How to Make a DIY Doormat without Cricut or Stencils

Here’s how you can make an adorable DIY doormat that matches your home‘s exterior colors without using a Cricut or buying stencils! A DIY doormat is a great way to spruce up your outdoor entry space on budget. This example shows you how quick, easy and cheap it is to create your own doormat using supplies you might already have around your house.

Materials

Doormat (you can buy a new one but you could also use an old plain one)
A few sheets of paper with letters printed on them (I used the word Hello)
Kitchen sponges
Foam brushes (optional)
Scissors
Push pins
Paint (I used leftover house paint from when we painted the exterior of our house, colors are SW Extra White and SW Oyster Bay)
Paper plates

Step 1: Cut out and arrange your letters

The first step is to cut out the printed letters:

cutting out paper letters for DIY doormat without cricut

Next, arrange the letters on the doormat:

Tip: I wanted the word to be perfectly centered on the doormat so I measured the position of the letters:

To hold the letters in place, secure them with push pins:

securing letters for DIY doormat with push pins

Step 2: Cut out fun shapes

Cut out four different fun little shapes out of the kitchen sponges:

cutting out DIY stamps using kitchen sponges

These shapes don’t need to be cut out perfectly because the outlines of the shapes will look a little blurry anyway on the doormat once stamped!

Step 3: Apply paint

This is the fun part! Grab some leftover paint (I used paint we had left over from when we painted the exterior of our house).

Letters

Next, use foam brushes to outline the letters:

Pour some paint onto the paper plate to get started. Go over each spot a few times until you feel that there is enough paint to visibly outline the letters: