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    How to Make Fabric Bulletin Boards

    Craft Tutorials, Crafting, Organizing

    Fabric bulletin boards can be expensive, but you can easily and inexpensively make one of your own.

    I’ve been making some changes to my laundry room since my dad built a pedestal for my washer and dryer.

    I showed off some of those changes last month, in my laundry room makeover post. In that, I mentioned that I had a creative idea for covering up the electrical panel in the laundry room.

    Well, it’s taken me a month to finish that little project, and my plans changed.

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    Fabric bulletin boards can be expensive, but you can easily and inexpensively make one of your own using this tutorial.

    Originally, I had planned to make a fabric covered metal bulletin board using sheeting metal, inspired by something I saw on A little of this, a little of that. Easier imagined than done. I couldn’t find cheap-o joist sheeting at my local hardware store, or at least not in a 36-inch length, which is what I needed to cover the electrical panel in my laundry room. I know you can find fabric bulletin boards in stores and catalogs, but they can be very expensive.

    So the project was put on hold.

    Until two serendipitous things happened. I was reading my friend Suzy’s blog, Worthing Court, one day and saw how she’d transformed a plain bulletin board with fabric. Then, just a few days later I nabbed a brand new bulletin board at a yard sale for 50 cents!

    Atta Girl Says: How to Make a Fabric Bulletin Board. Fabric bulletin boards can be expensive, but you can easily and inexpensively make one of your own using this tutorial.

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    As luck would have it, the yard sale bulletin board was 36 inches long — perfect for my space. (My bulletin board is similar to this one on Amazon.)

    Fabric bulletin boards can be expensive, but you can easily and inexpensively make one of your own using this tutorial.

    As luck would have it, I also had some pretty cotton fabric, purchased on a whim at JoAnn’s a few months ago. It was the perfect choice to add  some color and brightness to my laundry room. And a project was born:

    Fabric bulletin boards can be expensive, but you can easily and inexpensively make one of your own.

    Because the fabric has a white background, I used white spray paint primer on the bulletin board. I didn’t care about coating it completely, but I did want to knock down the color a bit so you wouldn’t be able to see the cork underneath the fabric.

    Next, I painted the frame in CeCe Caldwell chalk paint in Blue Montana Sky. I had just enough left in my sample jar to give the bulletin board frame two coats.

    Fabric bulletin boards can be expensive, but you can easily and inexpensively make one of your own.

    Next, I ironed my fabric and cut it slightly larger than the bulletin board. I affixed it to the cork using spray adhesive, being careful to smooth out any wrinkles.

    Fabric bulletin boards can be expensive, but you can easily and inexpensively make one of your own.

    I used my rotary cutter to trim the excess fabric.

    Fabric bulletin boards can be expensive, but you can easily and inexpensively make one of your own.

    Next step: choosing the trim to cover the cut edges. I tried many different colors of ribbon, trim and even some twisted nylon clothes line cording.

    Fabric bulletin boards can be expensive, but you can easily and inexpensively make one of your own.

    I finally settled on a combination of a blue crocheted trim from Pick Your Plum and a yellow pom-pom trim from Stampin’ Up. The blue trim was self-adhestive, which made it really easy to apply. I hot glued the tiny yellow pom-pom trim on top of it and didn’t burn my fingers once. Miracle. The exact pom pom trim I used is no longer available, but you’ll find lots of cute options here.

    Here’s a closeup of the trim:

    Fabric bulletin boards can be expensive, but you can easily and inexpensively make one of your own.

    The finished project looks pretty hanging in my laundry room. And it’s easily removable should we need to access the electrical panel. Now, I just need to work on filling it up with important papers and keepsakes and artwork. The next time I show you the laundry room, I’m sure it will look much different than this!

    Fabric bulletin boards can be expensive, but you can easily and inexpensively make one of your own.

    Here’s another bulletin board project:

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    1. 17 Amazing And Easy No-Sew Projects For Your Home - Worthing Court says:
      June 9, 2014 at 7:20 AM

      […] used a pretty fabric to make a No-Sew Fabric Covered Bulletin Board.  Choose a fabric that coordinates with the colors in your own […]

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