Give your organized Mom some cute and useful container labels. The best part of this gift is that she can write whatever she wants on the chalkboard and erase it easily.
Designed by: Grace Tolman
Time: Approximately 45 minutes
Level: Moderate Handiness
Size: 4 ¼" x 3”
Here's what you need:
- Advanced Strength Dots™
- Ultra-thin Dots
- Americana® Chalkboard Paint
- Label die- Spellbinders® Nestabilities Labels Eight dies
- Cricut Cuttlebug® Die Cut Machine
- Scissors
- Crayola® Chalk
- Thin Cardboard
- Pattern papers- I used Lawn Fawn® Let’s Polka in the Meadow
- Ribbon
- Wood shapes
Here's what you do:
Paint the wood shapes with chalkboard paint, making sure to paint the sides as well. Set aside to dry.
Die cut thick cardboard and pattern papers with the desired size of label die. Make as many as you need/want.
Adhere your one of your die cut papers over a piece of cardboard using Ultra-thin Dots. Adding the cardboard to the paper makes this label sturdy for everyday use.
Cut a few strips of ribbon about 8” long. Loop a piece of ribbon and add it to the back side of one of the labels using Advanced Strength Dots.
Adhere the dried chalkboard wood shapes to the centers of the labels with more Advanced Strength Dots.
Option: You can skip the ribbon and add Advanced Strength Dots to the back to adhere the label to a box or basket.
~ Grace
I’m a mom to a 10 year old boy and an 8 year old girl. Therefore my life is usually filled with learning, new discovery, bribery and driving to and from all of our activities. I have a loving and very supportive husband of 11 years. When the kids have gone to bed at night, my time is spent crafting while catching up on my favorite shows and movies. I also enjoy reading, window shopping, knitting and perusing blogs for inspirations. Three years ago we moved to Colorado from California and we are enjoying our new environment. I feel very inspired with my new home, my new scrapbook space and the mountain views. Although I’ve been doing some type of scrapbooking since grade school, I only started to scrapbook seriously after my son was born. When he was born I knew I would be staying at home with him but coming from a fast paced sales job I was afraid I would ran out of things to do during the day. Little did I know that with newborns you won’t have any time to do anything else. Anyways, after going through a basic scrapbooking class I was hooked and haven’t stopped scrapping since.