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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
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Very creative thinking. I got your links and I am also thinking to make this for my family. But I am thinking about time. How much time it will take for a 6 frames board?
I have used these letters in the past with no problem. All I had to do was click on the picture, right click it, choose my size, then save it to My Documents. Now when I click a picture, it takes me to Flickr and I can’t save them or choose my size. HELP!!!!
hi Shanty2Chic,
wonderful letter photo art for chrismas and here photo frames are nice.
tutorial for photo framed creating process is very nice and helpful and thanks for step by step process .
Just finished mine! Love it.. So fun + easy!
Here’s mine 🙂
Hi! I love these I made two for baby shower gifts and plan to make more. I have a question though, did any of your frames pop off of the board? I had two pop off before giving them…. I was able to re glue, but this could be dangerous if hung above a crib. Do you think I didn’t have enough glue? Please let me know your thoughts, as I plan to make more. Thanks!
Hi! I love these I made two for baby shower gifts and plan to make more. I have a question though, did any of your frames pop off of the board? I had two pop off before giving them…. I was able to re glue, but this could be dangerous if hung above a crib. Do you think I didn’t have enough glue? Please let me know your thoughts, as I plan to make more. Thanks!
Hi! I love these I made two for baby shower gifts and plan to make more. I have a question though, did any of your frames pop off of the board? I had two pop off before giving them…. I was able to re glue, but this could be dangerous if hung above a crib. Do you think I didn’t have enough glue? Please let me know your thoughts, as I plan to make more. Thanks!
After downloading from the site, I am having trouble getting them to print 4×6 without it cropping off portions of the pic…did you do anything different?
Hey Michelle! I realize your comment is several years old, just wondering if you figured out how to print them? I did it years ago and remember having the same problem. And I can’t remember how I fixed it! Worse–I can’t even figure out how to pint them at all, cropped or not! So fristrating! . maybe it’s because I’m using my phone. Anyway… just checking in for help if you (or anyone) can advise! Than you!!
*print, not pint
Info from anyone who has done this please — I am going to make several for Christmas presents and all of the frames I have found at the dollar stores are plastic and not wood. Will they take paint well or do I have to go with more expensive wood frames? Thanks!
Do you have these same type of print outs but in numbers?? I would like to make a 3 picture frame of my wedding date! 🙂
find the letters that you want from the Flickr site she provided. smallest size should work for 4×6. click on pic so it enlarges to a different screen. right click on it, choose size and save it to your computer. then upload the saved images to wherever you want to print them from