Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Turning a $7 Giant Frame Into a Beautiful Chalkboard

I found this framed "Artwork" if you want to call it that at Good will for $7 and I saw it's potential. Something about the frame called to me saying "Amy, please take me home and give me a better life."

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YIKES! This needed my help badly!

I cleaned it up a little first with a dry rag, took it apart, and then sprayed 2 coats of white paint on the frame.

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When I had opened it up, there was a very stiff cardboard backing that I gave 2 coats of black chalkboard paint.

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I was going to leave the frame pure white, but then decided to age it a bit. I first took an ordinary kitchen sponge with the soft sponge on one side and scrubby side on the other and some gold paint.

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I put some paint on the soft side of my sponge and smooshed it together so it soaked into the sponge a little bit.

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Using my sponge I wiped paint onto my frame, and then wiped it right back off again with a clean part of my sponge, that way not too much gold paint stayed on the frame.

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Then I took the scrubby side of my sponge and lightly roughed the frame up a bit.

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When everything dried I just put her back together again and hung her up in her new home in my kitchen, and I think she looks mighty fine if I do say so myself!

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7 comments:

Unknown said...

love it! I found a similar "treasure at my great grandma's house - it was a mirror in a frame it looks like she shabby sheeked and I am going to turn it into a corkboard for the girls room... broken aged mirror replaced with corkboard covered in what else but black and pink fabric to post little thoughts on for the girls... maybe a i can be a guest poster on little pink dollhouse :)

Amy@LittlePinkDollhouse said...

OMG that sounds soooo cute!! You could TOTALLY be a guest poster!! Take pics of the process and write out a description and email it over, and I'll post it up and credit you! Yay, I'm excited to see how it turns out!

Thrifty Decor Chick said...

Absolutely LOVE this!! Your site is great! So I'm so curious now, who was your client that knows me? :) What a small world.

Amy@LittlePinkDollhouse said...

Hey Sarah! Her name is Laura Connell, well was, since she just got married, Laura Guerrero. SO random, and such a small world!

Rachel@ Soiree Design said...

Love this! You did such a good job! I just stumbled across your blog today and I'm lovin' it! Keep it coming!

Amy@LittlePinkDollhouse said...

Thank you so much!

Hollister said...

AMY THAT is SOOO COOL!!