This is the 3rd sign I have made no, so I tried to make it more challenging. Oh, I succeeded with that, but somehow in the end it turned out great! I cut out my letters on vinyl with the cricut and then painted my board black. Since I only wanted the letters black I only painted the middle part. FAIL!! Do you know how hard it is to paint over black???? Next I added a layer of gold to outline courageous. To keep the gold I placed a larger vinyl version of the word courageous and then painted red over the top. UGH it looked TERRIBLE! I mean absolutely terrible. The black streaked through the red and not in a cute artsy way. I added 4 layers of red, then a darker brick red, and IT STILL SHOWED STREAKY BLACK!
In a last ditch effort before I threw it away (yes I was about to do just that) I painted a layer of brown on top and like magic, it saved the sign. This was a gift for Chris and I was working on it on New Years Eve with Lindsay (yes his birthday is New Years day....procrastination is my thing) so I really didn't have time to start over!
*UPDATE: While repainting the bathroom cabinets I found this stain blocking primer for $8 at Home Depot, this would have been a solution to painting over black!
