DIY Wooden Noel Christmas Sign
This elegant Noel holiday sign brings sophistication to your holiday decor using faux leather and heat transfer vinyl. Follow this step-by-step tutorial to learn how to make your own Noel sign this holiday season.
Tis the season for glitz and glamour. This beautifully designed and boldly elegant Noel sign will bring sophistication to your holiday decor.
Signs are a great way to decorate for the holidays and are really easy to make. This sign was made using my Holiday Layered Alphabet, a piece of wood, Metallic Leather, and Heat Transfer Vinyl.
While black and gold aren’t typical holiday colors, this color combination creates a stunning and glamorous style for the holidays. This unique color combination is sure to impress. However, this project is completely customizable to the colors that fit your style.
Using leather as the base material for the letters added dimension and class to this sign. You can use genuine leather or faux leather for this project. Layering heat transfer vinyl to leather is a technique I’m sure you’ll love once you see how easy it is.
Let me show you how to make a Happy Holidays Banner in Cricut Design Space.
This can also be made using a Silhouette, Brother Scan n Cut, or another cutting machine. Just choose the file type that works for your machine. You can reference the ‘How to use cut files’ document included in the zip file to learn which file type is needed for your cutting machine.
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Materials & Supplies to Make the Noel Holiday Sign
WOODEN SIGN
LAYERED LETTERS
- Holiday Layered Alphabet Cut Files
- Cricut Cutting Mat – StandardGrip
- Fine-Point Blade
- Gold Metallic Faux Leather
- Heat Transfer Vinyl- Gold Foil and Champagne Glitter
- Painters Tape
- Easy Press
- Wood Glue
You can make any size sign you want but I used a 6″ x 24″ piece of wood for my sign. You can either go to the hardware store and get a piece of wood. Most hardware stores will cut the wood for you which I love! Or some already have cut pieces of pine or birch you can buy.
Or you can also purchase the wood sign already cut on Amazon, Etsy, or even at a craft store like Michaels or Hobby Lobby.
Paint or Stain the Sign
I wanted an elegant sign for our home and used black spray paint to paint my wood sign. You can paint it any color you want or create a rustic look with a nice stain.
Since I’m using faux leather as my base I want to change the color of my bottom layer so that all of those letters cut on their own mat.
To do this, highlight the bottom layer from each of the letters in the Layers Panel while holding down the Shift button on your keyboard. Then go up to the Edit Toolbar and select a new color.
For both the faux leather and the vinyl, place the pretty side down on the cutting mat. Use the painter’s tape to tape the sides of the faux leather so it doesn’t shift as you cut.
Once you have all of the letters weeded use scissors to cut out each individual letter so you can layer them.
Layer the letters from the bottom up with the faux leather as the base and adding the 4th layer (bottom foil layer) to the top.
If you’re using an EasyPress, check out their heat guide to see the recommended temperature and time for the materials you’re using.
Since we’re layering the vinyl cut the recommended time in half. Place the Teflon sheet over the letters before adding the heat press.
Make sure to take note of whether it’s a warm or cool peel, meaning whether you take the clear sheet off when it’s still warm or slightly cool.
Now find the perfect place to display the sign in your home.
This sign is the perfect finishing touch to your holiday home decor.
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DIY Wooden Noel Christmas Sign
Thanks for your video in Holiday MakerFest. I’d like to make something like this but am wondering about the layering. From the layers in the SVG file is this the correct sequence?
Base – leather
4th layer – foil
3rd layer – glitter
2nd layer – foil
top layer – glitter
I wasn’t sure how many layers were foil and how many layers were glitter. I’ve worked with regular HTV quite a bit but not foil and glitter so I wanted to check on the layering before trying the project.
I thought I had read that you can’t layer on top of glitter vinyl. So, that made me wonder if there are three foil layers and only the top layer is glitter but that didn’t seem to mesh with the layers in the SVG file unless I’m reading the layers wrong.
Thanks for any help.
Jay
Hi Jay. I did layer it the way you’ve outlined it and it worked fine for me. You just have to let the layer cool a bit before peeling. Another workaround to this would be doing base – leather, 3rd layer – foil and top layer – glitter and that way you aren’t layering on top of the glitter. I hope that helps and I can’t wait to see your finished sign. Let me know if you have any other questions.
Thanks so much for such a fast reply. Since I’ve never used glitter before I’m happy to know it will work in that layering pattern and I appreciate the alternative option as well. Now off to order supplies! Thanks again!
is there a video of this? I saw this during makerfest and have wanted to do it and now I am so confused as to how to do 3 layers instead of 5 but still get the dimension. HELP! 🙁
Hi Laura. I don’t currently have a video for this but I’m happy to help. If you only wanted to do three layers I would use either the top three layers or the 1st, 3rd and 5th depending on how wide you want the letters to be. I hope that helps. Please let me know if you have any other questions and I can’t wait to see your final sign.