Look What I Did!

So, I'm kind of super proud of myself. I've been wanting to make wooden signs for over a year, ever since Pinterest came into my life. I've been saving ideas and researching techniques for when I get off my lazy butt and do it. This weekend was finally the time I did it. As my kids gets older, they are accumulating a lot of medals, ribbons and trophies. I want to do a 'wall of fame' in our basement and display them all. I'll need Rick to make the trophy shelves but I wanted to paint the signs for the medals.

I used Photoshop to print out the font then cut it out. I took a big piece of purple chalk and colored the back side of the printed paper. I taped it to the board (scrap from our wood pile in the workshop) and then traced over the letters. This left a chalk image on the wood. 

I traced over the chalk image with a fine tip black sharpie.

Then I just colored in the letters with a regular size black sharpie. This was super easy. I did use the fine tip to color in some of the smaller areas. 

I'm pretty darn happy with how it turned out. 

I've got a few more to make but this one will be for Millie's Cross Country medals. I kept it simple with unpainted wood and black letters but I may get more colorful with the next one. This one just needs hooks and it will be finished!

UPDATE:
Now Mr. Reed has one too. He was worried he wasn't going to get one.