Painted Chevron Monogram Letter

Do you remember a few months back when I shared my monogram letter C with you?  Well, a month or so ago, my sister in law saw it and said that she would like a hot pink and black one for her birthday that is later this month.  She LOVES this color combo.
I set out to make one of these for her, but I knew that I hadn’t seen chevron paper in the colors that I needed.  I ended up painting the letter with a chevron stencil that I made with my Cricut.  I’ll show you how I did it.

I started with the letter.

Then I had my 3 year old help me paint it pink.  After the pink dried, I lightly sanded it.

Using Cricut Craft Room, I made this chevron pattern.  I used my George and Basic Shapes cartridge, and resized and rotated a rectangle and made the design.  For some reason when I got down to about 14 inches tall, it wouldn’t let me make it any longer, so I had to improvise and piece the pattern together. I used vinyl to cut it out.

Then I put all of the stencil on.

The black paint went on great!  After I peeled up the stencil, I lightly sanded and distressed a little bit again.

You can’t forget to embellish!

Here is a closer look of the distressing.

And embellishments.

I did this one very similar to the one I did for myself, but I have to say I do like the larger chevron pattern better.

I hope my sister in law likes it.  I think it turned out great!