Family Name Sign

I've seen some cute name signs around blogland and have wanted to make my own for awhile.  A few months ago I bought a cabinet door from the As-Is section of IKEA and just got around to painting it (a beautiful sage green color).  I used the wonderful Cricut to cut out our name and the year we were married.  The sign seemed a little plain with just  our name and date, so I tried to cut out a quatrefoil border with the Cricut.  After 2 attempts, I called it a fail and looked for something different.  I saw this stencil on Tatertots & Jello and knew it was exactly what I wanted, but it seemed like SO much work, so naturally I put it off for a couple weeks.  

When my friend, Megan, suggested a craft day I decided to finally sit down and work on the stencil.  I printed it out at 50% so the scale of the stencil would work better with my frame.  After carefully cutting out the stencil, I went to town tracing it onto the frame...that's all I accomplished during our craft day!  It took forever!  Later I tried painting the stencil using a small paint brush and knew immediately that it was not going to work.  So I took my second trip of the day to JoAnn's (a nice man working there said, "I recognize you.  Do you come in often?"...um, clearly I come in too often!) and bought a white paint pen...SO much easier to use!  I put on 2 coats using the paint pen and while it's not perfect, I love how it looks!  Now I just need to find a place to hang it...