DIY Christmas Sign

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• Scrap piece of wood
• Cricut Machine (I used my Explore Air 2 machine)
• Paint
• Sandpaper, optional
• Cricut vinyl (I used red glitter, green glitter, and black)
• Cricut transfer tape

I wanted to do a fun little version of a porch welcome sign. I didn’t have a piece of wood large enough to do a real big one, but I think the size of it turned out to be super cute. To get a welcome design, just type in “Christmas Welcome” on Cricut’s Design Space and choose a few styles you like. You can then print it out on whatever color of vinyl you want. I choose to do two different welcome signs because I wanted one to be super festive. And then the other side to be just simple and winter related. That way I could leave it out after Christmas as well.

To make the sign, I just had a few scrap pieces of wood leftover from another project. So I simply just grabbed a size I liked and then painted it. I first painted it black, and then went over it with white. After painting it, I distressed it with a little bit of sandpaper. A lot of my porch decor is vintage and distressed so I wanted it to go along with everything else. This is very similar to how I made my DIY Vintage Fall Market Signs a few months back too.

After printing out the design, you will need to remove the excess vinyl. I use a Cricut weeder tool to do this easily. Then, you need to use some transfer tape to stick on top of your vinyl design. To make sure it sticks very well, you also need to use the scraper tool to do so. Then, carefully and slowly peel back the vinyl backing. Make sure the vinyl is sticking completely on the transfer tape before fully pulling off the backing.

I noticed that using glossy vinyl is much easier in this process than using glitter. The glitter vinyl is very pretty, but you definitely need to go pretty slow and adhere it very well with the scraper tool before peeling it off. Otherwise, it doesn’t stick very well to the transfer tape.

Once you have it all transferred on the tape, then you need to transfer the vinyl to your sign as well. To do this, you simply repeat the same process using the scraper tool. And then, slowly and carefully lift up the transfer tape from the wood sign.

Like I said above, I knew I wanted this sign to be on our porch. And I think it adds just the perfect, festive touch. I think the red and green glitter on it looks perfect with all my other porch decor.

Also, I think the other side I did will be perfect come after Christmas too. It’s nice and neutral and it does have that cute snowflake in it. So I think it will be great to display all winter long as well.

Well, I hope you enjoyed this little tutorial on how I created this cute DIY Christmas sign. It was super easy and fun to create. Which side you like better!? Let me know below and tell me if you have any questions about using the Cricut or the whole process. I would love to help you out! And, be sure to check out all my other projects I have created this year using my Cricut machine as well:

• How to Make a T-Shirt Using Cricut’s Infusible Ink
• DIY Ice Cream Labels
• DIY Vintage Advertising Jar
• Easy DIY Plant Labels
• Easy Wind Chime Refresh
• DIY Cozy Lounge Shirt