Spicing Up The Front Door - Welcome Door Sign

This project has been on my to-do list since long before Christmas! I'm glad I finally got to it. :D  I wanted to make something with a cute garden theme:

Here's how it started out:

I was going to stencil on some lavender, then decided on a butterfly instead since it's easier.
So I painted the board and the letters with acrylic craft paint:

And then stenciled on the butterfly.  I used the same colour purple, just adding more white to it to get the colours from dark to light purple (dunno why the camera makes my purple stuff look blue!):

It's not so neat - I think I had too much paint on my sponge, but I thought I'd just leave it in case I messed it up trying to make it look better.  I'm not good with painting and I don't have many painting tools and brushes and things.  So anyway!

I added some purple blings to the butterfly (which don't look all that blingy in the photo...) and then spray varnished the board and letters.  I also added some blings to the letters.

I had some holes drilled into the board and used jute as a hanger for the sign:

Then I just glued on the letters, leaves and flowers with a glue gun.  Before gluing the bees, I had to remove their legs otherwise I couldn't get a good glue hold on them...it was kinda gross because it almost felt like I was dismembering a real bee. 

 

 

 

And that's my sign! :D I like how it turned out - something fun and summery for the door. :)

  

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