Quick Lady Bug Café sign

This was our quick sign for our quickly improvised Lady Bug Café for Valentines Day dinner.

I didn’t have a big poster board and couldn’t go buy one as Nico was sleeping. So I took 4 pink cardstocks and taped them together. Then I penciled the letters for the name, free handed. Don’t press to hard or it’ll be hard to erase, but I erased just enough to not have it show through the paint and enough to still use them as a guide (I have a tendency to shrink my lettering as I write).

I got some glittery heart stickers and stuck some in the corners (3 that represent each of us).

For one corner I wanted a little more 3D effect so I used foam hearts flipped upside down and drew on them with a fine sharpie. I made little antennas with a black pipe cleaners cut to size and folded in 2. I also folded the tips to avoid Nico poking himself on them. I hot glued them to the tip of the heart.

Then I made little red ink thumb print lady bugs & 1 heart as well and left space for Nico to do some after his nap but he wasn’t in the mood.

I offered him some red heart jewels, he didn’t want to glue those on either. After a few minutes of telling/showing him how pretty it would be, he was up for it. He decided to put them inside the letters, so it turned into a little bit of a letter practice
In the rush I forgot to take photos, sorry.

Took about 20 minutes plus paint drying time to make. And voilà we had our sign!

If you do this, we’d LOVE to see a photo of it. Email it to us or post it on our Facebook page. We’d love to do a Facebook album, a Pinterest board and a page of your creations

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