 Hey guys, it's Jen from iCrayCrafts. In today's tutorial, I'm gonna show you how to create these wood round door signs. They were so simple to make. I created a stencil that I applied to the wood round sign and I painted over the stencil. The final product turned out so amazing and I have many tips and tricks for you in this video. I can't wait to show you how to create these door hangers, so let's get started. Okay guys, so as I'm sitting here thinking on what I can do for my next video, I'm thinking of doing something with chickens. We have chickens here, it's winter time, it's negative 10 or 15 degrees outside right now. I'm thinking of summer and I've been doing a lot of wood signs and I was thinking what can I do with my next wood sign and I'm like chickens. Where I sell a lot of people or live in the country or they come from the city and they want to get kind of different things. I've actually never seen a wood sign that normally goes on your door, outside by like a chicken coop or even on your door. So I was actually gonna turn these ones into some towels as it's listed here, farm towels. I was gonna make some of these towels with these stains on it, but I'm like, I wanna do something with a wood sign. So the ones that I'm really thinking of are like this one, welcome to our farmhouse, beware of the chickens and this farm fresh one. I like these other ones. I found these on design bundles. I'll leave the link below if I can find where I got them from, the exact link. But I just wanted to show you guys this. I thought it was really funny. So I'm actually gonna get rid of a few of these. So I'm just gonna X out of these so I don't have to worry about getting these cut out or anything. I just wanted to show you a few of them that I had been working on. Oh my gosh, I might actually end up doing all three of these. I bought some really thin pieces of wood, round wood from Amazon. And it's really, I'm like holding it right now. It's very flimsy. It's nothing really to it. I know that if I put it on the door it'll kind of like fly around. So I was thinking putting something like this on my chicken coop or around my chicken coop. But I'm actually thinking I'm gonna do all three of these actually tell you the truth. So I think for this first one here, beware of the chickens. I'm going to actually move this over a little bit more and just work with this one. I need to figure out the actual size of my wood that I have here. But I think once I figure that size out which I should have done before but I was kind of excited to do this I'm actually gonna pull, I'm gonna detach it and pull this down a little bit more because I think I'm gonna paint it maybe red and white or black and white, something like that. I really haven't thought about it too much but I wanna bring this down and have it like a different color. So I'm gonna actually look up my size of this really quick and I will be right back. All right, so I wanted to show you guys this really quick where I bought it from. So it's $14 for eight of them which really isn't too bad. I think it was cheaper when I bought it. I actually bought it twice already. I don't remember buying it twice but I bought them to make sides out of. So this is what I bought. I'll leave the link to this below. But like I said, they're very thin. They're not the thick ones that you buy like at Menards or anywhere. They are the thicker, the thinner ones here. Let's see, maybe this will show you. See, it's much thinner but I wanted to show you where I got it from. So it says it's 12 inch wood. So I'm actually gonna go back to design space. I'm gonna close this one and I'm gonna actually gonna grab a circle here and I'm gonna change it to be a 12 inch circle. And I'll tell you why in just a minute. So I just changed it up here to 12 and then if you don't unlock it, it'll change it to 12 by 12. So here's where this comes in. So obviously you don't see your design because it's in back of it. So with the design already selected, I'm gonna go to a range and then send to front and here it is here. So I'm gonna pull this over a little bit more so we can see just this. So I'm gonna make this a little bit larger and I'll let you know what I had in mind with the colors. And I'm sorry, I don't know. I think I'm getting a little sick right on, a little stuffy. So excuse my voice. So what I was saying with this one, so this is the actual size of my wood that I'm going to be using but I wanted to do it two different colors. I was thinking about bringing the chickens down a little bit further. So to do that, I need to go to the detach button and let's see. Okay, so it does individually bring them together. So I'm actually going to move this out of the way for a minute and grab all of this and I'm going to right away attach it because as you saw, it was individual. So I'm gonna bring it down a little bit and I'm gonna go ahead and attach this too because the same thing would happen. It would cut out each little piece. So now that I have them individually, I can actually bring this down a little bit further. Take this up a little bit higher. I can make it smaller if I want because I wanna try to get it up higher and get as much out as of it as I can. And there. So I think instead of making the sign all one color, I may actually do several different colors. I haven't really thought about it much. It is kind of neat the way it is. I really like how this looks. I like the size. So this one is done. So the last thing I'm gonna do is just keep my circle because it's the same size and I'm going to move this up a little bit so that we can work on the next one. So it's gonna be the same thing but I think I'm going to do this farm fresh egg one. So again, it's behind it. So you gotta just rearrange it. So you arrange and then send to front and here it is. I'm gonna unlock it and I'm gonna make it larger. So again, the circle is just to visualize it to see what it would actually look like because this is the size of my board I'm using. And you know what? I really like it the way it looks now. I like using stain and then for the back and then I like painting this part. So I think I'm actually gonna change the red to like a grayish color because I really like this gray stain that I use. And I can either use, I kind of like the black or I can do it white. But again, it's up to you, whatever colors you wanna do it. I'm actually gonna stretch this out a little bit more and try to get more off of my sign. And I don't have to sender it or do anything because all I'm using is this print here and then I'll do the same thing. I'll reverse weed it because I don't want to have vinyl outside. Even though you use 651, the permanent vinyl, it could eventually peel off. So I love painting things instead. So I really like the way this looks. I love how it's like, you know, curved with the sign itself. So you can always play around with it when you put it on. But yeah, I really like this. I think I'm just gonna bring it down a little bit more. I don't wanna stretch it too much. If you know what I mean, I don't wanna stretch the eggs too far, but I'm trying to get the most out of it that I can. So wow, I really like that. I like it the way it is. I think this is actually how I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna have the gray stain on the back and then I'm gonna paint it this black color. So I'm actually gonna attach this. All I have is the words here now. So I'm gonna attach that so it will cut out all as one piece. So as you can see, it darkened the gray here. So everything is gonna cut out just like that. So I don't need this circle anymore. So I can get rid of that. I'll shrink my screen a little bit and we can see what we're all working with here. So these two pieces are attached to each other. So I don't have to worry about these. But if I were to move this, I'll move it just to show you, it's individual. So they're two different pieces. So I'm actually gonna go back here and I'm gonna select both of them. Then I can bring it down and show you guys what it looks like. But for me to cut it out all at the same, I'm gonna just change the color to this black. And I'm gonna change this to black because it doesn't matter what color this is because I'm going to be reverse weeding all of these. I just wanna be able to cut it out on one piece of vinyl. Okay, so the last thing I wanna do is actually attach both of these together. As you can see, it says detach here but that's because we attached this whole piece together and this piece together. But I actually want all of them together. So I'm gonna push the detach button. I'm gonna go ahead and grab it all again and then I'm gonna attach it. So now it's one piece rather than two different pieces. So I like the sizing of it. So if I bring my screen back, you guys can see how big it is. And you can go in and you can put the layer here if you want. It just makes it easier to see on the sign. One other trick really quick that I actually might do to lay this on the wood board itself rather than trying to visualize to see where it is. I think I'm actually gonna bring that shape back the circle and change it to be the 12 by 12. So I'm not unlocking it up at the top. I'm just gonna do 12 and it's gonna automatically change it to 12. So I think for me to be able to see where it is rather than kind of guess where to put this. So here I'm gonna move this forward to show you again. I think actually I'm gonna do it the easy way. This way does, you will lose a little bit of vinyl, but I'm okay with it because it's 631 that I'm using. It's not the permanent kind and it's a little bit cheaper. So I think I'm actually gonna cut it out as it looks because then I don't have to estimate where to put it to get the center. So I'm gonna select both of these. So I have the words and the circle. I'm gonna go up to the line button and I'm gonna center it. So that's completely in the center. So now I'm gonna go ahead and select both of them again and push attach. So it's gonna cut out as one piece. And again, this is up to you if you wanna do it this way. It's just easier for me to be able to get it in the center directly rather than trying to guess where it is. So if you wanna do that, you can do that. If you don't, you can just cut it out the way it is and put it on your thing, on your sign. But this is the way I'm gonna do it. So I'm gonna do shape, grab a circle and then change it up here to be 12 by 12. And then do the same thing. Again, it's gonna be behind it. So we're just gonna go to the arrange button, center front and here it is. I'm kind of putting it where I think the middle would be. I'll select both of them, go to a line and then center it. And there it is. So I think it's just so much easier that way rather than trying to figure it out yourself. So then that's just the last one. Do the same thing, circle, change the size to be 12 by 12 or whatever size your wood is. So again, don't be alarmed. It's still there, center front. Get as close as I can to where I want it to be and then go ahead and select both of them, align and then center it. Last thing to do is just attach it. So here it is, here are the three that I'm going to be doing. So again, I'm going to be using 631, not the permanent vinyl and then I'm going to reverse weed this. So instead of peeling back the vinyl like we normally would and leave the words there, we're gonna do just opposite. I'm gonna pull out the words and leave everything else there. So while this is going, but I see right here that I forgot, Cricut does not like the 12 by 12. So I have to reduce these to be 11 and a half by 11 and a half. So when I put this on my sign, it's gonna have a little bit of a half an inch on all the side around here. So you're gonna have to go back and change this. So unfortunately, 11.5 and then it'll change it for me. So I got to do that with each of these. Unfortunately, I wish I could have it because I'm gonna have that half an inch there, but whoops, I don't want to unlock it because then I'll change the other one directly for me. There, so for those of you who stuck with me through this, thank you, I really appreciate it. I do my best to show you directly how to do this and how to make things better. So I really hope you guys are liking this video. Please subscribe if you haven't already and give me a thumbs up. Let me know how I'm doing with this. Do you guys like this? Honestly, I've never seen these done before, but I haven't done a lot of research though. So there might be some out there like that, but I was just doing welcome ones. And I'm like, you know, I live in the country. I have a little farm here. This would be really cute. So that's why I decided to do these. So again, I'm just gonna go to the make it button and this is what it's gonna look like. So again, I'm cutting out the whole thing. You don't have to do this. You are gonna lose a little bit of vinyl if you do it this way rather than just cutting out the words, but I'm okay with that because I would rather be able to put it on the board and have it centered directly for me rather than me getting the ruler out, trying to figure out where the center is, making sure everything's completely in the center. So I'm gonna cut this out in 631. I will weed it out and then I'll show you the next step. The next step is actually painting or staining your board, but I like to let this cut out while I'm doing the other parts so it dries. And then by the time this is done, I can come in here and weed it. And then by the time I'm done weeding this, my boards will be dry. So that's just the process of how I do it. So I'm gonna go ahead and finish this up and then I'll show you the next step. Okay, so I actually finished cutting these out and I weeded them. I kind of just did it all at once rather than waiting. So I have these two done and I'm waiting for the last one to finish, but I figure I'll show you guys. So this is the wood I'm going to be using. Like I said, it's very flimsy. It's not very thick. So I would recommend using these as like the door ones but I thought this would be kind of cute to hang some of these on my chicken coop even. So starting with this one, beware of the chickens. I was gonna do a line here initially but I'm thinking I'm just gonna leave that alone. I'm actually gonna make the whole sign white and then do the beware of chickens in red and then do the chickens and then they can be real peckers black. So we're gonna see how that turns out and then as far as this other one here, I think I'm gonna do it the way it looks. Just make the whole thing black and then do the white or the parts that are cut out. So it's gonna look exactly like this. So the first thing you're gonna wanna do is take one of your signs. These are really nicely already sanded for you so you don't have to do anything but I did wanna show you one thing. I have a few of these. I don't know if I can find which one it was. This one, that are not in the greatest condition. As you can see, there's a big line here and then there's one here as well. So it's already cracking. So go through your package and make sure you have enough good ones. Otherwise I would send it back but I have these two really good ones and I'm gonna try to go with the grain on these. So you just wanna pick which way the grain's going and then that's the way I like to paint. So I have my spot set up already and I have my paint ready chosen. So I really like to use like wavery chalk or the chalk paint. So that's what I'm going to be using. So this is just a regular red color. It's called crimson and then I have this chalk paint. It's called linen white and then I have this frostolium milk paint which is black. So these are gonna be my three that I'm going to be using and then I'm also using some sponge brushes here or makeup sponges I guess you wanna call them and I like to do it just a dab on it and it works really well. And then just to cover the whole thing I use a sponge brush. Oh my goodness, a sponge brush if I can talk but this one's a little bit smaller. I picked this up at the dollar store. So it's gonna take me a little bit longer to do it but I just wanted to show you the supplies that I use. So I have all that and then to finish it I'm going to be using this Mod Podge. It's going to act like a sealer for the paint on here when it's finished because I'm not using vinyl. It's going to be all painted. So the next thing you're gonna wanna do is take whichever actually the first thing you're gonna wanna do is paint this. So you just wanna make sure there's no debris or anything on here which shirt isn't and then take whatever color you're going to do. I'm gonna do this base color first which is gonna be black and then I'm gonna paint over it white after I put my stencil on. So I'm just gonna give this really good shake and then I'll open it up and show you guys what it looks like. I love this stuff. So it's this really pretty chalky creamy color. So I'm gonna be using that. And I like to do these a couple at a time just because it takes a little bit longer to dry but actually chalk paint dries a lot quicker than your regular paint that you use. And then depending on how many coats you wanna put on like how thick you want it to look if you wanna have like a little color behind it or if you want it just to be fully black it's up to you however you wanna do it. But I'm gonna do the front side. I'm gonna let it dry. I'm gonna do the sides all around. And then I think I'm gonna do another coat after this. I want it to be nice and thick. So I'm gonna finish this one up. I'm gonna work on the next one after this which is just taking another one of these and then putting and using this. And like I said, I want the background to be white. So I'm gonna do the same thing and paint the background white. So I'm just gonna fast forward this part. You don't have to watch this. Once it dries, I'll show you the next step. Okay, so my board is completely dry, both of them. So here's the black one. They did both sides and the edges. And then here is the white one that I have done as well. So I'm gonna work with the black one. So I'm going to be using this one. So I was gonna do black and white. So the vinyl is here. And I just used a 631 if you remember. And now I'm just taking some transfer tape. This is just the clear transfer tape. You can buy this off of Amazon for a big huge roll or you can get it at the dollar store. They're both exactly the same. I tend to buy the bigger one on Amazon. So I just peel it just the top part to get it started. And then I'm gonna lay it down on the vinyl. Just start at the top. Basically, you just wanna make sure that you don't get any bubbles or anything in it. So I'm just gonna pull this bottom part and work with my hand here and just I'm pushing it as I go. So when I pull it on the bottom, I'll just use my hand and flatten it, making sure I don't get any bubbles in it. I will take my squeegee, here it is. I'll use my little squeegee and then I'll just push it to get all of the air bubbles out first. Just wanna make sure you take all your bubbles out that you can on here before you start peeling it back. So I always flip my designs upside down and I work backwards. So then I can see if something's coming up off of my paper. But if you do a good job scraping it, you shouldn't have anything come up. Perfect. So here it is, here's my board. Kinda hard to see in the black surface here with the black transfer tape. But like I said, I made the circle the same size of my board but because I can only do 11 and a half by 11 and a half and my board is 12, it's gonna be like a half an inch off on each side. So I'm just gonna carefully lay it down and I'm sorry it is black on black so it's hard to see but I'm just gonna go around the edges and give it a little half inch all the way around. So I think that's pretty good. But you just wanna take your time, you can kinda see up here where it's just a little bit around the whole edge. And it's okay if it's off just a little because I'm just going to be painting this anyway. This vinyl's not gonna stay on. So I'm just gonna use my hands, push really hard to make sure I don't get any bubbles in again and then use my scraper one more time and scrape really well to make sure that the vinyl sticks and this is very important because you don't want your paint to seep through. So I'm just gonna scrape it really hard and then I'll peel back my transfer tape and it should all come off clean with no black spots of the vinyl that you have down. And if you have any bubbles peeling up already just use your fingers and kinda press it down as you go because you don't want any bubbles or any pieces of your vinyl sticking up. Perfect. Again, I'm sorry it's black on black. I'll show you with my next one what I mean. But as you can see, it's on really nice. There are a few bubbles on the edges here. I don't care about that. I only care about the parts where you see the paint coming through because that's where you're gonna be painting. So I'll show you with the next one. So I'm gonna do the same thing. I have this other one done here and I'm using this same transfer tape that I just used because I like to reuse things. So I'm just gonna start at the top and kinda do the same thing as I just did but it's a little bit more difficult because I don't have that bottom piece on here. So I'm just gonna pull it and then just do the same thing. Work with your hands pushing down as you go so you get the air bubbles out but there. And just the same process go really well so your vinyl will stick to your transfer tape when you peel it up. And then this one will be easier to see because it is the white paint. So again, I'm just taking it and gently putting it on. I'm not pushing it because I wanna make sure that all edges have the same amount around the whole side. Unfortunately, like I said, it wouldn't let me cut it any larger. So we'll just take our time and do it properly. You wanna do your base color on top of your stencils. So I'm just using a makeup, little makeup foam brush and I'm just gonna dip it into my can. And then you see there's a lot on it. So I like to just take it and dab onto a paper towel and then kinda go over it. So I'm just doing a light coat up and down motions. I'm not putting a lot of paint on it because you don't want anything really to seep under. And this is why we do the base color. So your next color paint will not seep under and then this will also seal it for you. So I'm just taking it and dabbing it up and down. So I'm gonna finish this up quick. I'll do the other one black and then once it dries, I'll show you the next step. Okay, so this first one is completely dry. After the second coat of putting the color on, I put the base color on. I only did it once so I just did the up and down dabbing. So now I'm going to go in and do the white and it's going to be the same process. Nice light taps and a little bit onto a paper towel, especially this part you do not want a lot of paint to go in because you do not want it to seep in. So I'm just gonna do the same thing. This one's just gonna be all of it's just gonna be white. So I'm just gonna do the same thing, just up and down dabbing, making sure that I get everywhere. You just wanna make sure that your last coat that you did was completely dry before you even do this. So this is basically it. I'm gonna do, well, maybe two or three coats because I don't wanna see any of the black behind it, but I don't wanna do a lot of paint. I wanna do just a little bit and then just up and down dabbing motions because the more paint you put on, the more risk you have of it bleeding through. All right, so here's the other one that I was working on. This one is completely dry too. This was the beware of the chickens. So this top part, the beware part, I was gonna do red and then the bottom part here, I was gonna do black. So it's just the same process. You're gonna wanna take a clean sponge brush or makeup sponge and just do the same process. So anyway, so I'm just gonna finish this one up, do the same thing. So the top part here is going to be red and then the bottom is going to be black. All right, so they are both dry to the touch. Now the thing is to do is to peel it back. So here is the moment of truth. And because I'm using 631 instead of 651, it should not peel off the background color. But because we did the extra layer of the background color, we should have nice clean lines. So now I'm just gonna go in with my weeder and pick out the rest of the pieces, but I'm really happy with the way that this looks. Okay, so I finished this one. I actually did get another weeder. I have this, whoops, no, this one instead. So this one worked a lot better. As you can see, I have really, really nice, crisp lines. I didn't have any issue with bleeding or anything. So I'm really happy at how this turned out. I did make a mistake. I told you guys before I misplaced that piece. So I might go in with like a little marker or something and make the A, but I really love how this turned out. I'm going to be doing the next one. This other one that has the red and the black and it's gonna be the same process. Okay, so I am finished with this. It did turn out really well. This one I am not so happy with. I think I let it dry way too much before peeling off the vinyl. But I normally do let it dry. You can see some of the pieces. It's not that it leaked underneath or blood. It's that my weeder kept getting the edges of things. So this one didn't work out too well, but I'm always honest with you guys if I make a mistake or whatnot. So maybe not let it sit as long as I did. This black one I absolutely love. I love how this turned out. So the last part for me to do is spray this with some poly or some Mod Podge. I like to spray this because, especially because I used chalk paints and any kind of water or anything will smudge it and make the paint come off. So I use the Mod Podge to give it like a sheen look to it, nice clear cover to it. So it's a sealer that I would highly recommend using. So I'm gonna do both of these outside. And then the other thing I'm going to do is clean up the back a little bit. I have a little bit of this vinyl stuck to it, which is okay. And then I'm just gonna put two pieces of, or actually one piece of ribbon on it, just like one here and one here and then make a loop so it can hang. This is so thin that there's no way I can put a screw or anything into it. So I'm either going to use some hot glue or even a stapler and just put a little ribbon on it so I can hang it up. So I'm gonna finish that up, but then I'll show you the finished product when I have it all done and hanging up. But I'm really excited how these turned out. I definitely like this black one a lot better. Oh my gosh guys, I love how these turned out. I really do like the black one better, but I can't believe how easy these were to create. I'm really happy how crisp the lines are and that there was no bleeding. I hope you go and create your own version and maybe try to sell these or even give them away as gifts or hang them up at home if you have a homestead or a small farm like me. Please make sure that you hit that subscribe button and that hit that bell icon as it will notify you when I have another fun craft. Happy crafting everyone.