Framed White Board :D

This past semester was wonderful, but I am already thinking of ways to decorate my room for next fall. One thing I really missed was a cute white board to keep up with my to-do list. Oh my word...I am so excited about this craft! I saw a version of it on Pinterest, so I decided to take it and make it my own.

Springville, AL, has a wonderful antique store. I went there to peruse the different frames. After an hour or so of lolly-gagging, I found this beauty for $5.

What you need:

-frame

-spray paint (mine was called "ballet slipper")

-fine sand paper

-scrapbook paper

-white sheet of paper

-dry erase marker

Here are the steps for how to make the white board!!!

1) Disassemble the frame and take out the glass

2) Paint the frame with spray paint (let dry 1-1.5 hours)

3) After letting dry, sand down the paint lightly to rough it up a bit

4) Measure and cut the scrapbook paper to fit the inside of the frame

5) Place the white sheet of paper on top of the glass, layer the scrapbook paper on top of the white paper, and reassemble the back of the frame.

6) Dry and erase on your new white board and ENJOY!!!

Much love,

Susie

Paint Chip Art

My walls were looking bare in the dorm, so I decided to make some new art. Overall, since paint chips are free and I had all the other elements, the project cost me $0 monies! Wahoo!

 Above - Paint chips plus white canvas

Below - Paint chips cut up and arranged in a 6x6 square (the size of the canvas)

 Above - Painted the canvas blue

Below - Glued on the paint chips (sandwiching the canvas with a book to make sure the chips dry on the canvas flat)

Finished product!!!

Happy Crafting!

Love,

Susie

Using a Label Maker for God's Glory :)

I set out today to do one of those cool photo transfers that I have seen all over Pinterest. It failed miserably! But the background it made was really interesting looking, so I decided to make it in to a sort of collage thing.

A while back, I was given a label maker. I hadn't used it a ton, so I thought I would incorporate it into a new craft. Here are some pictures of how it went down.

 (That is where I was about to wet it to do the photo transfer)

(And...that's how it turned out - well, I added the white paint, but you get the picture...FAIL)

 (Here I had doodled a picture on some tracing paper - I am just painting the back of the paper so that it is opaque)

LABEL MAKER :D I layed out the words before I stuck them to the picture.

This picture is after I glued on the doodle with some mod podge

So that's it!

Thanks for reading!
Susie