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Yesterday I showed you the overall finished sports themed bedroom that we designed for my nephew. Today I am starting the tutorials for each aspect of the room.

In the Pottery Barn Kids magazine they have this cool vintage looking baseball scoreboard. It is just one of the art pieces in their photo shoots and not for sale but I certainly think it makes the room, don’t you?

My brother-in-law loves football and his son is certainly taking after him with a love for all things sports. We decided to change up the board a little bit and make it a football themed scoreboard.

Vintage Football Scoreboard Sign

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The picture above gives you are good idea of how huge it is!

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Supplies:

  • 3’ x 5’ x 3/8” plywood (you can have Lowe’s cut it to size)
  • Kilz primer
  • Basil Pesto Valspar Paint
  • Silhouette machine
  • Contact paper
  • Burnt Umber Folk Art paint
  • Sandpaper
  • Paintbrushes for touch up
  • Paint roller and tray
  • Lag screws
  • Frog tape

Football Scoreboard Tutorial

1.   We chose to go with a 3/8” plywood cut 3 feet by 5 feet.  

I wanted to go with a plywood so that we could sand it later and give it a vintage feel.

2. While my sister-in-law was at the store getting the wood cut I was designing the stencil in my Silhouette Studio program. 

I chose to cut it out with contact paper because it is way cheaper than using regular vinyl.

I first designed it to fit the 3’ x 5’ board using Arial Black and Varsity Regular fonts.

scoreboard design

 

Then I sized it to fit the 12” vinyl and cut three strips of the vinyl out with one line on each strip.

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My brother-in-law is a big Philadelphia Eagles fan and I guess their old stadium Veterans Field was nicknamed “The Vet” so that is how we chose the name.

Then my nephew’s birthday is 4-27-09   and the 3 and 8 are his parent’s favorite numbers.

3.   I gave the board two coats of Kilz primer.

Once dry it took three of us to get the stencils lined up and centered and it still wasn’t close to perfect.  

I also added Frog Tape to the edges to outline the board.

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4. Then I sealed the contact paper stencil by applying a coat of the primer over it.

This way if anything bled it would be the white paint and not the green.

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5.   Once dry I rolled a coat of Olympic Premium Basil Pesto over it.

While the paint was still wet I removed the contact paper stencil.

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6.   Then I used a small brush and made any touch ups that I needed to do.

Then we sanded the sign giving it a distressed feel revealing some of the wood underneath.

Then I watered down some Folk Art Burnt Umber paint and applied it, wiping it with a damp cloth to give it a vintage grungy feel.

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7.   We drilled holes through the sign and screwed lag screws directly into the wall.

We thought the lag screws looked most authentic with the sign.

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This is now the focal point of the room and adds the perfect touch to this sports themed room.

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close up of sign

 

 

 

 

 

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12 Comments

  1. Beckie, I just love your football sign. What a lucky nephew you have! Getting ready to start my son’s room makeover, similar to this but baseball!

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  3. Love how this turned out! I made a baseball version for a customer not long ago and I though a football one would be so neat to do too! Yours turned out perfectly.

  4. You are so sweet for sharing this project 🙂 I enjoyed helping my sister-in-law out with this one. Glad you loved it too! Thanks for linking me, your the best!

  5. I LOVE your scoreboard!! would you be interested in making one for my sons room for a good price? $150? email me if your interested!

    Ariele

  6. Hi Ariele, I am flattered that you like the sign so much. However, I am not currently selling any work. If you have a Silhouette, it is honestly not that hard to make.

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