{Monogram It: A Memo Board Makeover}

Hey, y'all!  Do you have unloved stuff in your closets just waiting for a makeover?  I have stuff pretty much everywhere waiting for a makeover.  My hoarding tendencies cause me to buy all types of things and store them until I decide to make them over.  It really gets annoying after a while, and I just decide that it's either make it over or throw it out.  I've had a cork board in my closet for a couple of years now.  It was in my craft room before I did the huge craft room makeover.  It didn't make the cut in the new room, and it's just been hanging out in the top of the closet ever since.  This week I decided that it needed a makeover, and I needed a memo board near my computer, so it has now been transformed into a lovely monogrammed memo board.

This is the sad little memo board before.

The first thing I did to the board was tape the middle off so that I could spray paint the wood frame.  I used blue painter's tape and newspaper to cover the entire middle of the board.

I spray painted the frame with Krylon's gold metallic spray paint.  I'm going to skip a few steps now because there was a craft fail in the middle.  We're just going to pretend like it didn't happen.  After the fail, I taped of the frame of the board.

I sprayed the cork part of the board with white spray paint.  Then I cut a monogram from vinyl with my Silhouette.  (You can learn how to create a monogram with your Silhouette in this post.)  Cutting vinyl with my Silhouette is definitely my favorite use for my Silhouette because I can create decals, stencils, and reverse stencils, which is what I used for this project.

I transferred the monogram to the bottom left corner of my memo board.  (I should have used a different color vinyl so that you could see the monogram better, but hopefully you can still see the white on white.)  I taped around the monogram so that I would have a rectangle roughly 1/4 the size of the cork part of the board.

I then sprayed that section with Valspar's spray paint in nautical.  (It's the same spray paint I used for my Thrift Store Lamp Makeover.)  White the paint was still a bit tacky, I removed all the tape and the monogram sticker.  I normally do this to keep the paint from peeling, which can happen sometimes when the paint is completely dry.  I had a few places where the white needed a touch up, so I just used craft paint and a small brush to fix those places.  There was one place where a little of the white spray paint got on the inside edge of the gold frame.  I used a gold Sharpie to correct that.  Then my memo board makeover was complete!

Isn't it fun?  The push pins are simply gold tacks with pieces of my Polymer Clay Faux Agate super glued on.  They pull together all the colors that I used on the memo board.

I'm going to attach the memo board to the inside of my computer armoire that's in the living room.  The board is going to be so helpful, AND it'll be something pretty to look at.

Want to Check Out More Silhouette Projects?

Thirty of my Silhouette Challenge buddies and I are all sharing projects on our blogs today that use our favorite Silhouette supplies, so peruse the projects below for a wealth of Silhouette inspiration!

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Have an awesome Monday!