Yum, Yum Board

I spent a lot of time the last few days wondering what I was going to do for my magnet board project. The biggest problem was deciding which room I was making it for. I always wanted one from my kitchen especially after losing the Spudnut recipe this Christmas! After fighting myself - thinking to do one for one of the kids instead, I decided to stick with the kitchen.

Since my magnet board will be for recipes - I titled it yum, yum, yum.  I cut all the letters from my Opposites Attract cricut cartridge at 2 inches. Here are close-ups. 

I had to do a boy and a girl chef so here they are.  I made the boy have pokie hair since my boys always do :)

Here is my little lady:

These I cut from Everyday paper dolls at 4.5 inches.  They turned out so cute!  Don't you think?

I cut a cork tile I bought at Walmart in the craft section for the bottom.  The idea was to write what we would be having each day.  I found these little journaling blocks I had from Heidi Swapp.  I bought these so long ago, I am so glad they came in handy.  I would love to make there erasable - would contact paper do that? 

I love this picture because it shows what the Elmer's trick did.  I ended up using stain afterwards and it made a HUGE difference.  I did it after I had all the letters on so things got a little messy.  Make sure you do yours BEFORE you dress it up!

Another learn from my mistake moment:  I tried to use the spray Craft Bond glue on the ribbon - it spotted it so don't do that.  My favorite adhensive from ribbon is tacky tape.  You can get it at walmart for 3$, it is red.

 

I really want to seal this but I am terrified to use modpodge over it in case it ruins all my hard work.  Any suggestions?

Well I hope you like it.  I would love to see yours.  You can leave a comment with a link to yours or send us an email at cjuices2@gmail.com

Magnet Board part 2

Hi, Sizzle here again. We are diving into the world of magnet boards! Really the hardest part of this project is 1) finding the supplies - which hopefully we helped you with and 2) glueing the metal onto your board.


I wasn't impressed with the epoxy but perhaps that is because this was my first time ever using it. I don't know but it didn't spread well over a large surface and having to mix it together and then spred it quicking before it dries is pretty tough. This is what epoxy glue looks like:

I am pretty sure there are tons of adhesives that would work - I'd think E600 would work and I tried liquid nails for one of mine and I liked it better.

In fact it was really cheap to buy one of these huge tubes but you have to have one of these blue contraptions (not sure what they are actually called - anyone?):

After using the liquid nails - all over the board (I was liberal with it) I smoothed it out with my hands and then applied weight. This is what I mean:

I tried some other techniques to dress up my magnet boards so I could make sure they worked and show you the results. A lot of time I hear about things but don't try them out but I did this time. I hope you'll find something you like and I hope you'll share what you learned too...

My friend Anjie told me about this trick awhile back and I wanted to give it a try - it is the Elmer's glue trick. You spread Elmer's glue onto your project and when it is still WET you paint over it. I used acrylic paint. When it dries it crackles.

This is what it looks like when it is dried

Oh, before I did this (I should have done it after!) - I used an antiquing stain - that is fun too. Just rub on and rub off awhile later:

It was my goal to make two --I only finished one though so I'll share my other one next Tuesday. For the second one I made a frame. You just need a miter box like this:

You use it like this to cut mitered corners. Get the real wood molding - I got the fake stuff thinking it would be easier to cut - it wasn't. So learn from my mistake and get the real wood.

The frame will look like this:

Cute huh. I still have to cut this board down so I just put the frame there for now to take the picture.

This is what the miter saw looks like at Lowe's, if you want to buy one. It is right in the tool section by the tin snips. It cost about 8$.

I think everyroom could have a magnet board and the are pretty easy to make - after you get the glue thing figured out and then you get to decorate them. Fun!

I will post pictures of my ALMOST finished project (magnet board 1) later in the day when I can get a good picture. I was up late doing it so I couldn't get any good pictures. It is so cute...stay tuned!

This is the only decent one I got last night and it just doesn't do it justice!

Magnet Boards—Part 1

Yesterday Sizzle showed where to find the materials for projects such as a magnet board. Here's a bit about how we put one together. Sizzle will also post another example later.

We picked up a big board to use as the backing for the galvanized flashing. This is about a 2 foot by 2 foot square. It doesn't really matter what type of wood you use, so we selected the thinnest type so it would be easier to hang.

I, of course, opted to paint it black but wanted somewhat thin coats of paint so we'd still have a slightly rustic and authentic look.

We unwrapped our roll of flashing and measured it against the board. This is a little difficult to work with since it was rolled, plus the edges can be sharp to be careful! We decided to do two strips of the flashing in the middle of the board.

Then we cut. We had some basic cutters and it goes pretty easily. It helps having someone hold the piece so you can readjust the cutters. Our edges were a little rough with this being our first time, so I had to address that later.

The next step is adhesives. We weren't sure how strong of glue we'd need, but for this piece, used Epoxy glue. It holds pretty well but a part of the magnet part didn't have enough adhesive and is slowly coming off. Sizzle will talk about other adhesive options in her magnet board project.

So, I wanted to cover the edges of the magnetic parts just so there would be no accidental cuts or snags on the rough cutting. I choose two thicker ribbons for the horizontal and vertical sides.



To contrast with the black board and ribbons, I wanted to use some bright flower magnets to spice it up. I used some of the bubble magnets and flower magnets I've posted about before. I also have some flowers I pulled off an artificial bunch and just place plain black magnets in the center.

I tried to tie everything together by just printing off some black and white pictures to display. BUT my printer is running out of ink and they came out splotchy and white and blue. Haha. Also, I apologize about the photo quality of the finished board. I can't find my camera cord and resulted to taking a picture with my computer's camera and photo booth program. Angling the screen is such great fun! :P