Thursday, August 26, 2010

Give Me the Bird


Last night I was looking in my hall closet (I don't even remember why) and saw a random board from an old abandoned project and some cork I bought a few weeks ago. As my eyes went from one to the other, I had the sudden urge to put them together and make myself a cork board. So I did.

First I painted the edges of my board a pretty blue (I mixed North Sea blue with some white to get the color I wanted). It took 2 coats.
(This is not what the blue actually looks like... but you get the idea)


Then I grabbed some brown craft paper, drew a bird and cut it out.

I used some spray adhesive on the back of the paper to stick it to my cork.
(I decided to flip my image)


Then I grabbed my stencil foam brush and dabbed on my white paint.

I should have let the paint dry a little first before I peeled off my paper, but I didn't. Fortunately the paint didn't smudge much.

Once everything was dry, I pulled out my rotary board and ruler and an exacto knife (NOT my rotary cutter, I didn't want to ruin it by cutting cork) and carefully (and slowly) cut my cork to my desired size.

Then I used my glue gun and glued on my cork (I hear wood glue would also work well for this part). I worked from one side to the other so the glue wouldn't cool before I was able to attach the cork.

And ta-da! Here is my adorable new cork board.

To finish it off, you can always add some cute button push pins like I did.

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Also linking to:Making the World Cuter, C.R.A.F.T., and Keeping It Simple

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

The Power of Spray-Paint

I love spray-paint. It can transfer something cheap and ugly into cute and updated. Here are a few before and afters of some of my recent spray-paint projects.

Napkin holder ($1)
It wasn't so much ugly before but that blue sure didn't match my kitchen decor. But now that it is black it is oh so perfect! 

Mail organizer ($.50)
We were in desperate need of something to organize our mail and this was just the right price. The problem: it was a very, very dated brown. Problem is now fixed (I might even mod podge some cute paper on it later).
 
Lamp bases ($2/each)
I love the shape of these lamp bases. Now that they look just how I want them too I need to get some cute lamp shades made. 

I guess I really like black spray-paint. Good thing it goes with basically everything! :)

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