Reversible Holiday Porch Sign

I am super excited about this project!  I’m excited because it’s a holiday project and because you can use it for both Thanksgiving and Christmas!  I also love the fact that it wasn’t too difficult to make.  You see, I wanted to dress up my new front porch for the holidays, and since my porch is kind of big, I needed something big to fill the space.  That is when I knew I wanted to make a big holiday porch sign.  But the best part about this holiday porch sign . . . it’s reversible!

I got the idea of making this sign reversible from a craft night I went to with Lolly Jane.  We made a reversible sign there and I thought, how brilliant!  Here is how I made my reversible holiday porch sign.

It all starts with a 1 inch pine board that is 1 foot by 4 foot.  There is no need for wood cutting with this project!  Score!  I then stained my wood board.  If you’ve never stained wood before, it’s really not hard.  Just a little messy maybe.  See how I stained the wood for my a frame chalkboard.

Now to make the Thankful side, I had some vinyl cut to say Thankful and left the letters.  I added my vinyl letters to my stained board.  I could’ve left it at that, but I wanted to do a kind of reverse effect.  Once my vinyl was down, I painted over the entire board with white paint.  I did 2 coats but left it looking a little streaky.  That is the look I was going for.  You could always add another coat or two if you don’t like the way that looks.

Once the paint was almost dry, I removed the vinyl letters so that the stained board showed through.  Then I took my hand sander and with a high grit sand paper (150) I sanded the edges and distressed the board until I got the effect I wanted.

Don’t you love my “work bench”?  2 folding chairs.  🙂  Whatever works right?!?!

I sprayed a coat of sealer on before putting out on the front porch.  Add a pumpkin, a fall wreath and any other fun fall related decor and your all ready for the holiday!

So that was how I made the Thanksgiving side, here is how I made the Christmas side.

I started out with the stained board and before adding any stencils, I painted the board white.  I used an extra coat or 2 of white on this side because I wanted it to have a crisper look.  Once my paint was dry, I added my stencil.  Now it is really hard to see the stencil in that middle picture.  It’s because my stencil was white and the board was white.  But this time, I removed the letters of the stencil, leaving the negative, because I wanted to paint in the letters red.  Which is what the next step is.  Paint in the letters with red acrylic paint.

I removed the vinyl stencil and had nice crisp red letters on my board.  Then I used my hand sander to distress the sign.

It too looks great with a little added Christmas decor.  I even used the reverse side of my a frame chalkboard to add a little winter cheer.

So now I can switch up my Thanksgiving porch decorations to Christmas decorations super quick.  It’s just a turn of the holiday porch sign!

Happy Crafting!

Liz

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