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| This silver painted frame has been kicking around my basement for a while now. I have been wanting to make a vision/inspiration ribbon board for my studio, but I didn't want to go out and buy more "stuff". So this frame got a good scrubbing and about six coats of a creamy white milk paint that I had left over from another project. |
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| I cut a piece of foam core board to fit the inside of the frame and a piece of quilt batting to measure just about 1/2" smaller than that and a piece of a vintage wool blanket to measure 4" larger than the board. You don't want the batting to overlap the board or else it won't fit the frame. |
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| Next I pulled in the corners and held them down with tape. |
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| I then folded in the sides and I stiched up that mitered fold. You could glue it but I didn't want too much glue on the back since I wanted to poke the needle through to hold the buttons. |
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| I did hot glue the ribbon, but only because I was not going to have enough to be too generous with it. I bleached some vintage seam binding to get the color I wanted. |
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| I then carefully poked holes in with this vintage hat pin. EEEK! CAUTION: be mindful of where your hands are when poking. I almost got a poke right thru my hand! |
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| I placed a 1/2" button on the front.. |
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| and a 1/4" button on the back. |
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| then tied a tight couple or knots on the front button. I like to see the cut thread ends. |
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| I am so happy with this... |
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| I absolutely love all the textures going on here. |
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| The finished project! |
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| As you can see it will not take me long to fill this board with inspirations! |
