Mini Cutting Board

 

Have y’all seen this mini cutting board at Hobby Lobby? I’m obsessed! I don’t know why, I guess it’s just because it’s so darn cute.

I purchase the rectangular ones last fall and loved using them at individual place settings on my table.

They were so pretty with grapes and cheese.

Or a wonderful cupcake type dessert.

So when I saw these round ones I couldn’t resist buying one… or two…

However, for the round ones I decided to make them into a decor item… and a functional cutting board too.

Business in the back, party in the front!

Supplies

Round Cutting Board

Paint

Paint Brushes

Gold leaf

Blue tape

Chalk pencil

Step 1

Let’s start with the party in the front part.

I wanted to add my kitchen colors to my cutting board.

Find the center point on your cutting board and draw a horizontal line using a chalk pencil.

l love using chalk pencils because they are so easily erased.

If you have a steady hand paint your board from the chalk line down.

If not, they use blue tape to protect the top half of your board from paint.

Since I don’t want any paint on the sides of my board, I like to paint the edges after I paint my horizontal line.

Paint from the inside toward the outside, keeping your brush from wrapping to the edge.

Then paint the middle using smooth, long strokes.

Let dry.

Step 2

Now that your paint has dried, it’s time to add in the fun part.

I’m adding our last name initial to the center of the board.

Using my Silhouette machine, I cut out the letter L and placed it in the center of my board.

Problem #1

Since I had used black vinyl and my board was dark on the top and the bottom, I quickly realized that you couldn’t see the letter very well.

But I had a solution!

Problem #2

I would trace the outline of the letter using a small gold marker.

And quickly realized that it looked terrible!

The gold didn’t show up enough and quite frankly it looked green.

Again I thought I had a quick fix.

Problem #3

I traced the black vinyl letter with my chalk pencil, then removed the vinyl letter.

Using my favorite gold paint, I painted in the letter.

It’s my favorite paint because it’s truly gold!

However, it still didn’t have the wow factor I was looking for.

At this point I was ready to sand everything off and start over, when I had one last thing to try that just might fix it.

Gold leaf.

Yep, I brought out the big guns.

And guess what?

It worked.

I simply followed the gold leaf directions and FINALLY I had the gold initial that I wanted.

I know that you are thinking “but Tammy, it isn’t food safe.”

No, it isn’t.

However, if I ever need to use a small cutting board I can simply flip it over and use that side.

Of course, it’s a hand wash situation.

I LOVE my cute mini cutting board decor.

Party in the front, business in the back.

Until next time…

Tammy

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