Tutorial: Clipboard Art & Giveaway Winner

Make A Clipboard Its Own Work Of Art

Hey there peeps. Happy Monday. I hope this finds you well.

If you read yesterday's post, you know I was dabbling in a little paint this weekend. It being a perfectly rainy weekend for crafting, I started with started with some of my driftwood sticks and then moved on to another blank canvas so to speak.  A clipboard. This one was a mini clipboard, but I have larger ones I'll be doing jazzing up (oh man, did I just say jazzing up? now all I can think of is jazz hands!) much in the same way.

What you'll need:

clipboard of any size
smaller craft paint brushes
painters tape
acrylic craft paint in various colors

Now for the easy as pie steps:

Keep in mind that I went over each area a couple of times to get more opaque colors.

Oh yeah, I just said snazzy too. Shazaam!

At this point I added some hand painted embellishments, like dots and dashes wherever I saw fit.

Viola!

Pick out something to feature on your clipboard.....a photo, a piece of art, a souvenir, or what have you, and hang on wall.

Painted clipboard = love.

This was a very easy project and perfect for a Sunday afternoon. I will be doing it again and I see other possibilities for this project.  I'll share when I've had a chance to try them out.

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