Lettering Delight Wonderful idea for the Kitchen

This fun and easy Wipe-Off Menu Board is the perfect tool to help keep track of what's for dinner each night.

Supplies:

• frame w/glass (I just purchase an old one from a 2nd hand store for $2 bucks and painted it) 
• adhesive backed vinyl
• Your favorite LD graphics
• Your favorite LD paper
• Your favorite LD Font
• dry-erase marker

Directions:
Before I began my menu, I first cleaned, painted and antiqued my used frame.  This process took a total of about 10 minutes work time and 2 hours drying time. Not too bad for spending only $2 dollars on it!

Determine the size of your insert. I used an 8" by 10" frame, but the actual amount showing was about 7.5" by 9.5". I created a new document in photoshop this size so I could figure out how and where I wanted to arrange my graphics. You could also just print and cut your graphics and arrange without photoshop. I copied and pasted the chicken as well as the border from the Funky Chicken Graphic Set". Since the border had a drop shadow, I used the marquee from the tool bar and selected just the drop shadow portion of the graphic and deleted it. Getting rid of the drop shadow makes making a continuous border 100 times easier. I then copy and pasted the border four times and rotated it for each side.

Once you have your graphics figured out, find a cute piece of digital scrapbook paper to lay behind it. From here you can just print the entire image (paper with graphics) or you can print the paper and graphics separately so that you can give the menu some intersting depth. If you haven't already checked out Jin's tutorial on Make-The-Cut's Print and Cut feature, be sure to do so!

Now that I have what is going behind my frame ready, its time to cut some vinyl! I choose to use LDJ Martian Mania. Using some adhesive backed vinyl I cut out my title and days of the week. Remember: Joining your letters together makes using your vinyl lettering a million times easier. You can do this in Illustrator or Inkscape beforehand, or you can do it directly in MTC by selecting the letters and hitting the "Weld" tool as shown.

Now peel them off and adhere to your frame!

Insert your glass, graphic and paper, and you have a simply easy and nifty Dry-Erase Menu Board!

Monthly News August 2011

Falling in love....

It’s easy with romantic products from Lettering Delights. Celebrate summer weddings with the new cut its set, graphics set and six coordinating papers in our “Love Me Do” line of products. You’ll adore the contemporary color palette and theme, plus the fun elements for making cards, invites, place cards and more. Perfect for an engagement party, shower or wedding celebration, all sets include over 15 images. Perhaps as festive as a wedding, it’s Fabulous Fans Month on our Facebook page! As we approach our second-year anniversary on Facebook, we’re quickly approaching 15,000 fans. Join us as we celebrate all month long! Get the latest new below!

Four new product sets, just $2 each exclusively at check-out:

Sneak peek. Say it loud with a clever sentiment or note written on our new Big Mouth Stationary sets. Or get a chuckle from the colorful characters in Chicken Fat and Alley Cat. There’s a fat chance you won’t want to add these sets to your collection. Bonus! Available in your choice of graphics or cut its, they’re each just $2 exclusively at check-out. Sneak a peek >

Freebies. Sharpen those pencils and get ready for back-to-school with this month’s freebies. Enjoy the Shiny Pencils alphabet to create unlimited titles and lettering. Then download the Class Act Template to scrapbook a back-to-school photo. Both products are yours to enjoy during the month of August. Get yours >

Simple Shapes Super Bundle. Own a cutting machine? If you’re new to Lettering Delights, you may not know about our value-packed Simple Shapes Super Bundle. It’s the best bang for your buck with 750 sets of single-layer cuttable images. Available in multiple file formats for a variety of machines like ai, eps, svg, svg without layers, dxf or pdf files. Grab the set for just $75 and you’ll save 50%! See Simple Shapes >

Fabulous Facebook Fans. For the entire month of August, we’re celebrating nearly 15,000 fans and the two-year anniversary of our Facebook page. You’re invited to join us for all the festivities, bonus freebies, giveaways, tips, project ideas, secret savings and fun. Meet us online to make a new friend or two (or 15,000!) at LD’s Facebook page. Can’t wait to see you there! Facebook fun >

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