DIY Rustic Reversible Wooden Easter Signs with Bunny Butt and Hello Spring Tutorial

Clean your piece of wood off prior to staining. This will get rid of any loose dirt, splinters and provide a smoother surface to work with. All you need to do is clean it off with a brush or cloth.

Stain your piece of wood and let it dry well.

I prepared a file with all the pieces for the bunny easter sign in case it’s easier for you. You can snag files with the links Above. But, I used a cup large enough for the body of the bunny and then cut the shape of the bunny’s feet. You can use a cutting machine if you have one to stencil and for the feet.

So, draw the circle directly on the stained wood.

Using a large cup to trace a circle on the stained wood

Paint the whole circle with white chalk paint. It doesn’t have to be perfect. Actually, bunny bodies are furry so your painted edge doesn’t need to be perfectly straight (wink!).

Let it dry, apply another coat and let it dry well.

I used white paint because I love the contrast between the walnut stain and the white but you can use your favorite color.

In the meanwhile, let’s create the cute little feet.

Cut your feet pattern and let’s transfer them to the felt.

Cut out paw pieces and white felt ready to be traced.

For the main foot shape, use white felt. With a pencil, trace the shapes of both feet and cut them.

As you can see for this side of the wood sign we can easily do it without an electronic cutting machine. Woot!

Then trace the pads on pink felt.

Cut and glue them onto the white felt.

There you go. Cute aren’t they?

Cute bunny feet ready

Once your wood piece is dry, Sand it. It’s important that you don’t make my mistake LOL. I only remembered to sand it when the sign was completely done. Duh!!!

After sanding, clean your wood piece well and then glue your cute bunny feet.

Lastly, glue your pom-pom bunny tail (Actually leave this for the last if you are actually planning on making it reversible and haven’t done the other side)

There you go!!!! Your Easter Bunny Butt Wood Sign is almost done!

Let’s move on.

Using your cutting machine cut out the template for this project (you can get it on links above) with the vinyl on your mat.

Remove the vinyl from your mat, and peel off all the inner designs that you will be painting.

Once you have removed all your vinyl pieces apply your transfer paper.

Remove the backing from your vinyl very carefully making sure everything is staying on the transfer tape.

Now time to apply to your prepped signboard. If your vinyl is heavy-duty I recommend sticking it quickly on a fabric first to reduce a little bit the adhesive, otherwise, it will happen to you like did to me, I got some adhesive left on the wood later.

Line up your vinyl with your board so it will be applied evenly, and using your scrapper firmly push it down.

Next, slowly remove your transfer tape so that only your vinyl is on your board.

Stencil is ready to be painted

Paint your design. Allow it to dry and then apply your second coat. Repeat this step until your desired color has been achieved.

Once your paint has completely dried remove your vinyl.

Let it dry a little bit more and sand it. Here again, you will see that I sanded it after gluing the bunting. You know what to do, right?

Now, cut a couple of strips of baker’s twine and create some buntings with your washi tape.

Created a cute banner with washi tape on the baker's twine

Cut them into your favorite shape. I cut them like a triangle.

Cut the washi tape puntings in triangle shapes

Glue the bunting ends to the edge of the board.

Hot glue the end of the garland to one side of the wood piece

There you go! It’s all ready.