Steven and I had been talking about making a chalkboard for quite a while. I finally bit the bullet and purchased chalkboard paint from hobbylobby.com. A few weeks later, we took a trip to Lowes and a craft store and picked up the rest of the supplies:
– Decorative Molding
– Wood Stain
– 24inch x 36inch by 1 inch wood panel
– Chalk
– Wood glue
– Sandpaper
– A paintbrush for the chalkboard paint and one for the stain
– A saw to cut the wood
Here are photos of the process!
1. Cover wood panel (vertical strokes) with chalkboard paint.
2. Let dry for one hour.
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3. In the meantime, we sawed the molding to create a frame.
4. After an hour, we painted chalkboard horizontally with a second coat.
5. While the second coat of chalkboard paint dried, we sanded the edges of the frame.
6. We then stained the frame and allowed to dry for 4 hours.
7. As the 2×3 board dried, it had bowed a bit. Thus, we glued the frame to the board and piled massive amounts of books on top to flatten it out. We let the chalkboard dry overnight.
8. I wanted to create a typographical chalkboard treatment to our headline, “Adventures of Beavins and Puffin.” It took me a good while to work out on paper. Post-comping, I copied onto the chalkboard in chalk
9. The finished product!
the puffin times 