JOY Snow Covered Letters

 

As part of our on going Christmas series here at Hawthorne and Main, today I am showing you how to make these faux snow covered JOY letters.  Where I live, we usually don’t get too much snow so I wanted to make sure that this year we had a little touch of it inside the house.  To make it feel more winter like.

Another reason why I really like these snow covered letters is because they can be left up all winter, you don’t need to take them down after Christmas is over!!

Let’s get started!

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SUPPLIES:

1/4 inch MDF

White acrylic paint

jig saw

frosty snow flakes- found at walmart

Buffalo Snow Flakes-found at Walmart or Amazon Buffalo Snow Flakes 

Winter Snow Flakes found at Walmart or Amazon Winter Snow Flakes

Mod Podge or craft glue

I free hand drew the letters onto my mdf and used the jigsaw to cut out the letters.  You can customize how big or small you want you letters to be.  I made mine about 15 inches tall.

 

 

After cutting out the letters I gave the edges a quick sanding and painted the front of each letter with white acrylic paint.

 

I would recommend laying down some newspapers first as this next step can get messy.

After the paint was fully dry and working with one letter at a time, I liberally applied Mod Podge to the entire front of each letter.  Before the Mod Podge dried I sprinkled a combination of the regular snow flakes and the sparkly buffalo snow flakes.  I sprinkled a lot on there knowing not all of it would stick.  I also gently pressed down on the snow flakes so that they would stick into the glue a little bit.

I let the snow flakes sit for a few minutes on the letters before tapping the excess off.  Here is what they look like after shaking off the excess.

 

I didn’t think to drill holes into the wood before adding the snow flakes.  I probably would have been better to do it first.   But, after I added the snow flakes I drilled two holes in each letter so that I could hang them from my barn wood sign.

This is a picture of the back of the letter so you can see how I hung the bakers twine.

I like that it is simple and yet it still brings a little bit of the snow indoors without the cold temperature!!