How To Download, Impress In Addition To Frame A Chalkboard (Chalkboard Download Tutorial)

PLEASE NOTE: We practice non receive got any affiliation alongside whatever printing companies mentioned inwards this post. There are many places to impress large PDF files. The tutorial below is precisely a guide to notify our readers in addition to customers of the cheapest in addition to easiest agency that nosotros receive got constitute to impress 24x36 PDF files. This is the method nosotros locomote to impress our ain chalkboard downloads. However, nosotros cannot guarantee or stand upwards behind the character of some other company's work--printing results volition vary. Also, delight locomote aware that a minor number of Canadian customers receive got had issues uploading via this method.

 

Chalkboard fine art is everywhere these days! I am completely fascinated past times it in addition to desire to locomote along playing to a greater extent than or less alongside it in addition to endeavour to acquire to a greater extent than creative alongside my lettering. I know at that spot are a lot of people though, that relish it but don't necessarily desire to pass hours working on precisely i quote thus beingness able to download a chalkboard mortal else has designed, impress it out in addition to popular it inwards a frame is a swell alternative - specially if you lot similar to modify your fine art our seasonally or for dissimilar holidays. We precisely started offering our downloads a duo of weeks agone thus entirely receive got a few options right straightaway inwards our shop, but nosotros receive got several to a greater extent than that are almost gear upwards to become in addition to a whole bunch to a greater extent than ideas inwards the works. Hopefully inside a few to a greater extent than months nosotros volition receive got a broad multifariousness for you lot to select from for a whole bunch of dissimilar themes in addition to events. 

Anyway, I've been promising to demonstrate you lot how I've been swapping out the chalkboard prints inwards this frame for the past times calendar week or 2 in addition to finally was able to acquire it all written upwards in conclusion nighttime thus hither it is!

Here is what you lot demand for this project:
1 24 past times 36" chalkboard print
Painters Tape

4 pieces of forest for the frame ( to piece of job alongside these prints I recommend using 2 28" long pieces in addition to 2 33" long  pieces)

1 large slice of forest (to piece of job alongside these prints I recommend 24 inches past times 36 inches)

chalkboard pigment (optional)

stain (or paint) for frame

screwdriver

mending braces (I used 2" past times 1/2" ones - at that spot is a photograph below of the exact ones I used)

screws (size 8 past times 3/4 - I used a total of vi - at that spot is a photograph below of the exact ones I used)

First, I am going to rapidly demonstrate you lot how to upload the file online the Staples website. If you lot already know how to practice that you lot tin precisely scroll downward in addition to I volition demonstrate the remainder of the steps. We've gotten quite a few e-mails, though, bespeak how to practice it thus I stance it would locomote helpful to demonstrate step-by-step because it's difficult explaining inwards an e-mail. I am certain at that spot are other places that impress technology scientific discipline prints but I ever locomote Staples. I truly don't locomote them for whatever of my other printed things, but for these technology scientific discipline prints their cost is swell (a lilliputian over $3!) in addition to it's slow to upload in addition to thus precisely become pick upwards the adjacent day.

So, when you lot acquire to their website human face on the left sidebar in addition to uncovering "Copy in addition to Print" in addition to thus select "Banners & Signs, Engineering Prints, in addition to Oversized Prints":

 That volition convey you lot hither in addition to click on "Engineering Prints":

Once you lot are at that spot select the 24 past times 36 size (if you lot forget it's okay you lot volition locomote able to switch it later) in addition to thus click on "Design Now":

Now click "Add Files":

  thus click "upload files" in addition to select wherever it is you lot downloaded your PDF file also thus precisely click on that file:

Once it shows upwards click on the upload push (this is i of our Easter ones that nosotros promise to receive got gear upwards to become early on adjacent week!):

 Once it's loaded on the left side click Media in addition to brand certain you lot receive got the right size in addition to thus click OK thus click on orientation in addition to brand certain it's going the right direction for the file you lot receive got uploaded. Then precisely add together to cart in addition to you lot are expert to go! I ever select the choice to "Pick up" vs. receive got it mailed to me in addition to it volition prompt you lot to select the store nearest you. I didn't demonstrate those steps but they are slow plenty to figure out.

Now that you lot receive got your impress it's fourth dimension to brand your frame!

(some of the frame images are from our master copy brand your ain chalkboard tutorial).

Here are my boards. I had them cutting to size at Lowe's. I used 1 past times 4's (which are truly virtually 3/4" past times iii 1/2"). Make certain your board that is going to locomote for the chalkboard is slightly larger than the size of your frame opening.

The showtime matter I did was pigment my board alongside my chalkboard paint. PLEASE NOTE: this is non necessary if you lot entirely programme on using chalkboard printouts inwards this frame. Even though I already had 2 other framed chalkboards when I was making the novel i sized for the prints, I all the same went ahead and painted the board alongside chalkboard pigment thus I would receive got the choice of using it every bit a regular chalkboard later if I wanted to. 

 

While your pigment is drying you lot tin set your frame together. Here are the braces I used.

Just set the 4 pieces together in addition to locomote the braces at each corner. I precisely used i on each corner (for a total of four) because I was doing it quickly. It was sturdier than I expected but if you lot wanted it to locomote extra secure I would recommend doing 2 braces on each corner for a total of eight.

 

Then either pigment or stain your frame. I receive got made a few of these straightaway in addition to receive got stained 2 in addition to painted two. So hither is how it looks at this indicate (this is truly the showtime i I did non the most recent i every bit you lot tin encounter from the Christmas tree inwards the background):

Now lay your frame downward alongside the front end side facing down:

Take your board in addition to using painters record (so that it tin easily locomote removed without ripping the paper) start taping downward the newspaper to the large board.

You tin locomote every bit much or every bit lilliputian record every bit you'd like. This is virtually how most of mine receive got looked:

Now flip it over in addition to house it confront downward on the frame (I painted both sides of this board thus I'd receive got to a greater extent than infinite to write novel chalk fine art on):

Now it's fourth dimension to attach the board. These are the screws I had on hand. There is in all probability something amend you lot could locomote but they were the right size in addition to they worked fine. FOR THIS PROJECT I ONLY USED SIX in addition to set them inwards relatively lightly if that makes sense.

I precisely screwed them chalkboard onto the dorsum of the frame. One inwards each corner in addition to i inwards the middle of each of the longer sides. If you lot receive got a drill it volition acquire inwards a lilliputian quicker but it's all the same pretty slow alongside precisely a expert ol' screwdriver! This is an ikon from the tutorial a few months agone in addition to for the permanent chalkboard thus I screwed them inwards a lilliputian tighter. For this i (which I forgot to receive got a motion painting of) I did it a lilliputian looser thus they'd locomote easier to rapidly receive got out in addition to precisely record on a novel impress in addition to popular the dorsum right dorsum into the frame. I receive got done it straightaway virtually vi or vii times in addition to it's truly quick in addition to easy!

 I precisely leaned mine upwards on my mirrored dresser but if you lot wanted to hang it you lot could ever attach something thus it could locomote hung!

And that's it! 

I promise you lot all are having a lovely week!