Zig Zag Painting Pinboard

I hope you all had a great weekend.  We celebrated my parents 40th wedding anniversary on Saturday at our house.  We had a great time, even though it rained.  I had spent all week fixing up our dilapidated backyard, only to have to move everyone inside about thirty minutes into the party.  My dad got all sentimental talking about my mom.  It was a great night.  I'll be posting pictures of my backyard later this week.  I got the house cleaned up yesterday morning, but all the tables and chairs are still all set up in the backyard.  Ugh.

Here's a cute project that I worked on for my sister's apartment.  I found this flower foam tile rose painting at Goodwill for $2.00.  I knew the print wasn't for me, but there was something about the texture of the tile that caught my eye.

I gave it a coat of Rustoleum's Aqua spray paint.  The color seemed a little too strong for what I wanted.

I wanted to soften it up a bit so I used the same technique that I used for my cherry blossoms painting. I filled a cup with about two fingers of water and then I dipped the tip of a paintbrush in the can of paint and then dipped it in the water and mixed it up.  I then brushed the tile over and over. It's a weird finish at first, kind of bubbly, but just keep brushing and brushing.  Eventually it evens out and softens the color on the tile.  Then I taped a zig zag pattern to the tile.  I tried to do my best measuring it out. 

For the final step in painting, I used Annie Sloan's Chalk paint (not watered down) to fill in the spaces between the tape. 

I then removed the rope and added a pretty satin ribbon.  I hot glued it to the back of the tile and here it is.

Here you can see detail of the tile and the softness of the blue after using the watered down chalk paint.

I made this for my sister and it will be sitting by her new chevron chairs and chandelier.  I'm thinking it might work great as a pin board.

I'm so excited about setting up her apartment. I've been working on projects for what seems like months.  I think the painters will be going this week and then we are ready to get everything in there.  We will be heading to the beach today (weather permitting), I LOVE summer.

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Fabric Memo Board

Last week, Sister #3, my mom, and I spent the day crafting at her house.  My mom did crafts with the kids, while we worked on a few projects.  My sister moved into her house 3 years ago, with a 3-4 month old and shortly after that she found out she was having my niece.  Needless to say, the the house got some basic fixes, but decorating was last on the list.  In the past few months, they have been slowly transforming their house into a home.  They bought gorgeous furniture and reconfigured the layout of their house.  Little by little, they have started accessorising, and it is looking great.  She asked me for some help with some projects and I happily obliged.  First on the list, covering this old cork board for her new office nook (as she's calling it).

We added one layer of batting and just used a staple gun to attach.

Next we added a layer of fabric, pulling as tight as we could.  Her office nook is in her dining room and she wants to keep the same color scheme throughout.  Her colors are greys, pewters, and red accents.  We found this fabric at Joann's Fabric.

We then laid out pieces of ribbon to see what felt right.

Once we figured out how many would work, we measured it out to keep it perfectly aligned.

We hot glued the ribbon to the back (if trying this, make sure you keep the ribbon very tight).  We interwove the ribbon to keep it stronger.

We then added thumbtacks for some bling and to make the slots more user friendly.

 Here it is.  I'm loving the red, white, and grey/pewter color all together. 

I'll be showing you some more projects that we've been working on when we finish them up.  Have you tried making a message board?




 

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