I have always wanted to make a DIY welcome sign for my front porch. I never really knew where to begin. Until I got my amazing Cricut Maker 3! This machine really can do it all. I’ve had an explore air 2, a maker and now the maker 3. I’m so obsessed and I’ve loved every single one of my Cricut machines but this one definitely takes the cake. It was not only speedy fast but the fact I didn’t even need a mat? AMAZING!
This blog I’m going to share with you how I made this gorgeous Christmas Welcome Sign for my porch using some wood and my Cricut maker 3. It was so intimidating at first but it was honestly a breeze with my Cricut Machine.
1. Start by getting your wood pieces nailed together. I just went to Home Depot and found what I liked, asked them to cut it for me and went on my way. This all depends on the size you want your Welcome sign to be. Mine is about 4ft and I just had them make the boards for support the same width as the long boards.
2. Get your design ready on design space. I went with something simple but cute. We seriously love christmas around here so it was perfect for us! You can search Pinterest or anywhere really for Christmas welcome signs to find one that fits you.
3. Once you’ve got your design ready, get your Cricut out of the box (ahhhhhh best feeling ever when it’s the first time you’ve opened it) Get your roll holder or just your vinyl ready to go and get to making! With Vinyl you don’t need to mirror. It goes shiny side up.
4. Weed all your pieces out, put transfer tape over the weeded pieces.
5. Lay them on your wood so you can see where you’d like them to go before actually removing the backing so the design is on the transfer tape. This helped me a lot so I knew exactly where I wanted everything to go.
6. Once you’ve got it where you want it, start taking the backing off each piece and lay them down on wood. Then use your scraper to slowly help you while you peel the transfer tape off.
7. Once you have all your pieces on your wood, grab your greenery (if using any) I nailed It on the board to make sure it stayed since it’ll be outside and I didn’t know that glue would hold well.
8. Next grab your ribbon/ribbons & tie them around the top of the sign.
& Done! You have the most gorgeous DIY welcome sign. No need to spend hundreds of dollars on one when you can simple make one yourself! I’ll definitely be making my own from now on. Especially with my maker 3. It cut everything out SO FAST!! I was so impressed.
Make sure to check out all my other blogs on my Cricut Projects. I love getting crafty and I love that my Cricut lets me do that whenever I want. Especially the newest one. So easy, so fun & so therapeutic. Grab your keys and run to get the newest Cricut machine. Get to Making!
*This post is sponsored by Cricut but all opinions are my own!*
Thanks! Now I want a cricut
Something else to add to my ideas to make with my cricut.. maybe for spring
You always come up with the cutest ideas!
I want to make one now!