How To Make A Hand-Painted Dollar Tree Garden Sign

Today I'm sharing how I created my hand painted Dollar Tree garden sign. It's a fun spring garden project that you can easily do yourself. 

Over the last few years I've become an avid flower gardener. I love planting the seeds and watching the flowers grow. I also like to accessorize the garden with cute garden ornaments and signs. So when I saw this lawn and garden wall decor sign at Dollar Tree I knew I had to find a way to make it work for me and my flower garden and/or backyard patio this summer. 

Obviously the wood sign was in sore need of some color! So I gathered my tiniest paint brushes, a plastic paint palette from Dollar Tree, a fine point and ultra fine point black Sharpie (not shown) and some pretty spring-colored acrylic paints (not shown) and got to work. 

While doing research for this project I learned that there is actually polyurethane paint as well as polyurethane varnish. Since this is just a Dollar Tree sign I wasn't about to invest a ton of money in new paint, but I do plan on applying some DecoArt Dura Clear Varnish that's formulated for outdoor use as added protection.

Here's the sign after I added my black Sharpie goodness to the extra thin outline detail and letters, before adding paint. 

And here it is after I painted in the word "Flowers" with some of my brightly colored acrylic paints.

It came out so pretty that I've decided to hang it on the patio under our pergola for extra protection to hopefully make it last throughout the summer (as well as adding some DecoArt Dura Clear Varnish).

Here it is displayed on top of a bookshelf in my daughter's apartment, along with some of her artwork, candles and a vintage fish bottle filled with faux tulips. 

Now I'm even more impatient to see my summer flower gardens in full bloom! And you can be sure that I'll be sharing those lovely flowers with you throughout the summer.

Well, that's it for today, friends!

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How To Make A Hand-Painted 

Dollar Tree Garden Sign

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