I was inspired recently by something that was being sold on etsy.com (if you don't know what this is, go there IMMEDIATELY). It was a cork board covered in fabric and framed by an antique painted frame. Needless to say, it had my name written alllll over it. The more I thought about though, as uncrafty as I am, I figured I could try to make it myself. And that's exactly what I did (with a little help of course).
So, here's the supplies we used:
1. An old frame
2. Off-white spray paint in a satin finish
3. Burlap, which we bought at Hobby Lobby (Beware: this is a dangerous store when you are in a DIY mood). You could also use other fabrics if you wanted a different look.
4. A somewhat heavy duty stapler
5. Cork board.... or cardboard will do really as we quickly discovered that all cork board is nowadays is cardboard covered up with a thin sticky sheet of cork board look-a-like (ahh, what is this world coming to??)
Not pictured: X-acto knife, scissors, marker, some sort of measuring device, little nails, a hammer, and pretty push pins :)
So, basically, it was a fairly simple project (I say this because my partner in crime quite honestly did most of the work). So anyways, we spray painted the old frame earlier on and let it dry. Then we took the frame off the "cork board" and cut it to size. Next we cut a piece of burlap the size of the cork board with about an extra two inches each way.
Then, we laid down the burlap on a table with the cork board over it (upside down) and pulled the fabric taught, one edge at a time, and stapled the burlap to the back of the board (being careful to make sure we weren't stapling into the table, haha). Finally, we laid the board, which was now covered in burlap, into the back of the frame and used 4 small nails to nail it into place in the corners. All that was left to do then was to nail a small nail into the wall in the desired location and hang that bad boy.
And, voila!!
It's a great addition to my new "office" area in the living room.
