I can't help myself

Yes I am aware that I am in the process of moving and actually taking down all of the decorations in my home. No that is not going to stop me from crafting new decorations.

I am blaming it on all of you anyways.

Every morning I make a cup of coffee and go through my Google Reader and then I say "ohhh" "aahhh" and "pretttyyy" and then I go and make it all!

First let me say I am in love with Craft Monkey! Heidi happens to be redecorating to a beachy theme which has been so inspiring! She posted a beautiful beach plaque she made a few days ago and I thought "hey I have wood and paint I can do that!" and so I did.
I spray painted my piece of wood with two different shades of blue and then sanded it down a bit to get a nice distressed look.

Since I have horrible painting penmanship I printed out the letters for relax in the size and font I wanted, trick here though - I printed the MIRROR IMAGE. This way all I had to do was lay the paper ink side down and trace the letters from the back. The ink transferred the right way onto my wood so that I could paint it. Does that make any sense? I really should have took pictures!

After everything tried I sanded again to finish off the worn beachy look. I love it!

Thhheeeennnnnn I saw these adorable painted mason jars at Gingerbread Snowflakes and set to work! I went with a swirly application for mine and love how they look!



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EDIT: So I was so in love with my relax sign that I used the same technique and made another sign that says 'goodnight' for our bedroom and took pictures this time!

Step 1: Prep and paint wood. Print the mirror image of the word(s) you want in the correct font and size you need.

Step 2: Place your printed word(s) ink side down on your wood and use a pencil to trace the letters on the back side of the paper.

Step 3: When you peel the paper away the ink will be on the wood leaving you the perfect outline to paint!