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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
I found all the letters but I’m not sure how to download the pictures. Can you help?
what is the link for the letters
Did you print the letters on regular copy paper or send them to a photo lab?
Sorry, last paragraph, above the first photo…
Lindsay, It is within the last paragraph, first sentence and the link says, “GREAT flikr photo site…hope this helps.
This is absolutely the cutest thing I have seen. Would be so cute to give as a birthday gift to a little girl or even a big girl….lol. Endless ideals with this ne.
OMG!!! I have veen trying to figure out for an hour how resize the picutes…WOOHOO I finally figured it out! This is an awesome & cost effective teacher gift! I can’t wait to get started! Thanks
how do you resize them? i keep clicking on “download xx version” to print off, but they all show up full size!
Any chance you can tell me how you got them sizes 4×6. I love this idea but I am struggling.
Idk if I’m missing it or what but i cannot find the link for the letters?
I can’t seem to find the link either.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lwr/collections/72157594587080023/
Here you go…
Try this
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lwr/collections/72157594587080023/
What size do you download for a 4×6 picture?
I got a spray paint from walmart it is white semi gloss paint and i spray painted the frames but the original color of the frames is seeping through the paint and they will not stay white, any suggestions?
You can get a primer spray paint at Home Depot or Lowe’s as well. That should keep it from bleeding through.
i want to do this for my boyfriend’s new home. but i dont want the frames to fall within a few days/months. did the frames stayed glued to the wood (considering that was made back last year….)?
I don’t see the letter L that you used on the flikr site you linked to. I was looking for that exact one. Did you get it somewhere else?
No, that is where I found all of them. Not sure where it is! Sorry!
It is on the third page… It is a red L on a white background. You have to make it black and white when you edit…
I have a link in the post… Thanks!
This is the best site I found for this. http://www.letter-photo.com/
Where do I get the letters at?
I made one of these for my friend Brittany and I used black for the wood and i think the same pink for the frames and she loves it. I would suggest though if you are doing a longer name to go up and down or get smaller frames. It is quite long and she is having a hard time figuring out where to hang it. I then entered it in the Anderson County Fair in Tennessee and it won first place and I volunteer in the same building and I have overheard many people wanting to replicate this frame. Thanks for the idea. This is now on everyone’s christmas list that i know. Haha.
That is awesome Kasey!! Glad to hear they loved it 🙂 Thanks so much for your message!