Kitchen Chalkboard Made From Clipboard

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  Step 1

  Start with a basic office clipboard. You can buy one new or pick one up a thrift store or yard sale.

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  Step 2

  If you have purchased a new one, stain around the edges and back of the clipboard. You'll be distressing the board in a later step and it looks nice having the darker wood showing through.

  Rub some clear candle wax around the edges that you stained...anywhere that you want the chalkboard paint to distress later on. Whatever is applied over the wax will easily chip away.

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  Step 3

  Using a white Sharpie paint pen, write on "Remember to Buy" or whatever you would like printed on your clipboard. I also drew a line down the sides and along the bottom.

  It may be helpful to first sketch out what you want to write. Then use white carbon paper to trace the design on. All you'll need to do now is write over the tracing with the paint pen.

  When you are done writing, take a fine grit piece of sandpaper and sand along the edges of the clipboard to give the whole piece a slightly worn and distressed look.

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Tom · London, GB · 49 projects 26th November 2014

That looks so great!

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Cristina L. · New York, New York, US · 1 project 24th November 2014

What a great idea! I'm assuming you paint this with chalkboard paint at some point. What brand paint did you use? Also, how did you manage to paint around the clip?

andersonandgrant · Brockway, Pennsylvania, US · 18 projects 26th November 2014

I used Valspar brand chalkboard paint from Lowes. I painted carefully around the clip with a smaller brush, but you could also use painter's tape on the clip to kerp the paint off. To keep the clip fom sticking in the paint underneath, I opened the clip and closed it on a screw with a very small pointed tip. Hope this helps you Christina!

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