how do you make a bulletin board?

Question

im not sure if i should use cork or material with stuffing like a soft one. im so lost ive never done anything like this before. i wanted it for my daughters room shes thirteen and is always sticking stuff one her walls w/ tape its ruining the paint so i thought a bulletin board would be good for her. i need step by step procedures and a materials list thank you!

Answer 1

Martha Stewart has a nice one with ribbons, so your daughter won't get pushpin holes in the corners of the stuff she puts up. It's covered in fabric, so you can coordinate it with the colors in her room: http://www.marthastewart.com/portal/site/mslo/menuitem.3a0656639de62ad593598e10d373a0a0/?vgnextoid=2c4ec137bf22f010VgnVCM1000003d370a0aRCRD&rsc=also_try

How to Make a Ribbon Bulletin Board

Tools and Materials:
Linen 25 x 34 inches
Variety of ribbons
Scissors
Needle and thread
Homasote board 21 x 30 inches
Staple gun

Directions:
1. Start with a piece of linen 25 by 34 inches. Select a variety of ribbons in widths ranging from 1 1/2 to 6 inches; trim ribbons to 25-inch lengths.

2. Lay a wide ribbon along one short side of the linen, 3 inches from the edge; this will become the top border. Sew the ribbon down along its top and bottom edges.

3. Place the next ribbon so that it overlaps the bottom seam of the first, and sew it along its bottom edge, leaving the top open to create a pocket.

4. Continue sewing down ribbons until the linen is covered. Stretch the linen around a 21-by-30-inch Homasote board, and secure to the back with a staple gun.

Answer 2

You could knit a large rectangle and full it.

Buy wool yarn. Lots of wool yarn. Thick wool yarn or double it.

Cast on a bunch of stiches (it will shrink about 30% in width and 40% in length) and knit and knit and knit. The one I saw (Leigh Radford, maybe) had three different colored sections, but you could do lots of fun things with stripes or color mixing. Or all one color if that's your preference. When you think it's wid enough, bind off.

Put that bad boy in a zippered pillowcase (or tie a knot in the top of a plain one) and throw it in the wash with jeans or towels. Wash it in hot water, low level, maximum agitation. Check it every 10-15 minutes, not letting your washer go into the spin cycle (YMMV, some people do such things by throwing it in with their regular laundry for several loads) until it has shrunk up to the size you want and/or until you are losing the ability to tell individual stitches apart. Size isn't really critical, and once it is good and felted, you can trim it down if it's still too big.

Roll it gently and push as much water out as possible. Roll it up in a towel and walk across it until you run out of towels or can't get any more water out. Then push and pull it into shape (rectangular) and lay it somewhere warm where it can dry undisturbed. This will probably take a day, two if it's especially humid, or you left a bit more water in. Once dry, if it's bigger than you want, or an edge is wonky, you can take scissors to it and make it the shape and size you want.

It can be decorated with criss cross ribbons for pinless style, or your daughter can use safety pins or t-pins to secure items to it.

Answer 3

For a no-sew one, get a piece of plywood and sand the edges to smooth them. Prime it and paint it any color you want. Then take ribbons in your choice of widths and colors and criss cross them, pulling tight and stapling on the back. Just mount the whole thing ike a picture. She can tuck her notes and pictures in between the ribbons.

Or, get a humongous picture frame and take out the glass. On the cardboard insert that usually sits behind the picture, layer some fabric, and the criss crossed ribbons, and then put the frame back together without the glass.

Answer 4

go to a store and get some large cardboard boxes, decide on the size, cut about 4 layers of cardboard that size, then find a suitable fabric, a layer of quilt batting, and some ribbon, lay the fabric face down on the floor, then put the batting over that, then put the cardboard over it, and pull the fabric around to the back side and staple it down, then cover the raw edges with a couple layers of duct tape, then turn it over and decide where you want to put the ribbons. criss cross them at angles from the top of one side to the bottom of the other then at 3 or 4 inch intervals, then do it from the opposite side, so its totally crisscrossed like a trellis. she can slip photos under the ribbons, then hang it with a ribbon loop from one side of the top to the other., or just get foam core board and nail it up and let her use push pins.

Answer 5

Try this:
http://www.bhg.com/bhg/story.jsp?storyid=/templatedata/bhg/story/data/12265.xml
There are other bulletin boards on this same site www.bhg.com