Lately, I’ve found that there is too much purple in my craft room.  Geez, I never thought I’d ever say that.  I’ve found that by having color in the room, it distracts me when I’m creating.  I’ve been slowly changing the items that are colored & replacing them with white.  Here’s one of the first projects that I changed.

When I started to decorate my craft room, I was adding touches of purple & lilac everywhere.  One of the first projects was to decorate memo boards.  I’m a very visual person & I like to have my sketches & swatches for projects where I can see them.  To see how I changed a plain wood & cork Walmart memo board into the purple one, go here.

To change it, first I removed the lilac fabric & then painted the frame using white acrylic paint.  It took 2 coats.  When the paint had dried, I added some white brocade fabric.  (have to have my roses)

I reused the silver ribbon to hold the fabric in place using push pins pressed into the cork side.  First I made a crisscross design with the ribbon.

Then I added ribbon in a diamond shape.

I could have used plain white push pins to do this, but that’s just not me.  I needed to add a little something to them.  I painted them with silver glitter acrylic paint.  When that dried, I added a coat of silver hologram glitter nail polish.  Just enough sparkle without going over the edge.

   

I added some cream pearl trim to the frame with hot glue.

Then I added a bow to the top center of the frame.

And some bows with trailing tails to the corners of the frame.

The bows looked a little plain, so I added some pretty buttons to the bows.

Since I used the buttons on the bows, I decided to make some button magnets.  I gathered up my pearl & glass buttons & chose some of my favorites.

I used a 1″ circle punch to make the base of the magnets from some left over poster board.

Then I glued some round magnets to the circles.

I turned the magnet over & began to stack buttons on to the poster board circles using hot glue.

I had some magnetic pencil/pen holders that I’d used on the purple version of the memo board.  I wanted to use them on this board, but the color was more than I could handle.  Using white acrylic paint & a lot of patients, I painted them white.

   

I decorated the pen holder to match my craft caddy.

To see how I made the craft caddy out of empty Crystal Light containers, go here.

    

The finished Shabby Chic Memo Board:

What a difference a little paint & fabric can make.

I liked it so much that I decided to change the large memo board, too!

Before

After (holding some of my current project pieces)

Happy Creating everyone!

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