My sweet niece, Courtney, is expecting her first child this September!
She is having a baby boy! {I love boys.}
And I will be a GREAT Aunt Traci! {I’m too young for that title, right?}
It’s all my sister’s fault.
Despite my denial that I am too young to be a Great Aunt, I am extremely excited about the arrival of Colt Allen!
My Aunt Pat and her daughter, Kelly, hosted a baby shower for Courtney this past weekend, and as always…they were amazing hostesses!
Here is some beautiful eye candy from the party…
Aunt Pat and Kelly created the cutest little candy bar…
The food was delicious and the fellowship was fabulous!
Courtney has loved all the Nursery Word Art she has been seeing in blogland, and she was wanting something for Colt’s room. Of course, she asked me to make one for her. {She definitely wasn’t going to ask her mama…she knows better.} :)
She showed me the beautiful boards that Tonya, from Love of Family and Home, has been making, and asked me if I could do something like them.
(click on each picture to see how Tonya made hers.)
Here is how I made my board…
First, I went to Lowe’s and purchased a 16×36 paint grade edge-glued piece of wood.
The board measures just under 16 inches wide, so I used my skil saw to cut the board 16 inches high as well, creating a perfect square board.
Next, I sprayed two layers of KILZ spray paint on the board.
Courtney is decorating Colt’s nursery in blues and green. She gave me a swatch of the green fabric she will be using in the room. I used it to pick out my color for the board.
I applied the green paint and let it dry.
Then I sanded it with my sander. (You can use sand paper or a sanding sponge.)
The sander took some of the paint off, but let the white primer shine through underneath.
Next, I used my silhouette machine to cut out the letters of the saying that Courtney had picked out for her board.
(She loved this saying because it used the word “blessing”, and that reminds her of my mom, Nana. Mom would have definitely been calling her first great-grandchild a “blessing”.)
I laid them out the way I wanted them, sometimes using a level and a pencil to help me keep the words straight.
When it was time to adhere the words to the board, I put a layer of Mod Podge on the board with my sponge brush, laid the words on the wet Mod Podge, and then applied a second layer of Mod Podge on top. You can see in the picture below how the mod podge hasn’t dried yet.
This was my first time trying this project, but I was really pleased with the way it turned out.
And Courtney loved it!!
She said it was even better than she expected!
And that’s all that matters. :)
(I love you, Courtney! You are going to be a GREAT mom!)
I can’t wait to see it in baby Colt’s room.
And I can’t wait even MORE to kiss sweet Colt’s face!
BLESSINGS!
Reminder:
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