Follow this Hand Lettered Wood Sign Tutorial to create a gorgeous custom art piece for your home! Download the FREE SVG file, so you can cut it out at home.
This is a sponsored post on behalf of Walnut Hollow. All opinions are 100% mine.
I’m always looking for ways to incorporate Hand Lettering into my home decor, which is why I love these Walnut Hollow Basswood Planks. I love that they’re rustic, and it’s a blank slate for me to create whatever I want. You can make your own with this Hand Lettered Wood Sign Tutorial since I’m giving you these cut files FOR FREE!
I have created a lot of hand-lettered projects, but this one is my favorite! I wish I could keep them, but I’m SO excited to be giving these away at the Creativation conference in Phoenix! I’ll be teaching you how to hand letter onto Wood Coasters from Walnut Hollow at their booth from January 21 to 23. It’s going to be amazing, so I hope you can make it!
For this Hand Lettered Wood Sign Tutorial, you’ll need:
- Walnut Hollow Wood Planks (mine were about 11″ x 16″)
- FREE SVG File (download button at the end of post)
- Pencil and eraser
- Cricut Explore Air 2 (or your favorite cutting machine)
- Scraper
- Vinyl
- Transfer Tape
- Acrylic Paint colors of your choice
- First, you’ll want to draw lines for the vertical and horizontal center of the wood plank. Set it aside.
- Cut the file with your cutting machine on the vinyl setting (to see how to upload your files to Cricut Design Space, click here).
- Weed the writing and flower portion of the vinyl.
- Apply transfer tape to the top of the vinyl and smooth it out carefully with the scraper. *Tip: Take the backing off the transfer tape about an inch at a time, starting with one side of the design. Smooth it out with the scraper; then take off more of the transfer tape.
- Take the backing off the vinyl, then align the diamonds with the lines you created in step one, so it is centered, then carefully stick it to the wooden plank. Use the scraper again, to smooth it onto the plank.
- Take transfer tape off the vinyl. You may need to smooth it with the scraper as you go along. Discard the transfer tape.
- Smooth it out again with the scraper, making sure there are no bumps in the vinyl, as that could create some bleeding.
- Paint the wood plank with your favorite colors, then remove the vinyl! Once paint is dry, erase the pencil marks.
You’ll notice I told you to use the scraper a lot…I really mean it! Smoothing this out between each adhesive step is KEY to creating smooth lines with no bleeding. If you want to make this even more rustic, go over the paint a little bit with some sanding paper. Since I chose really bright, modern colors, I opted to keep them as is. What colors will you choose for these Hand Lettered Wood Plank Signs?
Download the FREE Hand Lettered SVG Files:
If you liked this, check out these other Hand Lettering posts:
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Leila says
Erin! I love those! They turned out amazing!! I downloaded the files (thank you a million!) and I cannot wait to try it!
Erin says
Thanks so much Leila!!
Jenn says
I love these signs, but unfortunately don’t own or have access to a Cricut or similar machine. Is there a pdf download I can get for these instead of an svg?
Erin says
Hi Jenn- I don’t currently because this project is specifically for cutting. I’ll try to create a printable version next week for you, though! Thank you so much!
Jillene Petersen says
These look great Erin. Love love them!
Erin says
Thanks so much Jillene!
Heather (Brie Brie Blooms) says
These are beautiful!
Brenda says
These signs are so sweet! Can you tell me what font you used? I would like to use it for other projects.
thanks!
Erin says
Hi Brenda- These were actually hand lettered, so the font isn’t available. Thanks so much!
anonymous says
Hi Erin. I do handlettered signs. But these are stenciled signs. Not hand lettered. I don’t want to be rude but for those of us that actually spend the time to HAND letter, this article is deceiving for people that assume hand lettered items are stenciled like this. You should change the title to “how to stencil a sign to look like you hand lettered it”
Erin says
Hi, Anonymous- the designs for the SVG files on these boards are hand lettered by me. I took a lot of time and care into each design, not to mention the time it took to take pictures of the process and explain it on my blog. The primary goal of my blog is to educate and bring tutorials that are easy to recreate. Not everyone can hand letter, so they download my free hand lettered designs to create a project that is custom and one they love.
Lori says
Thank you so much for taking the time to crate beautiful hand-lettered signs for us to replicate! Especially because I do NOT know how to hand letter. Really appreciate your work!
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Erin says
I’m fine as long as you link back to my site 🙂 Thanks!!
Joy says
You shared such great info using vinyl to make stencils Erin. You inspired me. My Thursday post where I made my first semi-transparent stencil has a link back to this post.
Joy
Erin says
So glad you tried this out!! I’m glad you like it!
Dianne says
New to the Cricut – I have a Cricut expression I am just learning about . Can I use your designs with it? Thanks for sharing your talent😊
Jane Doe says
I tried this out and my came out great. My Mom loved it sooooo much!!!!
Erin says
Yay! So glad she liked it!!!