Painted "Amazing Grace" Sign

Instructions

1. Write "Amazing Grace" or whatever words you want onto the board. Make sure you know how you want to do it before you start. Then draw a simple leaf design. Note: I tried to erase but it doesn't work very well, so don't rely on that.

2. Paint over the penciled letters with black paint. Try to make the letters as skinny as possible at first.

3. Go over the letters again, making the sides nice and straight. For cursive letters, thicken each down stroke and keep up strokes as skinny as possible.
   
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4. Outline the leaves and then fill in them in with green paint.

5. Add a little bit of black paint to the green paint and outline the leaves with the darker green paint that results.

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6. Let it dry for several hours or overnight. Make sure you don't smear the paint while it's still wet!

7. Most importantly, use your imagination and creativity to make it fit your style.

8. Hang on the wall and enjoy!