Some boards I've made

I realized that I don't have any of the bulletin boards that I have made in our store. These boards have all been special order, so I don't have a stock of them (yet... Thanksgiving break is coming soon!) but I wanted to post some pictures of some recent boards that I have made.



If you are interested in buying a board, send me an e-mail at imperfectcrafters@gmail.com. We can chat and decide what size, colors and patterns you'd like.

Thanks for checking in!

Boards, clips, and tacks! Oh my!

I made this board for my friend, Jennifer at work. She works in our school office, so a lot of people have seen it and I'm getting requests to make more. I freakin' love the paisley print of the fabric, her's turned out way cuter than mine and I'm a little jealous!



Another teacher had a cork board in her room, but wanted it dressed up. Don't mind the squigglies all over her name, that's not art, that's me not being sure if she wants her name blasted all over the internet.


Then I made a hair bow holder for a little girl I know. Her mom told me she likes zebra print and hot pink, so zebra print and hot pink she got.

(My arm costs extra)

And since I was making a bow holder, I had to figure out how to make bows, these are a few of the ones that I made last night.

The tails on the bottom one would have been longer, but when I was using my lighter to seal the ribbon edges, the whole thing started to burn up. Oops! Still pretty cute anyway!

And last, but not least, the tack making has gone overboard! We recently took a 6 hour each way car trip and came back the next day, so I was busy punching out circles to make tacks and magnets. (obviously, I was the passenger, not the driver)


This really isn't even all of the ones I have, there are others that are in different stages of completion.

Teacher's Cork Board

I never make crafty things for my classroom, but I've got a new name and a new class mascot. We're the Monkeys this year, so I made myself a cork board ($3.99 from goodwill).







Also, I'd just like to add that the glass bead tacks are incredibly easy to make. I made about 100 of them this evening. I was curious how other people were attaching the tacks to the back so I did a google search and found an online shop selling them for $1.00 - $2.00 a piece! WOW! So, I figure I will be able to retire from teaching if I just keep making these cute little guys.




If you'd like some, let me know, I promise I'll give you a better rate than $1 each :)

Another board

Here is another board I made. I found it at goodwill for a whopping $3. It had this beauty of a picture in the top section.

I know, I love me some crackle painted roses too. But, I mod podged over it with some fancy looking scrapbook paper. It already had a cork board in the bottom, so that was helpful.

Spray painted the frame, then the wind blew my newspaper on top of the frame and I cursed a bit, then AJ dropped his tennis ball in the wet paint, again with the language... At this point I decided Ah-ha! I will "distress" the frame - code, I'm not going to repaint this bad boy, I will just sand off the spots that look like crap.

So here it is... in our bathroom
don't pay attention to the water spot stains on the wall - we still have builder's flat paint in there.




Now you may ask, why would you put a bulletin board in your bathroom - well, I'm the most forgetful person in the world. So I tend to forget things like "go to work in the morning" or "it is awards day for your kindergarteners, so don't dress like a slob and for god's sake, brush your hair."

Bulletin Boards

Well, while cleaning out our garage for the third time in the year that we have lived here, I found an old cork board that I had gotten from Big Lots for $2. I have almost gotten rid of this thing at least 100 times, but I finally found a use for it. Covered it in cute material, painted the frame, added some ribbon and viola! Well damn if I didn't get inspired then! John's company just got a new office and I thought the only woman of the company needed something cute like this in her life. I went to Goodwill, found a $3 frame, sanded and spray painted it etc. I just spray painted some upholstery tacks for mine, but wanted to spice it up a bit this time around. I got some of those flat bottom glass marbles (the ones you put in your beta vase) used a 1/2 inch round hole punch and cut some cute papers out. Then mod podged them to the bottoms, and gorilla glued on a tack. I ended up making about 65 of these tacks because it was just too freakin' cute when you put the marble over the image it magnifies it and makes everything look cuter! What can I say? I'm easily impressed.


Anyway... after all the tacks, I went back to the project at hand and finished up the board I was working on. I'm going to add some 1 1/2 inch red ribbon to the back and tie it in a bow for hanging purposes, but I haven't found the right shade of red just yet. Tomorrow will be another trip to Joann's, Michael's and the devil itself: Hobby Lobby...

The overall board.

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