Mia Bella Passions

You can buy all sorts of quirky Laundry signs nowadays...

But I wanted to hand-craft one to match the blue of my laundry walls...

Plus hand-crafting is so much more fun than walking into a shop

and just buying it!

This is how I made my laundry sign....

First of all I cut an MDF board to the desired size, and then painted it white.

Using free lettering from the net, I block coloured the letters in blue,

and printed using my home printer,

then cut out the letter shapes...

I roughly hand tore the edges of three squares of

pretty contrasting scrapbook paper.

Glued the squares onto the board first,

then the lettering spaced over the squares.

I did this freehand,

but if you want use a ruler to get perfect spacing.

Using permanent black stamping ink and desired stamps,

stamp an edging design around the board.

Once stamping ink is dry,

use a black sharpie pen to outline the lettering.

When dry, lightly and quickly so as to not smudge the inks,

coat entire board with a sealer.

(I used 'Mod Podge').

And here's the end result!

I'm really happy with how it looks with the blue walls!

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