Honey, This is So Cute! Tutorial for Stenciling a Sign

June 14, 2018

Honey, This is So Cute! Tutorial for Stenciling a Sign

Create your own art with bubble wrap and paint.

Here's another fun and easy project using leftover scrap wood. This piece was a remnant from a dresser drawer bottom. The best thing about this project is that anyone can do it! No art skills required, just a few supplies are all you need. I've included a supply list for your convenience at the end of this post. And if you mess up? Just paint over it and start again.

The sign won't be framed, so I decided to give it a border. First I roughly painted a border in black.

Roughly paint in a border on the scrap wood.

After it was dry I taped it off with painters tape.

Use painters tape to tape off the border.

Then I filled in the center area with my base color in white.

Fill in the center area with the base color.

My sign will have a "honey" theme (hence the title of this post), so to add a little dimension with a honeycomb effect, I brushed some paint on a piece of bubble wrap.

Applying paint to bubble wrap to create a honeycomb effect.

Then I pressed the bubble wrapped onto the board.

Next I pounced black paint over a beehive stencil to create a shadow effect.

Here's how it looks after the black was applied:

Black stenciled first as a base coat for a shadow effect.

Then I slightly shifted my stencil up and over.

Shift the stencil slightly to create a shadow effect.

I used yellow and brown to begin building my color for the beehive.

I pounced the paint on randomly.

Second layers pounced on top of stencil.

You can see here how it is starting to take shape.

I mixed in some white to create my final layer of color:

Continue adding layers of color until you achieve the color you want.

Ta-da the beehive portion of the sign is finished!

Next I moved on to adding my letters "Local Honey". I used a piece of painters tape as a guide for the bottom of the letters.

Use a piece of painters tape as a guide to keep letters straight.

To speed things up I used my hairdryer to quickly dry the paint before moving on to the next letter. I also stenciled in a few bees which you will see in the "after" photos. I did a light sanding with 220-grit sandpaper to roughen up the sign before I applied a sealant to the paint.

I use my hairdryer to speed up the drying process.

After:

It was such a beautiful morning that I decided to stage my sign outside in my wildflower garden. I still need to attach hangers to the sign, so for now I just propped it up. I think I will drill a couple of holes and run a wire hanger through it.

Local honey sign made with a few basic supplies.

The bright morning sun made it a little difficult to photograph some of the background colors, but I hope you can see them.

Here are the little bees that I stenciled buzzing around the beehive. I was hoping to capture a live bee buzzing around in the photo, but no such luck.