Reversible Pumpkin Patch and Christmas Tree Sign

Lately I have discovered that I love doing projects (who I am kidding, this isn’t a recent discovery, I’ve always loved doing projects, that’s why I blog :D), especially ones that involve wood and building something. I have discovered power tools and I love them!! I have done so much on my house lately that I have to control myself and force myself not do stuff on it LOL. Well since I still want projects I have been on a huge making sign kick and since fall is here, I decided it was time to make a fun fall sign. I had fun designing this pumpkin patch sign and I especially love how it turned out! *Update* Since I loved this sign so much and I didn’t do anything to the back of it, I decided to make it reversible and made a Christmas tree sign on the back.

This is how I made it:

I took a piece of plywood and cut it to 20 inches wide and 26 inches high (I had this plywood left over from our laundry room makeover). I then painted it white.

While the paint was drying, I cut out some wood for the pumpkin. I bought a piece of fence wood and cut it into four pieces around 12″ (except one longer one but you really don’t need to do that). Then I cut some pieces of underlayment to put on the back of them.

Using a brad nailer and 5/8″ brad nails, I nailed the underlayment piece onto the slats of wood to hold them together.

This is what it looks like on the other side. I loved this wood because of the orange-ish color that was in the middle of it. I thought it would be perfect for a pumpkin!

Using a 12×12 piece of paper, I cut out a shape of the pumpkin and then traced it onto the slats.

Using a band saw, I cut out the pumpkin.

Once the pumpkin was cut out, it was time to design the rest of the design. I cut out the words out of vinyl with my Silhouette CAMEO and then took out the words to make a stencil. Here are the cut files for the vinyl. The Silhouette file is the right size but the SVG file must be resized (if you want to do a sign this big).

Pumpkin Patch File, SVG

I then put on the vinyl onto the board (using transfer paper).

Now for the paint, I used regular acrylic paint and foam brushes to paint the words. I used a dabbing motion to paint.

Once the paint was dry, I took off the vinyl and then did some touch ups. Now for the frame. Using a 1×2 I cut two pieces 22″ long. Then I put those pieces on the top and bottom of the board and measured how long the side pieces would be (roughly 23.5 inches).

Once I was done with the touch ups, I nailed the pumpkin on to the board (going from the back of the board). I used 1 1/4 inch brad nails to nail it into place.

After staining the frame an nice espresso stain color I nailed the frame into the board using 1 1/4″ brad nails.

Here is what it looks with the frame on, I am loving it!

I felt like the pumpkin needed something, like leaves or a vine. So I went through my craft supplies and found some nice green ribbon. I wanted it to look more like a vine, so I curled it. I wrapped it around a 1/2″ dowel and then put it into the oven for 20 minutes at 375 degrees (it’s crazy the things you can do!).

I put the ribbon onto the pumpkin using hot glue (I think it looks a lot better with the ribbon).

And that’s it!

I added a few pumpkins and gourds to it and I love it! I’m sure we will add more pumpkins as the month goes on, I love pumpkins!

It’s so excited to have fun fall things out on my porch now, I love fall!

Here is a video to show how I make similar signs using the vinyl as a stencil.

**Update**

I wanted to do the back of the sign too. Instead of using paint, I used vinyl. I painted the wood white but left the frame the same way, if I were to do it over again, I would make the frame out of a wider wood, maybe 1×3.

Here is a video of the process of making the Christmas tree sign.

I cut out the vinyl with my CAMEO like I did with the other side but instead of using it as the a stencil, I actually used the vinyl. So I used different colors. I used the indoor vinyl in black, white, dark red, silver and yellow green. The tree is heavy metal vinyl and is called green apple. I designed the sign in Silhouette studio. You can get the cut file for this side here:

Christmas Tree File, SVG