Making it Ours: Clothesline Sign

**My husband and I have been living in our house about 5 months.  I’ve gotten a few pictures and things put up, but now that we’re in a home there are more walls to cover.  I’ve got some major ideas of paint and wainscoting, but that probably won’t be in the budget for a few years (and then we’ll see what’s in style then).  So until then, I’m working on decorating my home with inexpensive or free means.  We’ve also done some bigger things that I am dying to share with you.  So this is the first of an ongoing series I’m calling “Making it Ours.”  (I guess you could count my craft room too!) Some of the projects will be stuff to hang on our bare walls, and others will be major remodels such as paint and tile. I hope you enjoy the series!**
Since getting my Silhouette Cameo, I’ve been wanting to try vinyl.  This is one of my first projects.  My laundry room is more of a hallway from the backdoor to the kitchen, and it very functional.  It is equipped with a washing sink, and I LOVE it.  It needs a good razor blade scraping and then maybe I will show it to you.  My husband is a mechanic so I am always washing dirt and grease out of things.  The room is quite dark, so I needed something cheerful.

I had gotten the plaque from DI a couple years ago, painted over the design with a light cream (which totally didn’t work by the way), and left it.  I had a few ideas, but without a vinyl cutter I really couldn’t do any of them.  So this got a quick  2 coats of ocean breeze acrylic paint, and a cute vinyl cutout slapped onto it.  I imported the image from Microsoft Word’s clipart.  Cheri’s tutorial on how to import images was very helpful (it’s the 3rd video in the post).  The only thing I did different was copy my image into paint and saved it as a jpg to my desktop.  Then I followed the rest of her instructions to make it a cuttable image.
I’ve made one other thing for my laundry room that I have ready to share later in the week.  It makes the laundry room a little more cheery. :)
Thanks for reading!
~Lynette~