Nursery Typography Art...a Tutorial - Love of Family & Home

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Okay, so I have been totally obsessed with typography art/subway art since coming onto the blogging scene just 9 months ago. There are some seriously cool projects & loads of inspiration out there!

I thought that because I didn’t have a silhouette machine, that I wasn’t capable of producing any subway art of my own. And I will be perfectly honest, the whole cutting my own vinyl thing makes me nervous, not mention vinyl is kinda pricey. So after making my DIY pallet art & having so much luck with the cardstock & mod podge, I got a little courage up & decided to tackle some subway art!

Do you remember my friend Mandy’s nursery? The soothing white & gray striped walls with the pops of turquoise throughout the room?

I decided I wanted to create something for the nursery & this is what I came up with…

What do you think?!

I think it turned out pretty darn cute!!

Wanna see how I made it?!

I started with a 4 foot whitewood board that I bought at Lowes for $3.98 & had my dad cut it into 4 pieces. Each piece measured out to be approximately 11.5″ x 12″…

I then gave the board two coats of KILZ primer…

I found a shade of turquoise that I thought would work in her nursery & bought a sample size of it at Lowes for $2.98 (what a deal!) I gave the board two coats of the turquoise paint…

After it was dry, I took it outside & did some distressing to the board…

I sanded all of the edges exposing the white primer & also some of the natural wood. I also took the sandpaper to the top surface of the board to give it an aged/vintage look…

I cut all of the letters out using my cricut machine & some white cardstock. I ended up using 3 pieces of cardstock that I got on sale at Hobby Lobby for 30 cents a piece.

This next step is the hard part…

Trying to figure out spacing for all of the words!

It takes time & ~~a whole lot~~ a little bit of patience :)! I took another blank board to do all of my spacing while the paint was drying on the other board. It took me a few times to get the arrangement just right…

Many of you asked what cricut cartridge I used for my pallet art…

It is called George & Basic Shapes.

Once I had the spacing all figured out, I started transferring the letters onto the painted board & began mod podging each one to the wood….doing my best to keep a straight line.