Go Jump in the Lake Painted Sign

Now that we are building a lake house, I can start thinking about decor.  I’ve seen “Go Jump in the Lake” signs on-line and in a few shops and I thought that it would be fun to make my own for our house.

 

My friend gave me an ugly metal sign knowing that I could use it for a future craft project.  After a few coats of white paint, I had a blank canvas.

After I painted the sign white, I realized that I wanted the background to be blue, so I painted over the white with two coats of Velvet Finishes paint in Handsome.

 

I then used PicMonkey to create “Go Jump in the Lake”.  I’ve included it here for you to print if you’d also like to make a sign.

I printed the sign on clear transparency film to use on an overhead projector.  I then used the overhead to trace the letters onto the sign.

If you don’t have an overhead, you can transfer the letters easily with old fashioned carbon paper.  If you need to enlarge before transferring, Block Poster works well for this.

The letters were painted with three coats of Valspar Gloss White and Red that I had leftover from other projects.

Since I used patriotic colors for the sign, I used it on my porch along with some other red, white and blue decor.

Mama found the stool at a yard sale long ago and recently passed it on to me.  The bandana wreath is an easy DIY if you like the look.  I made the flag banner a few years ago for my mantel and am using it this year on our porch.

We haven’t had an opportunity to check on the lake house progress since last weekend.  At that point the basement walls were poured.  I’ll share progress pictures very soon!

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