This DIY Home Sweet Home Mason Jar Sign Adds The Perfect Touch To Your Decor

Fun word art signs for your home are a dime a dozen, ranging from handcrafted creations made by artisans with exquisite hand lettering to more manufactured signs available in all sizes from home and garden retailers. While the fancier your sign gets, the more expensive it can be, there is a great solution offered on TikTok from @craftsdirect that melds the ease of manufactured goods with handmade details and DIY spirit. These Dollar Tree galvanized metal signs, priced $1.25 each, in the shape of a mason jar, make a perfect canvas for creating a rustic décor piece on a budget with just some added paint, greenery or flowers, and vinyl lettering.

While "Home Sweet Home" and "Welcome to Our Home" are popular words for these signs, you can actually design them with your own customized message, including quotes, phrases, holiday wishes and more. They also make adorable accents for a dream backyard wedding or as fun party décor that can fit a variety of party themes.

Begin by adding a layer of primer to the bottom of the cutout sign, leaving the top part in the original galvanized metal for the lids. You may need to prime and apply a couple of coats of acrylic or chalk paint to the lower half of the sign to completely coat the metal. Great color options include basic white, black, or gray for more neutral decor, or you can go for a weathered and rustic wood finish with drawn-in vertical or horizontal lines. After you have painted it, it's time to get creative with your lettering, While the video uses vinyl transfer letters that go on like stickers, you can also use hand lettering or apply a stencil to the surface to make your message.

Around the top of the jar, add additional decorative accents with a hot glue gun, such as greenery, flowers, raffia twine, or ribbon. Remove the existing wire hanger and use a length of thin rope on the beaded wire to create a more handmade hanger. Just hot glue the ends in place on the back of the sign.

While the customization options for the message, paint, and decorative details are numerous for this cool sign as it is, there are some other great ways to add a little more charm. Try painting the surface with chalkboard paint and writing your message in chalk. Hang it as a cute message board in your entryway or on your fridge. The surface is magnetic, so it also makes a great place to post photos, post-its, and ephemera. You can also decoupage it with book pages for a literary-inspired sign with your favorite quotes. Use Mod Podge to apply vintage paper, decorative wrapping, or peel and stick wallpaper to the bottom to add some pattern under your letters. You can also string a few battery-operated twinkle lights around the top elements to add some cute illumination.

Hang these adorable signs on or near your front door to enhance your front porch, or anywhere in your home you'd like a little bit of rustic charm. The sign also looks beautiful as the centerpiece for your favorite wreath. Or make a bunch of them and hang them from garden sticks to identify various herbs and plants in your vegetable or flower garden. Just add a coat of water-proof acrylic to protect the paint if you plan to use them outdoors.