hey guys! it's amy. recently i made this super cute birthday chalkboard for natalie's 1st birthday party. and i was actually inspired by allthese other boards i saw on pinterest and etsy. it's actually really easy tomake and super inexpensive with a black foam board that you can get from the dollarstore and some metallic markers. a lot of people asked me about it so i thought i'd share with you how i made it. so to start off i wanted natalie's nameto be big and bold so i found a font that i liked my computer and printed itout on two separate sheets. the font that i'm using is the one called little bird in 400 point size. arrange the name you printed on your board and then witha pencil, i'm basically going to
trace each letter with a little pressureso that i can see a slight indentation of the letters once i remove the paper.you can also cut out each letter individually, arrange it on your boardand trace around it with a pencil and then with my metallic markers, i'm going to trace theoutline of the letters that i just made and i like to go over everything twicejust to make it extra bold. so as you can see, i first used the silver color to trace the outline of the letters and then i'm going back again with a pink metallic marker totrace the inside of the letters as well as filling in all the empty spaces. youcan do this however way you want this is just what i did
so the rest of this project is prettymuch free handing, but it really helps if before you start to look at otherbirthday boards on pinterest for inspiration and then sketching out a draft. i usually start each section by verylightly drawing out my outline with a pencil and then going over twice withmy metallic markers. here i'm just doing the birthday scroll where you canadd the year you're celebrating. now that i have the top section done i'mgoing to draw the lines to section off the different parts of my board so that ican see how much room i have for each part. you can do as many sections as you wantdepending on what you want to write
about your baby. this can include specialmilestones, favorite foods, first words and of course her height and weight. now you can fill in each section. i like to alternate each phrase between print andcursive fonts to get that cool subway effect. you might want to look at a fewexamples online for different variations and changing up the colors as you go. imade some words small and some words big for variety. there is a right or wrong way to do it so have fun with it some other ideas are adding your baby's favorite toy or the name of her favorite song or any favorite book and lastly go ahead and decorate and add some embellishments to spice up your board. i also drew some simple pictures of some of her favorite things and it really tiedit all together
and that's it i really love how thisturned out it was so fun and so simple to make and i'll probably end up makingone for her every year
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