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First you start off with an ugly Christmas paper lined wooden tray...this is not the actual size I used, but it is a smaller one...Please note I do all my painting on top of my black trash cans. That saves me having to worry about getting paint somewhere it doesn't belong (plus it adds a lot of class to my blog!)
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Now I paint it all off white to cover the forest green it was before. I thought I would want to leave it this off white creamy color until I realized that is precisely the color
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of my walls, so....I decided to use a nice light chocolate color. That would be milk chocolate, not dark.
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After I painted the outside with the nice brown paint, I used this chalkboard paint that I got on Clearance at Michael's for $1. I gave it two coats with the good old brush. I found it was difficult to get smooth coats on, but that might have just been me.
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I could hardly wait to write on it, so I didn't wait! Here I have taped off the black area to smooth up the brown painting line.
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OK, so here is the finished product....except it didn't turn out like I had hoped...it needed some more zing!
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So even though it distresses me to say so, I distressed it very mildly....and then I put a cream colored satin cording around the chalkboard part (partly to cover up the uneven paint lines!).
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Here is a detail of the cording and the distressing. Something just doesn't seem right about sanding the finished product after I carefully painted it.
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And, a drum roll please, here is the finished product! It fits perfectly in this place on my stairs and I love it!!!
7 comments:
Very cute! I'm having so much fun making chalkboards right now too... it's fun to transform almost anything.
Gorgeous job! I love it!
How cute!
So cute! You are the queen of recycled crafts. You have such a talent!
This is so cute. Much better than the Christmas tray it started out as :)
Thanks for linking up to Saturday is Crafty Day!
Oooooh! I love that! I have yet to try making a chalkboard out of something. This may be the kick in the pants that I needed.
-Mama E
www.homeandheartsblog.com
I really liked the way you used the cord, great way to class up where the two paints meet! I'll be using that trick!
Tracey
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