Cottage Rules

To celebrate my mother's birthday this week,

I created this quaint sign for her to hang in her guest cottage.

I wanted to use colors that are fresh and clean

teal and red started the base:

(I started with a 12 x 20 blank canvas)

After my imperfect stripeys were dry I played around

with white gesso, adding stripes and polka dots.

I figured out the words

and cut them out onto contact paper

with various fonts on my cricut.

Making sure that the letters were smoothed down well,

I then painted over the whole board with

elmers white glue...

and then super quick I painted it with an ivory white color.

Then I waited about 10 minutes and peeled off the contact letters.

As the paint/glue dried the magic emerged.

It turned out better than I could have imagined.

Happy Birthday MOM!