We have quite a few doors in our home...oustside doors! We have a sunroom on the back of our house that has 2 doors..one that connects the sunroom to our kitchen and big sliding doors that go to the backyard. We have a door mat at the door that goes outside but not one at the door that connects to the kitchen...we really needed one. And hence....onto Pinterst I went!!
After looking for a bit, I came across one that looked pretty simple to make, and of course, I knew that I would do my own version with a Font that I loved!! All I needed was a plain mat...off to the Dollar store!! I found my mat (which cost $2.00 BTW), came back home a got straight to work!
I wanted something a little fancy but not over the top so I went on my Silhouette program and cruised through the fonts. After a few trial ones I found the one that I thought would be perfect and I even added a design underneath for a little flair. I cut it it on my Silhouette machine and decided where I was going to place it on the mat. I've seen some different variations, but decided upon putting ours in the bottom left hand corner. I figured this way there would be a little less traffic going across the actual monogram so maybe it would last just a bit longer.
I have TONS of paint left over from when we painted rooms in our house so I decided upon the turquoise paint from K's room as I thought that it would "pop" against the dark background of the mat. I carefully taped my cutout letter and design onto the corner of the mat and started dry brushing the paint onto the stencil. I had to go over it a couple of times to make it a bit bolder which is much easier that blobbing to much paint on and making a huge mess!! I took my blowdryer to it the help speed up the drying process (yes..I am impatient and just can't WAIT to see my finished product!!!)I then carefully peeled off the stencil and voila!!!!...Here is the finished product!!!
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