How to Make a Christmas Sign from a Cake Board

Welcome to Day 7 of my 12 Days of Christmas Crafting. Here is another dollar store craft. Looking to make a nice sign for your doorway or Christmas display? Here’s how to make a Christmas sign from a cake board.

Yes – you read right. This is made from a dollar store cake board. They’re cheap and light and make a great base for a sign.

Supplies Needed

Most of these items are from my local dollar store, you can also pick up most of these from any craft store as well.

Cake board. This is one of those boards that people put cakes on. It’s made out of cardboard but has a silver cover on one side.
Fabric wide enough to cover the cake board. I used a decorative burlap that I found at the dollar store. Consider also tablecloths, table runners, placemats and scarves at the dollar store as well. You may have something in your fabric stash too.
Sharpie/Marker
Scissors to cut the fabric.
Modge Podge
Wide rope or very thick twine
Glue gun
Optional: I decorated mine using heat transfer vinyl cut with my Cricut
Other decorations. The dollar store is full of things like picks and sprays and ribbon. You can completely customize this to match your decor. I do recommend something like a bow to cover up the join of your rope.

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Here is a step-by-step process to make this sign.

Place your cake board face down on your fabric.

Using a sharpie or marker, trace around the cake board.

Cut out the round of fabric.

OPTIONAL: I applied heat transfer vinyl to my fabric at this point. I cut this out using my Cricut. For more information on HTV, check out my post – All About Heat Transfer Vinyl. You want to do this now before gluing to the cake board. I applied mine lower on the board as I was planning to add a bow up top.
Apply modge podge to the cake board and apply the fabric.

Be sure to give this time to dry before moving on.
My burlap fabric is not completely opaque. I quite like how the silver part of the cake board peeks through the fibres.

Using a glue gun, adhere the rope around the perimeter of the cake board.

This will help hide the edge of the cut fabric and frame it nicely.

Decorate your sign.
I made a big bow from some ribbon I had from last year. I think it adds a nice touch. I’ve seen premade bows at the dollar store as well.
Optional: if you will be hanging this sign, glue a small length of twine in a loop on the back.

I’m really quite pleased with how this sign turned out. Who would’ve thought it was made from a cake board from the dollar store? I can see using this format to make signs for any time of the year.