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Hi, I'm Courtney from Creative Bug, and I'm going to show you how to make

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some fun and inexpensive wall decor.

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We're going to do a personalized bulletin board.

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I'll show you how to paint it and add some cute little accents with thumb tacks.

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The materials you're going to need for this project

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are a cork board panel or some kind of bulletin board.

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If it has a frame, that will work too.

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Acrylic craft paint in your pop color—I'm using metallic gold.

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You'll need artist tape, a hot glue gun,

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scissors, an extra glue stick just in case,

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some kind of ribbon or cording to hang your board with.

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I'm choosing a really fun color because we're going to see this.

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A paint brush, any little fun accents

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that we're going to add to our thumb tacks.

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I'm using pom poms and these

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precut paper flowers.

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And you'll need some thumb tacks as well.

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Our first step will be to tape off our design

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on the cork board—I'm going to do a simple color blocked angled design,

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but anything you can imagine and you can tape, you can totally paint.

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You can do chevron, or some kind of abstract geometric pattern.

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I'm just going to do corner to corner because this is a really striking design.

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And I don't want anything too busy because I'm going to be covering this

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with photos, and ephemera.

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I'm using artists tape because it will

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come away cleanly, and it won't tear the cork board.

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Once that's down, just grab your acrylic paint.

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I'm using a metallic gold acrylic craft paint.

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You can use any pop color, teal would look really awesome

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or like a bright magenta. There's no need for a pallet.

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You can just add your paint directly on the cork board,

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and then using a foam brush,

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or any brush of your choice—I like these foam brushes because you can get really good lines here.

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We're just going to paint this half of our cork board.

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I want to make sure to get nice coverage, the cork will absorb a lot of the paint.

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Just being delicate along that edge where the tape is.

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You can just add paint as needed.

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Sometimes it's helpful to start on the tape and draw in.

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You don't want to brush this way, because you can push paint under the tape accidentally.

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Just keep that in mind.

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This is pretty easy, though.

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I just want to paint until this is well covered.

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Just tip this up a little so I can get this bottom rounded edge.

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Your cork board may have a frame on it, so you just want to paint to the edge of the frame.

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You could also paint the frame a different color

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if you chose to purchase one of those kind,

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and that would look really cool too.

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That looks like a nice, even coat.

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My last step for this is to just go

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and cleanly draw brush strokes

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down—the metallic has a tendency to

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show the brush strokes more than let's say a flat color paint

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or just a solid color.

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So I  just want to have a nice, clean

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finish.

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And that looks great.

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I'm going to set this aside to dry. While that's drying, we'll work on our pushpins.

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And I already chose a set of really fun colors

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and some coordinating embellishments.

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You can use anything from paper embellishments like flowers or cut outs,

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you could even use like puffy stickers, anything that you can hot glue to your pushpin is fair game.

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I love these pom poms because they come in really fun, bright colors.

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I also have some of these pre-cut paper flowers.

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And to start with a pom pom, just add a little dab of hot glue

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on the tip of the pushpin,

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and gently place

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the pom pom—once it's on there, I like to actually press it a little

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just to make sure and hold it while the hot glue sets up.

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And then you can set it aside.

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This one's really cute. I love the orange and pink combo.

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That's good! then you could do just the paper flower as-is,

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or you can add a pom pom to the paper flower.

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Add a little bit of hot glue on the flower itself,

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press your pom pom in place,

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and then flip it over, add a little more hot glue in the middle, and this is where we're going to add our pushpin.

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And you just want to make sure that dries,

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just sets up before you use it.

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And you can continue doing this until you have a dozen or so pushpins,

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however many you'd like to make.

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Our bulletin board is dry, so we can remove the tape.

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Just do it gently, but it comes right off.

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We're going to flip this over and add a hanger.

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I chose a really fun, bright cord

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because I'm actually going to position this

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so that it shows.

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You don't need a ton, probably about a yard or so

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because I'm going to have it come up from the top about five or six inches.

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Trim, and we're actually going to tie these ends in knots

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because they have a tendency to unravel,

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and it also gives us something to glue to.

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Just give it—a single knot is plenty.

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Just try to center it as best you can—the nice thing about this kind of cord is that

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it will center itself when it's hanging.

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And we're just going to place some hot glue

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and press those knots into the hot glue.

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For security, you can add a little more hot glue on top,

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and you want to give that a minute or two to set up before you flip it over.

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It feels good.

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And now is the fun part because we get to add our photos

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using our thumbtacks.

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This is my dog Charlie. This is my friend Christina.

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And that's Pia.

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And there you have a really sweet, personalized bulletin board.

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And this is just the beginning—you could add more paint,

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you could do a two color color blocking technique and not leave any cork board showing.

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You can add a trim around the boarder using hot glue and a decorative ribbon

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or cord, especially if you didn't buy the kind that has the frame.

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If you did buy the kind that has the frame, you could paint that as well.

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And with your thumb tacks, you can completely go wild, you can add buttons and

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anything that you can hot glue to a thumb tack or pushpin is fair game.

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What I especially love about having a personalized cork board

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is that this is going to change throughout the year.

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I can add notes or letters to this, and it's always going to be a new and different look.