8 DIY Wood Sign Ideas – Easy Cricut Projects

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Square feature image of five photo snippets of DIY signs made with a cutting machine like Cricut Maker, Permanent Vinyl and Stencil Vinyl. These are easy to make signs for your home or make to sell. There are scrap wood signs, holiday signs for a tiered tray, a large round Christmas in July sign and 2 x 4 rustic stackable word signs and a man in the moon fall sign.

A collection of DIY wood sign ideas that are fun and easy to make!

Get ready to unleash your creativity! Whether you’re crafting signs to brighten up your space or to sell, these DIYs will get your imagination buzzing with ideas.

1. Fall Moon Sign

This vintage man in the moon sign will be heading to my antique booth for the Fall reset. You can find large wood rounds at the hardware store, but I like to pick them up at Goodwill when I run across them. I usually have to sand and repaint them, but it saves money, so I don’t mind.

I cut the stencil using stencil vinyl and filled in the design with black, gray, and light gray acrylic paint. My moon spots are slightly off…round signs can be tricky.

If you’d like to check the digital art file for this design, visit my Etsy shop here.

Round man in the moon sign - Vintage style stenciled sign with a black cat singing, sitting on a knotty branch with pumkins below. The moon man face take up more than 3/4 of the round sign with the cat in the left corner. The colors are light gray for the moon, darker gray for the man face on the moon and black silhouette style for the cat scene. This fall sign was stenciled using cut stencil vinyl cut on a Cricut Maker 3.

2. Halloween Broom Shoppe Sign

This sign was made from an old cutting board, and the curved wood top and bottom pieces came from a wooden gun rack. Both were thrift store finds that were tucked away in my garage.

I cut the type and broom illustration with my Cricut using stencil vinyl and reverse stenciled by painting the board white, and placing the vinyl cutouts to block out the type and broom illustration before covering the entire board with black paint.

Ye Olde Broom Shoppe - this is a closeup of a handmade wooden sign for Halloween. The type is old English style with curved wood top and bottom pieces to add to the look!
Photo of two handmade witches brooms in a corner in a spooky scene. The backdrop is dark gray and there is an old wood crate with a sign that says Ye Olde Broom Shoppe. The two brooms are in the corner with an eerie tree branch and faux cobwebs. Everything looks like it's been there for a while and the sign is worn and tattered in black with fluted edges top and bottom in off white with a broom illustration over top.

If you’d like to learn how to make the brooms in the photo above, you can link to that tutorial here –> Make a Full-Sized, Decorative Witch Broom for Halloween.

3. Cheery Summer Signs

These fun summer signs were made with scrap wood from my garage and permanent vinyl that I cut with my Cricut. Since I had boards of different sizes, I measured and scaled the graphics in Cricut Design Space to fit each.

First, I sanded and painted the boards, then I layered the cut vinyl pieces for each sign onto a single layer of transfer tape for easy transfer.

They came out great, and I love that I could use supplies I already had on hand. Check out the summer graphics used to make them in my Etsy Shop.

Six summer themed DIY wood signs for a compilation post of wood sign ideas. These are made using scrap wood boards of different size and cut permanent vinyl. They each have layers of vinyl color like the USA sign with a cherry pattern in blue, white, green and red. There's also small shelf sitter signs like two cherries with a star pattern and a blue bowtie at the top, a strawberry festival signs, a strawberry pint, sweet summer patterned strawberry signs in red, green and pink and a USA popsicle sign in blue, red and white.
Finished Summer Signs

4. Rustic 2 x 4 Stackable Signs

The signs below were made using a reverse stencil technique that lets the stained wood show through.

Get all the details and free SVG cut files to make these fun stackable block signs here –> DIY Farmhouse Wood Signs – Free SVG Files.

Shown are several finished Wood Signssigns on a white background.
Finished 2 x 4 Signs

5. Two Scrap Wood Signs for St. Patrick’s Day

I cut Cricut stencil vinyl for these signs, but decided to stick to permanent vinyl for the tiny menu type. Sometimes you have to combine techniques!

For more details on this project, check out the full post here –> Stenciled St. Patrick’s Day Signs – An Easy Cricut Project.

Finished Lucky Clover Farms sign on a stack of blue green books with two vintage Durkee spice tins in front and a vintage Emeral Shelled Walnuts tin with a shamrock plant behind.
Lucky Clover Sign
Vertical feature image of a finished Shamrock Market wood sign. The base of the sign is a dark wood stain. In the center it's painted black to look like a chalk board. The top shamrock market and shamrock motif are painted green. The wording: Today's Specials, Cabbage, Leaks, Potatoes, Rye Bread and Corned Beef are cut white permanent vinyl.
Shamrock Market Sign

6. Wine Tasting

Another rustic sign idea made with stencil vinyl cut on my Cricut Maker 3. I wasn’t sure how this one was going to come out because this thrift store board had a lot of texture. I adhered the stencil vinyl well with a squeegie and used Cricut brand stencil vinyl (it sticks the best in my opinion). Paint did bleed under the stencil as I expected, but not too much. I think it adds to the rustic charm of this sign.

The wine tasting sign art is available here in my Etsy shop if you’d like to check it out.

Stencil vinyl applied to a rustic wood board sign cut with a Cricut Maker. The wine tasting design features three vintage hand corkscrews with the words Wine Tasting in all caps overarching the three vintage corkscrews. Beneath are the words Saturdays 4-7 PM.
Stencil Vinyl Applied
Stenciled Wine Tasting sign - This easy DIY sign was made with stencil vinyl cut on a Cricut Maker 3. The wine tasting design features three vintage hand corkscrews with the words Wine Tasting in all caps overarching the three vintage corkscrews. Beneath are the words Saturdays 4-7 PM.
Finished Wine Tasting Sign

7. Christmas Shelf-Sitter Signs

Make these festive Christmas 4-inch signs for a tiered tray or holiday shelf display! This is an easy Cricut project that’s great for beginners or anyone looking for an easy weekend DIY.

Get all the details on this project and the Free SVG files (plus 2 new designs) here –> Christmas Shelf Sitter Signs – An Easy Cricut Project.

Four DIY signs you can make for your holiday tiered tray.

8. Another Large Round Sign On A Budget

Another Goodwill find for four dollars! After sanding and painting the wood round, I took a little time to think about how to cut the vinyl. Some of the elements were wider than my Cricut mat, so I cut the design into pieces. I also added triangles as registration marks to help me line up the vinyl pieces and get everything centered.

Check out the Christmas In July art here in my Etsy shop!

In process shot of the cut vinyl layers in red and blue permanent vinyl that make up a large 18-inch Christmas in July sign with santa in sunglasses holding a coconut drink wearing a Hawaiian shirt. The vinyl cut on a Cricut Maker 3 shown here in pieces. Santa required three cut vinyl pieces that will be put together like a puzzle on the sign. All in red and seamless. The blue type was also cut on two layers and will be pieced together. Cricut cuts only up to 11.5-inches so breaking the image into smaller layers was necessary to make this large sign.
Permanent Vinyl Pieces

To finish, I sprinkled in some retro charm by stapling on vintage Christmas lights that I picked up at ReStore last year! A little over the top, but I think Christmas in July is one of those times where you can dial up the kitschy.

Large round 18-inch Christmas In July sign featuring Santa wearing sunglass, his Santa hat, a Hawaiian floral shirt, holding a coconut drink with a candy cane, cherry and drink umbrella. The Santa is a fun, thick varied line illustration all in red. Above in light blue type on a curve is the work CHRISTMAS in a friendly marker thick type and in July in an easy to read, friendly script type. The sign has been painted a light blue that is slightly lighter than the light blue type. Around the edges of the sign are colorful vintage Christmas sting lights with red, green, orange, and blue vintage bulbs.
Finished Christmas In July Sign

9. Thrift Store Pizza Peel Sign

When you’re shopping for sign blanks, check for old wood pieces like cabinet doors, cutting boards, or pick up a large pizza peel at the thrift store that you can repurpose. Sometimes these old finds have aged patina and make for more authentic signs than wood blanks you find at the craft store.

Check out the customizable Pizzeria art, here in my Etsy shop!

Photo of a worn wood pizza peel, pizza serving board with the handle upward sitting on an old wood chair. This board has been turned into a sign that says 'Pizzeria' with a brick oven at the top with Estd. to the left of the oven and a spot for a date to the right. Customize with your own date and name in the center. This example says Grandpa's Pizzeria estb. 2024.

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