Out Of Necessity Comes Creativity

I love these magnetic boards that Traci at Beneath My Heart made, with Ballard Designs’ version providing her inspiration.  I had seen them in the catalog as well, but am not willing to spend $39.00.  I had printed out her blog post on it and added it to my blog ideas binder.  I wound up doing this project a little sooner than I expected.

Photo courtesy of Ballard Designs

Mine started with a metal reproduction shabby rose advertisement that I had purchased off of eBay some years ago.  It was totally faded and rusted, having been hanging on my shed door.  I checked to make sure, and it is magnetic.  I already had everything I needed to make this, which is always a plus in my book!  Sorry, I forgot to take a picture until I had already did a first coat of white.

I started off by spray painting it with a Krylon white paint.  This is their general paint that says it covers “wood, metal”, etc.  I did two coats of that and then sprayed Heirloom White once that dried.  I’m going to be adding scrapbook paper to the top, but wanted to have a good base color to work with.

I chose this really pretty and whimsical paper to coordinate with my laundry room, since this is where it will be hanging, and Mod Podged that on.  I used a different aged looking yellow paper as a “header”. 

I used these rub-on monogram letters and an embellishment rub-on on the “header”.  The colors in the letters pick up on the colors in the balloons in the paper.

Then to break up the two papers a bit, I added this ribbon with hot glue.  I think it added a nice touch between the two.

Add a simple tie bow to the middle.

Using the existing holes in this piece, I threaded some ribbon through for hanging and just knotted it off.  {Yes, it is crooked}.

Magnets made out of two earrings {see the red gems}.

What is the necessity part, you wonder?  Well, with my daughter and her fiancee in the house now, we need a laundry schedule.  Add in my son, and someone’s laundry always seems to be in the washer or dryer when I go to do mine, and that person is never to be found.

So now we have a schedule, everyone has chosen a day that they can do their laundry from start to finish and not leave anything in either appliance or in the laundry room itself.   I think I can shorten up that piece of paper with the schedule.  Let’s look at this little lovely one more time.

 

In case you want to do this project without having to buy metal at the home improvement store, the dollar store carries decorative metal plaques that would work great for this project. 

Linking up to:

DIY Day at A Soft Place To Land

Be Inspired at Room to Inspire

Make It Yours at My Backyard Eden