How To Make - a Farmers Market Sign

I saw a Farmers Market Sign that I really liked, but as I already had a few thousand pounds worth of stencils, thought I need to watch the pennies before going off  for another purchase, which lead me to thinking of ways to easily make one myself and in a manner that someone could do at home without having to purchase too many craft supplies. So here goes...

I had these old kitchen cabinet doors and as we're big into upcycling, repurposing & recycling here at the Crafty Nest, I wanted to use these to make my Farmers Market Sign. 

 First thing I did was clean the kitchen cupboard door really well and then paint with Autentico Chalk Paint - this colour was Vanille - and then gather together my materials:- text in the fonts I liked, large sheet of carbon paper, red pen and a sharpie.  For this, any type of printer works as you are not using the ink in any manner other than tracing.

Cut the text and tape in place over the carbon paper on the board in the correct position.  I'm using FROG tape, really like it.

I used red pen to trace over the printed text - red to help me see where I've been.  I am not particularly adept with staying in the lines but the end result still looks good.

This is what it looked like after I finished tracing the text.

I then went over the text with a sharpie.  I would have used a fine paint brush and black chalk paint, but I very much wanted to show you how to do something without too many items to purchase.

When I was finished with filling in the text, I then waxed with dark wax to give an aged look.  I liked it so much I made a few more in different colours too.