Make Your Own Farmhouse Christmas Sign for the Holidays (DARLING!)

If you’d like to make a DIY Farmhouse Christmas Sign – check this out. You only need a few supplies and can fully customize this one too. Take a look!

DIY Farmhouse Christmas Sign for the Holidays

Note from Laurie: my friend Cheree made this DARLING sign for Christmas and I’m completely obsessed with it! Here’s how you can make it too. 

I’ve been searching for a farmhouse style craft for the holidays and found just what I needed on Pinterest ~ I was just in love with this idea!

So, I headed to Hobby Lobby and bought a pre-made board, but realized I really wanted it a wee bit bigger!

Thankfully, my sweet husband mentioned SHIPLAP, and I realized that was what I wanted, so off we headed to Home Depot.

Now, if the idea of cutting and nailing involved scares you, just skip on over this part and get yourself a pre-made board like this one right HERE.

It’s okay to give yourself a little grace on that part. 🙂  

Here’s what you need to make this DIY Farmhouse Christmas Sign:

Supplies:

• 8 foot Shiplap board
• 8 foot 1 x 2 inch board
• 1 inch finishing nails
• Ivory chalk paint (or acrylic) and dark wax (or brown acrylic) and brushes
• Red acrylic paint
• Small grapevine wreath
• Christmas greenery pick (or you could totally use fresh greenery from your yard)
• 1.5 inch wired Christmas ribbon
• Jingle bells or an ornament you may already have

My husband cut the SHIPLAP into 4 equal pieces and did the same for the 1 x 2 piece.

Piece your shiplap together (you’ll need to cut off one end where the shiplap has a little tongue groove so the board will be even).

Turn it over and place your 1 x 2 inch pieces evenly across the back and start nailing. Be sure to hold the board tightly together so it will be straight.

Next, give your board a good 2 coats of chalk paint (or acrylic or whatever type you prefer).  I used some chalk paint in an ivory color that I already had on hand.

Learn from my mistake here and wax or dry brush on a darker color at this point BEFORE you stencil on your J and Y.

Trust me on this (especially if you are using wax). Wax and acrylic paint do not mix, just fyi! I used dark wax I had leftover from another project.

I made my own stencil letters out of poster board and it worked ok, but not great. I ended up having to really clean up my letters after I stenciled them. (I wonder if a Cricut Machine would come in handy for those letters???).

For the wreath, I happened upon a piece of grapevine on clearance at a local decorating store. You might be able to find something similar at the Dollar Tree. I really LOVE this little wreath, it just makes me happy!

I cut the grapevine and formed it into a circle and hot glued in a cute Christmas pick I found at Hobby Lobby. I wired on a simple bow and an adorable jingle bell ornament, hammered in a small nail and hung the wreath.

I’m just tickled with how this Easy Farmhouse Christmas Sign turned out!