Tin Ceiling Tile Message Board {The Great Craft Swap}

I was super excited to be invited to participate in “The Great Craft Swap” sponsored by Wayfair.com.  The idea for the swap is simple:  Use my creative and crafty skills to change up one Wayfair.com item, and send it along to a fellow blogger.

I was even more excited to find out that I was swapping crafts with my fellow blogger, and friend Ashley Phipps of Simply Designing with Ashley!  Let me show you how I transformed the Malden Driftwood Linear Picture Frame into a Tin Ceiling Tile Message board for Miss Ashley!

Straight out of the box the frame looks great!  I love the weathered wood finish, and I didn’t really feel like I needed to do anything to make the frame look different in any way.

I measured out a 4″ x 6″ rectangle on a pretty tin ceiling tile.

I didn’t really  have anything that could cut tin, so I brought my piece of tin ceiling tile over to my dad’s workshop.  He used some tin snips to cut out the 4″ x 6″ rectangle for me.  Thanks, Dad!

I really loved the way the tin ceiling tile looked with the weathered wood finish.  It looks like a gorgeous shabby chic piece, no?

The final touch was to hot glue some magnets onto the back of some vintage-looking trinkets.

I love the idea that Ashley can switch out the message, or use the magnets to display a photo on her new Tin Ceiling Tile Message Board!

…and what did Ashley send me?

I love this super-cute set of cutting boards that she painted with colors that match my decor perfectly! Such a great idea!

Have a great day!