Stenciled St. Patrick’s Day Signs – An Easy Cricut Project

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Square feature, overhead photo of the finished Lucky Clover Farms sign with a shamrock plant beside it in a vintage walnut tin and a vintage wood clip board beneath to give the white sign contrast in the setting.

Make stenciled signs for St. Patrick’s Day using stencil vinyl!

I love making stencils with my Cricut Maker, especially for signs. It’s an easy way to create and transfer designs. I made two for my vintage booth for my spring reset, and below I share tips on layering stain and color—and how to get the best transfer.

For this thrifty sign DIY, I’m also using scrap wood from my garage and designs from my shop. Feel free to use any cut file design you have on hand.

Supplies

  • Scrap wood
  • Wood stain
  • Acrylic paint
  • Paintbrushes or foam stencil applicators
  • An SVG cut file design
  • A cutting machine (I’m using a Cricut Maker)
  • Stencil vinyl
  • Transfer tape
  • Weeding tools: a small scraper, a hook weeding tool, and a standard grip mat
  • Scissors

How to Make a Stenciled St. Patty’s Day Sign

STEP 1:

To get started, cut your scrap wood to size. My Lucky Clover sign board is 16″ wide x 5″ tall. Then apply a dark stain.

Stain applied to raw wood boards before turning them into signs. Here I'm using Kona Varathane brand stain which is very dark and will give the base of my signs a richness.

STEP 2:

For the Lucky Clover Farms sign, I roughly applied white chalk paint to my board, just enough to coat it.

Apply white chalk paint over a dark wood stained board to make a DIY St. Patty's Day sign.

STEP 3:

Cut a design using your cutting machine. I used a green standard grip mat 12″ x 24″ mat and selected Stencil Vinyl from the cut settings. Choose the settings that work best with your cutting machine.

Screen capture of Cricut Design Space screen showing the are on a 12" x 24" mat in the preparing mats screen.
Lucky Clover Design in Cricut Design Space – Preparing Mat.
Screen capture of Cricut Design Space screen to choose the Material. Use the Stencil Vinyl setting.

Lucky Clover Design in Cricut Design Space – Choosing Stencil Vinyl as Material.

STEP 4:

Weed away vinyl in the areas that will be stenciled. Then, apply transfer tape to your stencil vinyl and transfer the design to your sign board.

Applying stencil vinyl using transfer tape. Here the transfer tape is being peeled away leaving the cut stencil vinyl in blue applied to the wood board for the 'Lucky Clover Farms' Sign.
Peeling away the transfer tape.

STEP 5:

Paint the sign stencil. Here I’m using Christmas Green and Black acrylic paint.

Applying acrylic paint to a wood board with a cut stencil film overlay. I'm using Christmas Green on shamrock areas and black for the words Lucky Clover Farms and the border.

STEP 6:

Let your paint set for a minute and remove the stencil vinyl. I had some paint bleed under the stencil because I used a board with a rough texture with deep grooves and pits.

The smoother your wood board, the less paint bleed. It looks bad, but it all turned out fine in the end. I touched up a few spots and gave the board a light sanding to add a more distressed look.

Removing the blue stencil vinyl after painting. There is some paint bleed showing from under the stencil but this can be touched up later. I didn't do much touch up because I roughed up the board later with sand paper to give my sign a very worn and rustic feel.
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.
Finished Lucky Clover Farms Sign

The Second St. Patrick’s Day Sign

I made another sign while I had all the supplies out. This sign mixes techniques—stenciling and permanent vinyl for the white handwritten type.

First, I painted the background stencil with black acrylic paint, then removed the stencil vinyl. Once the black paint was dry, I applied stencil vinyl for the shamrock motif and painted it green. Last, I used permanent vinyl for the Today’s Specials list.

Stencil vinyl applied to the top of a board and green paint being applied for the shamrock design and wording Shamrock Market.
Stenciling the green layer over the black.
Using permanent vinyl for the handwritten script type of 'Today's Specials, Cabbage, Leaks, Potatoes and so on.
White permanent vinyl applied for lettering.
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.
Finish Shamrock Market Sign
Star divider used has two hand drawn lines with a star in the center, used as a content break and signals new or different content below. This doodle style illustration is in a medium charcoal gray.

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