Hey, everyone!  It's Kristine again, and today I have the quickest, easiest project you can imagine - a custom dry erase board!  You will be amazed at how simple this project is - I completed mine in less than an hour - and at how many applications it has.

Here's what the final result looks like - isn't it awesome?

Let's get started!  The materials you will need are (pictured below): a picture frame of your choice (any size will do, but think about what you want to use it for, where it will be located, and how much writing will be on it), paper to serve as your background (I used brown craft cardstock), a cutting mat and craft knife OR a paper trimmer, stamps and ink of your choice (I used the Title Script and Epic Notes sets from Sweet Stamp Shop), and coloring medium of your choice (I used Prismacolor colored pencils).

Begin by taking the backing off your frame and removing all the pieces from the inside.  Using the paper that came with the frame as a guide, cut a piece of decorative paper to the same size.  You want the paper to fit snugly inside the frame with no gaps showing through the front.

Keeping in mind that there will be a bit of the paper that doesn't show around the edges because of how the front of the frame overlaps the glass, stamp your images wherever you like.  I'm planning to use my dry erase frame as a reminder for meetings and tasks at school, so I put my stamped images at the bottom and left most of the paper empty so that my writing on the glass won't complete with the stamped images.

Once the stamping is done, color in your images to make them fun and cute!

Finally, put the parts of your frame back together with the new stamped sheet right behind the glass, and you're good to go!  You can write on the glass with a dry erase marker, which erases easily with just a tissue, or a permanent Sharpie marker - Sharpie writing won't smudge off easily, but will need to be erased with a cotton ball dampened with a bit of rubbing alcohol.  

This particular frame lives on my desk at school and I use it to write down anything I don't want to forget and need right in front of me all the time - meetings, detention dates, duties, deadlines for grades, etc.  It's super handy!

A dry erase board like this could also be really handy to have at home.  You could make a personalized message board for the family, a menu center to help you keep track of meals for the week, cleaning schedule, ongoing grocery list, just about anything!  Here's one I made for a family to use to leave each other notes about why they love each other - how cute would that be out on the kitchen counter for anyone to use at any time?  How fun would it be to come home and find a message to YOU there from one of your loved ones?

And hey, isn't this a great gift idea, too?  It could be personalized for any person or family.

We hope you have enjoyed seeing how easy it is to make one of these dry erase boards, and we hope you try it yourself!  If you do make one, drop us a line below and let us know how it went!