Create the perfect welcome sign for your wedding with an old frame and Cricut machine
As you might already be aware, I’m getting married later in the year and as a crafter, attempting to make and create as much as I feasibly can. I’m making all of the wedding stationary and signage, and with my Cricut these have been made a breeze, You could definitely do this without a Cricut though, which was my original plan, where I planned to print out the text I wanted and place it behind the glass and then use a paint marker or sharpie on top of it. I’m loving using vinyl though, there’s so many possibilities, and as a perfectionist, it’s enabling me to not stand over each project too much, which I know I would be if I was doing it all by hand. With my wedding fast approaching now, time is of the essence and so my Cricut is proving to be a worth every penny. I learnt how to cut something on my Cricut larger than the cutting mat, which I’ve only briefly touched on here, but if you’d like a more detailed tutorial for that, let me know in the comments. Otherwise, keep reading to find out what I used and how I made my wedding welcome sign…
Old Picture Frame
Sandpaper
Copper paint
1.
First of all, find yourself a suitable frame. I found mine in a local charity shop and was sure to pick one that I could see was wooden underneath the paint.
2.
Remove the picture and backing from your frame. My backing was nailed in and so I needed a screwdriver to bend the nails back.
3.
My frame felt a little fragile and didn’t want to push my luck so I kept the glass in. Next, I put masking tape around the edge of the glass to protect it and used sandpaper to remove the finish on the frame.
4.
Once the finish was removed, I used a medium oak stain all over the frame to give it a bit more colour.
5.
Where the gold paint didn’t come off, i went over with a copper acrylic paint and once dry sanded all over again to make it look more rustic.
6.
Once fully dry, I used Photoshop and Cricut Design Studio to design my sign text and separate it into two halves so that it would fit on my 30cm x 30cm cutting mat.
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I then used the fine blade to cut out the text onto white permanent vinyl. I then weeded out the text, transferred it onto masking tape and removed the vinyl backing before transferring onto the glass.
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I then did the same with the other half of the text being sure to line it up carefully with the first half. Next I used copper vinyl to add “to the wedding of'“ and white vinyl for my and my partners names underneath.
