My Life in 52 weeks: Home is Where....

the Army sends us and it has been that way for 10 + years, fingers crossed it will be that way for another 10+. With that in mind I really wanted to make one of the many "Home is Where the" signs and plaques as seen all over the Internet. Try as I might though everytime I set out to make it I never fell in love with the project and so it would sit unfinished in a craft box. That is until I ran across this Etsy Shop. Her sign was everything I was looking for in the simplicity of the message. I wanted some typographical flair on my sign and thought this file from Lori Whitlock was perfect. I also used the silhouette of the USA from Silhouette.

Instead of wasting vinyl to create my stencils I purchased some contact/shelf paper from the Dollar Tree to use. I put my blade all the way to 1, made my speed 3 thickness 5. I used my cutting mat.

After peeling off the back of the contact/shelf paper I taped the liner and cut design to my board. Because of my cut setting the blade went through the liner but not through the paper backing. My cut file was more alike a perforation rather than a clean cut. Maybe if I had used the double cut feature but I actually liked the way the worked out. Gave me time to fuss with stencil, and the cut image was very easy to separate.

After I separated the cut image I painted in the negative space. The colors I used for this project are: Wild Blueberry, Love Bird, Vanilla Bean, Wet Cement & Putty. All colors are by Martha Stewart Crafts.

My finished sign is 12x24 (I purchased a piece of craft wood from Michaels) I am thinking of making little flags to put onto push pins and place them at the posts we have been located. So maybe my sign is not exactly finished after all.