Cute 3-In-One board

Cute Multi-Board!

A White Erase board, Chalkboard, and Bulletin board all in one.

I made this board for my younger sister, much younger, we're about 17 years in difference. It's perfect for a pre-teen!

Here are the materials:

Large foam board

Chalkboard paint

Cork board squares

White erase stickable sheet

Spray on glue

Cute fabric and ribbon

Starting off with the chalkboard paint, I painted a width of about 5 inches down the board. Giving it about 3 coats and let it dry.

Then I took the white erase stickable paper, I love this stuff! If you're not familiar with this, it's kind of like contact paper where you cut however much you want, just peel off the backing and stick anywhere you like.

So after applying the chalkboard paint and white erase sheet on the board, I cut my cork board to the right size and then applied the fabric to my cork board with spray glue.

Then hot glued the fabric-covered cork to the board.

Next I hot glued this cute ribbon down both sides.

To hang, I found these hanging hooks that work so well with the foam board. They have two protruding spikes that easily punch into the back of foam board – but I ended up hot gluing them on for extra hold.

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4th of July Appreciation!

Many of us, and I'm referring mostly to myself, take our freedom for granted too often. With Independence Day approaching, I came up with this chalkboard plaque to remind myself of the day-to-day things that I can easily take for granted. It's fun for my daughter too. It gives us a chance to highlight something daily or weekly to focus our gratitude on.

First I stared off with a wooden board from Hobby Lobby. It cost $2.99 which is not bad. But I can also picture this with a stressed and weathered piece of wood too, it could give a lot of character.

I primed the board first.

Next using a sponge brush I painted the wood red.

And then used chalkboard paint on the bottom half of the board.

For the flag written message, I initially wanted to use a patriotic scrapbook paper but surprisingly the craft stores did not have a large variety of patriotic paper.

So, I decided to print my own. I found some patriotic clipart that would also leave room for a visible message.

I came up with this “With My Freedom I Will...” message and added a few bulleted highlights.

I printed the clipart and message out on a colored printer.

Then used a couple of coats of mod podge to seal up the paper.

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