I saw this idea in a challenge at Sweet Shoppe Designs initially, and thought it was brilliant.  I was looking for something to help me keep a list of things I needed to do for my home business.  I was constantly writing lists and then misplacing them or putting a spread sheet together on my computer and not wanted to bother with opening it up later.  This new idea was just perfect for me.  It turns out that glass is a good dry erase surface, so if you frame a list and hang it on your wall it will become a dry erase list.  I decided that the tasks that I need to do each week would be on the sheet but that I would leave room for extra tasks for that week too.  At the end of each week I just wipe it clean and start over for next week.  Here are two that I came up with:

Credits: Sisterly Love by Kristin Cronin-Barrow and Meghan Mullens; With a Little Help from my Friends font by Darcy Baldwin

Credits: Shabby Kitchen by Jessica Edwards, papers from Blessed With Blue by Bella Gypsy, Elements from Spring Clean and Baker's Dozen by Kate Hadfield and Jacque Larsen, font is Amanda G by Darcy Baldwin

 

So how do you make one?

 

  1. Measure your frame - mine were 11x14 inches.
  2. Open your favorite digital program and create a layout in that size.
  3. Use your digital supplies to create a list or chart or whatever you want.
  4. Flatten the image.  (Not necessary but sometimes easier so that you don't accidentally mess it up in the next steps.)
  5. You can Save it now and send it off to be printed somewhere.  OR
  6. Crop the image to a size you can print - for me that was 8.5x11 so I cropped the top half of my first one and the left half of my second one.
  7. Print (I used borderless on my printer.)
  8. Undo your crop.  Crop again so you get the other half of the sheet (the bottom or right half for me)
  9. Print again.
  10. Depending on the size of your document and what your printer can print you may need to crop more times to get each section printed.
  11. Then assemble the sheets very carefully.  You can tape them together on the back to help hold them.
  12. Frame.
  13. Use dry erase markers on the glass surface to add things or cross things off.

 

 

If you are interested, I put together two PSD templates - one for each of my to do lists shown above.  You are welcome to download them and use them!

Download here.

Have fun and keep scrapping memories!