Keeping My Cents ¢¢¢: Chalkboard Art Tutorial

Here is my Halloween chalkboard. It's a little busy for my taste...but it's only going to be up for a few weeks so I can live with it. The design is Lindsay Letters. I love all of her stuff and now you can buy some of her work at Hobby Lobby!

BTW This is how I do all my chalkboards. I start with finding a design I like, then resize it and touch it up a little or a lot depending on the image quality I have in Photoshop, size it to 8 1/2 x 11, and have it printed at an office supply store on a transparency for .75 cents.

Here it is on my old school over head projector I bought off of Craigslist. You can see the art work on the transparency isn't the best. And it doesn't have to be. All you need is the basic outline to draw on the board. I just use regular o'l chalk you can get at Walmart or the Dollar Tree. I tried dustless chalk you can get at Hobby Lobby but would advise against it because it scratched my board and doesn't go on very smooth.

Here is my dog photo bombing as I'm trying to show you the image projected up on the board from the overhead. She loves the projector. She literally runs to me and waits for me to plug it in. It's her favorite craft machine because its puts out heat like a heater. She's crazy. My kids were literally swimming this week it's still so hot here in Texas. It should be called Hot-ober instead of October.