my cute sign

I posted on facebook last week about how excited I was about how this project was turning out and now that its up I love it!
I didn't have instructions (well other than my brain telling me what to do) I just made it up.
I started by figuring out what size I wanted my "blocks" to be. Since I want it to take up a big blank space on our wall above our tv I had to make them pretty big. Cut out a piece of cardboard for each letter and make sure they are all the same size (unless you don't care)

then you have to pick your colors... I matched the colors of my family room which are blues and brown.You will want to pick out your background color AND the color you want to go on top for your  letters. I picked out a different color and pattern for each the background and the letter. Cut out your background colors the same shape as the cardboard if they are a little bigger that is okay as long as all the colored paper is the same size.

place your cut out paper and card board aside. Decide how big you want your letters. Cut the white paper out to the size you want them and write out the letters your going to use on each separate piece of white paper. Then start cutting out the letters.(you could just skip this step and do this on the colored paper you chose in the beginning for your letters but I wasn't feeling confident enough to do that)

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Once you've cut out your letters, they will be come your stencil to trace onto your colored paper you chose for your letters. Before you do this make sure you have the colored paper in the order you want it. This took me a long time because I am so picky and couldn't get the colors to look right. Then start tracing your white letters onto your colored paper and cut them out.

once you've cut them out use mod podge to glue the letters to your background paper. After you glued the letters on, coat the top of your paper, all of it, with the glue. Wait for it to fully dry. Then coat the cardboard with the mod podge and center the background paper onto the cardboard. Press the paper down to make it stay. Make sure all the cardboard is covered.

Let dry. Pick out the color yarn you want to hang them with. Make two small holes at the top by both the top corners. Cut a piece of yarn for each "block." Cut the yarn to be all the same length. Feed the yarn through the back of the cardboard through the first hole. Tie a little knot in the back the make the yarn stay. Take the other side of the yarn piece and feed it through the other hole and tie a knot in the back of the cardboard on that side to make it stay. Then you're done!

I hung mine up with very small nails... what do you think?