Making Your Own Message Board

Making Your Own Messaged Board

I bought a piece of cork board a couple of years ago and never did anything with it. Now, that I've found it in my scrappy stash I decided to use it up before I lose it again! You can get cork sheets at any craft or office supply store.

I started by hot gluing a sheet of light weight chipboard to the back of it so it won't full apart from using push pins going into it over the years. I used hot glue, this helps it stay together really well and I don't think white glue would be able to keep the two together.

Once I was done with that I painted the edges so they would look pretty and you would not see plain old cork. I used copper colored paint.

To cover the cork I used Teresa Collins paper from her Documented line. I used the sheet with the big clock in the middle of the paper. I cut the clock out and distressed the edges of what was left with the paper and inked them with vintage photo distress ink. 

I then cut out a tag from the same paper line distressed and inked it as well using vintage pink glimmer mist to it. I also added some prima flowers and a few roses, feathers and a stick pin that I made. I punched two holes at the top and pulled lace though them so I could hang it on the wall. Lastly, I added a butterfly clip to the lace.  

Here are a few close ups...

I then made matching pins using my i-top I just toke the same paper line so that they would all go together.

Now here is how it looks hanging on my the side of my fridge. I had a lot of fun making this message board and it only toke about 2 hours to do!! Very fun and easy!!

I hope you guys have fun crafting!!!

Altering a Canvas

Hey everyone! I have now got into altering things, I know a lot of people have been altering for a wily and it is not new but I always thought that it would be hard and what would I alter, what would I do with it once I was done. I came up with all these excuses on way I should not do it because I was being a chicken!! lol Now that I have started altering I can't stop!! I love it! It is so much fun!!

So I started off easy with a canvas. I just got a cheap one from the dollar store, the size is 8x10.

I also used some paint dabbers from Adirondack the colors are Espresso and Gold. I used some Tim Holtz distress Ink in Walnut Stain, Vintage Photo and his embossing ink. The embossing powder is also Tim Holtz in vintage photo. The stamp set I used is from Inkadinkado named Chandeliers. There is also some Prima on this canvas. the butterfly an the lace. The metal label holder is from Tim Holtz

To start off I painted the edges of the canvas with Espresso paint then once that was dry I toke the gold and I dab some on my finger and rub it into the canvas.

After the paint was dry I toke the paper that I was using and I glued it down with a hot glue gun, but I only glued the middle down first so I could rip the edges of the paper. The paper I used is from Shabby Green Door. Once I have ripped the edges I distressed them with vintage photo and Walnut Stain once I was all done with that I toke the Gold paint dabber, dab some paint onto my finger and just rubbed some of the edges with the gold paint. Once I had the paper the way I wanted it I glued the rest of the paper down.

All this was the hardest part of altering this canvas! Not bad uh. After I was done with all the messy stuff all I did was embellish it!! Here is the finished canvas.

Here is a closer look at the bottom of the canvas

I had a lot of fun altering this canvas!! So to all the chickens out there like me give it a try!! I bet you will have a lot of fun!!

Till next time!!

Melissa

Altered Recipe Box

Hey everyone!!! My name is Melissa and the web based communication coordinator and designer here at Posh Designs! Feel free to read more about me here! This is my first post on the Posh blog and I wanted to share with you a recipe box that I altered into a mini!!

I had a lot of fun creating this project but had a hard time keeping it simple so everything would fit into the box! I did not do a whole lot on the outside of the box but do like how it turned out! All I did to the front was distress it with Walnut Stain Distress Ink from Tim Holtz the words "of" were from some leftover Thickers I had and the "life" was cut with my Cricut using the Graphically Speaking cartridge.

Here is what the inside of the recipe box looks like. I wanted it to look like a recipe box, so I used the From My Kitchen cartridge and cut out all the index cards. I used very thin chipboard. The patterned papers I used through out the entire mini was the Mi Casa stack from DCWV.

The first index card is called "love" and there is a picture of  Dave and I. Remember I have to keep it simple so I did not do a whole lot, all the edges were distresed and inked with Walnut Stain Distress Ink. I used a Fiskars border punch called Upper Crest. The "you and me" was cut out using the Sweethearts Cricut Cartridge

I did not do a lot on this page I just distressed everything. I used some Sassafras buttons called in Stitches Blue Buttons I used the same stamp set though out the whole mini it is from Inkadinkado I think the set is called Flourish but I am not to sure I have had it a long time and it is a well loved stamp set! I also used Pearl Ex through out the whole mini. I used series 2 and I used pretty much all the colors!

I just distressed each page and used a label maker for the titles on each index card. I am not going to show all the pages; a lot of them are just journaling so I don't want to bore you with that but you will see most of the mini.

Here is my Mom for her page, I distressed everything and used Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist the colors I used was Creme de Chocolate and Wheat Fields. I also used a Prima flower and some unknown bling!

I did not to do much with Lindsay's page. I just distressed and used Electric Blue Glimmer Mist

Electric Blue would have to be one of my favorite colors right now, its a very fun color.

Amanda's page was a lot of fun, I distressed the edges very lightly with Broken China used the pink Pearl Ex I also used Viva Pink and Sweet Clover Glimmer Mist. I love how it turned out it just kind of sucks that I got ink all over her boyfriend oops!!!

Here is my cat Holly!! She is a sweetheart but let me tell ya very sassy!! I just distressed like all the others. I used Gold Pearl EX then Gold and Wheat fields Glimmer Mist

Here is me!! I used some Prima flowers everything got distressed! I used the Gold Pearl EX again as well as Candy Apple Red Glimmer Mist. If you want a really nice red that looks red this is the color for you I do have Scarlet but when it dries it looks more like pink then red. I really like how the Candy Apple Red looks once dry!

The last page I did not do much to this one I just used Gold Glimmer Mist and that is about it!

I hope you all enjoyed my recipe box mini it was a lot of fun to do and I hope that you guys give it a try and if you do post your pictures on the PDSS Gallery so I can see what you came up with!!

Melissa