How To Make Htv Look Distressed

This DIY sign is made with craft vinyl, but information technology looks vintage and distressed. I'one thousand sharing the like shooting fish in a barrel technique and tips for the best results!

fall market sign

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My friends, I have discovered a new technique for distressing vinyl which I'll share in a minute. I wasn't planning on making and so many things for fall, simply when I see something I like, it triggers the creative part of my brain! It fires up and just won't be satisfied until I make something! Are y'all like that?

I've made a lot of autumn signs this twelvemonth! There's the 'grateful thankful blest' sign that I made using a $3 sign I institute at Target, the shabby farmhouse 'hello fall' sign that toll just $iv because I used forest I plant curbside. And so there are the signs I haven't shown y'all yet (unless you follow me on Instagram). Like this sign I painted ane Saturday morn (while the residuum of the family was still sleeping) for my side entry door...

painted pumpkin sign

And this sketch that I made on my Silhouette machine and framed.

fall vignette in blue and white

Oh, and this chalkboard ringlet that I made using one of my favorite Autumn quotes! You can read my 3 tips for creating stunning vignettes here.

fall scroll with quote

In all this creating, I stumbled upon an easy style to distress shiny arts and crafts vinyl to create a sign that looks worn and vintage!

I'll be honest that I wasn't sure if this idea would actually work, just as you lot can see, my distressed fall sign turned out beautifully and I'm excited to share the process with yous today.

Supplies Needed:

Silhouette or Cricut dice-cut automobile (I purchased the Cameo iii in this bundle concluding fall)
craft vinyl in a diversity of colors
transfer paper (this is my favorite)
your own blueprint, or one you've purchased online (I used this Harvest Market place design)
18" foursquare board (any wood is fine)
white chalk paint (this is my go-to paint)
chocolate-brown acrylic paint (I used Burnt Umber)
brushes
palm sander (I love this one)

How to Brand a Vintage Sign with Distressed Vinyl

I started off with a piece of pine cut to 18" square and sanded smooth.

18" square pine

I sloppily painted around the peak edges of the sign with the burnt umber acrylic pigment.

brown paint

When that dried, I painted a heavy coat of white chalk paint, making sure to go out lots of brush strokes and texture. I gear up it bated considering this took awhile to dry.

thick coat of white chalk paint

In the meantime, I cutting out my design using my Silhouette machine. I'yard not going to get into any detail on how to do this, because I've shared that several times before. I used unlike colors of glossy vinyl to match the blue and orangish fall theme I've used for cozy fall decorating this year.

Once my heavy coat of white pigment dried, I sanded it with my palm sander, smoothing the ridges and revealing some of that burnt umber paint along the edges. Doesn't it look like information technology's been sitting in someone's barn for a couple hundred years? Okay, perchance not, but this was a very easy style to create an aged expect on a new slice of wood!

sand to distress

I used my transfer newspaper to perfectly center my vinyl design on the lath. See how perfect the vinyl looks? It's all glossy and shiny...but I wanted a distressed look to lucifer the aged board I had painted! So read on to observe out how to distress shiny craft vinyl!

add vinyl design to board

This next step is the one I was nervous about. I decided to take my palm sander to my vinyl! I wanted to encounter if I could lightly distress it without ruining the vinyl.

I went lightly, and focused mostly on the blackness letters. Information technology really took just a few seconds to sand off that shine! Look at this cute distressing! You can run into that some of the letter corners were sanded right off. I'm glad I stopped when I did!

lightly distress vinyl

Tip: when pitiful vinyl with a palm sander, get lightly and chop-chop! Y'all tin cull some select spots to distress a little heavier with the edge of the sander. If you're nervous, try using a piece of sand paper and then you lot tin can adjust pressure manually.

Fall DIY sign made to look old

And that was all it took! So piece of cake and quick! I simply wiped off the residue and my sign was done! I didn't bother to wax considering call up I was going for vintage, distressed and aged. And then the matte expect from the sanded board and the distressed vinyl is just perfect as is!

how to age and distress a DIY sign

I am actually excited that I discovered this easy technique for distressing arts and crafts vinyl! I'll definitely be using this once more when I want to make a vintage-looking sign!

As always, please experience costless to pin and share this image with your crafty-loving friends!

how to distress shiny craft vinyl