Happy Monday! Hope everyone had a great weekend! I’m lucky I actually know what day it is since I’ve been home and in Dallas three different times in the last week and it’s about a three hour drive each time. Anyways, since I’m on the verge of getting my teacher certification I decided to start some projects for my classroom. Let’s get started with my “Teacher Dolphin Clipboard…”

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Things Used:

• Cricut Tools and Accessories
• Cricut Design Space
• Clipboard
• Acrylic Paint
• Scotch Tape
• Sponge Brush
• Photoshop Elements 13
• Cricut Explore Air™ Machine

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Design Space:

The first thing I did was create a new project in Cricut Design Space with my hand-drawn dolphin. I also used my initials which I will talk about in a couple of weeks with another project I have finished.

Cricut Explore Cuts:

 Once I had what I needed ready to cut, I had my Cricut Explore do it’s thing. Click here for the super quick time lapse video.  I cut out two different top layer dolphins since I already had it sized for the initials and the initals I was going to originally use didn’t fit the area.

Painting:

Saturday night after my mom and I got back from Dallas, I went ahead and painted the clipboard the color I wanted it to be so it could be nice and dry before getting started with the rest of the painting. Before painting I covered the clip part at the top with scotch tap to help keep any paint off. I used the acrylic paint color “Deep Sea” I purchased from Target along with the other paints. Once my board was dry Sunday morning, I got everything cut out on my Cricut Explore then got to work.

First, I carefully placed my bottom layer stencil dolphin on my clipboard and then used the “Dark Lapis” acrylic paint. I let it dry from about an hour like instructed and then apply another coat.

Once the bottom layer was dry, I carefully lifted it off my clipboard and then carefully placed my top layer stencil dolphin in place. With my top layer in place I then placed my initials in the middle more or less. Satisfied, I used the “Aqua” acrylic paint which as some shimmer in it. In order to get it dark enough, I applied three layers.

I then carefully lifted the top layer stencil dolphin and initials off once everything was dry.  Since I managed to forget to get the ‘eye’ of my dolphin off the ‘positive’ stencil portion, I used my Tombow Dual Brush pen number N15 to give my dolphin an eye.

There you go! My “Teacher Dolphin Clipboard.” I certainly cannot wait to use it! Just hope I can wait until I start teaching. Hope you enjoyed!

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Crafty JBird

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