DIY Mini Christmas Wood Sign Ornaments

So, The first thing I did was sand the woods to remove as much paint as I could, also to avoid splinters. I had one piece raw but the rest were painted in brown, white, and grey.

If you want that same effect, just get some acrylic paint and paint your strips randomly with those colors let them dry completely, and then sand them off. You can see a full tutorial on this here.

When I liked how each strip of wood looked I brush them with the steel brush roughly. This opens a bit the wood grain so it will look even more rustic and also absorb the stain better.

Then it’s important to clean each wood piece very well to remove dust and any dirt.

I stained all the strips with walnut wood stain.

First, stain it all and then remove the excess with your cloth. You can, of course, stain the wood with the cloth directly but I wanted the wood to absorb as much stain as it could so I used a brush and then rub it with the cloth.

Let it dry and I get something like this:

Next step, I drilled holes vertically on each strip.

Why vertically? Well, because I wanted to hang some beads and jingle bells at the bottom, basically LOL.

Sand a bit everything again.

Clean your wood strips very well and start placing your stencil letters on them.

I used the words JOY, SNOW, BELIEVE and NOEL.

You can use any word you like, like Merry Christmas divided into two wood signs, Santa, Let it snow, Holiday, snowman, first Christmas (if you have a newborn), imagination is the limit.

Since I cut them with my Silhouette cameo, I just peel them from the sheet and place them on one side of the strip. I didn’t use transfer tape because the letters were very easy to handle.

Repeat with the rest.

Then dry brush with the white acrylic paint on top of everything. Don’t pay attention to details, just brush it and brush it randomly until you are happy with the whiteness.

You can check out my dry brush technique tutorial here.

Repeat with the rest and let them dry for a couple of hours.

Once the wood signs are completely dry, it’s time to remove the stencils.

Carefully peel each letter off carefully from the wood.

You will get this pretty effect with the aged wood on the back.

When I peeled them all off I got this! I was in love!

Then it’s time to sand again with your sandpaper. The lowest the grit the better, I only had 150 so that’s what I used.

Sand it so you kind of damage the white paint but don’t get too carried away because you might sand off the stain too.

Focus on the wood edges mostly and some sanding on the letter edges too.

There you go! Signs are done!

Cut some twine strings long enough to go from one hole to the next creating a nice triangle and leaving some more for decor.

Insert the twine through the holes making sure the ends are on the bottom of each sign.

Insert your beads and jingle bells {if the case}. You can decorate the end of the twine with almost any embellishment like cranberries and springs, wooden snowflakes or trees, even tassels. Or why not, no embellishment at all.

Finish each end with a tight knot.

Pull the twine from the top and you are done!

Repeat with the rest of the signs.

The Mini Christmas Wood Sign Ornaments are ready to be hung on your tree!!!