Carnival Birthday Sign

I thought I'd take a moment to share a Carnival sign I made for my nieces joint 1st and 3rd birthday. We are BIG on using what's on hand (my mom, brother, AND sister in law are probably the best team  ever to work with on crafty projects... for real, so many ideas between all of us!) and not big on spending money on things we can make. Here, I used an empty bookshelf box, gave it two white coats of acrylic paint, some haphazardly painted red stripes, then printed "CARNIVAL" using the FREE Circus font by Dan Roseman (I love that guy for creating this perfect font) in 400 pt font. I cut out the letters, lined them up, used Elmer's glue to attach them, then touched up my running out ink with some black acrylic paint. I then added the girls names (the best nieces ever) to personalize it, and added a simple black outline to give it a finished look. I glued the sides back together and we just used it as a standing on the ground sign instead of making it a hanging one. Did I mention we also got way into balloon animals, I paint faces, and my sister in law made this cute balloon entrance stand? We party hard. I would have painted ALL the sides of the box, but I bit off more then I could chew and ran out of time, but I promise we all survived and loved it =) .

I used yet another one of these boxes (hey, I got two shelves and I'm a sucker for leftover cardboard) and some leftover Easter eggs for a TICKETS sign:

I tried to rotate this a MILLION times...
I used the round end of all of my Easter Eggs from two discount packs, spray painted them all a silvery pewter color I had laying around, and hot glued them on. I used blue paint on my letter print outs here (I ran out of black ink and ran with it). 

                                         I hope this inspires you to create something great!