Come Craft With Us!!!

We are so excited about our Online Craft Group

Wood You Like To Craft?

I think many of you might be hesitant to come and join or

even to see what this is about.

So today we are trying to not only Invite,

but to Entice and Encourage.

(those are some of our Mom's best advice tips, useful to just about any situation!)

So today we are INVITING you, yes YOU to come join us!

We are going to ENTICE you with a quick tutorial of our project

and each month there is a Prize for the top project!

and then ENCOURAGE you

to be inspired and show off all the crazy talent you have!

We enjoyed seeing what Melinda, Krystal and Wendy did
and how different each project was!

Pretty fun right?

So here's what we came up with!

We love bead board so we both started with a 15" x 15" square of heavy duty (1/4") board. 

Well, actually it was a little bit bigger until the squirrel got her little teeth on it so it was shrunk a bit.....

Home Depot is so great to make cuts for those of you too nervous to use a table saw.

We then took some metal roof flashing, cut it into a square

with metal snips, to fit the frame dimensions. 

Remember how we raved about those metal snips last year?

We couldn't find a frame size we wanted so we cut out some pretty trim work with the miter saw at 45 degree angles to make a square and then glued them directly to the board and inlaid the metal flashing.

Nicole used the fun tile font but a slightly different shape of what Melinda used, instead of trim work. 

Then attached the metal with spray painted upholstery tacks.

We liked the idea of the metal so that we could use magnets

to attach anything we wanted.

We are really into seasonal crafts and loved the idea of being able

to switch it out every month.

Nicole made up little shapes for each month

that she cut out of wood and covered with all her paper scraps,

attaching little magnets on the backs.

 

Candace made up some more 3-D pieces like this adorable bird nest

with it's "welcome spring" sign!

She covered her metal with scrapbook paper using glue dots on the corners

so that she could switch them out with fun papers throughout the different seasons.

Candace also then using 1" x 2" pine, framed out her bead board

using those 45 degree miter cuts again.

She then hung it from a beautiful oil rubbed bronze chain and knob.
The knob really dresses the whole thing up hanging by her front door.

Her fun butterfly magnets were a perfect touch!

So Please come join us!

We can't wait to see what you can do!

The linky party will be going strong until next Saturday night

for your Wood Crafts!