Crafty Wednesday {February Craft Night}

Happy Wednesday!  For today's post I am going to show you how we made the Rustic Photo Galleries for our February craft night.  I usually look so forward to our Craft Nights.  They are so much fun and we have the best time.  This month I was sick with a bad cold and I was going to stay home and rest but my friend/business partner Rachael got sick with the flu so I had to go and teach the class.  

Thankfully I recruited two friends who were signed up for the class to help me.  They both were a huge help to me in setting up and cleaning up after the class.  I am so thankful for both of them!!

Here is most of the class with one of their finished photo galleries.  Each participant made three during the class.  We told everyone to wear old clothes because we were going to be sanding, staining and distressing our boards and that is messy work. 

The first step in making your own rustic photo galleries is sanding the ends of the boards and staining your boards.  We gave the people in our class two choices-gray or dark.  About 1/2 the class chose gray and 1/2 chose the dark.  

After they sanded and stained their boards we had people put on safety googles and we used hammers to rough up and distress the boards a little bit. They could use either the head of the hammer or the claw to make distressed marks in the wood.  Everyone enjoyed this part of the class!! 

We like the people that come to our classes to have a good time with their friends and this group had a great time!  Our classes are held in the Community Room of my friend Rachael's organic grocery store.   People can buy things to eat/drink before our class and have it to snack on during class.  We also hold our classes on Friday evenings so people love to come, relax and have fun after a long week.  We love when people have a good time at our classes!!

After the stain dried we added the eye hooks and the wire for our photo galleries. You can see the eye hooks in this picture.  We put one eye hook on each side and then hung a thin wire from the eye hooks. 

Here are the specific ones we used for our class.  

After the eye hooks were screwed in we added a thin wire to complete the project.  

We also gave everyone mini clothes pins so they could hang their pictures at home.  

It was a fun and easy project to do!  Rachael and I didn't make one during the class so I don't have an after picture to share.  This is a picture of our inspiration picture from Pinterest.  

We had 8 feet boards cut into 2 feet sections at Lowe's for this project.  We also got the stain, eyehooks and wire from Lowe's.  We ordered the mini clothes pins from amazon.  These are the ones we bought. 

Let me know if you make this craft!

Happy Wednesday
Xoxo