DIY Tin Accent Sign Tutorial

This little project goes with another picture window project I'm finishing up.

But I thought it might be helpful to give this cute little tin sign it's own quick tutorial post :)

First I cut some tin that I had into the dimensions I wanted, using tin snips.

Then I printed the word that I wanted, in vinyl... but used the empty space of the decal, instead of the actual letters.

I did this, because I wanted to use the vinyl sort of as a "stencil".

I wanted the lettering to look distressed, and vinyl would look a little too "crisp" for this project.

I taped around the rest of the exposed metal that I wasn't painting.

Sprayed the whole thing with white spray paint.

Peeled the tape and vinyl off...

To expose the white letters.

Then I took some fine grit sandpaper and roughed up the paint a bit.

It gave it a pretty cool effect on the metal, and on the painted lettering.

(be careful not to rub TOO hard.  The paint will just completely come OFF, if you aren't gentle)

Then I took my Crop-a-Dile tool and punched some holes in the top of the sign.

Ran some white cording through them...

and DONE! :)