DIY Love Note Board

I saw this floating around Pinterest and I instantly fell in love with it. Such a sweet reminder of why you love someone. This week has been especially rough with my boyfriend and me. He works everyday and I've been working every night in order to make enough for bills and today is the first day I'm off in about a week so we're excited to spend it together. But seeing each other only when he leaves for work and when I come home from work really stinks. Plus I've just been extremely hormonal (thanks pregnancy), so it just hasn't been the best week. So I finally got around to making this love note dry erase board and I can't wait for Jon to get home from work to see it. :)

Here is the finished product! I have it on a cute little half table we have right in the front room so it's easy to see. :) It was extremely easy, as well! The hardest part was designing the font, but only because I'm so damn picky!

Here are the supplies I started out with: a 5x7 frame (although I've seen it made in an 8x10 frame, I just thought that was too big), a piece of scrapbook paper (I was so excited I found a piece of 8.5x11 scrapbook paper that I liked that could fit right into the printer!), and a bow. I was going to buy some ribbon and just make a couple of bows, but then I saw this one and took the lazy way out. :)

After taking at least an hour to design my font, and printing it out several times onto regular printer paper until I figured out how to get it to print perfectly, I finally printed it onto the scrapbook paper. I took the glass out of the frame and place it on top exactly where I wanted the words to be and then just cut around the glass to make it easy.

You can see my reflection in like all of these pictures. :P

I was going to put the bow on the upper left hand corner, but then realized that it needed to stick onto something flat, and the frame corner is definitely not flat. So I just stuck it onto the glass in the upper right hand corner! I like it even better there!

Here is the finished product with my cute little message on it. :) I love it!

This project was extremely easy and you can do it in much less than an hour, depending on how picky you are about your font!

Supplies Needed:

• A 5x7 picture frame
• A piece of pretty scrapbook paper
• A bow or ribbon to make a bow
• A dry erase (or Vis-A-Vis) marker

Directions:

• First, design your font on the computer. I just used a version of Paint that I downloaded for my Macbook to fix the fonts how I wanted them, but Microsoft Word, InDesign, or really anything would work!
• I would suggest printing out a couple test runs before printing it right on your scrapbook paper just to make sure you get it exactly right and exactly where you want it on the paper!
• Then print it onto the scrapbook paper and cut the scrapbook paper to fit into your frame.
• Put the frame and everything together and then decorate with your bow(s)!
• Write a cute message on it and display somewhere that it will be seen!

Total Project Cost:

• Scrapbook paper: $1.99
• Bow: $1.29
• Frame: $4.19 (was originally $6.99 but I used a 40% off coupon I had on my phone. I am still amazed that they can scan the coupons right off your phone! I love Michael's!)
• Dry Erase Pen: free because I used one I already had from another dry erase board
• Total: My Michael's receipt says $8.10, but that's including taxes and everything. :) I don't feel like adding it up differently!

Now get to work and let your loved ones know that you love them! :)