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I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving! We did for sure! I am always trying to think of thrifty, unique and thoughtful gifts to make my family and friends each year. I love making custom pieces that they wouldn’t receive from anyone else. This year I decided to make my niece and nephew name signs for their room. I decided that this would be our teacher gifts this year as well, only I will use their last names!
Today I am showing you the sign I made my for niece Londyn.
I found a GREAT flickr photo site on Pinterest. It is an amazing source for letter photos. There are literally hundreds of each letter. You can see that site HERE! You simply download for FREE and print from your own printer… Pretty darn cheap and easy! I found her letters and got started on the rest.
I bought 6 4×6 frames at the Dollar Tree for a buck a piece.
I removed all the plastic and glass from the frames like this…
I gave them all a coat of my very favorite…
You can get it at Home Depot.
I used Heirloom White for the frames…
Here they are drying…
While those were drying, I started on my wood.
I used a 2×10 for my sign. This is heavy and will sit alone on a table without support. If you are wanting to hang yours on a wall, you could also use a 1×10.
I paid $4.50 for an 8ft board and made 2 signs from it.
I cut a 36″ piece and painted it Sweet Pea.
While that was drying I finished up my frames. I added the glass back into each frame and also added my new FREE letter photos. Once I attached the back I gently pulled the support piece off the back of each frame. That was quite easy to do on dollar store frames 😉
Then, I added a bit of hot glue to the corners of each frame and attached them to my new pink board.
The result…
What do you think?
I am so excited to also make these for the kiddos teachers. I am planning on staining the boards and going with a neutral frame color so they can use them anywhere.
If you are making a longer name, I would suggest going with 3×5 frames and using a 2×6 or a 2×8 as your board.
And now let’s do the math… I paid $6 for the frames, $2.50 per sign for the wood, and the pictures were free. That’s about $10 a sign if you count the spray paint… My kind of gift!
Thanks so much for stopping by! Let me know if you have any questions!
~Whitney
Ya know, you can also just save them to your computer, download them on walmart.com and get pictures printed in 4×6. Walmart website shows you what it will look like before you get them printed. Just an idea. You can also choose the option to print in black and white.
love those, I’ve been framing them for years, and your cost seems much more my style
I cannot for the life of me figure out where to print from! they are not coming out 4×6.. ugh HELP!
This is wonderful, am going to give it a try!
Thank you! Thank you!! Thank you!!! I’ve been looking for a site that had these letters so I could DIY—now I’m on it myself!!! The possibilities are endless 😉
I have been looking for something like this to do in our daughter’s room. I love this idea, and it’s not too expensive.
How do you download them in a 4×6 size? I can only download them in 4×4.
Thank you so much! Working on it now.
How come the frames that are still wrapped are different from the painted frames?
they were painted white
no, they are different. The cheap frames from the dollar store are flat with no floral design along the innner edge….which makes the finished product more attractive than if she used the cheapo frames……hmmmmm.
Beautiful!!!!! Thank you so much for sharing your awesome tutorial!!!
Lee Ann
Great idea!! After gluing a couple of frames to the board, I had the idea of using velcro instead of hot glue. This way the frames would be taken down and the pictures swapped out.
I have a question and feel totally dumb for asking this. But how do you download them to the size that you need for printing (example 4×6)?
Awesome idea! Do you have a website link for numbers too?
Can youi please tell me where to get the letters? Been searching and can’t find. Thanks!
To get each letter to print as a 4×6, did you use particular software? I went to print and only had the options for varying square sizes.