The L☘CK of the Irish is on your side with this DIY St. Patty’s Day door hanger. This fun piece of decor is the perfect mix between rustic, shabby chic, and wild with its Leopard print and glitter shamrock. This fun and easy DIY is the perfectly trendy way to celebrate and decorate St. Patty’s Day in style!
I’m so obsessed with Leopard Print everything right now, that I’m even injecting it into my Holiday St. Patty’s Day decor! As you can tell from this DIY Door Hanger, it gives it such a fun and wild look, how could you not love it?! My obsession started back with this Valentine’s Truck Shelf Sitter, and it’s now carrying on into St. Patty’s Day so brace yourself for *all the Leopard Print*.
This DIY St. Patrick’s Day “Luck” and Leopard Door Hanger was made Live over on Facebook and it was SO much fun to make! You can watch the replay of how I made this fun piece below, or you can go HERE to watch the replay.
I loved this piece so much, that I’ve since made a Dollar Tree Shamrock to go along with it! If you aren’t as Leopard print crazed as I am, you could always make this St. Patrick’s Day Door Hanger and replace the “L” with another pattern or color of your liking. Get creative, the Shamrock is the limit!
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Supplies Needed to Make a DIY St. Patrick’s Day “Luck” Door Hanger
- Dollar Tree Valentine Sign (you can use any type of surface or wood blank to make this)
- 4 Wooden rounds (I got mine at the Christmas Tree farm when we got our tree but you can get them on Amazon too)
- White paint (acrylic or chalk)
- Brown paint or stain
- Vaseline
- Paint scraper
- Leopard print scrapbook paper
- Buffalo Check fabric
- Glitter Shamrock embellishment
- Sticks (YES! Sticks from outside)
- Lace
- Raffia
- Cardboard
- Assorted ribbon to match (I used gold, bright green glittery, green burlap)
- Zip tie
How to Make a Door Hanger from a Dollar Tree sign for St. Patrick’s Day
Follow the below written steps to make a DIY St’ Patrick’s Day “Luck” Door Hanger or you can go here to watch the Facebook Live Replay.
Prepare and paint the wooden sign
Stain the entire back of the Dollar Tree sign brown using watered down brown paint and a baby wipe or wet paper towel. The best way to do this is to squirt some brown paint on a paper plate, spray it with a spray water bottle and then use a baby wipe to stain the surface of the wooden sign. You can also use regular stain, but the watered down paint method works just as well and it’s cheaper!
Now were going to make it look “chippy”, using Vaseline and white paint. Use an old paint brush to brush Vaseline along the surface of the stained wood, applying it haphazardly in random places, but do NOT cover the entire surface. Make some spots a little thicker covered, some just a thin amount of Vaseline, and then some spots have none. Think of it this way, wherever the Vaseline is, the paint will “chip” in the next step. This doesn’t have to be perfect, just play around with it. It takes some practice to get it just right, but don’t worry well be covering most of the sign anyway, just have fun!
Paint a thick coat of white paint over the entire sign, right on top of the Vaseline. Now, take a heat gun or blow-dryer and dry the top coat of the white paint until its mostly dry, but the underside of the paint is still wet. It should be dry to the touch so that when you touch it with your finger, your finger does not get white. Now, take a paint scraper, and drag it lightly across the surface, focusing on the spots that had the Vaseline. Adjust the pressure you use as you go depending on if it’s “chipping” to your liking. Do this as little or as much as you like until it has the look your going for.
Glue the 4 wooden rounds to the “Chippy” paint sign, 2 on top and 2 under that, leaving room at the top for the Messy Scrap Ribbon Bow.
Let’s make the “LUCK” letters.
Draw an “L” and a “C” on a piece of cardboard and cut them out. Trace the “L” onto the Leopard scrapbook paper, and cut that out. Do the same to the “C” on the Buffalo Check fabric (you could use buff check paper too).
Apply a thin layer of Mod Podge to the surfaces of the cardboard letters, and attach the Leopard to the “L”, and the Buff Check to the “C”.
Cut a thin strip of the lace, just wide enough to wrap around each of the wood sticks, and attach the lace using Mod Podge. This was a little bit tricky, since the lace did not stick to the stick until it started to dry a bit. The easiest way to do this is to cover the stick in a thin layer of Mod Podge, then roll it on the lace, and keep holding and twisting with your fingers until it starts to dry and stick.
Glue the letters to the wooden rounds, using a Shamrock embellishment for the “U”, and 3 lacey sticks to make the “K”.
Make a messy scrap ribbon bow
Last step is to make the huge messy scrap fabric and ribbon bow to put on top of our St. Patty’s Day DIY Door Hanger! If ya ask me, the messier the better.
Cut several pieces of ribbon, and strips of lace and buffalo check fabric, approximately 8 inches long. Don’t worry about them being perfect. Don’t worry about them all being the same length. Just cut random strips, even making some of them intentionally longer or shorter.
Now begin to layer the pieces of ribbon in a cross cross fashion, one on top of the other, forming an X shape. Just randomly alternate the ribbon as you layer them, you don’t have to keep any particular pattern. You can see exactly how I made the bow in this video here.
Take a zip tie and tie it around the center of the “X”, and pull super tight. Fluff out all the pieces and trim any that need trimming or are super long. Just play with it and fluff until it looks all messy and shabby!
Glue the messy crap ribbon bow to the top of the Door Hanger sign, above the wooden rounds. Take some raffia and glue it to the center of the bow to finish it off.
And there ya have it! A DIY Door Hanger for St. Patty’s with a wild Leopard print flare. This piece is sure to make a statement hanging on your front door, and it may even entice a Leprechaun to come by for a visit! Hopefully, it will even bring you a but of “Luck”!
Are you going to make this DIY “Luck” and Leopard Door Hanger for St. Patrick’s Day this year? If you do, I’d love to see it. If you’re not part of our Craftspiration Facebook group, join in on the fun and post a pic of your completed DIY crafts, I just love to see all your creative and crafty creations!
Until Next Time…
Stay Crafty San Diego!
