesn’t it feel good when you finally get a large piece moved out of your work space?
Thanks for the wonderful tip Angie. I am not an artist when it comes to that chalk board at all!!! Maybe I can make your tip work for me as well.
Thanks again.
Perfect, thanks for the new tip. It looks wonderful:)
You should see my fingernails if you think yours are bad. :o) That’s the tell-tale sign of a true artist!! I love to hand write my chalkboards, but that’s super idea if you have the right equipment. Looks great!
Great idea Angie … I will try that next time I make a chalk board. Thank for the tip.
Audrey Z @ Timeless Treasures
I just bought a set of 4 chalk pens at Michael’s. I am not sure which chalkboard I want to decorate right now, but I am anxious to try them out.
Thanks for the tip on the lettering.
This is JUST in time for me!Today, I am out scouting for a frame…and my DIL to be asked for a chalkboard sign for their wedding. Its in a MONTH and 2 days! I want to ‘chalk’ this off the list this week! I will remember to send you a picture!…now where is my Silhouette? lolol
Love the idea for the lettering…clever 🙂
This is the best idea for lettering chalk boards yet. Thanks for sharing.
*Smiles*
When I saw your hands in the photo today, and you said you might need a manicure, I thought of this that I found and pinned on one of my Pinterest boards. I am not a Mormon, but I am a Christian, and found her words to be uplifting and put everything into perspective.
Marjorie Pay Hinckley – “I don’t want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbors children. I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone’s garden. I want to be there with children’s sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived.”
Oh my gosh, Angie…this is brilliant! I can’t stand my writing on the chalkboard. Now I have another use for my silhouette. Love that tool! Thanks for sharing this…I”m pinning:)
Hugs,
Deborah
That is such a great idea! Why didn’t I think of that! Except, now I have to learn to use my Silhouette!
Great idea!
I need to cute some new stencils. =)
be blessed
Barb
Great idea! I have the same problem. Duh, use a stencil! Thanks for sharing. Stop by my Friday’s Five Features and link up this post (and others)! http://diy-vintage-chic.blogspot.com/2013/08/fridays-five-features-no-3.html
love this!! and your styling photos always knock me out!!