Pallet Time!

It's been a few days since I've posted.  So, I thought I would show you the pallet signs I worked on last weekend.  My dad gets a lot of pallets at his work, so it works out really well for me and my craftiness.  :)

Our venue is out in the country and my first thought of using pallets was to use them as direction markers on the road.  So, I've made several generic "wedding" pallet signs.  

To make these pallet signs, I stripped the boards off of a pallet.  
Used a saw to cut smaller squares to nail onto the back of the pallets to hold them together and support them.  
Once the 2 boards were nailed together and sturdy.  I printed out large letters, in one of our "wedding fonts" (Edwardian Script) to spell out WEDDING.  
I cut each letter out and traced it with pencil onto the pallet boards.  
Then, I used navy blue acrylic paint and painted in the area where I had traced the letters.   (My years of graphic design and typography did come in handy after all!)

Here is what it looked like when I started with the paint:

Here is what the finished road marker pallet sign looks like:

I also saw this on Pinterest for the dessert or cake table: 

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/400538960579634294/

I tweaked it a little and created this:

I did the same thing I did with the "Wedding" sign here, but changed it to vertical and nailed more boards together.  I used Copperplate and Edwardian Script for the fonts.

Happy Palleting!