Monday, September 21, 2009

Creative Cats and "To Do" Boards

I'm totally jumping the gun and starting Creative Cats way early tonight! Welcome to Creative show and tell on Poppies at Play!! Anyone want to go first....anyone......anyone....OK, fine! I'll go first then. Today I'm making a "to do" board. I bought a package of cork squares at Walmart today and started by painting a picture on them.
For one of them I made a bird stencil and for the other I grabbed some different circle stamps.


After getting them all painted I set them down on a board to figure out what size of back I would need.

The Joe cut me a couple boards(thanks honey) and I routed the edges and drilled a couple of holes for hanging. After painting both boards white it was time to glue on the cork squares. I wasn't sure if spray adhesive or E-6000 would be better...so I used both. Better safe than sorry. I added a little vinyl "to do" but you can just as easily use a stamp or stencil.
That was a super easy and fun little project. The package of 5 cork squares was under $6. You can also decorate a couple of push pins by chopping a dowel and painting and glueing them to the back of a tack.

Alrighty-oh-.....now it's your turn!
What have you got for us today?? If you are a newbee to Creative Cats here's how it works....link up something Creative that YOU have done....recipes, tutorials, decorating ideas, kids crafts, we are not picky over her at Poppies. You can link up a blog post or email me a pic or two if you don't have a blog. After linking grab yourself a Creative Cat's button from my sidebar and add it to yours! That's all there is to it. Have fun visiting all of the links and make sure and leave comments to let them know how cool they are.

Have a happy and creative Tuesday!!

20 comments:

  1. those are really cute! I just picked up two of these at a yard sale last week for 10 cents!
    thanks for hosting!
    gail

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  2. Sorry I forgot to name my project when I signed up...oops! Great job on the boards! I can't wait to share with you how I was inspired by your menu board to make my own...will share soon! Thanks so much for hosting this fun party!

    Happy Tuesday!
    ~Michelle :)

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  3. Ok - somehow when I linked and commented it ended up on your last week post?? My Linky is being Mr. Stinky. lol ;) sorry for the double post!

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  4. How many cute ideas can one person come up with??
    Very cute! Love the polka dots!!

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  5. Now how creative is that. Love it.

    Gail

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  6. I love the Weepies! :)

    And I also love the To Do Boards...do you make them in super-duper JUMBO size? My to-do list is always a mile long! :)

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  7. Sorry, 14 was a no-go. 15 is right.
    Thanks!

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  8. love LOVE those boards! I'm on my way to go put CREATIVE CAT LOGO on my posts!
    Linds

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  9. oooo :) I really like those! Especially the dots.

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  10. ANDY...(said in motherly voice) You CAN go without washing your hair. I know you can. Go here:

    http://cuegly.blogspot.com/2009/09/beauty-tip-tuesday.html

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  11. I LOVE the idea of painting a pattern on the cork - it looks so cute!

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  12. Cute idea!

    I just love how versatile cork is AND it's come a long way since I had it on my bedroom wall as a kid. I had that chunky-style dark brown kind that smelled like old tires! YUCK!

    Happy Fall!

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  13. What a cute project. They came out really nice. :)

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  14. Hmm I'll be sure to enter next time for the creative ideas..all very good!

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  15. I love them! They're sooo cute and functional. You always have the best ideas. Love your site!

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  16. love all the projects. fun to see your site grow in popularity!

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  17. I know I am a day late... but I can still play right?!?!

    WOW! lots of links today! : )

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  18. Have I ever told you that I am in love with your blog? Well, I am!! (Don't worry, I'm not a psycho!) I just linked up with Creative Cat for the first time!! Thanks for all of the inspiration :)

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  19. I love these! I just saw some cork boards at the $ store the other day... I may have to go pick one up!

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~Andy