Crafty Wednesday {March Craft Class}

I own a small craft business called Branch and Bloom with my friend Rachael.   Once a month we have a craft class and teach people to make a craft.  We try and choose crafts that take about an hour to complete.  People come with their friends and have a good time while creating a craft to take home.  We provide all of the supplies and give them step by step instructions at our class so they can make a beautiful craft.  

Here are some of our past craft nights

February {Rustic Photo Galleries}

January {Date Night Jars}

December {Personalized Signs and  Christmas wreaths}

November {Thankful Trees}

October {Succulent Centerpieces}

August {Bathtub Tea}

This month we created reversible signs one side says Hey Spring and the other side says Hello Summer.  This class was also a fundraiser for an animal rescue group in our town so $10 from each person's ticket went to the animal rescue group.  We were so happy to be able to raise some money for them!!

We got our wood at Lowe's and had the boards cut down from 15 feet to 5 feet lengths.  I swear the Lowe's employees hide when they see us coming.  We are always needing wood cut.  Rachael and I both have saws that we can use at home but it's so much easier for us if they cut the wood for us!!  This picture is from our February craft night but it shows you how much we need for our classes.  

The first thing we had people do when they came to class in March was to brush white paint on their board.  We wanted these to look old and distressed so we had them brush it off with a paper towel to give the wood a distressed look.

The next step was to have each person cut out their stencils for the craft.  We printed SPRING and SUMMER on individual sheets of paper and then had each person cut out their own stencils.  We thought about emailing this to everyone ahead of time but decided just to have them cut them out in class.  We did SPRING in Georgia font size 640 and we did SUMMER in Mongolian Baiti size 500.

After they were cut out everyone added their stencils to the sign with a little tape on the back and traced the letters with pencil.  After the traced their letters in stencil they painted their letters with black paint.    They did one side in class and then took the other stencils home so their side would have time to dry before they flipped it and did the other side.

We printed out Hey and Hello in vinyl lettering using my silhouette machine.  

It was a great night!!  It is STILL snowing in NY but we hope everyone can use their Hello Spring signs soon.

Xoxo