Pumpkins! Pumpkins! Pumpkins!

 It's pumpkin time, people!

I wanted to make a big sign for Autumn this year and I have lots of old shutters in all sizes. I know so much can be done with them so I put my creative cap on. I wanted a large sign and I have large shutters so I put the two together. At first I was thinking of painting letters on the shutter but I could see problems with that right away.. 

Then I thought of the beautiful wood letters in Joann's! Perfect. Now for the phrase or word... hmm...

I did a lot of thinking about it and searching the internet. Okay, there are the regular kinds of phrases like give thanks, thankful  (I like those but didn't seem right to have a big sign outside with that) and harvest and harvest time (not fun) and then I thought of just a big sign that says PUMPKINS.  YAY!!

First the shutter was painted with chalk paint and distressed. I had help with that part. Trusty hubs.

At first I thought I was going to paint the letters so I bought the little paints and THEN I saw the pretty orange colored Fall papers in the scrapbooking section of Joann's. LOVE. 

I did paint the edges with a pretty orange color as I knew that would not look nice in raw wood. However, I was very excited about getting the letters on the shutter....

I laid the letters on the WRONG side of the paper so the pencil mark wouldn't show and then cut out the letters and glued them on with the Modpodge. I really love that stuff. Hope to make more awesome things with it this Fall. 

After it dried a bit I put another 2 layers of Modpodge on. Wow. That stuff dries fast.

Here's my dog, Bunny, with part of the sign. She did not want her picture taken!

Big reveal.

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Best wishes for a wonderful Fall season.