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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
did you get the board at a place like home depot?
Are you able to print the letters in a 3 x 5? I have a nine letter last name I am trying to do, so I need to print smaller. Having a hard time with the site. I love this idea!!
Thanks! I’m going to make this. I love crafts!!
Would look really good in black!
Adding this to my list!
I did it. thanks for your inspiration!! Well, we are almost finished. We live in the Middle East and do you know how hard it was to find 4×6 frames…oh my! Now we are trying to figure out a board. We dont have walmarts, dollar stores, target, etc…..I miss America a LOT and the stores in times like this :(….but the end result, I am sure, will be loved by my friend and her family!
I can’t wait to try this! I am surprising my Mom with one to announce the arrival of a new grandchild….11 pictures of the current grandkids and one on the end of “Coming in October!”. Question for you….is there a way I can make it so the pictures can be changed out? So, as the grandkids grow and change, she can change the pictures?
Oh, also, I found you on Pinterest. I am now obsessed with your site and follow your blog as well. Thank you for the great ideas!
How do you download, and print. I am trying to print letters off.
we just made these for christmas presents and printed the letters at walgreens for a few cents a piece- saved tons of printer ink and kept the letters in color, they turned out gorgeous!
serious…. AWESOME! So happy I found this! Thanks for sharing! God Bless-Em
You are so creative! I LOVE this idea! Everyone on my list is getting one this year! Thank you for sharing:)
the pictures are coming out square and if you print a 4×6 it cuts off the top and bottom. How did you get the whole letter and still have the 4×6 size?
How much space btw each frame and how much on each end? I can’t get my pictures to print the full page
These would look great with quilling added to them.
did you just use a regular piece of plywood board from like home depo or somthing? or where did you get the board…