Wall signs

Some have asked how I made the signs for my kitchen. They actually were pretty easy and I had to be very creative because I don't have all the fancy equipment that most people have. So here is a step by step on how to do them. I am missing some pictures to show you each step, sorry about that. I will take more as I get more made.
  First, I had just a piece of wood from an old fence we had. I cut it into three pieces. Once it was cut I put a base coat of neutral paint that I had left over and painted the entire board.

 

Then I painted a pretty light coat of basic black paint that I had gotten from a craft store over the the board and let it dry.

In the meantime I printed out words from my computer onto regular plain paper. I sized them how I needed them and changed the font to whatever font I liked for this board. I then changed the font to "outline" so I would have a thin outline of black around the word and the rest would be left white. I printed and then cut. I laid the letters out on the boards of how I wanted them and then applied a thin layer of Mod Podge to the back and stuck them to the board. After all were in place, I applied another layer of Mod Podge to the top of them. Once all that was done, I took the black paint I had and got my brush pretty wet with water. I dipped the brush in the black paint and ran it over the letters and then wiped in off with a paper towel to give it the aged look I wanted. You have to be pretty careful not to get too much on and one time or it won't give it the look you are wanting.