Beach Inspired Subway Art
I love Subway Art. I also love the look of old wooden signs. I combined the two and finally got around to making my own. I love the way it turned out.
After the white paint dried, I used my Cricut to cut out vinyl letters. I used the George and Basic shapes cartridge. I placed them on the wood and made sure to press down hard along the edges to seal them. I used the names of our favorite beaches on the Outer Banks.
Using aqua blue spray paint, I gave the wood one coat. I had just enough left in the bottle since I had also used it for my Spring Frame, among other things.
When the blue paint was dry, I used tweezers to carefully peel the vinyl off. There were some areas that weren’t perfect but that is ok. I used a fine grit sand paper to distress the wood. I sanded it more on the edges and corners to give it that weathered look.
Just found your wonderful blog. What a sweet idea. I’m now following. I hope you will stop by and share this at the Sunday Round Up Link Party this weekend.
Rose
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Girl! I absolutely love this. This is special to me because we vacation on Hatteras Island every summer. We actually go all the way down to Hatteras. Great place. Love going to Okracoke for the day. So special. Thanks for sharing at Toot Your Horn Tuesday 🙂
You did a great job!!! It looks awesome.
Looks great and I love that its some of your favorite beaches 🙂
I know you must love looking at that pretty sign and all of the memories that you have at those special places. You did an amazing job on the weathering on the sign. Love!
Trish
I LOVE this!
Nags Head. What a great name. I’m so happy for you on your big free wood find and the great subway art piece that you turned it into. Woohoo. Thanks so much for sharing at our party this week.