If you like to paint you will enjoy making this McClover Farms Sign. It is simple, inexpensive, and all hand painted. I really enjoy painting but I don’t have much for artistic skill so I transfer printables with pencil and paint away!
I decided on McClover Farms for my farm name as this St. Patrick’s Day, clovers are just stealing the show around here. Also, I intended to hang this sign in my old window above the fireplace, next to my Ornament Tree, Glimmer & Glitz Snowflakes and of course the Cloverflakes. It all just fit.
Let’s Create!
Supplies Needed to Make the McClover Farms Sign
Clover wooden sign from the Dollar Tree – I used the backside of a heart one
Paint brushes – both a chippy & a small detail brush
Paint in white, brown, green, and gold
Black paint marker or black paint
Stencils, printables, or transfers
Twine – you can also reuse the one that comes with the sign
Scissors
Protective covering for your work surface
Making the McClover Farms Sign
Paint, paint, paint
First, remove the twine from the decor piece. Lay out some protective covering for your work surface. Especially if you are as messy of a painter as I.
Then, we are going to layer three colors with the chippy brush. The first layer, brown, will go on heaviest with the coverage getting lighter as we progress through the colors.
Apply brown with the chippy brush.
Once that is dry. Repeat with white.
Lastly, apply green.
Lettering Application
Once it dries, you can apply your lettering. If you have a Cricut, Stencil or Transfer you would like to use go ahead. I didn’t so I found fonts I liked in Canva and printed it on the inkjet in the size I wanted. That process is below.
Steps to get the printable design on wood
Print the words in the desired size.
Take a pencil and using the side of it’s tip shade over the backside of your printed script.
Once you have finished applying the pencil, tape it down (pencil side towards the wood) and trace over it with a ballpoint pen.
Remove the paper to reveal your paintable script.
Then do the same for the rest of your design.
Painting the lettering, truck, and clovers
Next, I added the lettering with paint. Note to self, I need to invest in some smaller brushes or paint pens. The best I had to work with was a paint marker but it had a pretty thick point for what I was working on.
I am going to share the outtakes with you though as crafting isn’t an exact science and things don’t always go as planned. It’s part of the fun, right!?
The ‘pick your own’ under the ‘McClover Farms’ looked horrible with the thickness of the tools I had to work with so I ended up painting over that. I went back over it using the layering chippy brush technique above. Then I used black sharpie to apply the ‘pick your own’ smaller and in a completely different location.
Also, my gold paint marker was a dud so I finally just squeezed it out and applied the gold with a brush. I initially intended to have a brown or green truck but liked this shiny gold. Had I known the paint marker was going to misbehave I would have stuck to my original plan.
I really should clear coat my signs but I rarely do. This will only hang inside and only for a short time yearly so I skipped clearcoat.
Finally, I grabbed twine to hang it with. I started by reusing the hanger it came with but it wasn’t long enough for where I wanted to hang it. Also, I had just picked up this green twine in my last Dollar Tree visit so went with it, combined with the brown, to compliment the sign colors.
Done.
Hang your McClover Farms Sign
Hanging with the Cloverflakes
Your turn to create
I would love to hear if you gain inspiration from this post and make your very own McClover Farms Sign.
