How to Personalize First Letter of Baby's Name for Wall Hanging

Making something special for a baby shower is always a nice touch. How about finding the first letter of the baby's name, in natural wood or already painted, and personalizing it? Here, I will show you how to add embellishments to the first letter of a baby's name for a wall hanging.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• First letter of baby's name (wooden or not)
• Paint, if letter is wooden and not painted, in color needed for nursery (white is always a safe color to go with)
• Paint brushes or value pack of poly brushes
• Embellishment stickers

1. Craft items needed to Personalize First Letter of Baby's Name Go to your local craft or discount store. Look down their craft aisle for the wooden letter, paint and sticker embellishments.
2. Painting Letter with Watered Down Paint Using a small glass bowl, turn over opened paint tube and squirt a little bit of paint into glass bowl. Now, under faucet, add a very tiny bit of water. When water is added, blend with poly brush and begin painting onto wooden letter.
3. Because this letter is a bare wood, you may want to paint it on both sides. If so, the paint on the first side will have to dry for at least 20-30 minutes. When front side is dry, turn over and paint the backside. The backside, like the front side, will again take between 20-30 minutes to dry.
4. Sticker Embellishments of Front of Letter When paint on both sides is dried, open packets of sticker embellishments and begin placing them all over letter.
5. One Side of Letter Covered If your letter, like this "J", has other sides that can be covered, cover them. Here is one side of this letter I covered.
6. Other Side of Letter now Covered Here is the other side of my letter covered as well. Now the letter will not look so plain hanging on the nursery wall.

Tips & Warnings

• Do not cover backside of letter with stickers. The stickers will not be seen on backside and the letter will not be flush to wall.
• Stickers do not have to fit perfectly on letter. If some sticker is off letter, that is fine.
• If you have toddlers around, please make sure to paint out of reach of little hands that will make big messes.