Good Morning guys! Happy Monday! With Mother’s Day just around the corner, I thought it would be a fun time to share this great printable I did for my mom! I love handmade gifts that are big on thought, but don’t make you broke. To me, you don’t need to spend a ton of money to show someone how much you care about them. This gift fits the bill!
Here is how it turned out…
I just love it. Our mom is one of our best friends, and I knew this saying could put it into words for her. As I was making it, I started thinking about all the special women in my life, and I decided to make a printable for each one. To print these, just click the link below of the printable you want. This will open up a new window. Then, you can just push print from your browser bar… Easy peasy people!
Print ‘GRANDDAUGHTER’ Printable
Now let me show you how I made the gift! These are 8×10 printables, so if you want you can just print them and throw them into a frame. I printed mine on white card stock. Any paper works, but I like the way it looks best on the card stock.
I started by getting my wood. You will need a 2×12 piece of pine wood from the hardware store. These are sold in 8′ pieces, so you can cut yours at home or have the nice guys at the store cut it for you! Our Home Depot and Lowe’s will do this for free!
You want your boards to be 15″ long like this…
Now these boards are around $15 a board at my store, but one board will make 6 of these gifts. So, they end up being under $3 a piece for the lumber. If you don’t need to make more than 1, you can tag up with a friend and make them together! Works for us 😉
Once I had my wood cut, I stained my board with 1 coat of my very fav…
Rust-Oleum Ultimate Wood Stain in Early American
You can find this stain at Lowe’s! My favorite thing about it is that it goes on in 1 coat and dries in under an hour… Woohoo!
While that was drying I printed out my printable and cut it out with some scissors!
After my wood block dried, I used a sander to rough my edges up a bit. This is optional… I just like the finished look better!
Then I added my printable using furniture nails. I find these at the hardware store as well. They are on the hardware aisle by the screws and nails.
I start by pressing it in a bit with my hand to get it into place…
And then use a hammer to get it in the rest of the way!
I found my clips at Hobby Lobby! You can also find them on Amazon below!
I used a new product that I absolutely LOVE to glue these babies down!
Gorilla Glue Super Glue Gel
This stuff is the bomb. It’s super glue but in gel form. It makes it SO easy to work with. I just put a few dabs on the back of each clip and attached them to my board. It dried quick too! LOVE.
My final step was adding a few pics for her! These are 3×5 prints…
That’s it! The board will stand up by itself if they want to display it on a tabletop, or you can add some sawtooth hangers to the back and it can very easily be hung on a wall! Again… Easy Peasy!!
Nothing says I LOVE YOU more than a gift you made with your own 2 hands!
I hope you love it! And I hope all the ladies in your life love it too!
I would LOVE for you to pin and share this gift idea below! You guys are great and thanks so much for stopping by! Let me know if you have any questions at all!
~Whitney
This project brought my mother to tears when I presented the finished product. Thank you so much for the wonderful idea! It said everything I needed it to. THANK YOU!
I made these for my mom, mother-in-law and sisters. They turned out soooooo good! Thanks for the idea and printable. I also bought some cute embelishments (paper flowers, bottle tops, buttons, etc) which just added a little something fun! I can’t wait to give them as gifts.
Wow, wish I had a mom to give this to. Such an adorable project.
I made 2 of these out of an oak panel only 1/8″ thick and my advice is to not use oak. It was impossible for me to nail in the furniture tacks. I had to bust out the drill! Thanks for the printable!
Really such a nice printable gift ideas. I never read this kind of unique and creative gift ideas for mothers day. This gift makes mothers day occasion very special. Your mom will also like a lot and can keep it for a longer time as a memorable gift.
Would someone (like me) be able to purchase one from you?
I love it! I only wish I knew how to change the words to “Memaw” cause that is what we call our grandma. This project looks so doable – great tutorial!
Would be nice if there was one for a couple like ” if WE didn’t have you as a mother….”
These are really great and putting on my list of DIY’s. Thanks 🙂
You are so right
Totally making this for my Mom and MIL and stepmom!!!
I really love this, but in Australia, we say ‘Mum’ 🙁
Naomi, If you have the right computer program you can switch the O in mom to a U.
I also need “mum” here in NZ and i SO want to do this!! What computer program do you need to use? (not so flash with computers!)
My local Lowe’s (we don’t have Home Depot) won’t cut anything wider than 8″ 🙁 BUT I’m totally going to make this!
this is such a wonderful idea! I was not-so-secretly hoping to see one for cousins 🙂
These are great but I wish you had one that said “If I didn’t have you as a daughter…”
Whoops! Just saw the one for “daughter” – should have looked more closely. Sorry – and thank you for the wonderful printables & tutorial.
This is awesome, how can I print out one panel and not the whole thing? My stepmom died of cancer recently and I want to make this for her mom. I hope she likes it.
Thanks so much.
whoops, found it…read your blog this morning pre-coffee!