Monogrammed Wall Art

Good morning my Shackers!! Our dear friends Stephanie and Jeremy are getting married next month and asked us to help them with a wall art piece to display at their reception. Here is how we did it...

 

Materials needed:

The MDF letter is from Etsy...http://www.etsy.com/shop/BuildACrossCanton
It's 24" tall and 3/8" thick for $11.99 plus shipping.

We used 8 boards from a pallet but 1x4's or old fence will work fine

Paint of choice

Drill

3/4" wood screws

2-1x3 boards (cut 2" smaller than the width of your 8 boards)

Wood glue

Nail gun with 3/4" nails (you can use screws if you do not have access to a nail gun)

 

Use the MDF letter as your guide to measure the size of the boards. This particular letter fit across 8 boards with about 3" left on either side. We cut the length of the boards to also be about 3" on the top and bottom of the letter.

 

 

Flip the boards over to where the side you are going to paint is face down. You will put your 1x3's acorss the boards about 1/4 of the way down. Drill a screw in each board so they are all attached to the 1x3's (pictured above).

 

Here is what it will look like once flipped back over.

 

 

You can do any design on the background or letter but we decided to do a chevron background with a solid color letter. First we painted the whole board white. As you can see we sped up the process by blow drying it with a hair dryer (works like a charm, by the way).



 



She knew she wanted 4 sets of shevron stripes so we divided the board horizonally by 8 and used the lines of the 8 individual boards for our vertical line. We then drew out the chevron stripes like the picture above.

 

Now you are ready to paint! We were going to tape off the lines but knew that would take forever so we took the chance on hand painting it. We marked the sections where the blue paint will go to keep us from painting the wrong section.

 

The good thing is if you go out of the lines, you can go back and paint over it with the background color.

 

The letter is now ready to be painted. We used a spray gun but spray paint or brushing on the paint is totally fine.

 

Once the letter is dry, mark off where you want it on the board (we marked it off with painters tape). Take the letter off and put wood glue on the back. Use the painters tape to put the letter back on the board. Let it sit for 5 minutes.

 

Lift the board on it's side and use your nail gun to nail the board to the letter from the backside.

 

Hope you love it!