Bow Board!

With a new niece on the way I wanted to try out my first palette project.  So I dove head first into making a bow board for my niece's room.  

Here she is 2 days old!  

I didn't want my first palette attempt to be too intricate; I just wanted to get to know the material a bit better.

So I put Dave to work and we started deconstruction on the palette. We kind of "cheated" on this one and just cut straight up the board to create mini planks. After the mini planks were cut I played around with pieces, thinking about size and color to begin the board layout. 

After I had them laid out, I turned them over and numbered them on the back just to be sure I kept them in the right order. Then we attached two planks on the back to keep the board together and to use for hanging. 

Then I sanded the front, back, and edges to be sure the board was completely smooth. 

 

Now it's time to grab some paint!  Since we're in the middle of the long process of remodeling our house we have a lot of paint lying around.  I used just a semi-gloss white paint that we used for our white washed fireplace.  I simply painted areas and then took a clean rag and wiped away excess for the desired look. 

          

In the photo below, the top half has been done and the bottom half has not.

I let it dry while I went out and ran some errands.  Then I attached the pins using hot glue.  I created the rose on the top left using burlap I had around the house and gave it a purple bow to tie it in with my niece's room. 

Here I am with the finished product. 

I fell in love with this once I put the rose on the corner.  And I fell in love with it even more when my sister sent me the photo of the beginnings of Reagan's bow and hat collection on the board.