DIY Let It Snow Sign and Rustic Snowflake Craft

It’s the 10th of the month which means an other fun blog hop with my bloggy friends!  With the cold weather heading our way this month we thought we would celebrate with everything SNOW!  Take a look at my DIY Let it Snow Sign and Rustic Snowflake and then hop around to all of the other fun snow projects everyone is sharing today!

1. Snowflake Wall Hanging | The Crafted Sparrow

2. Snowball Cookies | Simply Kierste

3. Glittered Clothespin Snowflakes | Eighteen 25

4. Let it Snow Sign | Lolly Jane

5. Printable Snowflake Holiday Tag with “Snowflake” Apples | Thirty Handmade Days

6. Silk Screen Mug & Snowflake Poem – Perfect Neighbor Gift | Or so she says

7. DIY Let It Snow Sign and Snowflake Craft | Landeelu

8. Snowflake Almond Fudge | Capturing Joy

9. Snowball Cookies | Your Homebased Mom

10. Snow Fresh Snow Clean Printable | Two Twenty One

DIY Let it Snow Sign and Rustic Snowflake

This is actually kind of a two-for-one tutorial today as my sign has two components… the actual sign and then the cute snowflake I made to stick on it!  I’ll explain them separately because I think that even though I used it as the “O” in my sign,  it would be perfect as an ornament or an embellishment on a wreath too.  And the best part?  It was almost FREE to make!  Can’t beat that!

So, to make the sign, first you’ll need a piece of wood or MDF.  I had this piece in my garage left over from something else.  It measures about 18×23″ but you can make this any size you want.

First I painted my piece of MDF white and let it dry completely.  Then I measured every 2″ on either side and made a little pencil mark.  I then taped off my board every 2″ (using two pieces of 1″ painter’s tape).  Then I painted in the stripes (I used Americana Acrylic Paint in Spa Blue).

Remove the painter’s tape and smile, because it is dang cute! 🙂

I then designed my “Let It Snow” design with my vinyl cutter program.  You could do this on a slightly smaller scale with a Silhouette machine or Cricut as well.   I could have simply cut out the vinyl letters and applied them to my board but I decided to use my vinyl as a stencil and paint the letters on (You can purchase the stencil or lettering HERE if you don’t have a vinyl cutter and would like to make this!).   I stenciled the lettering on with grey acrylic paint and then did a top coat with a metallic silver acrylic paint to add a little wintery shimmer.

Then I removed the stencil and distressed my sign with sandpaper just a little bit around the edges and a little on the stripes.  I wanted to keep it pretty crisp, however, so I didn’t do much.

Obviously I left a space for the “O” in snow!  For that, I made a snowflake out of dead branches I had in my backyard!  Yay for free!  For my sign I decided I needed my snowflake to be about 6″ in diameter.  So I cut one 6″ piece, four 3″ pieces and eight 1″ thin pieces.   You can adjust those lengths depending on how large you want your snowflake.

Then I just hot glued them together like so!  I think it would be cute as is for a cute rustic look too!

A quick spray of white spray paint and a shot of glitter spray turned it from a cute rustic snowflake to a little more modern rustic snowflake.  🙂   I decided to wrap some grey and white baker’s twine around the middle to give it a little more somethin-something but that is optional, of course.

See how cute it is all by itself?

I love it by itself!  But alas, my sign was still in need of its “O” so I added a little hot glue on the back of my snowflake and adhered it to my sign!  I love the little 3D element.

And then it was all done!

I can’t wait to put this up on my wintery mantel after Christmas this year!

Thanks for reading today!  Be sure to check out the other fun SNOW projects from my blog friends…. they are awesome!