Hi everyone! It’s Kathy today with a fun tutorial to create a dry erase board. I can’t believe we are almost back to school, this summer has flown by! I thought that this project would be perfect for the inside of a locker, or on a dorm room door! It was really easy to put together… check it out…
I started by enlarging one of the tags from Lori’s 4 Basic Tags File (here in Silhouette Store). I made sure it was narrow enough to fit into a school locker. I also used pieces from Lori’s A2 Shaped Card Butterfly (here in Silhouette Store ) & A2 Shaped Card Flower ( here in Silhouette Store ) as embellishments to my board.
Next I adhered all of the pieces together…
I placed the whole project into a laminating sleeve. which I then ran through my laminator. If you do not have a laminator, you can bring your project to a nearby office supply store. Most have laminating services.
I trimmed the excess laminate, leaving about 1/8″ around the edge.
To finish the board, I added some Velcro to hold the dry erase pen to the board, and a ribbon to hang the board.
The board cleans off easily with a dry cloth! The fun part is you can customize the board using different shapes and colors…it could be used for boys or girls!
That’s it for me today, thanks so much for stopping by!
Love this. I’m going to make the ne for my grocery list. I think that as it’s laminated card I will be able to grab it to take to the store and then put back on the fridge when I come home. I won’t lose it like a piece of paper or have to transcribe the list on to paper as I do when using a white or chalk board shopping list. Thanks for the inspiration!
Wow! This would make great college dorm gifts for my nieces. I don’t have the silhouette, can I buy the same file and use on the Cricut explorer? Thank you for all of your creativity and inspiration.
Thanks
Jennifer
I love this project!!!!! I also love the paper you used!!! What is the name of the paper? Thanks again!!
Thank you everyone! I answered the questions via email but in case others had the same questions: I’m pretty sure you can use SVG files with the Cricut Explore. Svgs for the files I used are available in Lori’s store and are linked in my post. The paper collection is ColorChaos by Bella Blvd. thanks for your sweet comments!!
Such an adorable project and great idea! 🙂
Where do you buy the dry erase board/