Chalkboard Speech Bubbles (DIY)

Jamie told me that she would love to have some chalkboard speech bubbles for the photo booth at her wedding. I had a lot of scrap luan laying around the garage, and we had temps around 50 one day recently, so I got to work.

I gathered my scraps of wood, and cut them down to size.  (all sizes for variety)

After I cut the boards, I used a can to draw a line to round off the corners.

I freehanded the little pointy thing.  (I googled it, but seems like it might not have a technical name)

My Dremel Trio was perfect for cutting around the curves.

 

Okay, so it may seem I need a little more practice with the Dremel Trio, but the drum sander makes it all good!  Look at all those scraps on the driveway!

I really love the sanding feature of this little Dremel Trio! It works like a charm!

see?

I brought them in the house and painted the backs of them black, and the front of them with chalkboard paint.  Do you see those knobs? I glued them on the back with--

--Gorilla Glue (dries white two times faster) The knobs are for Andy and Jamie’s guests to hold onto as they use them for pictures.

I used DecoArt (Americana) chalkboard paint.

I made them all sizes and shapes. Some of them are oval, and some are more of a square shape.

This would be my Miss Kitty.

I even made a couple of them into “thought” bubbles! (Louie)

I ended up making 8 speech bubbles of different sizes and two thought bubbles. It was a lot of fun making these.

Check out the video that appeared in the Dremel Newsletter (June 2011)

Photo credit Pearimagephotography

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It took me many takes/clips to get enough to submit to Dremel for them to edit into a video. These are my “bloopers”.

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