Looking for that personal touch for your holiday table? This project is perfect for dressing up your table and can also be used as a party favor as well. Anything Chalkboard is still HOT, HOT, HOT this year and will be for some time to come. I love how DecoArt has made so many fabulous options when it comes to chalkboard paint, essentially turning the whole world into your chalkboard canvas. For this project, I decided to stay with the classic black Americana Chalkboard paint to create an elegant napkin rings/place cards out of some mini frame ornaments that I found at Michaels Craft Stores.

This project is perfect for the hectic holiday season. It takes only a few minutes to paint the frame face and then you just have to wait 24-48 hours for the paint to dry & cure and then you are in business. SIMPLE!

Items Needed:

• Mini Frame Ornaments
• Cosmetic Sponges
• Newspaper Or Paper Bag
• Chalk
• Napkin Rings
• Large Glue Dots
• Ribbon (optional)

Instructions:

Before you begin, you need to use some newspaper or a paper bag to protect your work surface.  I typically use a paper sack from the market for my work surface. Gather your frames and remove the face of the frame. Then using your make-up sponge, daub the chalkboard paint onto the place frame face.

TIP: To use the make-up sponge effectively, you need to load the sponge with paint and then daub the excess off on your paper work surface or a paper plate or something of that nature. That way you have an even amount on your sponge.

This Americana Chalkboard Paint dries pretty quick, so what I did was just line up my frame faces and started with one coat of paint, then waited for that to dry. Once it was pretty dry, I added another layer of paint. I did that 3 or 4 times until I had a good coating of paint. This process only takes 15-20 minutes.

Let the paint cure for 24-48 hours and then replace the frame faces in the frames. Then using a Chalk Marker, write the names of your guests onto the face of the frame.

Then using a large glue dot, affix the mini frame to a generic napkin ring. I don’t hot glue or use any other stronger glue because I want to remove the frame from the napkin ring. At the end of

the night, I can add a nice ribbon to the ornament and send it home with my guests as a party favor. How fun is that?

What other fun ways have you found to use chalkboard paint? As far as I am concerned, it’s the perfect way to create some fun personalized gifts for family and friends for the Holidays!