I love fall and I love the look of old items. I wanted to make some new signs using the idea of vintage labels for the fall. My husband just finished making a gate for the side of our house and had some leftover cedar fence slats and I have some acrylic paint so the idea was born and FREE! Like I have said before - you have to love free crafts.
I cut 4 pieces of the cedar slats 11" long and used 2 for each sign. Then I searched on the internet for vintage labels and used then as a guide for how to paint the sign.
I knew that I wanted to make a pumpkin sign but I looked at some other vintage labels and found one for Apple Cider so with that being an appropiate fall item I used that as the second sign.
On the Sweet Cider sign I painted it red with the acrylic paint, let it dry, and then painted it with a crackle medium. I left a border around it and painted the rest a country tan color.
I then used my Cricut and cut out an apple and the words. The words were around 1 1/2 inches. After stenciling and adding some free-hand accents to the apple - I used a acrylic paint called goose feather and glazed the sign and sanded the edges. Here is the finished product:
On the pumpkin sign I used the same size of cedar slat in 2 pieces too. I painted the base the country tan color and added a border on the top and bottom of it using a color called Honeycomb. It really doesn't show much. I then used a picture from the internet of a pumpkin to trace and reference. I used on the pumpkin 2 colors of orange (citrus twist, autumn leaves) and used some green (ticket) and some of the goose feather color. The labels I made using the Cricut again. I stenciled the top using red paint and the bottom using black paint. I then glazed this sign with the goose feathers to age it. Here is the finished product:
