This was my second 3-D item entry. It is a "message center", with a write-on/wipe-off area, a magnet area, a corkboard area, and a post-it note area. Click on any picture to enlarge it...and sorry in advance for some fuzziness on the pictures, I was in a bit of a rush to get my entries sent off to meet the deadline, so I didn't check to make sure I had every shot clear.
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The "white erase board" area is basically a trimmed down 6x6 page protector. This is a great trick for making alphabet practice pages for kids, by the way, using our ABC sets from the catalog. The background piece of this message center is a white painted metal sign I found at the craft store. It was just begging to be covered with Spring Break Designer Series Paper (DSP). I set aside an area at the top right for magnets, and made my magnets using Build-A-Brads, with the "legs" snipped off, and glued round magnets to the back with Crystal Effects. I used the Stamp-a-ma-jig to line up the letters in the title "MESSAGE CENTER".
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The post-it note area is pretty self-explanatory. The corkboard was cut down from a larger square, and I added Blue Bayou Double Stitched Grosgrain, and some flowers I snipped from other sheets of the DSP. To make the tacks, I once again used Build-A-Brads, but this time crimped the legs in toward each other and left them straight, to stick into the corkboard!
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The board was finished off with Jumbo Eyelets for hanging. The Crop-A-Dile punches holes right through metal, then sets the Jumbo Eyelets perfectly. Blue Bayou Double Stitched Grosgrain was strung through the holes so the board can hang from a tack on the wall. I had to keep an eye on this board until it was packed away to send off for the contest, because my 13 year-old daughter REALLY wanted to keep it for herself! Her birthday is in August, maybe she'll get a personalized gift ;-)