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 a cut vinyl stencil!

I love making stencils with my Cricut Maker. It’s a great way to create art that’s what I like to call… perfectly-imperfect.

Supplies used to make stenciled St. Patrick's Day signs. Shown is a roll or stencil vinyl, a roll of transfer tape/vinyl, a small squeegie, scissors and the cut file design 'Lucky Clover Farms' already cut using stencil vinyl using a cutting machine, Cricut Maker 3.

For this thrifty sign DIY, I’m using scrap wood from my garage and SVG sign art which is available here in my Etsy shop. Feel free to use any cut file design you have on hand.

I made two signs for my vintage booth to add a little green to my spring reset. Below I share tips on layering and how to get the best stencil transfer!

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, hook weeding tool, and a standard grip mat
  • Scissors

How to Make Stenciled St. Patty’s Day Sign

STEP 1:

To get started, cut your scrap wood to size if needed. Here my Lucky Clover sign is 16″ wide x 5″ tall. 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 and left spots not filled in with paint like along the edges.

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

STEP 3:

Cut your SVG sign design using a 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 best work 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 the pieces out that are not needed from your design and apply transfer tape over stencil vinyl. 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 up for a couple of minutes and remove the stencil vinyl. Here 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 all turned out fine though. I touched up a few spots and gave the board a light sanding (see below).

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

A Second St. Patrick’s Day Sign

I made another sign while I had all the supplies out. This sign is a mix of two layers of stenciling and permanent vinyl for the white handwritten type.

First I used stencil vinyl and black acrylic paint for the background. When that layer was completely dry I cut a stencil for the shamrock motif and Shamrock Market type. 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.
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
Vertical image to pin to Pinterest to come back to this DIY. The photo shows the finished Lucky Clover Farms sign and below that the Shamrock Market sign in progress.

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