As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord – DIY Cabinet Door Sign

Many months ago I was given about 10 old cabinet doors to use for some re-purposing. I had already painted them but never know what I wanted to do with them. You may remember me doing some re-purposing with those cabinet doors before. Things are finally settling down after closing our house and moving into a temporary place while our house is being built so I figured it’s time to start crafting again!

I grabbed one of the cabinet doors that I had already painted and used a brush texture on top of it and decided to make a sign. I had grabbed this Hazel & Ruby stencil at Michael’s one day when I had a good coupon and knew this was the perfect time to try them out! I love the font of these stencils and I love that they are reusable! I haven’t gotten paint on them yet so we’ll see how well they hold up when that happens!

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I’ve always loved the bible verse Joshua 24:15 As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. It’s a daily reminder for everyone in the household and I love that it’s displayed for anyone else that comes in the home.

For this project I just laid out the stencil letters in the arrangement that I wanted.  It was a longer bible verse so I ran out of some letters and just left room for them to add once I finished the first two lines and freed up some letters.  I just took a pencil and lightly traced around all the stencil letters. I then removed the stencil and replaced them to the plastic backing to use again on another project.

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I then just took a small paint brush and brown acrylic paint and started filling in the letters that were now sketched out. The paint brush and paint was easy to use but a paint pen would have been easier if I had a brown one. I filled in all the letters once and then went back and painted over them one more time to make sure the background wasn’t showing through the paint.

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Once it was dry I took a small piece of sandpaper and lightly rubbed in the direction of my background paint strokes to give the letters the same texture and distressed look as the background.

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That’s all there is to it! This sign is now available over at Hamby Home Décor! And don’t forget to follow me on Instagram @hambyhomedecor to get a first peak of all my projects!

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