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How To Personalize A Cutting Board (Great Housewarming Gift)
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How To Personalize A Cutting Board (Great Housewarming Gift)

by Jill October 23, 2014
written by Jill

We are in the thick of the moving/buying/selling chaos. Everything is up in the air right now, and it’s so stressful. Honestly, it makes me really happy we didn’t try to do this last year with a newborn, like the original plan was.

While we’re in the process of all of this, we got some new neighbors. They are a lovely young family, with a toddler and another baby on the way literally any day now. I just… I can’t imagine the stress THEY must be going through.

So while we won’t be their neighbors for long (HOPEFULLY), I still wanted to do something to welcome them. After my husband and I both stopped by to introduce ourselves, offer up any tools they need, and let them know we’d happily haul away any empty boxes they have, I put together a little basket of goodies for them.

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I was inspired to personalize a wood cutting board by this pin I ran across a couple weeks ago.

I have a simple wood-burning tool that I purchased to make a Father’s Day gift this year, and it’s (figuratively) burning a hole in my craft closet, begging me to use it more.

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It’s the Creative Versa-Tool, and you can get it from Amazon for less than $25. 

I purchased the cutting board from Target for $12, but any wood cutting board will do the trick.

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The only other stuff you need is Graphite Paper (transfer paper), which you can find at any craft store. And you’ll also need to create the design you want on the board.

I made a simple circular design in Photoshop Elements (using the text on shape tool) with their new home address- blurred out a bit here for obvious reasons. Then used a contrasting font to type Welcome Home in the center.

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Cut a piece of transfer paper just big enough to fit under your design (then store the rest for later projects because that stuff ain’t cheap). Tape both pieces down with low tack tape (like masking tape or painters tape), and trace over your design with a soft pencil.

Once you remove the papers, the design will be traced onto your board, and you can go over it with your wood burner.

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Admittedly, my wood-burning skills need work, but I was happy with the finished result.

SUPER EASY personalized housewarming gift- babyrabies.com

I put it in a basket (from the Dollar Section at Target) and included a couple of my favorite Mrs Meyers products, some flour sack towels, and a ball and bubbles for their toddler.

It only took me about an hour to complete this, design to finish.

Did your neighbors do anything to welcome you to your neighborhood? Have you done anything similar? I’d love to hear more ideas

October 23, 2014 4 comments
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“Helping Hands” DIY Handprint Gift
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“Helping Hands” DIY Handprint Gift

by Jill June 13, 2014
written by Jill

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Fathers Day is less than 48 hours away, so naturally I just finished the DIY project with the kids I’ve been planning on making for weeks.

Procrastination, why can’t I quit you?

The theme for this year’s Fathers Day is Operation Garage Clean Up. I know that sounds horrible, but Scott is so practical, and that space is where he does so much that I am pretty sure he’ll love the garage floor coating epoxy kit we got him and this “Helping Hands” shelf the kids helped me make.

Here’s what you need:

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A shelf with space big enough for your kids’ handprints. I got this one at Hobby Lobby. It has a removable panel that came in handy. I think it’s regularly priced about $16. Don’t forget to install their app and access their 50% off coupon in store (or print it off at home).

Paint. I chose a can of spray paint because it’s just so dang easy.

A Versa Tool for wood burning. This is optional, and you can choose to use something like a Sharpie if you want. If you decide to go the wood burning route, though, you can get this at Michaels (and probably Hobby Lobby). Again, don’t forget to try to use a coupon on it. I used at 50% off coupon at Michaels, making it $15.

First, I took the panel out, and spray-painted the shelf in the garage.

While that was drying, I traced the kids hands onto the wood panel that was removable. I also had Kendall sign his name on the back, and I wrote Leyna and Lowell’s names on the back, along with the date.

Next, I used the flow point of the Versa Tool to go over the handprints and the writing on the back of the panel. Super, duper easy.

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The shelf dried really fast because spray paint is so awesome like that. So I was able to use the Versa Tool and the same flow point to write “Daddy’s Helping Hands” on the top of the shelf.

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Finally, I popped the panel back into the shelf.

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Keep in mind you can use this idea for all kinds of objects. While this is intended for Scott to hang tool belts and other things from in the garage, you could easily adapt this to a kitchen shelf if the recipient is a cook, or a bookshelf for the home office.

It’s hard to come up with cute, sentimental gifts that are also practical for my very practical husband, but I think this might be a home run.

 

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