Chalkboard Placecards
As planned I took a trip to Hobby Crafts on Saturday to buy everything I needed to experiment with my chalkboard heart placecards.
I bought a pack of 17 wooden hearts for £2.69 and a can of chalkboard spray paint for £8. The whole project should cost me about £20
My chalkboard placecard kit
I took all the bits outside and made sure I covered the area I was going to work on well. Each wooden heart is about 4.5cm by 4cm so it doesn’t take much to fully coat it. This is what it looks like after 1 coat
Although it was still a little wet here, I think it will need at least two coats as you can still see the wood grain and I’d like it to look a little smoother.
Before I spray the rest of the hearts I’m going to drill a small hole so I can attach a piece of jute twine. They really shouldn’t take very long to do, I can cover about 20 in one go with the spray can, it’s now just a case of buying around 68 more hearts and hoping for good weather!
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July 27th, 2010 at 10:09 am
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