So, decided to make a prettier display for my jewelry. Right now I have a Christmas themed memory board as my holder, and it looks a little ghetto. I've been carting around this blank corkboard for a couple of months in my car and decided to put it to work.
Pretty exciting Sunday night, eh?
Gathered my oh-so-professional paints that you might've seen in my dough ornament post and some varied accoutrements. I'm going to be painting a design right on the cork using any oddly shaped things as stamps, cut up sponges, paper towel tubes pressed into cool shapes, pencil erasers etc. I also used paintbrushes so I didn't go 100% insane trying to get the designs I wanted.
Ignore the reminders I have written on my hand.
To get a perfect circle when I started, I taped down a tupperware lid and painted my first bits around it. Once I take away the lid I'll be able to use the bit I already painted as my guide, working outwards or inwards, depending.
No I do NOT eat cheese directly out of a tupperware. Jeez.
Kinda looks like a monster with lots of eyes and teeth, yes?
I did the same on a few other corners of the board, some of them came out better than others. I didn't really dig the design in the upper right corner, but I'll just put that at the bottom when I put my jewels on it so no one can see :).
Little off center, but no one's gonna give me a score.
It's hard to see, but someone wrote something offensive on the board edge (About school not being super fun, groundbreaking.) So I needed to paint over that too.
This lady weirded me out the whoooole time I did this.
I taped up the cork, making sure the paint was dry all the way.
Still weirding.
Shot it with some spray paint, let it dry. Did a second coat. Let it dry.
Ta-daaaa!
Voila, finished board. Hate to cover it up with my plastic diamonds and discount jewelry, but I have to throw that stuff somewhere.
Aaaand back to looking like crap.
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