Celebrate Baby Sign

A couple of months ago my sister and I gave my daughter in-law a baby shower ~ all decked out in pink for the soon-to-be baby girl.  I had seen a cute chalkboard celebrate baby sign somewhere on the internet {but I don’t remember where and I’ve searched and searched but still can’t find it}.  I’m not in love with the chalk board look and I don’t like chalk dust but I did like the sign and so I created my own version using white poster board cut to fit into a cork board frame that I had previously painted black with acrylic paint.

It turned out just exactly how I wanted it.  Pink, white, and black.  And GIRLY.

These are the steps I took to make the sign:

1. Measured and cut the poster board to fit in the framed cork board.
2. Found a font I liked, typed out the words I wanted, enlarged it to the size I wanted, and printed it out.
3. Cut out each of the letters.  It sounds time consuming but I made the whole sign from start to finish in about 4 hours.
4. Layed them out on the cut board to see how it would look.  Then removed the letters.

5. Penciled in guide lines for the two rows.
6. Layed the letters out again and traced around them.

7. Used a black permanent marker to fill in the letters.
8. Erased all pencil lines and marks.
9. Sketched in the scroll work and then drew over and thickened the lines with a black permanent marker.  {It’s not perfect or a mirror image but still looks decent.}

10. Made the tassels using pink and sparkle white tulle and put them on a piece of twine.  {Idea from here.}
11. Placed the tassel garland on the sign by taping the ends of the twine to the backside of the frame.
12. Made a hanger by twisting tulle and tying it through the hooks on the back of the frame.
13. Made a pink tulle bow and attached it to the sign using a straight pin poked through the bow into the upper left corner of the poster board.  {In the pictures it’s actually taped to the frame but it kept falling off so I ended up pinning it.}

The celebrate baby sign was the little added extra thing that gave the baby shower decorations a completed look.

I also made some super delicious PINK cream cheese mints for the baby shower. Click {here} to view the post and get the recipe.

This tutorial was featured on:
Reasons to Skip the Housework

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