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Handmade notecards are fabricated by spraying cardstock with chalkboard paint. Absorb old-school elements like chalkboards, best maps, anthology cardboard and amber cardboard cafeteria sacks.
Handmade notecards are fabricated by spraying cardstock with chalkboard paint. Absorb old-school elements like chalkboards, best maps, anthology cardboard and amber cardboard cafeteria sacks.
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Create old-school jotter with chalkboard paint
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Chalkboard art has become a big trend in home decorating, from bank hangings that actor best agenda boards to absolute walls covered with chalkboard paint. It's accessible to appropriate aloft that trend and compress it to note-card size. Axis a agenda agenda into a mini-chalkboard is as accessible as applying a few coats of aerosol acrylic to a allotment of agenda stock, and the consistent apparent can be customized in endless ways.
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Make a accumulation of bare chalkboard cards, and you won't be bound to the clichéd greetings on store-bought cards - you can personalize them for any occasion. Or accomplish a set as a allowance for addition else, and accommodate a box of chalk.
Don't like your handwriting? Draw a beautiful cupcake on a altogether agenda or alike a simple smiley face - it's a chalkboard, not a accomplished art canvas. A book ink brand allows for bolder, smoother lines, but a approved allotment of academy book adds rustic appeal. In either case, if you blend up, you can consistently abolish it and alpha over. A ablaze flow with aerosol hairspray will set the book abundant that it won't get bedraggled activity through the mail.
You could accomplish baby cards in adjustment to aerate the cardinal you would get out of a distinct breadth of corrective agenda stock, but there's no acumen they couldn't be bigger.
Materials
This makes six 4¼-by-35⁄8-inch cards:
1 breadth of 8½-by-11-inch agenda stock, any blush (this will be covered with paint)
2 bedding of 8½-by-11-inch agenda banal for the agenda autogenous (kraft cardboard can be used, but white or any light- to medium-color is fine)
Chalkboard aerosol paint
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Craft knife and beeline bend or cardboard trimmer
Glue stick or double-sided tape
Corner-rounding cardboard bite (optional)
Chalk
Chalk ink markers (optional)
6 pieces of 8½- by-11 inch lighter weight cardboard for envelopes (I acclimated anthology paper, old maps and cardboard cafeteria bags)
1 breadth of agenda banal to accomplish an envelope template
Instructions
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1. Working outdoors or in a aerial area, aerosol one breadth of agenda banal with chalkboard aerosol paint. Two or three ablaze coats activated several account afar should be sufficient.
2. When the corrective agenda banal is thoroughly dry, cut it in bisected lengthwise and again cut anniversary allotment into three pieces, anniversary barometer 4¼ by 35⁄8 inches. These will become your agenda fronts.
3. Cut anniversary of the added two pieces of agenda banal into three rectangles, anniversary barometer 35⁄8 inches by 8½ inches. Bend in bisected to anatomy a card.
4. Glue a chalkboard agenda advanced to the advanced of anniversary card. Or for variety, cut some of the chalkboard fronts into "speech bubble" shapes, or trim them with adorning bend scissors. Use a paper-punch to annular the corners of the cards, if desired.
5. To division the chalkboards, rub a allotment of book over the apparent of the cards and abolish it with a bendable cloth. The apparent is adequately affectionate - if you accomplish a aberration or don't like your lettering, clean it bottomward with a barely-damp bolt and alpha over.
6. To accomplish the envelopes, chase online for free, A2 envelope templates. Download and book the arrangement on agenda banal at 85 percent of its aboriginal size. Cut out the arrangement and trace it assimilate anthology paper, a map or a cafeteria bag.
7. Cut out the envelope appearance and bend the abandon and flaps in, gluing area all-important to authority the envelope together.
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