It is super nice of Jax to let me steal her blog for the day, isn't it? I'm absolutely honored.
I guess maybe I should say a little something about my self. I'm Marcia, sometimes antknit. Most often I crochet, but I used to knit exclusively (hence the blog name). I now rarely knit and have even branched out into other crafts. My favorite things to crochet are toys for all of my favorite young people, and I have many! I'm mom to four girls (ages 6 to 13), aunt to more than 30 kids and spoiler of many more. My two favorite toys I've ever made are a giraffe and an octopus.
I don't suppose I'm like most of the other crafters out there in blogland. I mostly fake it and Because my decorating theme of this room seems to be leaning in the direction of "a dumped out box of crayons" I chose a nice, bright purple (in honor of the friend from whom I got the idea for the tissue paper part that is coming up, it's her favorite color). Supplies needed (in addition to the board): mod podge, spray paint & plain ol' tissue paper for gift wrapping (I got mine at the dollar store).
One of my daughters and I tore a couple of sheets of tissue into rectangles, I'm guessing 8x5 or so. It is not exact. Nothing I do ever is. The next step was to paint the mod podge, a little at a time, and covering with the paper, wrinkling as you go.
like this:and you end up with it looking something like this:
I removed the paper hanging off of the edges, tearing the bigger parts and using a razor blade for finish and covered the entire center with pages torn from one of the million phone books that we keep getting (who uses them anymore anyway?). I then took it outside and leaned it against the girls' tricky bar. I figured the grass underneath can get cut so it didn't matter if it got painted a little.
We removed the paper and that's it! Unfortunately for me, the girls have been making their own youtube videos (yikes!) and were using my fancy, new board for something-or-other so when I went to take it's final picture I could not find either the cute magnets I had made to go on it (hot glue, flat marble-like colored glass & round magnets) or my camera. So I had to use my cell phone. Not the best but oh well.
That is so cool how you gave it the little texture! What a neat idea. Hey, thanks for stoppin by today and leavin' me some love. I think you're pretty amazing too!
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Thanks Jennie, but I can't take any credit for this magnet board! It's a swap from Marcia at Ant Knit! You should check out her blog it's great!
ReplyDeleteHey I wasn't sure if I should put this comment your blog, or hers where you guest posted at...anywho....how about a pattern or tute on those cute crocheted flowers? (LOVE them on the cards :))
ReplyDeleteI totally would Susie but my mom made them! I have no idea how to crochet! You'll have to hit up marcia at antknit!
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